Like Tommy, I may steal some of these for blog posts - "People is having troubles connecting with the server, some of them > because use localhost as the url, others because they don't configure the > whitelist properly, others for unknow reasons"
As for the debug one, I ask, "Do you know how to remote debug?" about 5-10 times a week now. Sadly, now that it is so DARN easy to debug, folks just don't seem to know they CAN do it. On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 6:49 PM, tommy-carlos williams <to...@devgeeks.org> wrote: > If no one else has time to do something with this list by the time I get free > of my current stress-pile (say a couple weeks from now), I would love to take > a crack at it. An FAQ with not just the list, but actual solutions and > examples would be a great resource. > > Even if someone else does it, I might use it as the basis for a series of > blog posts or something. It’s such a good summary of people’s frustrations. I > would probably even have one or two to add from the #phonegap IRC channel.. :/ > > -- > tommy-carlos williams > > On 14 April 2015 at 08:16:56, Josh Soref (jso...@blackberry.com) wrote: > > So, I want someone to make this into a FAQ, somehow. > > I don't have time today, but it's a really great list. > > Bonus points for getting it Stickied at the top of StackOverflow. > > (obviously, it should include some explanation of how to correct these things, > and thankfully most are pretty easy to address.) > > Some are probably asking for samples (e.g. a "how to do things slowly/choppily > w/ left: vs. how to use CSS transitions" -- Raymond?) > > Julio wrote an amazing summary of Cordova Stack Overflow posts: >> I read most of the questions with cordova tag on stackoverflow and the >> questions on the google group and I see this problems. >> >> - Some people don't read the docs >> - Some people read the wrong docs (they use cordova 2.9.1 because it's the >> latest they can download, but read the edge docs and things don't work as >> expected) >> - Some people follow old tutorials instead of reading the docs and the >> things have changed a lot and don't work. >> - Some people don't need cordova but use it anyway, they just want a >> webview to show their website >> - Some people use j***** ****** (I don't want to name it either) and blame >> cordova for the slowness >> - With cordova everybody can create apps, but configuring the PATH isn't >> easy for most people, a lot of questions are realated to this, they didn't >> configure the PATH, they did it but wrong, they don't know they have to set >> it (see my first point) >> - People is still confused about the difference between phonegap, cordova >> and phonegap build service, I see people using phonegap CLI for local >> development but try to "install" the plugins putting the phonegap build >> plugin config line on the config.xml (again, people don't read or don't >> understand the docs) >> - People want to use eclipse (now android studio) for the development, they >> google and see blog post about a plugin, but that plugin is very old and >> uses phonegap 1.x.x (see my second point) >> - People is having troubles connecting with the server, some of them >> because use localhost as the url, others because they don't configure the >> whitelist properly, others for unknow reasons. >> - Some of them discover bugs, but instead of reporting them so it can be >> fixed, just ask on stackoverflow why it doesn't work. >> - Most people don't know how to debug, then if something doesn't work just >> complain. >> - Some people forget to link the cordova.js file, they create the project >> and replace the index.html with the index.html of their website. >> - Some people blame cordova when the problem is the webview (old android >> devices). >> >> >> About people that used cordova and are now developing in native, I bet most >> of them tried cordova on android 2.x.x with j***** ****** and it was slow, >> they read the articles about facebook and linkedin dropping html5 and >> switching to native and did the same, and after the effort they put on >> learning native development they don't wan't to go back and will tell >> everybody cordova is bad because it was slow when they tried it years ago. > -- =========================================================================== Raymond Camden, Developer Advocate for MobileFirst at IBM Email : raymondcam...@gmail.com Blog : www.raymondcamden.com Twitter: raymondcamden --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cordova.apache.org
