Hi Peter,

congrats for reaching the milestone. I'm trying but finding some problems:

(Prerequisites: I'm on Mac and want to try iOS version, I already has Xcode
installed. I don't have FB anymore. I installed Cordova vía NPM...all ok)

*I run from MobileStocks folder, but ant told me that there's no
bin/je-debug folder. Checking wiki url you gave I created manually
bin/debug. finaly I get ANT BUILD SUCCESSFUL (maybe ant should create bin
and js-debug folders?)

* Then for your instructions I use "run.ios"...this is a file (I don't find
any). I'm stuck there.

For getting styling you mention, there's 2 approach, one to use what we
have and try to style ( I think this is limited), the second is use some
good library out there like MDL, BootStrap, or others. I'm on the works as
you already know with MDL. Right now I'm doing components in the "mdl"
namespace, but this is not the ideal scenario, since it would be great to
get a MDL style in a js:Button without the need to change it to mdl:Button,
only applying styles.

I'm finding some more few things:

* CSS styles already in place are very cumbersome and I think we would need
to work on a clean separation to avoid mixing and generating side effect.
Alex propose in other thread some compiler options to avoid include
CSS...maybe this is a nice option.
* classNames and typeNames are part of the problems, but only due to the
before mentioned point. If we can compile without already set styles this
could solve the problem.
* With MDL I'm inserting classNames inside class components, what I don't
like since is a clear mixing of AS3 code declaration with CSS styles.
* from the experience I'm getting with MDL (and suppose that other
libraries like bootstrap will be the same), those good looking styles are
dependent from a concrete way of implementing the html tags and use of html
class. Maybe a component need to create a surrounding div and then nest a
span, and this maybe is not what our HTML implementation does. I think a
right approach should be to use the HTML swc and be able to change the
output to match what a concrete style demands.

For example, I'm making a Card component (and btw learning how flexjs
framework works):
https://getmdl.io/components/#cards-section

This could be some kind of a Panel...but is not a Panel, so better create a
Card component, but if you see the structure, is completely made to use the
MDL style...

looking at the MobileStocks code, it seems, the approach is the first one,
since is all made with FlexJS comps. In that scenario, I think we need as
well a way to not be bloated with CSS styles that we don't know where came
from. and start from a clean state.

I think this is something like a prerequisite in order to be able to work
in some kind of styling.

Hope I could first build MobileStocks and try on my iPhone to get a look at
what we are talking about.

Thanks

Carlos




2016-10-21 15:53 GMT+02:00 Peter Ent <p...@adobe.com>:

> Hi,
>
> We've been working on an improved FlexJS mobile app: MobileStocks. It is
> in the FlexJS examples directory. This example runs on both Android and iOS
> devices and is a version of MobileTrader, offering just two views. The
> first view allows you to enter a stock symbol and a number of shares. It
> then puts that information into a DataGrid and a chart, monitoring the
> change in prices and updating the grid and chart. The second view allows
> you to enter a symbol and watch it in a similar fashion.  MobileStocks uses
> the FlexJS Storage project to retain the list of stocks between sessions.
>
> MobileStocks uses Apache Cordova, making the app run on both iOS and
> Android from a single code base. Cordova integration is handled by the
> FlexJS Mobile project as well as the Storage project.
>
> Building and running the app is pretty simple and you can do it from the
> command line or from Flash Builder. If you want to use the command line,
> pull down the source and run ANT to build the js-debug directory. Then run
> "ant -f ../../../cordova-build.xml" to create the Apache Cordova
> sub-project. Once that has done, connect your Android device to your
> computer and run "ant -f ../../../cordova-build.xml run.android" which will
> download a little more and then install and run the app on your device.
> iOS users can do the same thing (use "run.ios") which will launch the
> device simulator; you also need to have Xcode installed.
>
> You can run this example easily from Flash Builder by following the
> instructions on the FlexJS wiki [1] and use the launch configurations to
> build and run the app.
>
> The example has shown us a couple of things.
>
>   *   We needed to make more beads to handle different types of data
> providers in the pay-as-you-go world of FlexJS; this keeps the app as small
> as possible.
>   *   We needed to add additional layouts that were more responsive to
> resizing.
>   *   We needed to fix a couple of bugs as well.
>
> Please give this a try if you can. The next step for the app would be some
> nice styling. This my "developer's eye" which is just minimal, so
> contribute some updates to that, if you can.
>
> [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.
> action?pageId=63406558
>
> Regards,
> Peter Ent
> Adobe Systems/Apache Flex Project
>



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