Hey all! On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Erik Vold <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Mobile Folks, > > It was brought to my attention that some of you don't know how to use the > add-on sdk to make mobile add-ons nor how awesome that can be. > Names have been elided to protect the ignorant: I had Erik walk me through this awesomeness today after lunch. It's awesome! > Please allow me to explain this for a moment, by providing a step by > step guide: > > 1. Install `jpm` and `jpm-mobile` using `npm`, (ex `npm install jpm -g`) > > 2. Create your add-on template with `jpm init` and make sure mark > "fennec" as a supported engine > > 3. Install awesome modules from npm (want an about:url? block network > requests? or use underscore? get all that power and much more from > npmjs.org) > > 4. Build your awesome add-on > > 5. Now you can try it out! Use `jpm-mobile run --adb /path/to/adb` to > run the add-on on your android device with a blank profile > Where should we file bugs/PRs against jpm-mobile? Ah, looks like GH. I've filed https://github.com/erikvold/jpm-mobile/issues/4 to make this automatic. > 6. You should probably create tests now, so write some in the `test` > folder created by `jpm init` in step 2. > > 7. Now you can run those tests on your android device with `jpm-mobile > test --adb ...` and see the results in stdout > > 8. Now you should push this code to github, setup travis, and include a > `.travis.yml` file copied from > https://github.com/erikvold/jpm-mobile-travis-example/blob/master/.travis.yml > > 9. With all of this you can now view your automated tests on travis-ci > which will look like > https://travis-ci.org/erikvold/jpm-mobile-travis-example/builds/58633217 > > I'm not sure what you do to run/test restartless add-ons on fennec.. I > imagine this is easier though, and by the way `jpm-mobile` works with > restartless add-ons (but you don't get the test infrastructure nor 3rd > party modules from npm). > In general I think we manually zip the .xpi, then push to device with adb, then point Fennec at the file and install it into the default profile. This is better! Thanks, Erik! Nick
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