Very interesting topic guys. Wonder how we make a web2py app downloadable
to google playstore or iphone App Store? Does Kivi or cordova both does
that?
On Saturday, January 30, 2016 at 11:56:18 AM UTC-5, eric cuver wrote:
>
> You create your application mobile friendly
>
> for kivy
>
> After installation kivy :
>
> you create main.py
> and you paste this code there are others codes but it's just an example :
>
> import kivy
> from kivy.app import App
> from kivy.lang import Builder
> from kivy.utils import
> platform from
> kivy.uix.widget import Widget
> from kivy.clock import Clock
> from jnius import autoclass
> from android.runnable import
> run_on_ui_thread
>
> WebView = autoclass('android.webkit.WebView')
>
> WebViewClient = autoclass('android.webkit.WebViewClient')
>
> activity = autoclass('org.renpy.android.PythonActivity').mActivity
>
> class Wv(Widget):
>
> def __init__(self, **kwargs):
>
> super(Wv, self).__init__(**kwargs)
>
> Clock.schedule_once(self.create_webview, 0)
>
>
> @run_on_ui_thread
>
> def create_webview(self, *args):
>
> webview = WebView(activity)
>
> webview.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(True)
>
> wvc = WebViewClient();
>
> webview.setWebViewClient(wvc);
>
> activity.setContentView(webview)
>
> webview.loadUrl('http://www.web2py.com <http://www.google.com>')
> class ServiceApp(App):
>
> def build(self):
>
> return Wv()
>
> def on_start(self):
>
> return True
>
> def on_pause(self):
>
> return True
>
> def on_resume(self):
>
> pass
>
> def on_stop(self):
>
> pass
>
> if __name__ == '__main__':
>
> ServiceApp().run()
>
>
> on line webview.loadUrl('http://www.web2py.com <http://www.google.com>')
> you put url from your webapplication
> then you can compile for android for example. there are others methods for
> windows phone and iphone
> you can read the kivy documentation and kivy google groups or kivy github.
>
> for cordova:
>
> After you install you do that :
>
> # go into your projectcd myapp# create a mobileapp folder for your app
> cordova create mobileapp com.whatever.appname AppNamecd mobileapp# add android
> cordova platform add android# compile the app
> cordova build# now, plug in your testing device, and let's run our test app
> on it
> cordova run android# if you don't have a device handy you can use an emulator
> (much slower)## cordova emulate android
> # install plugins for alerts and network information# used to alert the user
> if they are not connected to the internet
> cordova plugin add
> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cordova-plugin-dialogs.git
> cordova plugin add
> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cordova-plugin-network-information.git
>
> then you go to then the forlder www/index.html your paste this code
>
> <!doctype html><html lang="en"><head>
>
> <title>Zoggle</title>
> <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="cordova.js"></script>
> <script>
> document.addEventListener("deviceready", onDeviceReady, false);
> function onDeviceReady() {
> //navigator.splashscreen.hide();
> if (navigator.network.connection.type == Connection.NONE) {
> networkError()
> } else {
> loadApp()
> }
> }
>
> function loadApp() {
> navigator.app.loadUrl("http://www.web2py.com";)
> }
>
> function networkError() {
> navigator.notification.alert('web2py requires an internet connection')
> var $net = document.createElement('div')
> $net.innerHTML = 'web2py requires an internet connection'
> document.body.appendChild($net)
> }
> </script>
>
> <style>
> body {
> padding: 15px;
> background: #23252e;
> color: #01ced3;
> text-align: center;
> }
> div {
> font-size: 20px;
> }
> </style></head><body></body></html>
>
> on this line navigator.app.loadUrl("http://www.web2py.com";) you put your
> url web application.
> look this link for for better explanation
> https://zolmeister.com/2014/01/how-to-turn-webapp-into-native-android.html
> Le mercredi 27 janvier 2016 16:48:00 UTC+1, Ron Chatterjee a écrit :
>
>> Any documentation of using Cordova or Kivy using a hosted web2py app?
>> If a site is hosted using bootstrap3 and html5 its mobile friendly anyway.
>>
>> On Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at 9:12:01 AM UTC-5, eric cuver wrote:
>>>
>>> you can also do this with web2py you just need to create a webview with
>>> Cordova or Kivy with the URL of your mobile website view. Me this is what I
>>> do and it works without problems
>>>
>>> Le lundi 11 janvier 2016 22:31:58 UTC+1, Alessio Varalta a écrit :
>>>>
>>>> Sorry, , you are right. Now i have developed only in Android now in
>>>> these day for a project i start to study cordova and is true that you can
>>>> upload on Google market this my first time with Hybrid app
>>>>
>>>> Il giorno lunedì 11 gennaio 2016 13:17:14 UTC+1, Andrew Buchan ha
>>>> scritto:
>>>>>
>>>>> Just to butt-in on what Richard said:
>>>>>
>>>>> "But this kind of app are often not that interresting from user stand
>>>>> point... I mean you don't have a good mobile app user experience with
>>>>> them
>>>>> most of the time because they to simple that you can just access the real
>>>>> web app and it could be even better..."
>>>>>
>>>>> That's not really true anymore...
>>>>>
>>>>> What you are referring to are hybrid apps, which is essentially a
>>>>> mini-website (HTML, JS, CSS) wrapped in a package and rendered in a
>>>>> native
>>>>> webview, as opposed to a native app which is built in objective-C or Java.
>>>>> Hybrid apps can access the phone's features such as camera, battery,
>>>>> geolocation, accelerometer etc... So you can do much more than you would
>>>>> by
>>>>> accessing a web app in the browser!
>>>>> Hybrid performance is also more than adequate for most applications,
>>>>> and many of today's top apps are hybrid (in fact I challenge you to find
>>>>> out which apps on your phone are hybrid and which are native...)
>>>>>
>>>>> What's more, with tools like cordova you can target both Android and
>>>>> iOS (with caveats) with the same code.
>>>>> You also get to use the latest Javascript frameworks, such as
>>>>> AngularJS or ReactJS.
>>>>>
>>>>> My advice would be to learn js and angular then go down the ionic (
>>>>> http://ionicframework.com/) path. I really don't see a case for
>>>>> bringing web2py into android.
>>>>>
>>>>> Edit:
>>>>>
>>>>> What Alessio said isn't true either. You can publish hybrid apps to
>>>>> Google play and Apple's app store.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here's a useful page:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.joshmorony.com/the-step-by-step-guide-to-publishing-a-html5-mobile-application-on-app-stores/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Monday, January 4, 2016 at 9:20:53 PM UTC, RAGHIB R wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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