Posts by DecSoft

Hello Donald,

It's a bit confusing because we are thinking in Windows applications, and Windows applications have exit buttons, or, at least, have a "cross" in the title bar which allow us to close the applications. But the things rules in a different way in mobile operating systems.

Basically we can control the application life cycle using the "Pause" and "Resume" events. For example, if you want that the data dissapear when the applications is put in background, use the "Pause" event to clean the data you wanted.

When our application enters in background because the user just want to use other application, what the operating system does: close the application, maintain it in memory, is something out of our scope and we no need to worry about.

Take a look at this topic in the Phonegap Google Group.

Hello Donald,

If our application is builded by Cordova, then we can use something like this in Android:

However, the above code do not work in any other platform. And why this piece of code is not added into App Builder like other actions at least to use it for Android? Because in fact we no need to worry about close applications at all, Donald. It's responsible of the system to maintain their memory clean and to close or not this or this other application when they wanted or needed.

What we can do instead is to take care about some application's events like Pause and Resume. This is something called "the application life cycle". If you think a little, Donald, what number of applications have "Close" or "Exit" button in the Android or other mobile world? This is something common in Windows, but not in mobile systems, in which the user simply go from one application to another, without care about how the system manages the resources.

Hello,

Thanks for posting edunt. Please, take a look at this DecSoft's blog post.

Hi to all,

Thanks edunt for your answer. I am not really an Adobe Phonegap lover (I prefer Apache Cordova instead), however, in situations like this Adobe Phonegap may can help us, that is, at least for the "IPA" files generation.

Hello,

Thanks for the explanation edunt.

Hello,

Well. I want to take a look so after downloading and installing the BlueStacks App Player I found we can install APK files inside. The program works well, except that my computer is apparently to old for him, due to the heavy resources the program requires. I am not sure if we can place our applications into some kind of "BlueStacks Store" or something like that.

Hello edunt,

My apologies. Certainly the above CSS code can be used to customize the progress bar of a MediaPlayer control, however, in fact you can't view the progressbar appropiately due to an error, introduced in the latest Videogular update. The problem is not exactly related itself with Videogular, but with their CSS integration into App Builder. So please, update your copy of App Builder edunt and tell me if the MediaPlayer progress bar works for you now.

Hello,

I think this is due to the progress bar and media playercolors. You can try with this CSS rule in your app's Inline CSS option, for example:

Looking into this I found certain problem with the MediaPlayer in larger screens. I am working trying to solve it.

Hello Donald,

Maybe edunt can tell us. Right now I am not sure about.

Hello,

At the moment not for Firefox.

What I say is not that "BlueStacks App Player" can works or not in Firefox. What I say is than apparently the Firefox Marketplace offer to us a similar thing than the "BlueStacks App Player" (if I am not wrong), so I linked to the Firefox Marketplace as an alternative to deploy our applications, just like the Calculator sample. We can install the Calculator sample, in this case, into Windows, Android, Firefox OS and probably MacOS too.

Hello,

If you try the application in a browser you get a similar result? (I ask this question above too). And what happend if you try with other media files?

Hello,

Well. That's very strange. But glad to know you got it edunt.

Hello edunt,

Where are your media files localed? Remember they must be in a remote server if our applications is running on Cordova, so, maybe this also occur with the "Bluestack Android App Player".

Hello,

Are you tried to prepare the applications as webapps for the Firefox Marketplace? Then the applications can also be installed in every system in which Firefox works, and, also in Firefox OS devices. Take a look at the App Builder's Calculator sample into the Firefox Marketplace.

Hello,

I am sorry, but I can't reproduce the problem here, so, it's difficult to help you. If you like, download Team Viewer and send an email at (info at davidesperalta DOT com) providing your ID and password, then I can connect to your computer. May look the problem by myself can help us.