Posts by DecSoft

Hello edunt,

Certainly the currently App Builder release has an incipient support for third party Javascript plugins. Currently two plugins are included, a fully functional AdMob plugin (an AdMob application sample is included too), and the Template plugin, something like a template for others plugins. The current available documentation is here. Since we are talking about the first third party plugins support, probably the documentation are subject to changes, fixes and enhancements in the near future.

Hello,

Yes; maybe "Jailbreak" is the word. I can't imagine Microsoft do not allow us to execute whatever we wanted, just like we does on Windows.

Hello edunt,

If the article I linked don't works, maybe it's due to the Windows version in which is based. However, I want to imagine that we can simply copy XAP files into our phones and then execute and install it from there, in a similar way than Android and the APK application's files. If this does not work, maybe the phone need to be "hijacked" in an Apple similar way or something like that? Is very funny how some companies try to protect us by not allowing us to do what we wanted...

Hello edunt,

Sounds good. As I say above I really want to get a Microsoft Lumia 550 to try with Windows Phone too, in that case try with Windows 10. I am not sure how to proceed, but wanted to ingestigate it.

Hello edunt,

Really I can't help you, since I do not have a Windows Phone device at this time nor the environment ready to play with Apache Cordova. Maybe this article can help you? Installing Downloaded Apps (XAP/APPX) on Windows Phone 8.1. I want to buy at least a Microsoft Lumia 550, not to expensive and capable to run Windows 10, which, if I am not wrong, is also a posible Apache Cordova target platform. Then I like to made some tests on it. Please tell me if finally you got it edunt.

Hello Donald,

I am working hard in the next "big" App Builder's enhancement but right now my friend answer me about our question and I want to refer translate here. In fact probably we can't get too much information, but maybe their point of view offers some of them. We need to follow these steps to starts:

1º We need to register an account at https://developer.apple.com/ under the Members Center section; we need to create our Apple ID.

2º Then we need to choose what kind of developer we are by choosing "iOS".

3º This allow us to make applications; we need a license fee of $99 USD every year. My friend say the price is more or less expensive, but, apparently we can upload an application, and, if we do not plain to update it anymore (?), no need to pay the $99.

4º Something to take care about is the name we use as the application's developer. The name we choose can be never changed for the developer account.

5º Then we can access to the developer console. W need to download the latest XCODE version (so we need a computer with the OSX operating system), prepare the development profiles for every application and that's all.

After that we need to upload the applications and register it on Apple iTunes, but, my friend say here, "This is another history"... In principle we can starts with the above steps. In my opinion, we simply can start with the application with App Builder.

I say we can prepare the application (with some particular exceptions) from App Builder, and, when they are ready, we can start with the above steps in order to get ready for the Apple Store. And this is what I can say about this Donald.

Hope this can help to you and possible other people too.

Hello,

Well. If the problem persist just post here edunt.

Hello edunt,

I test it right now and works like expected, so... are you tried with other applications? They works for you?

Hello edunt,

Glad to know you got it. Sometimes restarts the computer is the solution! :)

Hello,

I am sorry but can't reproduce the problem here. What if you uninstall the program and then download and install the latest version? If they do not solve the problem, please, tell me if some error occur or what is the behaviour you can view. Without a little more information it's difficult to help you edunt.

Hello edunt,

Sorry, but I can't understand very well your question. Please, can you explain a little more? What do you means with "click drag and drop"? Do you receive some error message?

Hello Donald,

Well now we have a can of worms.

I will email you later my script with some notes about it.

In your sample database, I see you have alot of scripts located locally. Where does this database exist? Is it created on my pc when run?

The PHP script must be placed along with our application if we deploy in order to run in mobile or desktop browsers. If our target is also the Android platform, for example, then the PHP scripts must be located in our app's server.

If we take a look at the Database sample PHP scripts there is exactly what we need:

Database.php

It's the PHP Database useful because we share it between the other scripts and provide us the hability to connect to databases (not only MySQL, but all supported by PHP PDO), retrieve data, insert data, etc. In an easy way. This PHP Database class is picked from my Humm PHP project.

PDOExtended.php

Not too much to say except this is our PHP PDO extended class used internally by the above Database class.

Initialize.php

This is just a "template" script, which is included by others in order to reuse their code. Basically we provide the appropiate responses for CORS requests (from our application) and connect to the database, leave it ready to be used.

The above PHP scripts are the stuff we use to interact with the Database. The below scripts are "entry points" for our application's HTTP calls:

DeleteNotes.php

Used to delete notes from the database from our application.

NewNotes.php

Used to add notes to the database from our application.

ShowNotes.php

Used to request notes from the database to be shown in our application.

UpdateNotes.php

Used to update notes in the database from our application.

Is it possible at some time to see a sample database that will connect to a remote server, login and access an existing database?

Then via the script on the server, make changes to the database, If that is what the current sample is doing I cannot follow it.

That is what the Database sample does. In fact the application connect to the server PHP scripts, who are responsible to connect and perform operation over the database. The Database sample performs HTTP calls using the HTTP Client control in order to connect to the server. When we want to insert a new note, the application calls to the "NewNotes.php" providing the new note data, and wait for the server response (an error occur? is the note inserted?). If we want to update a note the Database sample calls to the "UpdateNotes.php" with the appropiate note data, and so on.

I would envision an app that selected the database name, table and field and then allowed a input to provide new data for the field selected.

If it can all be done without a script then great if not then a script would be needed. (I am not asking you to do that).

Thanks

Currently we need to deal with scripts "manually". Maybe in the future I can prepare something "visual", Donald, but, honestly, I can't promise nothing at this time. However, in fact the required server side script can be not too difficult to create or adapt, for example, take a look at the "InsertNote.php" used by the Database sample:

Of course we need to know something about PHP (or the language we want to use in the app's server), but, maybe look into the above code (which is reponsible to delete notes from the database) appear more or less easy than if we look into the entire PHP scripts in a whole.

On the other hand, taking a little look at your PHP script, apparently they expects two input arguments: "TYPE" and "MESSAGE", so, probably we can use such script as is, without touch, just by perform the appropiate HTTP call from our application, providing such arguments.

Hello Donald,

Certainly we can deal with remote or server databases from our applications using some server side language (no matter what language) and some server database (no matter what database). Maybe you want to take a look at the Database application sample (Menu -> File -> Samples), which works with PHP (as the server language) and MySQL (as the server database). The sample include the database structure and also the PHP scripts who receive the application requests. *

On the other hand, if your PHP script is prepared to receive HTTP POST or GET arguments, then yes, our App Buidler's applications can perform the appropiate HTTP POST or GET calls in order to pass the appropiate information to your script, who then can store it into the database. I can take a look at your PHP script if you like Donald, so send me and may I can tell you something more about.

* Once open the Database sample, choose the Menu -> App -> Show in explorer to open the sample directory and then look for the PHP scripts.

Hello Donald,

If I am not wrong, if our iPhone device is hijacked, then we can install any kind of application. May this can help in some manner, however, hijacking the device is not allowed by Apple (again if I am not wrong) and the guarantee can be loss if we proceed in that way. On the other hand, probably my friend has an iMac with the OSX installed and uses the Apache Cordova distribution for that operating system.

If do not have an iMac, probably the only solution come from Adobe Phonegap, but, anything else (the appropiate developer key, certificates, etc.) must be provided by us after get it from Apple.

Hello Donald,

Thanks for the link. Probably they explain the process very well: a pain I don't know why, but Apple does not convince me at all. I think, for mobile purposes, Android is better, and, I also want to take a look at Windows 10. Why? Mainly because the provide us cheap devices, capables to do most of things that probably we need. However, if we really wanted to deal with the iOS platform... then yes, we need to asume their characteristics and rarities.

After take a look at the link you provide, I think I put my friend in a compromise,... to try to explain us how to proceed in less words. :)