Guaka! - cordova

guaka: time to fix http://ur1.ca/dv5lw #android #java #phonegap #cordova #meteor - with @chmac

Guaka — Wed, 15 May 2013 10:08:39 +0000

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guaka: time to fix http://ur1.ca/dv5lw #android #java #phonegap #cordova #meteor - with @chmac

meteor-phonegap and Radio Meteor

Guaka — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 22:42:49 +0000

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Soma FM is probably the best internet radio station around. Actually, the best collection of radio stations, as there are quite a few different channels they broadcast. Unfortunately their website is not so great for quickly listening to one of the soma streams. Until a month ago I usually ended up using some command-line wizardry to listen to groovesalad or dronezone.

I've been playing around with Meteor.js for about a half year. Meteor is an excellent JavaScript everywhere framework. It's super duper easy to build realtime web apps (just watch this screencast to get an idea). Of course I actually prefer to code in CoffeeScript, which looks and behaves much more like Ruby and Python.

I had already tried Phonegap before and somehow plugging Meteor stuff into Phonegap was definitely on my mind. I played around a bit and in (total) just a couple of hours I had a script ready that could take any Meteor app and turn it into an Android .apk. It's now available at github.com/guaka/meteor-phonegap.

Now back to Soma.fm. Enough of cli, I wanted to be able to quickly change channels and a web app built in Meteor seemed appropriate, even if just for the convenience of meteor deploy radio.meteor.com and just for the kick of being able to release something built with Meteor. (We reached Meteor's limits with the cool geo stuff we've been working on, so it will take a while before we can release that.)

Today I quickly changed the Flash based iframe provided by Somafm with an HTML5 audio tag. That was enough to try meteor-phonegap again and build an .apk I could try on my Nexus 7. It works pretty well and I even managed to upload it to Google Play. It will take another 48 hours before I know if my credit card payment came through this time. If so, you'll be able to find Radio Meteor on there.

Oh and I also made an app with Meteor.js documentation. Enjoy!

guaka: npm install -g cordova doesn't work on #osx? upgrade your installation of #node - #phonegap #cordova #npm - this installs a cordova #cli

Guaka — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:00:21 +0000

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guaka: npm install -g cordova doesn't work on #osx? upgrade your installation of #node - #phonegap #cordova #npm - this installs a cordova #cli

Javascript everwhere: PhoneGap and Node.js (and no Eclipse)

Guaka — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 20:34:04 +0000

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Got into ~~PhoneGap~~Apache Cordova a little while back. First I got into Titanium Appcelerator, thanks to my friend Silvio. But Titanium was all Eclipsy and then when I wanted to do some coding in the train I found out that I needed to be online to code in Titanium. I do have Ben Internet in the Netherlands and Mobile Vikings in Belgium but it's not always working amazingly in a moving train and this restriction was a tad bit too much.

It took me some time to set up Cordova without Eclipse. Finally I found android terminal quickstart, which mostly boils down to making sure the Android SDK is living somewhere, its tools/ directory is in your path, and ditto for Apache Ant, the build tool.

After that you only really need to do ant debug install from the android/ directory meanwhile making sure your Android phone is connected through USB.

I coded some basic Android stuff and I can say it's nice to get more into JS.
I helped Kenny to set this stuff up on his Windows machine so then I was ready to rethink server stuff. So I started looking at Node.js again. Well, again, I only briefly played with it for an hour or so. Now I was more decided to take this to an interesting level. And interesting it is!

I started fooling around with Express.js, meanwhile checking out some more goodness that's around. Pedro Teixeira's tutorial videos have been really helpful. But I also came across fun things such as Now.js, which deserve a bit more attention in the short future.

And meanwhile my arm feels as if it's new. I can't wait till next year for the Google Glasses... So meanwhile I ordered the MyndPlay BrainBand.