Comments on: Build process experiments with PhoneGap http://nachbaur.com/blog/build-process-experiments-with-phonegap Making broken software somewhat less broken Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:56:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Marcus http://nachbaur.com/blog/build-process-experiments-with-phonegap/comment-page-1#comment-256 Marcus Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:18:42 +0000 http://nachbaur.com/?p=105#comment-256 Thanks. Have you gotten the cam functions to work properly? I know you have it in your demo, but I cant get it work, neither taking a pic, nor save externally from the library. Thanks. Have you gotten the cam functions to work properly? I know you have it in your demo, but I cant get it work, neither taking a pic, nor save externally from the library.

]]> By: Michael Nachbaur http://nachbaur.com/blog/build-process-experiments-with-phonegap/comment-page-1#comment-201 Michael Nachbaur Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:10:51 +0000 http://nachbaur.com/?p=105#comment-201 Heh fun, I've never had fans before. Maybe I should start a "Nacho's Fanclub" and people could all wear goofy hats and sing songs on TV. No? Okay, sounds fine to me. To answer your questions: 1) I'd covered that in a previous blog post, but basically the "configure" script creates a Makefile that generates your JavaScript file for you. This then merges all your changes together into one single app JS file. Then, there's a script that XCode runs at build-time called iphone/build-phonegap.sh that rebuilds this javascript file and places it in the build directory for you. This is important because you don't want to check generated code in to Git, or any version control system. It just causes problems in the long-run. What I find works well is if I want to do debugging in Safari, I include two script tags. One to load "app.js", and another that loads "../build/Build-iphoneos/.../app.js". In Safari, the first one fails and the second one loads, and in the phone the reverse happens. 2) ./iphone/rename-phonegap.sh -g -r -n 'My App' Heh fun, I’ve never had fans before. Maybe I should start a “Nacho’s Fanclub” and people could all wear goofy hats and sing songs on TV. No? Okay, sounds fine to me.

To answer your questions:

1) I’d covered that in a previous blog post, but basically the “configure” script creates a Makefile that generates your JavaScript file for you. This then merges all your changes together into one single app JS file. Then, there’s a script that XCode runs at build-time called iphone/build-phonegap.sh that rebuilds this javascript file and places it in the build directory for you. This is important because you don’t want to check generated code in to Git, or any version control system. It just causes problems in the long-run.

What I find works well is if I want to do debugging in Safari, I include two script tags. One to load “app.js”, and another that loads “../build/Build-iphoneos/…/app.js”. In Safari, the first one fails and the second one loads, and in the phone the reverse happens.

2) ./iphone/rename-phonegap.sh -g -r -n ‘My App’

]]> By: Marcus http://nachbaur.com/blog/build-process-experiments-with-phonegap/comment-page-1#comment-200 Marcus Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:45:45 +0000 http://nachbaur.com/?p=105#comment-200 Great. Thanks for clarifying. Two new questions though: 1) did you make some changes to where the main javascript is located? from previous nachos packages I had a master.js file located in www which is where I configured the tab bar etc. Now I cant see this, and it references a app.js in the index.html file which I can locate. Sorry if Im missing something.. 2) do you have an example of how to run the renamer properly from terminal in mac? Thanks! Im a big fan Great. Thanks for clarifying. Two new questions though:

1) did you make some changes to where the main javascript is located? from previous nachos packages I had a master.js file located in www which is where I configured the tab bar etc. Now I cant see this, and it references a app.js in the index.html file which I can locate. Sorry if Im missing something..

2) do you have an example of how to run the renamer properly from terminal in mac?

Thanks! Im a big fan

]]> By: Michael Nachbaur http://nachbaur.com/blog/build-process-experiments-with-phonegap/comment-page-1#comment-197 Michael Nachbaur Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:25:51 +0000 http://nachbaur.com/?p=105#comment-197 Yes, I manage my different features in different branches. The idea is that the "master" branch is the stable set of features. When I work on experimental features, I make those changes in a different branch until they're mature enough to be merged into master. However, that being said, I just merged the buildprocess changes into master, so you should be all good. Yes, I manage my different features in different branches. The idea is that the “master” branch is the stable set of features. When I work on experimental features, I make those changes in a different branch until they’re mature enough to be merged into master.

However, that being said, I just merged the buildprocess changes into master, so you should be all good.

]]> By: Marcus http://nachbaur.com/blog/build-process-experiments-with-phonegap/comment-page-1#comment-193 Marcus Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:55:24 +0000 http://nachbaur.com/?p=105#comment-193 Hi! I downloaded your latest package (I thought) through the download button at http://github.com/NachoMan/phonegap/tree/master. In this I couldnt find the rename-phonegap.sh file, so I realized Im probably doing this the wrong way? I obviously found it under http://github.com/NachoMan/phonegap/tree/buildprocess however, confused now. Thanks! Hi! I downloaded your latest package (I thought) through the download button at http://github.com/NachoMan/phonegap/tree/master. In this I couldnt find the rename-phonegap.sh file, so I realized Im probably doing this the wrong way? I obviously found it under http://github.com/NachoMan/phonegap/tree/buildprocess however, confused now.

Thanks!

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