I'm writing a mobile app with HTML5, Javascript and CSS3.
I'm using phonegap.
So if I use something like this.
document.addEventListener("deviceready", onDeviceReady, false);
function onDeviceReady() {
document.addEventListener("backbutton", onBackKeyDown, false);
}
function onBackKeyDown() {
alert("test");
}
I get this error:
cordova : You must have cordova.js included in your projects, to be able to trigger events.
I'm using Ripple to emulate a smartphone. And its right. I don't have cordova.js in my project folder, because I don't know where i get it.
I have downloaded the newest version 2.9.0 of phonegap and using specially cordova-mobile-spec.
There is no cordova.js just a cordova-incl.js. How do I obtain this file?
I wasted a lot of time looking for a solution on the question "Where get the cordova.js?".
I am developing a mobile app using html+css+jQuery mobile and i am building it using the phonegap web build service. The version of phonegap i am working on is 3.1.0.
I was trying to find how to use the Phonegap API on my mobile application and how to call the cordova methods (ex notification.alert). The solution to this is to just add the
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="cordova.js"></script>
inside the head of your index.html document. The Phonegap builder will find and include the correct cordova.js file for each build (Android, Win phone, iOS).
Finally, the ondeviceready event is essential to any application. See the Full Example.
Check the cordova.js inside the new project created (by using command line)
OR
CHECK YOUR LIB FOLDE INSIDE THE DOWNLOADED CORDOVA ZIP FILE
FOR IOS CHECK cordovalib folder
ANDROID
Please check libs folder of each platform.
I also wasted a lot of time trying to figure out what was going on here, because not even George's solution was working for me.
Finally I realized that, as my index.html page is not in the root of the www folder, but inside a subdirectory of it, I should be then setting a relative path for the cordova file (i.e. src="../cordova.js").
Hope it helps anyone else having the same [dumb] issue.
If you are trying to run on your browser for testing, it is suggested to build for browser and run from there, because every time you build the right cordova.js file is included according to the platform.
To build for browser:
cordova build browser
To run:
cordova run browser
More options
cordova run browser -- --port=8001 --target=Firefox
To run with plugins here is a quick intro guide https://www.raymondcamden.com/2016/03/22/the-cordova-browser-platform
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I've been trying everything for the past two days to solve this issue. I'm well and truly stumped. Perhaps someone with greater knowledge than I can shed some light on the issue:
Basically, I'm building an app in AngularJS with the purpose of building Android and iOS apps from it using Cordova. I should specify that I am using cordova-cli on Linux and ngCordova (wrapper around plugins). I am NOT using Ionic Framework.
My app works fine in Chrome. I followed the ngCordova installation guide perfectly: http://ngcordova.com/docs/install/
I used bower to install. Then included the following in the index.html of my Web App project (not the Cordova project):
<script src="lib/ngCordova/dist/ng-cordova.js"></script>
It didn't work. I thought maybe it's because the ng-cordova.js went into my bower components directory. So I changed that script tag to:
bower_components/ngCordova/dist/ng-cordova.js
When I go to my cordova project directory and set up the platforms, plugins etc... and run:
cordova build android
followed by
cordova run android
The app runs on my device (Nexus 5). I use chrome://inspect to see what happens when I click the button which should be using the email composer plugin: I get a cordova not defined error.
I went into the controller and put this in
console.log($cordovaEmailComposer);
I can examine this in chrome://insepct and it has all the correct functions etc.. so ng-cordova.js is running fine (thats where the factory for the plugin is).
I'm 99% sure the issue is that somewhere along the line cordova.js is being lost. When I go into the cordova project in the ProjectName/www/index.html the tag for cordova.js is commented out.
Same in the platforms/android/assets/www/index.html file.
I traced it back and the same is true in WebAppProject/dist/index.html file. It's commented out. So it seems that when I run grunt build cordova.js is being removed. I thought maybe it's because cordova.js wasn't in the WebAppProject so I brought it into the root directory (same locations as index.html) and it still happened.
Can anyone explain how to properly get this working? I'm totally at a loss. I've tried a million different ways of including cordova.js. I even manually uncommented it out in the cordovaproject/www/index.html. The app builds but crashs upon opening (white screen then dies) suggesting a missing script (despite cordova.js being n that directory too...).
Is this the grunt build process? Or am I totally setting up an ngCordova project incorrectly without realising... I would post some code but I'm 99% sure the issue is with cordova.js or the way the project is building upon either grunt build or cordova build.
Any help would be much appreciated. :)
Cheers,
D
Make sure to include ngCordova before cordova.js and after angular.js.
<script src="/path/to/angular.js"></script>
<script src="/path/to/ng-cordova.js"></script>
<script src="/path/to/cordova.js"></script>
I am making a Cordova app using Framework7 for iOS/Android. I'm trying to add the social sharing plugin and the barcode scanner plugin but the plugin functions can not be called. However when I made a Cordova app with plain HTML and JS (without Framework7) the plugins would work. Is there anything I have to modify on the Framework7 side to enable these Cordova plugins to work?
cordova.js file need not be there in your project root directory. Everytime you do a particular platform build, it gets automatically created in the platform build's project root directory.
For instance, if you build android platform using 'cordova build android' command, the cordova.js file will be generated under 'platforms\android\assets\www' folder. This js file is very much required to use any of the cordova plugins as it is the one which is responsible for triggering 'onDeviceReady' event once the cordova is ready and all plugins are loaded. You can also have a look at the generated file once to get more info on the same. Hope it helps.
I am completely blank, and I am in a situation where I can't install the complete cordova toolset (node.js, git cli, etc), and even if I did my organization's internet policy doesn't allow these tools to work properly. But, I have to do some proof-of-concept apps using cordova.
I have not had a hands-on on apache cordova development so far. People say including cordova.js files in your html5 app does the trick. However, I need a hands-on on this.
Can we simply add cordova.js file into our page, write some logic that tries to access some native features (like camera), and, host it off jsfiddle, and then run those pages on our device browser? Will this work?!
I sadly don't see cordova.js files available on any CDN...
Simply adding Cordova.js file doesn't help you achieve your needs, you must set up the Cordova project. First create the Cordova project and then build the project with which platform you want.
After that you can use Cordova plugins to fulfill your needs. Actually, the Cordova.js file only acts as a JavaScript bridge to access the native features of the phone (camera, GPS, etc.).
If you want something more than that, Ionic framework is the best option in my opinion.
I'm developing a Sencha-touch app which I'm packaging with Phonegap. To make developing easier, I only use Phonegap as shell to load my online website. This all works fine and I don't need to build and distribute the app every time something changes. I only need to update my online website.
Except now I want to use some PhoneGap events (resume, deviceready etc). In order to get these events working I need to include the gordova.js file in the index.html.
My problem is that the index.html is on my server and not in the Phonegap www folder. So when I try to include gordova.js in the index.html like:
<script type="text/javascript" src="cordova.js"></script>
The application search the cordova.js on my webserver and can't find the file. I know I could place the cordova.js file on my server, but the cordova.js file difference for each platform and then I don't know which (platform) cordova file I need to load.
Is there a way to include offline files (in the Phonegap www folder) in my online loaded index.html file? Or do you've other suggestions?
Thanks Stefan
Place index.html file in the assets\www directory and let it be the starting point of your application.
In the index.html file which will be located in the assets\www directory you need to add the following code in the head tag. The window.location will redirect to your website URL.
<script>
document.addEventListener("deviceready", onDeviceReady, false);
function onDeviceReady() {
// Now safe to use the Codova API
window.location="http://your.website/index.html"; }
</script>
You need to enable CORS. To enable CORS on the client follow the below steps.
Tell Cordova that it is safe to load your website in the config.xml properties (you can remove the subdomains part if you don't have any)
<access origin="http://your.website" subdomains="true"/>
I am trying to upload some code html and javascript code into phonegap to develop this app however when I update the files the program still runs the old code as to what was in the html file before. I have even started a new project and it will not change the old index.html image even though the code behind it is different. I'm really confused as to why this is and I was wondering what I could do to solve this. I even searched through the workspace index.html file and it is the correct file that I want in there but upon running it i am given the same your device is ready hello world. I checked the location of the files and everything is correct. It is very confusing. I am using eclipse by the way not phonegap build if that helps.
you need to build your project again.
cordova build android
But make sure you edit your files in www folder in parent folder.
Make sure you are updating the WWW file in the root Phonegap folder. Then you can run the command:
$ cordova build
or
$ phonegap build