Let me first start out by saying I know how to use the iOS SDK so please don't answer this with a "just use the SDK." I want to know WHY google analytics is not working.
Here's my setup. I have a web app that is also baked into an android app and ios app via webview. I'm using cordova. The android app works just fine with the GA JS code. The web works just fine. However no events or page views are showing up from iOS. I've heard that GA is tied to the domain so does an iOS Webview do something under the hood to the domain?
I was going to attach my code snippet but it's coffeescript in a few classes so I'll just paste the compiled js
Analytics.prototype.track = function(args) {
window._gaq.push(args);
};
Analytics.track(['_trackEvent', 'SubscriptionModal', "Closed", data]);
This works fine in web and android so it's not a JS. I'm setting the GA _setDomainName to 'focusatwill.com' and can see that both ios and web have a domain of 'www.focusatwill.com'
I've read online a few people talking about this issue and everyone says just use the SDK. I'm looking for the reason why it doesn't work. How do you fix it to use the JS?
edit
I should mention that the html and JS are not baked into the device, ie they don't have a local url but are served up from our webserver
Safari on iOS6+ blocks third party cookies by default, and I'm certain that webviews do too.
Check that you have something similar to the following in the init method of AppDelegate.m:
NSHTTPCookieStorage* cookieStorage = [NSHTTPCookieStorage sharedHTTPCookieStorage];
[cookieStorage setCookieAcceptPolicy:NSHTTPCookieAcceptPolicyAlways];
That's from the standard boilerplate generated by Cordova 3.0.9, but might not be present if you're using a version that predates iOS6. It sets the app-specific cookie policy, which should override the system default.
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I'm making a desktop app version of a website with electron. The desktop app itself works, but the google sign in does not work because "this browser is not secure."
Opening the sign-in page in a secure browser will not work here because i did not make the actual sign-in version itself, I am only making the desktop app version.
I've seen other posts where they say to change the userAgent, but Google has disabled that, so it will not work.
I also have used a solution with nativefier app --userAgent..., but the Windows and Linux versions become messy with a bunch of extra files after building. I would like to get a single .exe file for Windows and a single .AppImage or .deb file or similar for Linux if possible.
If you have any solutions or workarounds for this, please let me know. Thanks!
I managed to log in with Google using this package: getstation/electron-google-oauth2. This package will open a browser window for the log in, then successfully pass it to Electron app. There are examples in the readme demonstrating how to make it work.
Also make sure that you configure a desktop OAuth 2.0 Client ID for the app:
I have been doing a lot of reading and studying to figure out.
I basically just want my main AngularJS application to run, but also include an embedded Chrome Extension app - in this case, have regularly scheduled alarms (using the chrome.alarm API).
I want all users of my AngularJS app to have automatic access to the Chrome extension app, embedded in the main clientside one with lots of other Angular features.
It seems like I have to manually enable my Chrome app in Developer mode on my browser and even drag my Chrome app specifically to a location in my Chrome browser. I don't understand how end users can just automatically use my Chrome app then.
I need to add here I have never really used jQuery, only AngularJS but AngularJS extensively. My AngularJS app is the frontend, the backend is provided by Rails.
Some advice would be really helpful. I hope I am not downvoted as it is strange how sometimes questions get downvoted and I am not sure why...I don't really know where else to go with this question.
EDIT:
Ok some code to demonstrate:
myangularapp.controller('myappcontroller', function($scope, $http) {
var delayvar = 5;
chrome.alarms.create("arandomalarm", {delay: delayvar});
};
This doesn't just work as part of my AngularJS, I tried creating a manifest.json file in the app/assets folder too. As well as a background.js file there and my-chrome-app.js file. "chrome.alarms" is undefined, but I haven't enabled Developer mode yet. But still, how are end users supposed to use it if just to make me use it I need to do so much specific browser configuration?
You should have a look at Content Scripts and then at Message Passing which explains you how to communicate between a web page and an Chrome extension.
its not possible to automatically install a chrome extension. the user must install it from the chrome store.
you may make it easier for them to install it by providing an inline installation from your webpage. its in the official documentation and you can see an example on this page with the "add to chrome" button:
http://plusfortrello.com (one of my chrome extensions which has inline installation inside that page).
that example button is further customized to display a message instead if the user is not on chrome desktop.
if your extension also has permission to your webpage then you can also detect from your webpage if the extension is already install it (to hide the button, send messages to it and such).
I'm quite new to xcode, because I mostly work with JS and HTML5. I've decided to create a simple webview app that enables me to work with JS and HTML5 (going to put it on Github asap)
Now my question is about accessing certian iPhone features that I cannot use in Safari or Chrome (the reason why I'm creating this).
So the question is: is this possible? for example, I can't access the camera (as a fullscreen background I mean) in an iOS browser, but can I use it in webview?
You need any method of communicating between UIWebView and the containing app. There are libraries out there that do just that, some better some less. In case you do not want them... So to outline the techniques to do that:
App talking to the webView - using [webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScript:...]
Webview talking to the app - using url directives. Which is essentialy window.location = ... with custom fake urls, and then parsing the NSURLs in the delegate method webView:shouldStartLoadWithRequest:navigationType: and of course returning NO to prevent actually navigating to your fake urls.
If you find that you are missing consecutive URL requests, you could write a JS function that takes the URLs, puts them all in an array, pops one by one and sending them to the browser in a setTimeout(..., 0).
You need to use something like this - Cordova or PhoneGap ( Both are the same thing )
"Apache Cordova is a set of device APIs that allow a mobile app developer to access native device function such as the camera or accelerometer from JavaScript. Combined with a UI framework such as jQuery Mobile or Dojo Mobile or Sencha Touch, this allows a smartphone app to be developed with just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript."
Here is a description of all the device features cordova or phonegap allow you to use - Plugin API's
Yes, is it possible, but using a web app container like Phonegap.
If you need more info how install it visit this web.
I am making a jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap app.
I am about to save some data to local storage. I am wondering if it is safe on mobile browsers (Android, iOS and windows). On PC I am able to check the values in FireBug. Is it possible somehow on mobile devices? Can I access in app A data specified by app B?
Thanks for help.
At least in iOS, if it's a phonegap app the localStorage is only accesible from the app.
To check values while you are developing, you can try debug phonegap.(only works on webkit browsers). If you put a name there, it creates a script tag to include in your index. If you include that script tag in your index and execute the app you can see a remote web inspector for your app.
I have written a phonegap application, and it performs a pretty simple task, it gets some JSON from a YQL link, and then displays it nicely to the user. This works excellently when I run it using Google Chrome on a Desktop, but, my client tells me that it does not work on his device which is Android 2.3. What can be going wrong? I'm using phonegap build to build to app, and they tell me that it is given internet permission, but, when my client puts the APK on the phone (its not on the market yet), does he need to do something special for it to access the internet?
Thanks a lot,
Dhaivat
in phonegap, allow external host : Open phonegap.plist -> external host and add your url or * to allow all
within the phonegap app the webapp runs under the file:// protocol - this might affect things.
you should test this at least on an emulator yourself - clients usually screw up anything some might screw up when testing ;) best would be to test on an actual device tho.
I'm not sure if this will help but I had a similar problem testing my app here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17496104/json-wordpress-feed-not-appearing-in-android-studio-emulator-using-phonegap
I needed to change access origin to ="*"/ in my config.xml