I'm making a html5 game and while I'd like to be able to publish the game to a web platform like chrome store, the game plays closer to a traditional desktop game. So I'd like to be able to make it for the desktop too and take advantage of desktop app stores as well.
Air would have been ideal except that they dropped support for linux which is my main platform. I liked Titanium but it doesn't have support for html5 audio yet and installing it onto linux can be tricky sometimes. I researched Phonegap but it's targeted toward mobile and not desktop. Is there a simple platform out there that'll just let me wrap my app in a webkit frame or something?
All I want to do is have my game run in a browser frame, I don't need any crazy features like a server because all it is is html and javascript, nothing server side. With all the cool things out there like Titanium and phonegap I'm positive there has to be something simple like this out there.
Thanks a lot
Blender was right. XULrunner was a great platform. I literally had my webapp up and running within a few hours of going through tutorials and docs. Works great, I'd recommend it to anyone else with this need at least until someone makes something a bit more documented.
Here's a good starter tutorial:
http://www.kodewerx.org/wiki/A_Brief_Introduction_To_XULRunner:_Part_1
And a hint, no need to download XULrunner while developing, firefox has a command line argument for it. Just
$ firefox -app /path/to/application.ini
And it'll run. So if you have firefox, you have XULrunner. And it'll work at least until release.
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I am looking at trying to scan barcodes from a mobile device.
I been doing some research and I having hard time finding JavaScript libraries that can do this.
I see these projects
zxing
This seems to be no longer in development and just bugs fixes are done?
QuaggaJS
This one, I am not sure if it is development either anymore as changelog is from 2017
quagga2
This seems to be a fork of the one above? So this might be the better choice to go with vs the 2?
What I am trying to achieve is this. I want to go on an andriod device (think phone, maybe tablet), load up chrome or firefox, go to my site click a button and load up the devices camera and scan a bar code (mostly EAN-8/13).
I want to do the same thing on apple devices (iphone and ipad), load up safari (not sure if they got chrome and Firefox on these devices. I don't own apple), click a button and load up their devices cameras and scan a bar code.
I think this is possible in all the libraries I listed above, but I am still unclear if this is possible on apple devices? I read somewhere that before ios 14 it would not be possible?
I am open to other libaries, I can use Jquery, vanilla javascript and I think angular (but I think it is version 3).
Just been doing this same research myself. All of those open source ones you listed seem to be either dead or have performance/reliability issues. Looks like only the commercial versions are really viable at the moment:
Dynamsoft - https://www.dynamsoft.com/store/dynamsoft-barcode-reader/
Scanbot - https://scanbot.io/products/barcode-software/web-barcode-scanner/
There are also two different mobile apps that are viable. These are web apps that just display a browser view and make a barcode scanning function from the app itself available on the page:
https://berrywing.com/scan-to-web-app/
https://www.mochasoft.dk/iphone_barcode2.htm
The second one has a more capable JS API of the two.
UPDATE: I went with that last option from Mochasoft. Turned out quite well.
I've created a website for a client's salesforce to use in hospitals, where they can't use wifi to access the internet as it can interfere with sensitive medical equipment. The website uses HTML, CSS and Javascript and does not require any form of server to work, which is fine when run locally on a laptop. However, they now want to use iPads and I've been trawling the Net for a simple solution in which I could copy the entire site to an iPad, while maintaining the site's directory structure, and then launch it locally with the browser. Nothing that I've found seems to be able to do this, although it seems such a ridiculously straightforward thing.
The best I've been able to do is to email the zipped site to my iPod, and then use the FileManager app to unzip and run the site in its own browser. It's useable but not great (every time you tap something you get an overlay at the top of the page) and there's no way I can find of adding a shortcut to the desktop - is there a better way of doing this?
You can look into something like React Native which allows you to write javascript HTML applications and deploy them as native iOS and Android applications. It shouldn't require too much work to move it over enough to just compile it and run it as you do currently.
https://facebook.github.io/react-native/
Cordova to package it in to an app https://cordova.apache.org/
I've been building Android apps for a few years now, and I've arrived to this working setup:
Intellij Idea IDE write/debug
Genymotion "Emulator"
Physical Device (only when needed)
Git
Ant (probably should move to Gradle) Release/Debug builds
And now I'm looking to form an equally productive environment for Javascript (Phonegap, etc), for Android/iOS/Win8Phone.
I want to avoid the "nice-text-editor-only" solution (I believe a full IDE is superior in productivity terms).
Any suggestions?
Try Brackets editor http://brackets.io/. It's a nice editor to code the web. Phonegap plugins also available for this editor. Just take a look at this editor. Make sure to download the version of Brackets with Phonegap Plugin compatibility.
For the Cordova/Phonegap app I developed, I used cloud9. In my workflow, I would first get things working in my browser, then occasionally do builds with Adobe's Phonegap Build service to work out the kinks on my mobile devices.
The nice thing about c9 is you'll have a public URL for the website you're developing so you can preview it in your device's browser, which is typically closer to the environment you'll get with Phonegap.
The weinre debugging tool, although slow if you're running it through http://debug.phonegap.com/, can really help track down problems when debugging on mobile devices.
Iam developing a blackberry webworks application which is supposed to work on OS 5.0 and upwards.The app does use a fair bit of jquerymobile. The HTML's had already been developed and it was working well in the ripple emulator. But when I deployed it in an OS5.0 device, the load times were terrible. It took nearly a minute to load a page with some 3 images and a couple of tables (nothing was fetched from the server , all files were in the packaged application in the device). I even tried the pages on the native browser directly and its rendering capabilities were poor (css / jquery mobile etc came out horribly. Javascript was enabled in the device).
What I would like to know is, is native application/very basic html only way to get a decent experience on OS5.0? Is using fair bit of a javascript even feasible on OS5.0 HTML apps?
I even tried using a browserfield2 with caching but that too didnt make much difference.
Just wanted to see if things are indeed this bad in OS5.0 or if I missed something out. Any help/feedback will be greatly appreciated..
I am thinking of building an application, kind of like TiddlyWiki in the sense that everything is self-contained in an HTML file, or at least in a bundle where a user won't have to install anything. It works on just about any browser, and on mobile phones (Android and iPhone), and in some browsers (e.g. Firefox), manages to save to the local filesystem without a plugin (albeit, it launches many security warnings, but there are other solutions for that). Other browsers happen to use a Java plugin to bypass this restriction.
Are there any technologies that exist that make this possible? HTML5's web storage sounds like it would be almost perfect, except that the data would be tied to the browser.
Any assistance would be appreciated (even if that just means editting / retagging the question to get more folks looking).
Whats about the fileapi: http://caniuse.com/#search=fileapi
I am just adding a relevant comment with this but not exactly an answer...
When you are saying that you want to develop application which contains everything... Then I would like to add about Titanium, PhoneGap, and others (Corona)...
This softwares provides JavaScript base which will be running on all the mobiles (if mobile applications), desktops (if desktop applications) and so on.... But Titanium (as i am working on it) works on the SDK of all the other languages for development...
Now TiddlyWiki, what i have understood from the link is that it is creating a web application or something like that which will work on all the other mobile devices. But this is NOT Good always, Since some application needs to be a NATIVE environment (which is supported by Titanium). Native applications will be much more faster than any other developed applications..