I developed a small Electron Dekstop application that handle's login on my webapp and then "load" the webapp through an Electron loadUrl().
We already implemented Jitsi meet in that webapp (with specific UI etc). Everything works fine except the screen sharing.
(The first development was years ago, and since Electron did not allowed custom chrome extension we just didn't bother to make the screen sharing work).
Since then a lot of changes happened and it seems like this project managed to make it work.
I am aware of the solution that allows electron to use the jitsi screen sharing through #jitsi/electron-sdk but i'm wondering whether a solution exists in my case (AKA Jitsi not being implemented directly in Electron, but through a loadUrl()).
Is there a chrome extension that I could add to my electron project allowing chromium to get the JitsiMeetElectron.obtainDesktopStreams function ?
Or is the only solution to implement from scratch jitsi in our Electron project ?
Thanks in advance.
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I was using ionic and angular to develop a mobile app that could display the pdf, image or dwg file within the forge viewer. It works all perfectly on the website monitor, but when I deploy the app in the ios phone and the android phone, I found out that if I open the dwg file and some image file, the app will crash sometimes. Btw, some extension is not supported by ios, such as pushpin extension. It seems that three js works not good in ios.
I also check the document about the "Create iPhone Apps Using Forge Viewer & React Native" in the forge viewer official website. After I follow the steps to build the app with native react and deploy it on my phone, pdf and image file works good but not for the dwg file.
I have experience building apps with ionic but not React Native. Compare to these two frameworks, which one should I pick? If I continue using the ionic framework if there is any way I could use to improve the performance of the forge viewer inside my app? or would it be better to switch to React Native?
For tech questions, how could I avoid the app crash and improve the performance? I checked the A360 app on the app store, I found out that the app is using the offline data, it will download all the data once it opens the file. Should I do the same way?
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Technically both RN and Ionic embeds Viewer as external dependencies in WebView so there's no material difference/pros and cons in the approach to embed.
As such I'd recommend to go with the framework you are more comfortable/experienced with - although RN seems to be blessed with a couple of samples but those do little more than scratch the surface when it comes to a real world solution so you can get up to speed with their approach and go from there.
Performance wise yes - downloading the derivatives (SVFs) to the client side would certainly improve load times - you can either see here and here to download, store/package locally and override request handling of WebView to load them (as Viewer only supports http(s) and not file or other protocols) , or cache the resources with Service Worker following here and here.
You can look around SO for other performance related questions - mostly they are about setting the memory options, correct FPS targets, consolidating geometry, selective loading and adjusting navigation options - for specific issues you can post another question or email forge.help at autodesk.com for assistance.
It is okay to open the dwg file less than 1mb very soon, but if the file is larger than 1mb, it will take some time to load and is hard to zoom the viewer.
I'd suggest to download or cache the derivatives (SVF) locally to boost loading performance. I was unable to reproduce any difficulty with zooming - did you set viewport in head meta tag?
I have a Qlikview dashboard that I need to present and I've created a site that loads the Qlikview server onto the browser and runs it from there.
I now need to create an iOS app that does this. But the requirement is that the dashboard shouldn't open on the browser. The server should be loaded and run from the app itself. Is there any way to do this?
PS, I'm completely new to iOS App development and any help will be appreciated.
Yes. While saving it as a shortcut and opening it in the browser would be simple, using Apache Cordova is the best way to develop a smartphone app with HTML5/CSS/JavaScript. From the website:
When using the Cordova APIs, an app can be built without any native
code (Java, Objective-C, etc) from the app developer. Instead, web
technologies are used, and they are hosted in the app itself locally
(generally not on a remote http server).
And to make things better, it's open source.
I want to be able to access folders and files via my app, the problem is, when i want to access files on the desktop, i have to run it from a server or at least to emulate one using a program like xampp.
I know PhoneGap has it's own API to access files, but i need to make the app work on desktop too, and i don't mind it to be as normal offline website ( via index.html, not an exe ), but i still need to solve the security issues, i can't tell clients to run it from a server...
The big idea after it, is that i need the app to check for new files in the server, if there are any, to download them.
Also, i want the app to be able to access those downloaded files when it is offline as well.
I guess using only phonegap in ios will solve this, but i still need it to work on windows desktop as well.
PhoneGap released PhoneGap Desktop
http://phonegap.com/blog/2014/12/11/phonegap-desktop-app-beta/
I think this is what you are looking for!
I'm building an app for iOS and android using sencha touch 2.3.1 (using sencha architect 3 as my IDE if that's useful to know) and I want to be able to play video inline, as opposed to an embedded video that opens up the native video player after the user taps on it. A perfect example of the functionality I'm after would be the Vine app (at least for iOS, I haven't looked at it on android), videos simply play right there on the page without the native iOS video player taking over.
I'm aware of the allowsInlineMediaPlayback property of UIWebView, but I have no clue how to set that, or even whether I can, since I'm not building a native app in xcode (in fact I have no experience doing so, this is my first attempt at building any sort of mobile application).
How do you plan to package your application to run on a mobile device? The html/js/css what you are creating needs to be packaged on some way to have a mobile app. You can use sencha cmd for that but phonegap is sort of more popular for that. If you will use phonegap then you can set this in the config.xml. See http://docs.phonegap.com/en/2.2.0/guide_project-settings_ios_index.md.html
I managed to get this working by installing cordova on my machine, then running the
sencha cordova init
command on my sencha project folder. After that I simply made sure allowsInlineMediaPlayback was set in my cordova config and that my video tag/object in Architect had the webkit-playsinline attribute set to "1".
If you're interested I am still able to continue my normal development and build workflow in Architect (Architect is now compatible with Cordova, though make sure you add
{
"path": "cordova.js",
"remote": true
}
to your app.json manually. Note you only need that entry in the js section of your app.json and DO NOT NEED THE ACTUAL CORDOVA.JS FILE TO BE IN YOUR PROJECT FOLDER, Architect will handle this when you run your build command).
I have a native (Obj-C, standard Xcode project) application and I'd like to integrate a partners iOS application (or specifically, it's functionality) into it as just another view in my application. The problem is that their application is a Flex/Air app. I really don't understand the Adobe compilation process on how it gets from a bunch of flex code down to an IPA. I don't see intermediate projects, shared objects, etc on the disk to produce that IPA. It looks like it doesn't rely on the Apple tool chain... as I understand it, you can produce the IPA on Windows as well.
Is there any way to build that Flex app in such a way that I can import it into Xcode so I can link against it and use it as a library from within my application?
While I specifically used iOS as an example since that is the most important platform, we'll want to apply this solution to our respective Android and Blackberry 6 apps as well.
No, you cannot embed an application within another application. This is true for all applications. Only thing you could do is get the swf of your partner's code and embed that into an Air application, but since you're not using Actionscript/Flex, it won't be possible.
Only other way would be to have an app link to the other application.