I'm trying to build the "latest" version of Appium Desktop from source (on a Mac), but I'm clearly not doing something that I need to be doing, because no binary is generated after I run all the build commands.
So, I've downloaded and unpacked the .zip archive https://github.com/appium/appium-desktop/archive/v1.16.0.zip, opened up a terminal session inside the root of the source directory, and followed the online instructions for building from source--but I think this is for the server build https://appium.io/docs/en/contributing-to-appium/appium-from-source/#running-appium-from-source
npm install
npm run build
node .
And it all appears to work successfully! I get a "build completed" message and life looks fab, but nothing launches as far as an app is concerned, and I can find no .app file anywhere in the source directory. And, oddly, there are no build instructions to be found anywhere in the source directory. There's a "ReadMe.md" file but it provides no instructions on how to build from source.
Can someone please tell me what I need to do to build and launch Appium Desktop (not the server) from source? (Oh, I also ran appium-doctor and it gave me a clean bill of health.)
Any feedback would be most appreciated!
Thanks,
Wulf
You've already run npm install so it should be as simple as running npm run dev if you want it in dev mode or npm start if you want non-dev.
See the Contributing to Appium Desktop readme for more.
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i used to upload my ZIP (with HTML5/CSS web app) in phonegap since 4, 5 years and create cool mobile apps. But since some months it's look like Adobe dismiss the project, no more answer on forum etc.
Is there a good solution, when you don't know everything about shift/cocoa/java and server things, to simply upload your webapp (basically a website in a zip) and get IPA/APK ?
I heard about monaco or voltbuilder. Thanks
Not really. Although I can confirm https://build.phonegap.com works for me. If you have an error related to a malformed xml, you can try to delete the project on the website and re-uplading the zip file onto a new project. That's a bug I have experienced in the past.
Otherwise, you can install Cordova and Phonegap on your pc to build it using npm on the terminal (Linux/MacOs).
$ sudo npm install -g cordova
or for windows (CMD):
C:\> npm install -g cordova
then navigate with the command line using cd to go to a folder
eg. cd myfolder.
You can see the files in your current directory with ls (Linux/MacOs) or lsdir (windows)
Once you are in your project's folder and that you can see with lsdir or ls your config.xml file of your project, then you can run those commands to add the platform you want to build:
cordova platform add ios
cordova platform add android
Finally to build the app, you need to:
cordova build
Note: To build an Ipa, you will need to use a device running MacOs since it requires XCode. I highly recommand you to get familiar with Cmd or the terminal if you are building an app.
I hope I have answered your question well
I just installed Exercism and would like to test if I managed to complete the hello-world assignment.
I changed the hello_world.dart file in the lib folder to print the solution, but now I am struggling with running the test file.
In the guide it says to simply run
$ pub run test
Is the $-sign meant to mean something to me? Cause all I am getting is: "'$' is not recognized as an internal or external command,operable program or batch file." I have the same issue with running "pub get" or "pub run test". (What does pub mean?)
To summarize, I ran:
exercism configure "my token"
exercism download --exercise=hello-world --track=dart
cd C:\Users\Martin\exercism\dart\hello-world
I changed the file in C:\Users\Martin\Exercism\dart\hello-world\lib
And then I tried
$ pub run test
pub run test
pub get
And none of these seem to do anything. So, I don't know how to test my file.
I do have flutter installed and run is fine with Android Studio, if that is relevant. It seems to me that I can choose to write the solution in both notepad++ or Android Studio.
Thanks for any help
pub is package manager for dart programming language, just like npm for javascript. Since you've installed it on WINDOWS i'm guessing you used choco - package manager to install the dart-sdk. https://dart.dev/get-dart.
Once installed make sure you've set dart-sdk the path in Environment variable.
Can anyone tell me why my app is not installing at all and ending with the error message
Observatory connection never became ready.
the app was working perfectly fine until yesterday .
I have changed the channel to master yesterday in the command prompt and from then on the app never runs.
I even switched back to channel alpha but still no use.
I have attached a screenshot of the command prompt where the installation was stuck forever.
I am not so sure if I need to reinstall the flutter. I am worried if I uninstall the flutter now it may not configure properly and I might break it forever.
Please can someone tell me what exactly might have gone wrong.
Many Thanks,
Mahi
Instead of reinstall try with following: (Mac)
Set Path Variable: via following terminal command
export PATH=~/flutter/bin:$PATH;
that is bin folder path of flutter.
export PATH=[PATH_TO_FLUTTER_GIT_FOLDER]/bin:$PATH
https://flutter.io/setup-macos/#update-your-path
If above not worked. Check with the Dart version
dart --version
Install the latest dart version:
brew install dart --devel
Hope this helps others.
For Mac
open terminal
$ echo $PATH
it will show like this
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:
it means you need to add flutter in to path
Open Finder presss command + shift + G
Put /etc/paths in dialog and press GO
Copy the file "paths" and paste it on desktop
Then open the pasted "paths" file from desktop
and add following line into end of the file "/flutter/bin"
Then copy that file and again paste it on /etc/paths
same like step no 2
it will ask you to replace or not
press replace
Now if you hit $ echo $PATH on terminal it will show
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Users/swagat/development/flutter/bin
Now your $flutter doctor will work perfectly
The solution is from Google Groups #Flutter-Dev
Thank you very much for your reply #Michael Thomsen.
I've tried what you have suggested and the details are as follows:
When I used flutter run -v command the command prompt output is as follows:
It was stuck for a while at waiting for port connection if I am not wrong.
So I've used AndroidStudio, File>Open and selected android/ folder to run the app then the gradle was showing an error:
Error:Conflict with dependency 'com.android.support:support-annotations' in project ':app'. Resolved versions for app (25.2.0) and test app (25.4.0) differ. See http://g.co/androidstudio/app-test-app-conflict for details.
I modified the build.gradle(Module:app) to show the correct version of 25.2.0 which was previously showing 25.4.0.
dependencies {
androidTestCompile 'com.android.support:support-annotations:25.2.0'
}
I just saved the changes inside android studio and the gradle sync completed without any errors.
Now I can run the app from inside Android Studio and also from IntelliJ IDE.
Thanks very much Michael this solved my problem.
Reinstalling flutter would be my starting point. If this problem persists, please post the output of $>flutter doctor and a description of what exactly leads to this error.
I am trying to create an ionic app on Mac.
I followed the instructions on ionic's website to create a basic app and was able to run it in the browser but when I run "ionic build ios" I get following error. I cannot find a log file or any other error to debug this. How do I go about fixing this?
Check your Gulp version and gulpfile.js. You may need to remove the calls to gulp.src
See:
Gulp TypeError: Arguments to path.join must be strings
and
https://github.com/sindresorhus/gulp-ruby-sass/issues/191
ok, after lot of looking and searching I figured my npm install was messed up.
Part of my installs were in /usr/local and few of them were in /User/user.name/npm folders. /Users/user.name/npm was set in the npm config prefix.
I had two installs of cordova, one on each folder above. Some how the cordova from /usr/local was getting used to create the project and that was the old version.
To fix the problem, I uninstalled all my global npm installs and pointed my npm config prefix to /usr/local and gave myself execute permission on that folder. Everything is working now.
Here is the video that explains how to do it: https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/fixing-npm-permissions
I'm working on a Cordova based mobile application, and wanted to make use of the Cordova CLI's ability to deploy and run my mobile app right from the command line, without having to go into XCode to do the build
When doing:
cordova run ios --device
Cordova graciously tells you that you should install the ios-deploy node module. I did so following the steps on their GIT site.
When I next tried to do a run, I started to get codesign errors, specifically:
/Users/blahblah/platforms/ios/build/device/myApp.app: Permission denied
Command /usr/bin/codesign failed with exit code 1
I couldn't get the code signing to work from Terminal, and worse, going back into XCode resulted in the same error!
Fortunately the error messages says it all: permission denied; I was able to correct this by popping back into Terminal and running a chmod on my entire app folder, i.e.:
chmod -R a+rwx myApp
I could then go back into XCode and get the project building and deploying again (whew!), however if I tried to do the deploy via the Cordova CLI, then same issue would occur.
It seems like the ios-deploy and / or cordova is messing around with the folder permissions, but I'm not sure how to correct this.
Any suggestions would be appreciated!
UPDATE:
To be clear, I am able to successfully sign the app within XCode if I first go into Terminal, and then into the platforms/ios folder and perform a chmod -R a+rwx on the "www" folder.
The problem I'm having is trying to get this to build / sign successfully from the command line.
I've done some further diagnosis, and it seems that the problem is with the Cordova CLI itself, and not with ios-deploy; when I execute:
cordova prepapre
It copies my "www" folder over to the "platforms/ios/www", however it changes the permissions when doing so from everyone having write access (i.e.: drwxrwxrwx) to only my user having write access i.e.: (drwxr-xr-x)
It seems that this is fouling up the codesign application, and is causing my permission denied errors above.
I'm just hoping someone knows how I can work around this, or what I might be doing wrong with my build - I'd prefer not to have to go into XCode to do these builds.
So it turns out that the Cordova CLI is working just fine, as is the ios-deploy npm package.
The problem turns out to be within the solution itself, and has nothing to do with the tools.
I am using the Ionic framework within this particular Cordova application, and their framework installs some "after_prepare" hooks (within the hooks folder) which attempt to help prepare / clean up some extraneous files prior to the build.
One of these hooks (named "020_remove_sass_from_platform.js") was trying to help out by cleaning up unneeded SASS files prior to the build in order to reduce the size of the compiled app.
Unfortunately this hook was adjusting the folder permissions (I guess in order to ensure the delete could succeed), and this was the cause of the "www" folder's permissions changing during a "cordova prepare".
I deleted the hooks, and now the Cordova CLI builds and signs the APK as expected, and the ios-deploy package pushes it to the device, all without using XCode.
Hope this can be of some help to someone else.
Check the CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY property in your build settings. Is your provisioning profile selected there?
You also need to enter a valid bundle identifier in your apps .plist.
The identifier has to match the one you provided when generating the profile.
Try this
sudo npm install -g ios-deploy --unsafe-perm