With Xamarin.iOS, you can create a 'Today extension' which is basically just a widget that the user sees on their 'Today' screen. Microsoft have created a tutorial on creating one of these extensions here. In essence it is simply just a UIViewController displayed by the OS.
I've thought of two ways this could possibly be done. Either creating a widget with Xamarin.iOS (I'd need a way of 'importing' it, if anyone knows if that could be done?) or creating it with Xamarin Forms, but I don't know if this is possible or if I'm just missing something?
I'm looking for somebody to point me in the right direction
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I try to add UI test cases to our existing mac application. I already tried UI test cases for iOS, which includes the following steps
I choosed Appium instead of Apple's UIAutomator, because I want to maintain the same flow for our Android apps too.
To proceed the automation, I need to set Labels/Values/Identifiers to the elements. So that they can be accessible. We used drawRect method in most parts, so I followed this post to make drawed components accessible.
I can set/read elements in iOS. What I did is, whenever I draw an element, I simply created an UIAccessibilityElement and added in the corresponding view.
Now, I'm trying to write UI tests for our mac application. As Appium does not have support to the mac application, I considered to use Apple's XCTest UI recording/playback to automate my mac application.
Here is the steps that I took:
NSAccessibility is the class that provides accessibility to the mac application
With XCTest, If I knew a particular elements (say a button) identifier/label, I can proceed with automated tap action
Unlike UIAccessibility, NSAccessibility is a role based object. That is, we need to mention which type of accessibility element that we are going to define.
To start the automation process, I took my mac applications left panel, which has five buttons aligned vertically in it
I set identifiers to those buttons. Then I opened Accessibility Inspector and opened my mac app. The values are properly set.
Then I tried to use record option in XCTest. When tapping the button, crashes the app with the error
"Recorder Service Error: Left Mouse Down: Failed to find matching
element".
I posted about it here.
Questions:
Can someone suggest me the right path to automate mac application? Am I going in the right way?
I googled a lot to see a working sample code about how to implement NSAccessibility. But I can not found anything. Can someone share any useful links/samples?
All I need is, to get elements by identifier/label. Accessibility Inspector shows the right value where as XCTest can not read the identifiers. Did anyone face this issue?
Thanks in Advance
I try to create a simple interface to compare to a simple app built with xcode/swift. And even if i am impressed by react native i do not find a simple way to create a damn vanilla button. Did I miss something or is the button a different beast . Anyway I can't find a simple way to do it and will definitely appreciate some examples(i try to get the exact look and feel of an ios app , i try to be native !!!)
I have a game written in coco2d-js v3.0, which I've embedded it into a web page.
Now in order to run this web page (with my game in it) on a mobile device I need to use CCXWebView (or kind of).
Can I still got the native calls for a game even through the CCXWebView?
1) is done, but I'm still confused about 2).
Hope this will help you. They will add ios native call in their next release.
https://github.com/chukong/cocos-docs/blob/master/manual/framework/html5/v3/reflection/en.md
Is it possible to create an iOS library or framework using libgdx (RoboVM) that can be imported into Xcode?
Background:
One of my colleagues has created a 3D visualisation app as a libgdx project for android and windows desktop. It can be compiled to run on iOS using RoboVM. However, I would like to wrap extra native user interface elements around it using Xcode. I know its possible to build the user interface programmatically via RoboVM but I would be keen to investigate if its possible to bring the existing work into Xcode. I don't need to edit the 3D visualisation component but add extra GUI elements around the 3D Vis window. I thought compiling the libgdx (RoboVM) code to a framework or library might be a solution that could be imported?!
Yes you can do it.
All you need to create a method, say initRoboVM(), This will be called by your code when you want to initialize libgdx. You'll need to pass the app path in, which you can hardcode when you're testing.
initRoboVM() will need some modifications, namely it should not call your Java app's main method, well, at least, that's what well behaving libraries should not do IMO. It should also not call rvmShutdown.
You can get further information from here
Thanks :)
I asked the RoboVM team directly. Their answer: It's not a native function, but it certainly can be done.
The complete message...
Hi,
Sorry for the late reply. This use case is not something we're going
to do now. It is possible though if you're prepared to do some
patching of RoboVM. Search the RoboVM Google Group and you should find
others who have managed to get this working.
We get this request every know and then so we will add support for
this eventually.
Regards, Niklas
i'm trying to create an app which uses the combination of native functionality and the phoneGap framework. The native app has a button, upon the click of which the phoneGap ui has to be added to the view. Is there any way to achieve this? Are there any tutorials for the same?
Yes, this is possible. Although you might be getting yourself into some headaches. My app kind of goes the other way around, it's mostly phonegap, but occasionally i'll pop open a view that is native. Here is the link to code that shows an excellent example of how to switch between the iOS and phonegap worlds.
new updated recommended article (see update below)
These files represent a standard plugin used in phonegap. In this particular plugin, a native view is opened on top of a phonegap view. Notice you have a custom xib and everything. This plugin can be modified to display any xib with any functionality you could think of.
If you implement this plugin you will easily see how to jump back and forth. I've successfully heavily modified these classes to add LOTS of native capabilities to my phonegap project. Also you should probably check out the official phonegap guide to phonegap plugins. Here
Important Edit
Was informed original linkwas broken (not terribly surprised as this answer is very old and i've long since moved away from Phonegap) so I replaced the original link with an article that shows how to do these plugins well. In the article it explains the link is broken and gives several links where these older files are maintained, but in fact those are broken as well. Here is a branch of one of them I found that still hosts the original files on an "archive" branch. But I haven't investigated whether these files are wildly different from my original work. Good luck!
That's not how Phonegap is meant to be used.
To achieve what you are asking for you just need to create a Phonegap app and add the extra native functionality by writing a Phonegap plugin in Objective-C. You may add as much native code as you want.
I'm actually wanting to do the same thing as the original poster. Theoretically it would be comparatively easy, but non-trival to do. I'd love it if there was a PhoneGapView that one could integrate into an existing project. Bonus points if said PhoneGapView could be integrated in Interface Builder as a re-sizeable and re-positional object, basically think of it as an Object that extends UIWebView.
This is wishful thinking on my part seeing as this is how the higher-ups want my project.