I've developed an Android app who loads a web app from an url in fullscreen and caches it with application cache. That works fine, so I would do the same for Windows 8. Is this possible? How it's done?
To load any WebSite/WebApp in your windows-8 app, you can add WebView control in your ApplicationPage.
You can find more details/Information regarding WebView control here
and find Code samples for Adding WebView in your app here
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I have designed a website which is responsive and it opens in Android and iOS.
I also have a supported app for the same which has a feature for sharing links. When the link is clicked it will redirect the user to the website.
Is there a way to find out if the app has been installed on the device (Android/iOS) which the website is running on through MVC?
Please help me with a few suggestions.
Thanks in advance
I am creating a Windows 10 hosted Web App following the guideline here. I have a button on my App, which for Android, would lauch the native sharing dialogue. I guess Windows 10 should have something similar, so that users can share the page URL to other apps like Facebook and Twitter whewn they find the page interesting. I am looking at here but the links are dead. Any examples or documentations about how I can achieve this? Thanks!
On the following location you can find example code (JS, C# and C++) how to share data/content with another app in Windows 10.
https://github.com/Microsoft/Windows-universal-samples/tree/master/sharesource
I am developing a hybrid app and my first page is native page in both android and ios. I kept initial html page as blank white background and loading native page by using the WL.nativePage.show API method.
I am able to go to native page but after the splash screen, it's showing a white screen which is my HTML page for a while then the native pages is displayed. So I want to avoid that white screen. How to do that?
My code for showing native is:
function wlCommonInit() {
WL.NativePage.show('ProductHomeViewController', backFromNativePage, params);
}
This is not easily doable in Worklight 6.1, but is likely to be improved in a later release.
In Android, you can change in AndroidManifest.xml the default activity the application starts with that of yours (the activity you have created for your Native Page)
In iOS, you can start another UIViewController from CDVMainViewController
The above will help to have a Hybrid app that its "start page" (the page you see after the splash image) is a native page, HOWEVER, this will not help in sharing the session between the Hybrid and Native pages (as explained in the answer to this question by you).
There is work in progress to create a Cordova plug-in that will allow session sharing between hybrid and native pages when the native page is the starting page of the application; it is not yet ready. As I wrote at the top, in a future release all of this should work better.
To address the questions in the comments:
The Hybrid application also contains that same Native API as a Native application would, this means that once you launch the app and navigate to a native page after the splash image (based on the above), you can still use the same native API methods to connect to the Worklight Server, invoke Worklight Adapters, etc.
The problem is still the sharing of the cookies (session) between the native webview and the hybrid webview.
Again, as written above, there is work in progress to create a Cordova plug-in that will allow session sharing between hybrid and native pages when the native page is the starting page of the application; it is not yet ready. In a future release all of this should work better.
Are there any custom APIs for iBeacon access from mobile web applications? Probably it could be a mobile safari extension.
Thanks in advance.
Unfortunately, no.
You could write a native iOS app that looks for iBeacons in the background and launches a specific web app URL on mobile Safari. You could even pass ranged beacon info in query parameters.
But you would still need a native app installed on the phone to do this. And once the Safari page is launched, getting further updates is impossible, unless you use a complex web service proxy to the native app.
I have a mobile website built using jQuery Mobile. I am currently designing an iOS native app with a single webView to display this mobile website.
PROBLEM:
If the jQuery mobile webpage is viewed in a normal mobile browser, I want all to function normally. BUT if the webpage is viewed using the webView in the iPhone app (not Safari.app) I am designing, I want to include an additional line of code on the webpage to pull in some custom JS.
Here's what I want to be added to the page ONLY IF viewed inside of my iPhone app's webView:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.example.com/mobile/js/custom-jqm-defaults.js"></script>
This code needs to be pulled in (according to the jQuery mobile docs) before jQuery Mobile is loaded. Is this possible? And if so, could you point me in the right direction and give me some code?
EDIT
I found this link whereby Facebook detects if they are being viewed WITHIN an app. Is there another way to do this obviously NOT using the FB API? Here is their code:
if (FB.UA.nativeApp()) {
// Hide your credits stuff
}
You can change the user agent in your NSURLRequest, and then check for that agent on your server.
Changing it app-side is easy.