We are going to develop a mobile app (iOS and Android), which should provide downloading and storing several user-selected PDF files and viewing them within the app (iOS with WebView) or with an external PDF Viewer (Android).
My Question is: Is this possible with Trigger.io? I didn't find anything concerning this in the official documentation. Can we do something with the file or the child browser / tabs module? If yes, do you have any examples?
Note: We will use Backbone.js and jQuery Mobile as additional libraries.
The Android webview doesn't allow for inline opening of PDFs - you can test that by opening e.g. http://trigger.io/cross-platform-application-development-blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/trigger.io-whitepaper.pdf in your stock browser.
On iOS, you can use:
forge.tools.getURL('my_file.pdf',
function (file) {
forge.tabs.open(file);
}
);
But that won't work on Android (tested on 2.3, 3 and 4.0).
Short answer - yes.
Downloading, storing, then showing/referencing later can definitely be done. Check out the forge.file documentation.
I have not tried the child browser feature yet. Although the tabs module will work, I think its best to just let the device (and its user settings) decide how to display/render the PDF. I am only saying this because my devices (especially the Android ones... 2.3 and 4.x) tend to behave differently. Either way... the device's "back button" always gets me back to where I left off in my trigger.io app.
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I'm trying to build a mobile app (react-native or native languages) that will be able to take xmp file (in other words is presets of photos) and implement its data on other photo, or implementing dng settings on another photo.
What I'm trying to understand if that is even possible, to use Lightroom presets outside of Lightroom App.
Did someone here succeed to implement his\her own Lightroom preset without using Lightroom on mobile?
I dont think so cuz every app has different sets of editing skills, the best I think you could do is to create an app from where a user will click on DNG and it will open in Lightroom.
I am developing a Master-Detail application which should show an embedded PDF in its detail view. The project is based on UI5 version 1.48, so the new PDFViewer control can be used.
In desktop mode, everything works as expected:
But on a mobile screen, PDF is not showing properly:
The data source property binding at the PDFViewer is done by OData path.
<FlexBox id="fbPDFViewer"
direction="Column"
renderType="Div"
class="sapUiSmallMargin">
<PDFViewer id="idPDFViewer"
source="{myModel>/myPDFUrl}"
title=""
busy="true"
showDownloadButton="false"
height="700px"
width="95%"
loaded="onPDFLoaded"
errorMessage="{i18n>notFoundText}"
errorPlaceholderMessage="{i18n>notFoundText}">
</PDFViewer>
</FlexBox>
Even the SAP sample for embedded usage doesn't work on mobile devices.
According to the source code (1.48), the viewer renders its PDF document directly in the app / iframe only when ..:
The source is valid
It's coming from the same domain
It has a valid URI format
UI5 thinks the user is using a desktop computer (Device.system.desktop returns true) or the displayTypeapi, available since 1.58, is set to Embedded.
UI5 detects that the user agent (browser) has a certain type of PDF plugin enabled. Currently, there are no known mobile browsers which support displaying PDF documents directly in the page.
The steps 2 and 3 explain why the PDF is not rendered on a mobile device even if the source is valid. In such cases, I guess the only option is to provide a download option instead of trying to render the PDF forcefully in the mobile app.
You can use nabi.m.PDFViewer from the the nabi.m library. It works cross device, even on iOS (where you typically don't have the adobe PDF plugin). For details see https://github.com/nzamani/ui5-nabi-m
There you will find also how to try it out on localhost. I have also added some detailed instructions for deployment of the library to NW ABAP as well as SAP CP.
You can find live demos at http://ui5lab.io/browser/#/Samples/nabi.m/Sample/nabi.m.PDFViewer.PDFViewer and http://ui5lab.io/browser/#/Samples/nabi.m/Sample/nabi.m.PDFViewer.InPagePDFViewer
Open the two links on your iOS device or any other device to see how it looks like.
On mobile devices (smartphones and tablets), the PDF viewer control renders a toolbar with the title and a download icon, which behaves as a standard device/browser file link. We've made this note in Fiori Design Guidelines 1.48 and we'll add it to the SDK documentation.
(More in openui5 issue 1759 on GitHub)
Thank you for your responses and hints...
Installing an Adobe Acrobat viewer on the mobile devices was not an option here.
Source of the PDF had same domain like app itself and had a valid URI format too
Due to project timeline in meantime I decided to fall back to a solution that SAP provided with it's "Paystub" (Fiori 1.0). Therein they're using a 3rd-Party control for displaying PDF's which unfortunately has an overhead of code and implementations steps but it works (with minor issues only) perfect on desktop devices as well as on mobile devices.
So far, this is workaround solved my requirement.
Thanks.
I would like to use use Google Map in my MAC application.
I found the iOS SDK of Google Maps but not for OS X.
I want to show two annotation and a line connecting them on Google Map. Coordinate of both annotation are dynamic as per user selection.
Below is the way I find out that can work:
Call a API and pass the location coordinate for both annotation.
Now Server side a html form is generate using javascript and create a page which is showing the 2 annotation and line connecting them.
In Api Response I will get the URL of that html page.
I will show this page in UIWebView.
I want to know is there any other way I can achieve this.
I want to distribute application outside the mac app store and to distribute outside mac store I need to sign app with Developer ID which does not support the MAPs.
I didn't find anything related to this that's why I created this thread.
Thanks in advance.
I recently ported the Mapbox iOS SDK over to OS X. It has a lot of the features of MapKit, but it’s open source and should also work in a developer-signed application such as yours. To use the Mapbox OS X SDK, download the latest release from the GitHub repository (look for releases beginning with “osx-”) and follow the instructions in README.md. An API reference is included.
I want to show two annotation and a line connecting them on Google Map. Coordinate of both annotation are dynamic as per user selection.
To display the annotations on-screen, you’ll need the MGLPointAnnotation and MGLPolyline classes. You can move the point annotations dynamically by setting their coordinate properties. The polyline, however, is immutable; to change its path, remove the existing polyline and add a new one with the new coordinates.
You will have to make it with WebKit and the Google Maps API.
MapKit is available in OS X 10.9 Mavericks: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/MapKit/Reference/MapKit_Framework_Reference/index.html
There are of course many ways of hiding the fact that you're using WebKit but if they violate Apple's or Google's TOS then submission to the App Store won't be possible.
Hope this will be helpful!
The Safari 7 inspector is marvelously line-mapping compiled javascript back to the coffeescript it came from. There are times, though, when I want to interact directly with the compiled javascript in inspector. How do I toggle source mapping off so I can play with the raw javascript?
In Safari 7, Source Maps are not something that you have to toggle on or off they are just always on like resources are always available in the web developer tool. If you want to jump to the raw source you can:
"...Command-click the file name to jump to the position in the original source file."
The Safari Developer Guide has more info on this.
Does anyone know what Apple Mail is written in?
I'm trying to determine what component it uses to render HTML, is it using the Webview Class?
Are there any other options to render HTML when building OS X applications?
It's an Objective-C/Cocoa app and it's using WebView.
I know secondhand (from a developer who was tracking down bugs in his app and comparing behavior to Mail) it takes advantage of some undocumented calls to accomplish certain things. But for the most part it's the same WebView that you've got access to.
If you'd rather render HTML a different way, you could check out Gecko, the engine/library that Firefox and Camino are based on.