I am new to web development. I just got my first project online, which is Django app deployed in Heroku. App uses Bootstrap.
When I use any size desktop browser window the app scales as I expect it to. When I access it from my Android phone it uses "mobile site" (if that's what it's called). The mobile site looks like a mess. If I use the "desktop site mode" on mobile it looks what I expected it to look.
I am trying to figure which part of the stack is responsible for this happening. Is it possibly some of these?
Django
Bootstrap
Heroku
Browser
I have not made any setting to use mobile site (at least not intentionally) so I am to assume this is the default for the tech responsible for this.
Also in general; if I want my app to be usable both in desktop and mobile environments is it usually enough just to make site responsive and not bother with the "mobile site"?
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I have several apps that i've written in Django and host on Heroku. The website address works great but if people want to use my app on their mobile device i have to instruct them to visit the website then click Add to Home Screen so an app icon appears on their phone. Is there a better way of doing this so they can just add the app from say the App Store/Google Play?
Yes you can add your PWA (progressive web apps) to Google PlayStore. There is detailed official documentation about this.
But in case of App Store Apple doesn't supports to put PWA on App Store. But there are different ways to achieve this PWABuilder is one among them. And also that doesn't guarantee that your app will be accepted into Apple’s App Store. In 2019, Apple released new guidelines for HTML5 apps in the App Store. The new guidelines appear to forbid certain kinds of web apps (e.g. gambling, lotteries, etc.) from the iOS App Store.
What is the best/efficient way of creating a mobile app out of a Django site. I understand that perhaps using React to and connect to a DJANGO API, but assuming I don't know React, can I somehow convert DJANGO site into a Phone Appp?
Short answer - You shouldn't because there are better ways to build mobile apps with Django as your backend.
Long answer - You could use webview in android to wrap your web application. Depending on you app, you might need to use some native code to build any of your floating action buttons, bottom navigation, toolbars etc while keeping the rest of your Django app wrapped in the webview. The downside is that your app will lack real performance gains or full native features that you’d be able to utilise.
You could also convert it to a Progressive Web App which will be your django app given some super powers to be able to provide content when a user is offline on both desktop and mobile. Check out Django PWA for this.
I want to deploy my Unity3D game on Facebook as canvas App. There are two platforms in unity version 5:
WebPlayer
WebGL (Preview)
I have no idea about both of these builds. I am using Parse to store my user data. And Facebook Unity SDK for social gaming. I have built for IOS platform and now for Canvas App deployment I want to know:
which one of these would be best for Canvas App?
I want to know if there are any issues regarding Parse API or Facebook Unity SDK for
WebPlayer/WebGL build?
EDIT:
I have built for WebPlayer and i can not run it on Google Chrome.
does it have to do anything with Canvas App too?
I have built for WebGL and tried to run it on Google Chrome and got this alert:
( I am using Google Chrome Version 44.0.2403.107 (64-bit) )
Any suggestion/help is highly appreciated.
I will suggest you to not build your game in webplayer, because chrome is dropping support for unity webplayer(Google Chrome version 42 and later has disabled all NPAPI plugins), and other browser will also drop the support sooner or later. The best way forward is to use webGL. WebGL in unity is still getting evolved, but this is the future. I also have developed game for webGL, I didn't face much problems except data storage. Parse does not support webgl yet, you have to look for other services. In my case I have build my own php server and it is working fine. Anyways you have to choose what is best in your case. You should use webGL , but thats my opinion.
The error message is more or less self-explanatory: Chrome doesn't support running Unity WebGL when it is run from a local file on disk, because of Chrome security. This is not a real problem, as in production it will always be run from a webserver (http://).
During development, your options are:
Start chrome with access to local files: chrome.exe --allow-file-access-from-files
Host a local webserver (Apacha/WAMP, IIS, etc)
Use firefox
You are correct. Building the unity for the web is the way to go. You select web from the build settings and you can upload it to the facebook canvas. The thing with chrome is that it no longer supports NPAPI and that is what the Unity web players uses. You can manually enable it and try out your game in chrome. But for the majority of chrome users unity web player no longer works.
I am very comfortable with Django, and I was wondering about whether there is some way to convert a Django web app into a Desktop app (may be not 100%), so that I can distribute it to users, instead of learning a GUI framework.
Thanks
Maybe not exactly what you are looking for, but if you really, really don't want to learn a GUI framework, in your place I'd consider packaging your Django web application with a small web server in the distributable package, with the Django app configured to run on localhost on the web server. Then I'd include a script that launches a browser pointing at the starting page of your Django app as the "executable".
If not configured properly this could be considered weak from a security point of view.
I'm a new developer to Shopify but been developing websites for 10+ years. Just got my partner account and private application setup. Been looking through the available documentations on the site and wasn't sure if applications are allowed to live on the users' shopify site or admin. is this possible? All I've seen so far are api call documentations but I'm having no luck finding anything regarding, how to add options to the admin or the liquid theme. Any references or pointers would be great!
I'm trying to figure out a way so when a user installs my app, A can add a 'part' that they can use and even new variables that they can use.
Try building with Greasemonkey for Firefox or a native Chrome App. Then convince your clients to install your code in their shop admin. Partner App with Shopify lets you inject links too. Hook that all up to your backend, and you're golden.