I have developed a web app using html, css, jquery and django, and has made it compatible for the screen in mobile devices. But now I want to make it a hybrid app for android/ios and users can install it for extra features. Googled and found phonegap to be a perfect solution. On further searching for the tutorial, most of the tutorial are using jquery mobile for the purpose. My question is, do I need to use jquery mobile to develop a phonegap hybrid app?
No, its not needed, jQuery, without mobile version, its perfectly capable of working with Cordova (I have also made several professional projects with it).
The only limitation is with some touch events, like swipe or pinch to zoom, in what you are going to need another library, like hammerjs
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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've experience in building native android applications. But I'm completely new to hybrid application development and Would like to use Framework7.
I'm starting to use it. I don't know how to build the project and get an install-able file (or for distribution in playstore).
Any help is appreciated.
Cordova is a good way to start.
When I used to develop Hybrid apps, Cordova was the way to generate APKs.
I really enjoyed it, since it has a lot of Plugins, like FireBase Cloud Messaging Plugin to receive notifications within your hybrid App. It's more than a simple WebView App.
Apache Cordova is an open-source mobile development framework. It allows you to use standard web technologies - HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript for cross-platform development. Applications execute within wrappers targeted to each platform, and rely on standards-compliant API bindings to access each device's capabilities such as sensors, data, network status, etc.
Use Apache Cordova if you are:
a mobile developer and want to extend an application across more than
one platform, without having to re-implement it with each platform's
language and tool set.
a web developer and want to deploy a web app that's packaged for
distribution in various app store portals.
a mobile developer interested in mixing native application components
with a WebView (special browser window) that can access device-level
APIs, or if you want to develop a plugin interface between native and
WebView components.
Here are all the steps needed to start with Cordova https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/latest/guide/cli/index.html
Also, I used to follow these steps to generate a signed APK so it's possible to launch it on Google Play.
How do I put my cordova application on the android play store?
I want to create Mobile App using my os commerce store. Is there any extension for API's integration in OS Commerce.
I am not aware of any extension API that exists as you describe.
There is a responsive version of OSCommerce;
GitHub
Maybe you could consider upgrading to that version as it uses bootstrap which is 'mobile first'.
Bootstrap offers a quick professional solution to designing sites for all display sizes, without the need for multiple websites.
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 like Zurb Foundation (SASS and especially Zurb Foundation for Apps) but would like to use it with Facebook ReactJS and Flux
That is removing AngularJS and replacing it with ReactJS / Flux. A great start towards this goal has been made by Kiran Abburi:
https://github.com/akiran/react-foundation-apps
http://webrafter.com/opensource/react-foundation-apps
What do people think about the long-term viability of using Zurb Foundation for Apps with Facebook ReactJS / Flux like this?
From both technical and ecosystem perspective (e.g. updates).
Or alternatively, is a CSS framework like Zurb Foundation (or Twitter Bootstrap) really beneficial at all with ReactJS / Flux.
Thanks,
Ashley.
Well whatever css framework pair up with whatever shouldn't be your long-term viability concern. Front End technologies changes too fast. IE. for the mainstream, couple years ago everything is jquery, than comes backbone, ember, angular, now react.js and than maybe riot.js. When Angular 2 releases stable version, it probably shift it again.
Your questions should be which ever framework help you do YOUR JOB quicker. Different clients might want different things, some clients i dealt with uses Bootstrap, they provide their corporate design patterns and some of their reusable jQuery * bootstrap widgets to implement, some gave me backbone models and ask me to use it in an angular as an angular service. And some asks me to do it in stylus instead of sass.
So pairing up css and js framework isn't any of my concern for long term, the trend changes too quickly. And the good thing about react is that you can bundle all these third party libraries into one single component ( if you really want do do that. Eg; embedded css into complement with react-styles, if some of your component uses jQuery, you can do a script lazy load at componentWillMount life cycle. ), you got the total freedom, if some strange case that you want to uses both foundation popup and bootstrap popup together on the same page, you can write your own react components to wrap one of each, as long as you got the scope well managed.
Which ever css framework you use as long as it saves you time to do things is beneficial, there isn't a best one, my team built our own css and js framework on top of any libraries to tailor it for our job.