MobileFacts - development (android)

Prerequisites:

• Download Android sdk https://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
• Install Cordova Command Line Interface: http://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/3.4.0/guide_cli_index.md.html
• Edit your path variable: PATH=/path/to/android-sdk-linux_x86/tools/:/path/to/android-sdk-linux_x86/platform-tools/:$PATH

Commands for development:

• Test in emulator: cordova emulate android

• Upload on device: cordova run --device

• See logs (device/emulator): adb logcat

For more have a look at the CLI-Guide: http://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/3.4.0/guide_cli_index.md.html

Important notice: In case of our MobileFacts app the Sensor-Library has do be advised to send the collected data directly via IOLSession.sendLoggedEvents();.

Steps to create the MobileFacts under cordova 3.4.

• edit MobileFacts/platforms/android/AndroidManifest.xml and adjust android:versionCode *mandatory for new release* and android:versionName
• add the SpringPlugin, which includes the mobile sensor to the project  cordova plugin add ../SpringPlugin
• cd into MobileFacts/platforms/android and execute  ant release
• sign the apk: jarsigner -verbose -sigalg SHA1withRSA -digestalg SHA1 -signedjar ../bin/MobileFacts-release-signed.apk  -keystore ../keys/keystore-android ../bin/MobileFacts-release-unsigned.apk mobile-facts
• align the apk: zipalign 4  bin/MobileFacts-release-signed.apk bin/MobileFacts-release-signed-aligned.apk

Done (upload the MobileFacts-release-signed-aligned.apk to the store)