Problem with phonegap serve

[Chener]

The cli command phonegap serve should have some issues.

When I use phonegap serve to deploy and open Phonegap Developer App to test my app, it first shows a dialog with "gap-init:2" then output the following errors info:

[phonegap] [console.log] deviceready has not fired after 5 seconds.
[phonegap] [console.log] Channel not fired: onCordovaReady
[phonegap] [console.log] Channel not fired: onFileSystemPathsReady
[phonegap] [console.log] Channel not fired: onCordovaConnectionReady

However , if I use Phonegap Desktop App then deploy the app created by it, everything works fine. I also tried first create by cli phonegap create myApp then import myApp into Phonegap Desktop App and deploy it with Desktop App, still great. Then, guess you already know it, try phonegap serve the app created by Phonegap Desktop App, it gets the errors above.

I should be using the latest version. I guess it is somehow related to Phonegap Developer App, so here it is.

[timkim]

Hi @Chener

What device are you using to test the PhoneGap Developer app with? It seems strange that it would work for one but not the other. The PhoneGap Desktop App and the PhoneGap Developer App both use connect-phonegap to serve content.

[Chener]

@timkim One is Android 4.4.2 with Samsung Note 3, another one is Android 4.2.2 with Galaxy S4.

[timkim]

Hrm, well I just tested your repo: https://github.com/Chener/tlyblOA and used phonegap serve and it works for me on both iOS and Android.

Can you do phonegap -v and also check to see which version of the PhoneGap Developer app you have on your phones?

[Chener]

@timkim phonegap -v 4.2.0-0.24.2
PhoneGap Developer App 1.0.0

As I am in China, I can not access the Google Play, so I had to search the web to download this app, would you consider hosting the app on your website for people like me ?

[Chener]

@timkim I just retested, still the same results.
However, I found out one weird thing which I did not find the last time:

If using with Phonegap Developer App, sometimes the camera would not function well. I had to just wait until it worked... (may need to wait until profile photos loaded or active other APIs such as location first)

[timkim]

Ok, so your phonegap module is up to date but your app is not. The current version is 1.4.0 so that's probably the reason why it is failing for you. If you can't access the Google Play store you can build the developer app for your phone from this repo and deploy it yourself.

Here are the steps:

1. Clone this repo: git clone https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-app-developer.git
2. cd phonegap-app-developer
3. cordova run android --device (You may need to set up your android dev environment for this to work - see this guide: http://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/4.0.0/guide_platforms_android_index.md.html#Android%20Platform%20Guide)

If you still can't get that to work, then you could downgrade your phonegap cli to version 3.3.0-0.19.6 by going npm install [email protected]

[Chener]

@timkim Thank you for your help! I am going to try that out.

[timkim]

Let me know how it goes! If all else fails, I guess I can put up the apk file somewhere so you can just grab it. Also, as noted in another thread, the camera api is kinda broken in the PhoneGap Developer App. It should be able to take a picture but getting the actual picture back from the camera won't work.

[Chener]

@timkim Hi, it all works, well partly.
This time, with phonegap 4.2.0-0.24.2, both cli and developer app behave the same. However, the "Call Office", "SMS" etc won't work, while it has the native notification working. On the other hand, using Phonegap Build, the "Call Office", "SMS" etc all work, but the native notification does not. I do not know what is wrong, there is no output from the console.

[Chener]

@timkim One other thing, Phonegap Develop App still does not support cookie, does it? While the same code built by Phonegap Build supports cookie ?

[timkim]

Hi @Chener

I'd have to take a closer look at why the call and sms functionality won't work. I'll try to invest sometime into that this week. And cookies currently are not working. See these issues for more info:

#253
#231

[Chener]

@timkim I changed the code address, it is here now.
I tested on both my andriod phones:

• Android 4.4.2 with Samsung Note 3 (N3)
• Android 4.2.2 with Samsung Galaxy S4 (S4)

With Phonegap Developer App, acting as the following:

• Call Office False
• Call Cell False
• SMS False
• Email False
• Add location True for S4 without GPS enabled, False for N3 with GPS enabled.
• Add to contacts True
• Change Picture True
• Native Alert True

With real App built with Phonegap Build, the results are:

• Call Office True
• Call Cell True
• SMS True
• Email True
• Add location True for S4 without GPS enabled, False for N3 with GPS enabled.
• Add to contacts True
• Change Picture True
• Native Alert False

Thank you for your time!