I have made an app in Ionic and published it in closed beta in Google Play Store. Https requests work very well when testing it with "ionic serve" or "ionic run android" but no request is being done if I install the app from Google Play Store. What can be the problem?
Update: also, requests are being done when I install on the phone the debug apk. After signing it and zipaligning it, it no longer works
While it is allowed in debug mode to make untrusted https requests via "ionic run" or "ionic serve" commands, once the app is upload to Google Play Store those requests don't succeed by default. A trusted certificate is needed in the backend.
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When I build and run my ionic app, it works well and is able to access the remote endpoints. When I build a release and upload it to google playstore, it's updated well, but when I download and install it, the app is unable to access the endpoints. Everything on the server looks and works fine. What could be the cause of this kind of issue?
I have an ionic app build on my system.
For now, I have been testing my app using Ionic DevAPP (which can be found on the App Store and Google Play).
Prerequisite to run an app on my mobile device using Ionic DevApp is, My app needs to be up and running using the command:
ionic serve
This option looks great when doing development.
But now, I have my app build and I want to share it with the testing team and PO who is located on shore.
I want to know is there any way or free platform where the users can run an app on their mobile devices directly without starting a dev server.
NOTES:
I know about Ionic dashboard, but it is not free when comes to sharing builds.
I don't want to upload my app on Play Store or Google Play.
Any help is recommended as I am really looking for options to share my app.
I use Diawi To share both apk and ipa, bypassing play/app stores.
In mobile first tutorial,
one step is mfpdev app register
Question is what is the use of the registration
as I develop an ionic project and can connect to mobile first without registration when Cordova web resources Previewed with the Mobile Browser Simulator using MobileFirst command mfpdev app preview
mobile first 8
ionic 3
mfpdev app register command will register your application with MobileFirst Server. Without registering your application with the server, the application on the mobile device will fail to connect to server with an error 'application does not exist'.
If you do not want to use mfpdev app register command, you can register your application manually at MFP Operations console.
For more details , refer : Registering an application
Update : If you are using command mfpdev app preview to preview your web resources with the Mobile Browser Simulator, Security checks are not run on the server-side and security challenges are not sent to the client that runs in Mobile Browser Simulator.
MobileFirst Development Server includes a confidential client "test" that has an unlimited allowed scope ("*"). By default mfpdev app preview uses this confidential client.
NOTE : command mfpdev app preview is meant for preview the UI , OAuth protocol is not fully supported
For more details, refer :Previewing Cordova web resources with the Mobile Browser Simulator
Thanks for #manjunath kallannavar for all the supports
Unrestricted right (without login) to both protected and unprotected resources lead me to confidential client.
As pre https://youtu.be/DlxZYxXszIw?t=15m40s, the author mentions user is as confidential client when using mfpdev app preview.
However, this is not documented in IBM reference. (Please quote if you find one)
Also, by using ionic cordova run android in emulator, finally challenge received.
Conclusion, with mfpdev app preview, user right = confidential client => can access all resources
Credit to #manjunath kallannavar
Official explanation:
MobileFirst Development Server includes a confidential client "test" that has an unlimited allowed scope ("*"). By default mfpdev app preview uses this confidential client.
i just created an Ionic project and i added capacitor on it ( with a "npx cap init" ), i set up my service worker ( i just left the <--- ...... ---> in my index.html ). Then i run " ionic serve " from my laptop, and i tried to access it from my mobile phone ( so basically i did a personnal hotspot with my mobile internet, i mean my laptop and mobile phone have the same internet connection ), and it works.
I can access to my ionic app from my mobile whereas it is runt on my laptop, but now i'd like to add/download this app on my mobile phone and use it offline.
Do you know any way i can do that ?
Thanks a lot !
Capacitor works by serving your static assets (like javascript and HTML) from a self-hosted web server, whose behavior is dependent on your capacitor.config.json. This behaviour is most obvious if you look at the source code.
If you have server.url specified in capacitor.config.json, Capacitor's self-hosted server will act as a proxy for the server you point to.
If you do not have server.url specified, Capacitor's self-hosted web server will serve the files that were bundled with your native app.
Based on this, when you are creating the build for your phone, you will need to remove the server url property from your capacitor.config.json. You may also need to generate the capacitor.config.json on the fly in order to separate your development and production needs.
Note that the Ionic Framework and Capacitor have two completely different deployment paths; this answer assumes that you use Capacitor to create your builds.
Of course you can make an app and install it on your phone - that is basic purpose of Capacitor. Docs for android, docs for ios
Steps are similar to this (example for android):
Install Android Studio
At capacitor.config.json define techSupportEmail
npx cap add android
npm run build && npx cap copy android && npx cap open android
Enable developer mode on your phone
Plug your phone in
In Android Studio choose your device and hit "play" button
I am new to ionic app development. I have managed to make an ionic app and test it using android emulator. It works fine.
My app connects to a backend which is deployed on a DNS server and the data is exchanged.
This worked fine using ionic serve or even using the command ionic cordova run android --device.
However, the data is not getting updated on backend when I am trying to use the app after installing it from google play.
Can someone please help me how to debug the app.
I have installed the app on my android device and now trying to hit my backend server to update the data.
Thank you in advance.