I want to use my custom keystore in this project because I intend to host the application in PlayStore and keep it updated. Without the keystore will be tricky.
Details: In the settings cordova, I not marked the "Signed" box and I exported the app and tried signing it using javasign. At the command prompt went well but the app does not install on any of the devices I tested.
The APK created by the Intel XDK is created using standard Cordova CLI. So the techniques you would use to sign that APK are no different than what you would use with any other Cordova (or PhoneGap) app or an APK built using Eclipse or any other tools.
See these links for some useful information:
-- http://developer.android.com/tools/publishing/app-signing.html
-- https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/861/how-to-sign-and-align-your-android-app-apk
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I don't have a Mac and an iPhone. How can I make applications using my windows laptop for coding and without an iPhone for trying to run/debug the app? What are the best steps for me??
Notes: I have made several applications for android and web using flutter.
Thanks...
You can start by creating a Flutter project on your Windows laptop. Also, the iPhone is not required in Flutter, so you can code in your Windows laptop without needing an iPhone(Build iOS apps with Xcode, which only runs on macOS) to try to run/debug the app.
You cannot build a flutter iOS app directly from Windows. What you can do is use external tools to do it. One of these tools is Appollo (https://github.com/Appollo-CLI/Appollo). It's a python CLI tool that let you access remote MacOS build machines.
Here is a demo of how to create the IPA on windows : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX3DAMwlEfM&t=11s
It's pretty easy to use :
First install it
pip install appollo
Then setup your Apple Developer account with Appollo : https://appollo.readthedocs.io/en/master/tutorial/2_configure_app_store_connect.html
Finally you can build the app and retrieve the IPA
appollo build start --build-type ad-hoc
appollo build ipa
And that's it.
I'm new to flutter and on a phone I have it works and the app runs fine, but I sent the apk to another device and it couldn't be installed, I don't know if it's because of a plugin I'm using that is "speech to speech", since in that plugin I changed the version of min sdk to 21 but the android that I try to install has an android version of 10 that is higher, it seems to me, what would be the cause?
Remember Android no longer accept the app which has not been signed as release,. make sure you are making you are signing the app correctly, Android studio will help you.
The build flavor should be release, and the signature must be created before. But the easiest way is to run the app in profile mode,
flutter run --profile
Profile mode run as release mode but doesn't require to be manually signed.
There could be other reasons but do you know that the Flutter app cannot be installed on x86 Android
Flutter does not currently support building for x86 Android
Am not able to install the APK in my mobile generated by gradle. it's working fine on an emulator but when I try to install on my mobile its starts installing and in the middle, it gives the error APK not installed. Am running android 10. Paths from where I picked the debug APKs are as follow.
<project>/build/app/outputs/apk/debug/app-debug.apk
<project>/build/app/outputs/apk/debug/app.apk
<project>/build/app/outputs/flutter-apk/app-debug.apk
It seems your apk does not have certificate yet.
you cant install it just like that. you can either certify it build release android app
or set your phone to install app form unknown source. in app settings or security settings
If you're trying to manually install the app-debug.apk, you should rather consider generating app-release.apk but if you can't debug the app, then you might considering opening up your developer options.
On this website (https://ionicframework.com/docs/intro/deploying/) I read that I should give this command on the command prompt: ionic cordova run android --prod --release
I tried it but it only tried to start the app on an emulator (I have some problems with it, so it didn't actually start the emulator). Does this command also create a file I can put on my mobile and install the app? I don't want to put the app on Google play, just on my mobile.
I tried putting the android-debug.apk on my mobile and running it but my mobile couldn't install it (.../platforms/android/build/outputs/apk/android-debug.apk)
I'm not trying to test the app on my mobile, I'm trying to install it.
If you want to deploy the apk to your device
ionic cordova run android --device is indeed correct. (try adding --device)
You only need --prod --release when building for production (longer buildtime).
Before running (= building, installing and starting your app) check if your device has USB-debugging enabled. You can check if your device is connected by running adb devices. Since the run command includes building, yes run should create a apk for you.
As you said you also could install the apk manually. Here make sure to use the correct apk. android-debug.apk is the development build (no --release tag) and since your trying to run a production one (--release) you are looking for android-release.apk or android-release-unsigned.apk.
go to settings -> security in your phone then check Unknown sources (Allow installation of apps from sources other than the play store) and try to put the android-debug.apk again. this should work
I recently start using Intel XDK. I found that for each platform creation my code will go to Intel cloud center to perform the build. Its a feature mentioned at Product Brief Intel® XDK.
Can I build that locally? I mean can I build locally in my system itself using Intel XDK? If so, then how?
are you afraid of intel knowing your code? in cordova\html5 app your code is available to anyone just get the apk from the store open with winrar and your code is there
if you want offline build there is no problem just read the cordova\phonegap docs step by step.
As you, I needed to build locally my application, principally to debug once Intel XDK, at least in the version 1621, does not provide support to load third-party-plugins(eg: PhoneGap Push Plugin) on Intel App Preview debug mode. Another problem was generate an iPhone build for beta tests.
My solution was, as the others suggested, to create an similar cordova project and copy the main files from my Intel XDK Project, www folder to be more specific. Config files will be found in platforms folder once you build using cordova/phonegap.
It allowed me to build for android on my machine. Debug was easy using "Chrome Inspect" because cordova generates an debug-unaligned.apk.
Allowed me to have access to the iOS build files, this is a good thing to do if you want to build using Xcode instead.
I Hope it help you.