No matter what I try to do, I can't seem to generate the iOS folder for my project. I've tried expo eject, react-native eject, react-native upgrade, all to no avail. I managed to generate the android folder but not the iOS one. I think I read once that you need to be on a mac to generate an iOS folder, is this true? If so, can I move my project onto a mac, generate the folder there, and then move it back onto my windows computer?
Thank you in advance
Why do you need the iOS folder folder?
After ejecting you wont be able to use iOS on windows
I can't build my react webapp to android using capacitor (never done it before). However, I successfully did so to ios.
I've tried to sync gradle manually from android studio (file > sync project with gradle files), but still no luck.
These are the errors (steps to reproduce are included below):
12.41 Gradle sync failed: /spacex-launches/node_modules/#capacitor/android/capacitor/build.gradle
(Operation not permitted) (54 s 634 ms)
The main question here is, (Operation not permitted)
I've tried to allow all access for everything (read and write) for everyone for every file in the folder. Still, again, no luck.
The commands I ran to reproduce these errors:
npx cap init
npx cap app (then I picked android)
npx cap open android (it tried to sync and then gave me the errors above; thus build is not possible).
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks a lot.
Turns out, opening the android folder manually using Android Studio, weirdly enough fixed it.
Assuming your source code is in a remote repository somewhere, try a fresh install in another directory. First, update the Ionic CLI.
npm i -g #ionic/cli#latest
git clone https://.../your-app.git
cd ./your-app
npm i
ionic build
ionic cap add android
ionic cap open android
Note you don't need to run npx cap init again. Since the iOS build is working, Capacitor is already installed in your project.
If you still can't build, ensure your environment is set up correctly. This can vary whether you are on Mac or Windows. The Capacitor docs provide guidance.
I am using MobileFirst 6.3.0 plugin, Xcode 7.3.1. Eclipse
On a Hybrid App, I did some changes to common resources, after the build the App, the changes were applied successfully on Android, but for iOS the were not applied. Debugging with Xcode Simulator, I saw the old code still remains.
I already did the following steps with no success results:
Remove the wlBuildResources and wlPreview directories.
Remove all the artifacts under the bin directory.
Anyone of you have any idea how to fix this issue?
It is unclear from your explanation how exactly did you do the build...
Make a change in the index.js file for example
Right-click on the "iphone" folder -> run as -> Xcode project (which will then open the updated project in Xcode for you to compile it and run in a simulator or physical device) or Right-click on the "applicationName" folder -> run as -> run on MobileFirst Development Server (after which you need to manually open the generated Xcode project (the iphone\native folder) in Xcode by yourself.
I am using XCode 5.0.2 and Cordova 3.4.0-0.1.3 - What I find is after creating the project using the Cordova CLI and opening in XCode, no changes to the index.html file and index.js file are ever carried over to the simulator when I click run.
I have to open terminal and issues a Cordova Build command and then run the simulator and it works
I followed all the instructions here:
Phonegap - developing and launching app on simulator
xcode 4 + phonegap ... not update JS upon build?
And none of it works! any one a have a solution to this, because having to switch back and forth is becoming a pain.
You can add a pre-action script to your XCode project's build. To do this:
Select Product > Scheme > Edit Scheme from the menu (or ⌘ < on keyboard)
Select Build > Pre-actions from the left
Click + and select "New Run Script Action"
Add a script like this:
cd /path/to/your/cordova/project/
cordova prepare ios > xcode-prepare-results.txt
Now XCode should always run cordova prepare before building your project so you don't have to jump to terminal. You can see the output of prepare in the file xcode-prepare-results.txt.
Note, that depending on how your cordova executable is set up and which shell you use, you might have to either change the shell or modify your PATH in order for the script to find cordova.
So after much searching I seem to have found a solution that works, here is what I did. After looking at other Stackoverflow questions I found someone that said this worked for them.
Find the file called copy-www-build-step.sh.
Mine was in
[project_folder]/platforms/ios/cordova/lib/copy-www-build-step.sh
In that file, find the lines beginning rsync -a "...
Add -c to the rsync lines, so they ready rsync -a -c "...
Well I tried that and it did not work on its own. I also tried the answer from Ville and that pulled closer but no cigar. Finally I took what the command from Ville and put it in the copy-www-build-step.sh file
so my top line is now
cd /path/to/your/cordova/project/
cordova prepare
SRC_DIR="www/"
DST_DIR="$BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR/$FULL_PRODUCT_NAME/www"
COPY_HIDDEN=
ORIG_IFS=$IFS
IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b")
.....
.....
.....etc etc
And now I make change , and click run , bam all is updated. I hope this helps someone else.
Other answers in this thread either didn't work for me or screwed up cordova plugins e.g. InAppBrowser, so i finally came up with this:
Edit the file copy-www-build-step.sh and add the following row in the beginning:
cp -fR ../../www/ www/
so it should look like:
...
cp -fR ../../www/ www/ # new code
SRC_DIR="www/"
...
This way your code will be updated properly and your plugins will work
I also edited the copy-www-build-step.sh file, however you don't want to use an absolute path from your User folder. If you are working with other developers you would have to change that every time you check out code.
It's not a big deal, just change:
SRC_DIR="www/"
To:
SRC_DIR="../../www/"
UPDATE
Worked for me on Cordova and Phonegap.
To have the source files automatically copied from the www source directory to the platforms/ios/www directory when you click the Run button in XCode:
In XCode, choose Product->Scheme->Edit Scheme...
Expand the triangle for Build->Pre-actions
Click the "+" to create a new Pre-action
You can leave the "Shell" setting blank.
Set "Provide build settings from" to the project you are building. This is important.
In the script area enter:
cd ${PROJECT_DIR}/../..
echo "--- Start ---" > xcode-prepare-ios-results.txt
echo "Running cordova prepare ios command..."
pwd >> xcode-prepare-ios-results.txt
cordova prepare ios --verbose >> xcode-prepare-ios-results.txt
echo "--- Finished ---" >> xcode-prepare-ios-results.txt
This works for me with XCode 8.2 and Apache Cordova 6.x
I suggest you clean before build your xcode project. And one more thing, make sure you build again your project using cordova build, not inside xcode because it's totally different.
cordova build yourproject
#Ksliman
I modified you code a bit to work on my system and make slight bit more generic.
top of file copy-www-build-step.sh
## New Code Begin ###
cd ../../
PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/bin
cordova prepare ios
## New Code End ###
SRC_DIR="www/"
simply type:
cordova prepare
on your terminal and run your project again in Xcode
Simple solutions is to build the app with cordova using:
sudo cordova build ios
Then go to xcode > Product > Clean
Then go to xcode > Run (Play Button)
Run "cordova prepare ios" during the building phases:
Open Xcode.
Select your project.
Go to "Build Phases".
Go on "+" to add a "New Run Script Phase".
Move this section before "Copy www directory".
Add the following lines (for Mac):
cd /Users/*/YOUR_PROJECT_FOLDER (Change your project folder)
/Users/*/.nvm/versions/node/v?.?.?/bin/node node_modules/cordova/bin/cordova prepare ios (Change the path to node version)
After "Play" the www-folder will automatically refresh!
All I had to do was to include the full absolute src path for my project. For example:
From your project directory, vim platforms/ios/cordova/lib/copy-www-build-step.sh
change SRC_DIR to the absolute path of your www, SRC_DIR="/Users/michael/Documents/Development/SampleMobileApp/www/"
Save, build, and you should be good to go.
I found that sometimes Cordova gets confused... you need to do a "cordova platform rm ios" (just leave your plugins alone), and then do a "cordova platform add iOS", which will reinstall all your plugins into your platform... then try your build again.
Every time I use cordova build its overrides content in my platform specific www file. So I use cordova compile instead.
From help:
compile <platforms> compiles platform project without preparing it
It is important to just compile the changes not to build entire projects especially if you creating mobile app for many platforms and you have to do some platform specific improvements.
For me, there was an error in my code. I simply needed to run npm start to locate it.
If you are directly changing html from the Xcode, then you should change the code/html of the staging folder, not main folder
In the staging folder you will get same structure which you have in the main folder, but it will reflected directly in the xcode (iOS) build
Staging folder
Note: The changes you made in the xcode will be replace when you build again from the cordova build/run, so please copy your changes in the main folder before doing firing cordova commands
You can get more information from this answer: Purpose of Staging folder in PhoneGap 3.4? Only changes to index.html in this folder get recognized?
This is the correct solution taken from:
Cordova + Xcode 7.3 (html + Javascript) not changed or updated when build and emulate
I have seen a few references to this topic, but it's not 100% clear to me.
Inside the top level of a cordova project you have these folders '.cordova', 'merges', 'platforms', 'plugins', 'www'. I would think you edit the top level 'www' folder and it would update the files inside platforms\<platform>\assets\www because editing files directly in this path get overwrote, from what I have read and I experienced this once before deploying an app.
I can't find documentation on this (searching cordova update project just covers updating cordova itself, at least from what I am seeing maybe I'm being blind here).
How do the files in the root 'www' update the project files? I am sure there is a command for this but is it true I have to run an update command every time I make an edit in say Dreamweaver, because when I make an update it obviously doesnt make changes into the directory because it doesnt have anything telling it to.
So what I am asking.
You should edit the html/css/javascript inside the cordova projects root 'www'?
What are some solutions to updating the platform code from the main files?
Edit the content of www folder in main project directory and run cordova build command to copy these files to your platform specific directories. So the process will be like
Edit the content of www folder in project directory.
Debug the changes with any browser or emulator like Ripple.
Run cordova build command to test it in Android emulator or in a real device.
To use cordova command line tools, you need to install cordova command line interface. It can be found here.