I just recently downloaded and installed the Samsung Smart-TV SDK 4 (without the IDE, just the emulator). I'm doing this because I want to test the Web browser only, nothing else.
However, when I start up the emulator (2012 version), I can't find any apps when I get to smarthub. I've created a Samsung account but I see no default apps that would usually appear on the TV, not even the Internet browser.
Is there something I'm missing?! I just want to test the Internet Browser.
Cheers.
The emulator is provided for testing your own apps, not to run the apps that people who buy TVs/BRPs/etc get with their device.
Only apps you write and place in the apps/ directory will appear.
That said, you can write an app that does nothing except:
location.href = "http://example.com/";
if i write an app with just location.href = "http://example.com/ is working (i have sdk 5.0) but the browser i get on the TV is not the same browser i get on the tv if i just lunch the integrated web browser app.
The big difference i see is that my app has a browser without the top bar with navigation controls and also there is no mouse pointer and i need to connect an external usb mouse to the tv
how should i do to implement this ?
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I have a Trusted Web Activity app that is displaying a Progressive Web Application by using the Android Browser Helper. The documentation and code indicates that the mobile app only runs properly when the Chrome Browser is 72 or above. The address bar is visible when the Chrome Browser is outdated. I believe I have the option of a Webview-fallback but I prefer not to use Webview as some of the app's functionality is incompatible with Webview.
While testing, when the Chrome Browser is updated on the same device, the trusted web activity runs without any issues.
What options do I have where the address bar isn't visible?
Is the min SDK the only way to set the minimum browser requirements or can I explicitly set a min Chrome Browser version in the Play Console for the app before the user downloads it? (which prompts the user to update the browser before installation)
Thanks in advance!
It's not possible to set a browser version requirement on the Play Console.
Besides falling back to a WebView, or showing the application with the URL bar, the other solution would to block the application from loading and ask the user to update / install a browser that supports Trusted Web Activity.
I developed a chrome packaged app and was successful running it on a computer (Windows, Mac, Linux). Basically what the app does is it refers to another web application that I created as well with Google Maps Javascript API in it that displays the location using pushpins and I am displaying it using webview.
However, we need this app to be ported to a mobile device as well but when I tested on my Samsung Tablet with android version 4.4.2, the webview does NOT seem to work even if I enabled the "webview":"system" in the Manifest.mobile.json. Is there a way for me to achieve this in porting the chrome app to mobile using webview?
Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Nevermind, I have already read from the API and Libraries page of mobile chrome app under "APIs Coming in the Long Term" section in where webview is listed and so tag is not supported "yet".
https://github.com/MobileChromeApps/mobile-chrome-apps/blob/master/docs/APIsAndLibraries.md
I have a task to create a client application which can show notifications to a user with a high probability of notifications being noticed.
The application should work on Android (2.0+)/iOS/WP.
Here is the use case:
The user starts the Application and performs some Action. Then he switches to the home screen/another application.
The response to the Action makes the Application to issue a notification. The notification is noticed by the user disregarding of what another application (or home screen) he uses on his mobile device at the moment.
There is no requirement for the application to be a native app or to be a web browser-based mobile app. The notification could be a sound or a vibration on the device, but I know that accessing the vibrations from within a browser is still tricky.
Here are my research results of making universal sound/vibro notification mechanism so far:
it seems that making a mobile device vibrate from a browser works only in mobile Firefox (no iOS, no WP);
the support of the audio html5 tag is still experimental, it doesn't work on each and every browser/device;
the sound alert from this example works only in mobile Firefox (asks for a plugin to play an mp3 sound), the Android browser just remains silent.
So, the question is:
Is there any way to force a user of a mobile device (Android 2.0+/iOS/WP) to view a notification from a mobile application? Is the only way to do this is to write a native app for each mobile platform?
I would propose PhoneGap for that particular problem.
Among other things it features cross-platform alert, sound and vibrator notifications.
Only quirk for Windows Phone 7 is that the Cordova lib includes a generic beep file that is used. You should consult the Notification reference page to make sure if it can help you.
I've got site that is correctly displayed on desktop version but has few bugs on iPad. What's the simplest way to detect problems if my OS is Windows?
Option 1 - Free, local machine debugging
You may use Safari browser for Windows (download Safari 5.1.7).
Steps
Enabling Develop menu in menu bar (Press 'Alt' key to open menu bar. Then follow to Edit menu > Preferences > Advanced tab. Find this option at the bottom.)
Then, follow through Develop menu > User Agent. Select iPad, iPhone etc.
There are more options in the Develop menu (e.g. Show Web Inspector) to help with your JavaScript etc debugging.
Credits to How to debug iPhone and iPad web applications, using Safari.
Option 2 - Paid, browser-based access to target browser/OS/machine
I've personally used http://www.browserstack.com/ and it lets you test the functionality on a wide combination. However debugging may not be as convenient here as it would be on a local machine.
There may be more companies providing similar services.
Beware of basic online emulators
As mentioned in a comment, be wary of 'emulator' websites. Example: A website I ran into claimed to emulate iPhone, with a picture of iPhone, and inside it was an iframe, being dutifully rendered by the browser I opened that website in (Firefox).
The best way I can think of(depending of your implementation) is to use the firefox plugin
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-switcher/
It allows you to switch to all sort of devices and see how they would appear on another device.
Here http://www.ampercent.com/test-website-design-iphone-ipad-mobile-devices/7075/ is a quick guide on getting you started.
There are also user-agent switchers for other browsers than FF like Chrome. Do a google search and try for yourself which one you like.
I used the latest and greatest jQuery Mobile (RC1) to develop an app for the client. I used the latest Webworks version from RIM and packaged the app in a Cod file.
The app works great if accessed through the web browser ETC however when I installed the actual generated JAD/Cod files onto a blackberry device, performance was horrible even with minimum number of jQuery libraries.
Since I have Googled this everywhere and it is apparent that one cannot have a meaningful app experience if Webworks is used, I want to be able to just create something that just places the app icon on the phone. Once clicked, it open the browser and takes the user to the web server where the HTML files are parked.
Is this possible?
You can do that, with a very simple Java-application.
The following code:
Browser.getDefaultSession().displayPage("http://www.yourserver.com");
It will open browser and open page: http://www.yourserver.com
Browser class javadoc is here: http://www.blackberry.com/developers/docs/5.0.0api/net/rim/blackberry/api/browser/Browser.html