swarbiv/harness

Scripts for building the mobile Chrome Apps version of Apache's Cordova App Harness.

Chrome Apps Developer Tool for Mobile

This repository contains scripts and assets that will remix the Apache Cordova project's App Harness so that it can run Chrome Apps on mobile devices. This is based on the plugins from the cca toolkit.

Use a Pre-built APK

Pre-built APKs are available here.

Creating a Project

Use createproject.sh to create a project. Example invocation:

PLATFORMS="android ios" ./createproject.sh ../../cordova/cordova-app-harness

For more info:

./createproject.sh --help

Extra Steps

• Replace the default Cordova icons with your desired icons.
  • rm platforms/android/res/drawable-*/icon.png
  • cp ../../mobile-chrome-apps/templates/default-app/assets/icons/icon128.png platforms/android/res/drawable/icon.png
• Replace the title in index.html to "Chrome ADT vX.X.X"
  • vim www/cdvah/index.html

Cutting a Release

• Update the version in config.xml
  • vim config.xml
• Update versionCode in platforms/android/AndroidManifest.xml
  • vim platforms/android/AndroidManifest.xml
• Build apk
  • cd CCAHarness && ../buildharness.sh
• Tag release
  • git tag -am "Tagged vX.X.X-alpha" vX.X.X-alpha
  • git push origin master --tags
• Upload apk to GitHub's releases page
  • Attach the apk
  • Write short release notes (download link should be visible without scrolling).

TODO

• Add custom icon