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Alternative for hybrid web app without knowledge in app/server


i used to upload my ZIP (with HTML5/CSS web app) in phonegap since 4, 5 years and create cool mobile apps. But since some months it's look like Adobe dismiss the project, no more answer on forum etc.

Is there a good solution, when you don't know everything about shift/cocoa/java and server things, to simply upload your webapp (basically a website in a zip) and get IPA/APK ?

I heard about monaco or voltbuilder. Thanks


Solution

  • Not really. Although I can confirm https://build.phonegap.com works for me. If you have an error related to a malformed xml, you can try to delete the project on the website and re-uplading the zip file onto a new project. That's a bug I have experienced in the past.

    Otherwise, you can install Cordova and Phonegap on your pc to build it using npm on the terminal (Linux/MacOs).

    $ sudo npm install -g cordova
    

    or for windows (CMD):

    C:\> npm install -g cordova
    

    then navigate with the command line using cd to go to a folder eg. cd myfolder. You can see the files in your current directory with ls (Linux/MacOs) or lsdir (windows)

    Once you are in your project's folder and that you can see with lsdir or ls your config.xml file of your project, then you can run those commands to add the platform you want to build:

    cordova platform add ios
    cordova platform add android
    

    Finally to build the app, you need to:

    cordova build
    

    Note: To build an Ipa, you will need to use a device running MacOs since it requires XCode. I highly recommand you to get familiar with Cmd or the terminal if you are building an app.

    I hope I have answered your question well