Android & iOS Mobile Apps

chamath

Hello Everyone,
I created a simple Android project to wrap a flarum forum,
Find it here

https://github.com/SurfEdge/flarum-mobile-android

This is using Advanced web view to solve a few caching issues and plugin support
Contributions are welcome. ?

And here is a working app on the Google Play Store https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=lk.surfedge.gurupaara (For this have added firebase push notifications for independent push)

Thanks.

0E800

chamath
Awesome job!
Is it fairly simple to compile my own version?
https://developer.android.com/studio/build/building-cmdline.html

gradlew
Downloading https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.14.1-all.zip
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Deleting directory C:\Users\user\.gradle\wrapper\dists\gradle-2.14.1-all\8bnwg5hd3w55iofp58khbp6yv\gradle-2.14.1
Unzipping C:\Users\user\.gradle\wrapper\dists\gradle-2.14.1-all\8bnwg5hd3w55iofp58khbp6yv\gradle-2.14.1-all.zip to C:\Users\user\.gradle\wrapper\dists\gradle-2.14.1-all\8bnwg5hd3w55iofp58khbp6yv
To honour the JVM settings for this build a new JVM will be forked. Please consider using the daemon: https://docs.gradle.org/2.14.1/userguide/gradle_daemon.html.

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Unable to start the daemon process.
This problem might be caused by incorrect configuration of the daemon.
For example, an unrecognized jvm option is used.
Please refer to the user guide chapter on the daemon at https://docs.gradle.org/2.14.1/userguide/gradle_daemon.html
Please read the following process output to find out more:
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Error occurred during initialization of VM
Could not reserve enough space for 1572864KB object heap

datitisev

ahrasis Seems like Firebase has a free plan which includes notifications. https://firebase.google.com/pricing/

chamath For this have added firebase push notifications for independent push

witech

chamath this is good, does it use google chromeview ? i was considering building one in crosswalk as to support file uploads on android 4.4 kitkat which isn't supported in webview.

th30n3

chamath Awesome work.... How did you add Fire base support on server side?

luceos

Very cool! And thank you for making this open source ?

chamath

How to setup & run

1) Clone the repo

2) Open the project in Android Studio - Wait till all the processes complete

3) In the MainActivity.java -

private static final String url = "https://discuss.flarum.org/";

Edit the url to yours.

4) Do any changes to the code - Change colors, Package names, Add splash screens

5) Good to go ?

0E800

chamath

Have you tested this with the Github Auth extension?
I am unable to login using Github.

Edit:

I removed the Title Bar as I would rather have more screen space then an permanent Title bar, I already know what forum I am running ? With that I also removed the 'settings' buttons as they had no function.. Again, just wasting screen space.

Android Studio was easy enough to navigate, I was also able to customize the colors to match my Flarum color scheme.

Here is what I got so far (comparing Title Bar to OP)

Todos:

Android Icon.
Double back button to Exit.

I am not much of a programmer but I would like to play it forward by creating APK files for anyone not wanting to do the compile themselves.

witech

0E800 you could set the actionbar to collapse on scroll

collins

0E800 I removed the Title Bar as I would rather have more screen space then an permanent Title bar, I already know what forum I am running ? With that I also removed the 'settings' buttons as they had no function.. Again, just wasting screen space.

How did you do that? I'm trying to get rid of the title bar too. But I can't seem to get it right. Mind showing me? Thanks

Chope

0E800
Don't have updated Android Studio, can you help me generate apk app with this extension?

ahrasis

Interesting. Sounds like your app have a push notification too. How did you make it work? Is it free or paid?

chamath

ahrasis Yes. Firebase provides free push notifications.

ahrasis

I noted that as I opened an account immediately after I posted to check out. Thank you datitisev

I also noted that the android app webview code provided is very basic and is not really an advanced version. For instance, it relies on JS / CSS / images files from the website / server instead of providing and use them from the app itself.

I think a faster loading app would use whatever files that are possible to be added to the app itself instead of getting it from the website / server. In this page for example, forum-8451c64f.cs, forum-08315986.js, forum-en-df77f08d.js may be added to the app assets and run from it.

To determine other/all flarum static files that can be included in the app, look into flarum source code or ask flarum developer.

chamath

witech Its using https://github.com/delight-im/Android-AdvancedWebView which have made the support for file uploads , Did you test upload on 4.4 ?

witech

chamath I only have access to 4.4.4 which I can confirm your webview has file upload support.

witech

@chamath after further testing it seems versions below 4.4.4 don't work so 4.4.1/4.4.2/4.4.3 kitkat versions do not have file upload support. Apart the overall functionality seems solid.

Functions to add I would suggest a reload btn or swipetorefresh, and an offline screen for no connection available.

chamath

witech Thanks for the testing. above KitKat means a lot of market share ? ..
Lets do some updates soon ?

Ranger

Great work! Right on, chamath, and keep going! ?

EgyCode

This will be one of many reasons why I chosen flarum software, thank you for making it available as an open source! keep up the great work guys. Bookmarked!

punit2502

How to open specific links on External browsers?

e.g:
whatsapp://something
or
https://google.com/*

punit2502

punit2502 How to open specific links on External browsers?

e.g:
whatsapp://something
or
https://google.com/*

Edited code and it is working now. Thank You!!

chamath

punit2502 awesome ? .. contributions are more that welcome. can you open a pull request?