http://rzr.online.fr/q/webdav# TRANSIG : testimonial on experience developing #Tizen app , synch'ing notes on #WebDav with #JavaScript (wip)

TRANSIG : A testimonial on experience developing a Tizen app

Transig is a tool to manage user's files (text, images, music etc) from a mobile phone and usea personnal cloud backend to store them…

Here are a few comments, I plan to reformat this into a tutorial.

More details up to come (sources, video, demos) on those URL :

Video : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/93263865/file/transig.webm

<video src="https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/Public/file/transig.webm?w=35c32459" controls > <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/AYOAm0AA.html?p=1" width="200" height="350" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#AYOAm0AA" style="display:none"></embed> </video>

INTRODUCTION

When tizen came up, I was quiet amazed on this new Linux Platform, coming from MeeGo, I expected to port some of my projects (Qt/Qml) to compare …

But unfortunately TiZen is so far restricted to HTML5/JavaScript API.

So I had to think about a new product, I wanted to dig into multimedia API but I felt I had a wait a bit to get them more mature…

Finally, I thought about creating a WebDav client to be manage my files…

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DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

First I created an HtmL file and started to code with in my favorite EditoR (EmacS)

I had some JavaScript KnowLedge since NetScape years, so It was quite easy to get familiar with JQuery, JS ApI : local storage XmlHttpRequest

After synch'ing files on my private server, and tested it on TiZen's lb default WebBrowser,

It went working…

PACKAGING

The final goal was to have a local app that can connect to any WebDav server so I did use the SDK to migrate my “webpage” into a tizen app…

This was pretty easy, just generate a default project and merge previously written code…

After upgraded SDK, updated time of target, deployment succeed. we're done

Here a few resources :

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/oO4VMgrAp4I" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

FUTURE

So far only the basic features are implemented, I guess I should spend more time on it before releasing a beta version of the product…

Anyway the project is opensource and welcome any review patches at the URL at the top

ToDo :

FEEDBACK

RECOMMENDATIONS AND/OR PRODUCT IMPROVEMENTS FOR FUTURE RELEASES OF TIZEN AND/OR PRODUCT IMPROVEMENTS

  • supporting Native Development would be appreciated , Qt / QmL
  • backward compatibility with MeeGo would be awesome
  • inclusive platform would be perfect

A SOLUTION TO A SPECIFIC CHALLENGE IN TIZEN DEVELOPMENT

Using XmlHttpRequest in Tizen WebApps (from local file) puzzled me …

I was facing a major issue , it can be easily resolved by adding a single line to project's config.xml

<access origin="*" subdomains="true"/>

else you will face this kind of error message :

Origin null is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.

Your webserver must also allow CORS too :

Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"

Simple as that I was thinking about running a local webserver would unblock this null's Origin restriction…

More : http://rzr.online.fr/q/html5

ADVICE OR A DEMO ON HOW TO WRITE AN APP FOR TIZEN

Try to stick to standards as much as you can, since the devices are not in mass market.

Depending on a risky feature can be a problem (for a second I feared about XmlHttpRequest on local files but it's supported)

PORTING AN EXISTING APP TO TIZEN

As said previously , create your project out of tizen and test it on your regular browser will save you deployment to target, once mature, you can integrate it into a tizen generated project.. and keep testing this on your desktop browser…

USING THE TIZEN SDK

I was lazy to discover all EclipsE's features, and preferred my regular tools (EmacS, ChromiuM etc),

but I figured out how to use basic features to deploy project on device

Get the SDK working in a DebIan amd64 through a ChRoot into bohdi linux i386 RootFs

More at : http://rzr.online.fr/q/debootstrap

Problem :

invalid certificate
certificate is not valid.
Please check your target date. (Return Code: 260)

Solution : rm local files

More: https://bugs.tizen.org/jira/browse/TSDK-57?focusedCommentId=11563#comment-11563

MISC

MORE

@TaG: ClouD TiZen html5

<iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/AYOAm0AA.html?p=1" width="200" height="350" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#AYOAm0AA" style="display:none"></embed>

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