[aerogear-dev] AeroGear project structure and the website

[Lee Graham]

----- Original Message -----

> From: "Hylke Bons" <hbons at redhat.com>
> To: aerogear-dev at lists.jboss.org
> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 12:43:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [aerogear-dev] AeroGear project structure and the website

> On 24/02/2014 14:50, Lee Graham wrote:
> > So If I'm a Cordova developer and I want to learn how-to setup
> > UnifiedPush Server and integrate Push within my hybrid app I don't
> > care about the native Android & iOS libraries, guides, etc.. I just
> > want everything that is relevant to hybrid apps. I actually ran into
> > this exact issue this last weekend when I created my first push
> > notification app. Its hard to keep track of what guides and sample
> > code I needed. This may solve that. I kind of like the way
> > http://devcenter.kinvey.com/ does this. When I first go there it
> > allows me to select my dev platform and it sets a cookie so when I
> > come back its still on that platform. I can swap at any time, but as a
> > developer I really liked the Kinvey experience because I could find
> > what I needed. Nothing more nothing less.

> Cordova is a bit of a special case. Apart from a mention that Cordova is
> a supported platform on the front page, I'm not quite if we should have
> it as a mention for every feature, as we already have Javascript there.

> We need to find out how Corodova developers normally go about picking
> libraries that they want to use. I assume they can use any Javascript
> library? Perhaps we just add a note to the download page that for use
> with Cordova you case use the Javascript library and download a native
> plugin if needed.
Makes sense to me. I think the current site does confuse me a bit... what's the difference between Web/JavaScript and Hybrid/Cordova. If we are using the same exact code (aerogear.js) then my first thought is just to combine that under JavaScript (which I think is your suggestion?). If the code is similar, but different between Web and Hybrid then it may be useful to clearly define the differences. 

As a Cordova developer, I'm not a hardcore Java or Objective-C developer. So my first thought is to find a plugin. If that doesn't exist, I'm looking for JavaScript. I want the fastest route (aka the least amount of coding) to integrating 3rd party tools and making it work for both Android and iOS apps. 

Example 1: AeroGear push notification, I used the plugin. 

Example 2: Count.ly mobile analytics, I use the community Countly SDK JS because there is no plugin: https://github.com/Countly/countly-sdk-js 

I hope this helps. I do really love the new look and feel of the mockups. Very clean! 

> Hylke
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