11 a.m.
Hey Marc,
Thanks for your email
Marc Sluiter wrote:
Hi all,
I'm a Java and Android developer from Germany, Münster area. Matze pointed me to
the aerogear-android framework and unified push, so I was curious and wanted to
give it a try.
Until it worked I had some little issues, which I want to share, maybe it helps
to improve documentation, and I was not sure if I should just start a pull
request about it...
I started with forking and cloning aerogear-android,
aerogear-unified-push-server and PushEEDemo to my local development environment.
For aerogear-android I followed the instructions on github and on
http://aerogear.org/docs/guides/GetStartedAndroidIntellij/.
Worked nice
Glad to know
I even didn't have to uncomment the extra modules for the
maven-android-sdk-deployer, after updating all libs in the Android SDK Manager
it just worked.
It's not really necessary, but I'll update requirements instructions on
README
The problem with "Could not find tool 'aapt'" was
solved by updating the
android-maven-plugin to version 3.6, so also no need to create a link to it. But
then it was missing the platform version, so my pom looks like this now:
<plugin>
<groupId>com.jayway.maven.plugins.android.generation2</groupId>
<artifactId>android-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.6.0</version>
<configuration>
<sdk>
<platform>17</platform>
</sdk>
<undeployBeforeDeploy>true</undeployBeforeDeploy>
</configuration>
<extensions>true</extensions>
</plugin>
I also had to increase the version number of the support lib:
<dependency>
<groupId>android.support</groupId>
<artifactId>compatibility-v4</artifactId>
<version>13</version>
</dependency>
Finally I had to add 2 lines in proguard.cfg in order to let maven build
successfully:
-dontwarn android.support.**
-dontwarn com.google.android.gms.**
Wdyt about send a PR for this? :)
The aerogear-unified-push-server did run out of the box. But when I followed the
instructions on http://aerogear.org/docs/specs/aerogear-server-push/, I always
got something like "Authorization failed" when trying to register a push
application. I found on the github page that I have to login and use cookies
with the curl requests, with that it worked.
But then I got auth errors when the PushEEDemo app tried to register on the
unified push server. Finally I got the hint from Matze to use the
"quickstart-base" branch of the server, which skips authorization. With that I
successfully sent a notification to my Nexus 4 :) Maybe it would useful to point
to that branch in the docs.
Last but not least I wanted to test it on an older device with Android 2.3.7.,
for that I had to change the manifest of the PushEEDemo app. I already started a
pull request about it (since it does not seem to be an official aerogear repo ;)
): https://github.com/secondsun/PushEEDemo/pull/1. With that changes it worked, too.
When I have some time, I will have a look into the other features of Aerogear
too, interesting project :)
Thx for reading this far& greetings,
Marc
@slintes