8:37 a.m.
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, 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.
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.**
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