[aerogear-dev] Early version of Android Tutorial

Wed Jul 3 03:10:49 EDT 2013

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Christos Vasilakis <cvasilak at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Jul 3, 2013, at 8:56 AM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Christos Vasilakis <cvasilak at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Hi Tommy,
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>> nice guide!
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>> did some formatting fixes on it and pushed on a branch here [1].
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>> Further, had some issues following the "Configure the Build" for eclipse
>> section. In particular:
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>> *>> PushEEDemo relies upon “aerogear-android”, so we must enable the two
>> to work in tandem on the build path. In Eclipse *
>> *>> ADT,  right click “aerogear-android”, choose “Properties”, then
>> choose “Android”, and check “Is Library”.*
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>> Apart from the 'Is library' checkbox, in the same form the user should
>> select a build target >= 4.0 otherwise there will be errors of missing
>> import statements of  "android.app.Fragment'.
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> I *think* the "Android support library" fixes that, see [1]
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> unfortunately no 'Android Support lib' will resolve the
>  'android.support.v4.app.*' imports problem only.
> The Build target >= 4.0 is needed otherwise imports of
>  'android.app.Fragment'  won't work
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Oh - :)

So the 2.3.3 / API Level-10 is not enough? If so, I'd file a bug for later,
so that we not forget to look into that (what ever the "solution" means).

-M

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>> *>> Now, right click >>“MainActivity” of PushEEDemo, and choose
>> “Properties” again. Click “Java Build Path”, and check the box >> next to
>> “aerogear->android”. This will include the necessary resources needed for
>> AeroGear.
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>> Unfortunately I couldn't find that but I solved the issue by selecting
>> 'Android' from the left hand side of the Properties dialog, and on the
>> "Library section I clicked  'Add' and added the dependency to
>> 'aerogear-android' (found on the instructions suggested by the eclipse
>> aerogear guide here<http://aerogear.org/docs/guides/GetStartedAndroidEclipse/>
>> )
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> yes, that should be the right way.
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>> *>> Finally, we also need to add a few Android and Google resources to
>> the build path of PushEEDemo….*
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>> Once the libraries were added on PushEEDemo and tried to run eclipse
>> complained "Your project contains errors, please fix them before running
>> your application", mainly cause aerogear-android has missing dependencies.
>> To fix that the libraries should be added to the 'aerogear-android'
>>  project and not on 'PushEEDemo'. Further the user should ensure on the
>> "Order and Export Tab  the libraries are checked otherwise the dependent
>> ant project "PushEEDemo" will complain. Once this is setup, the project run
>> fluently :)
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>> (As a side note ADT tools provides a feature to add the support library,
>> that is right clicking on the aerogear-android project and selecting
>> "Android Tools->Add Support library…" will download the missing support
>> library so probably for this, we can instruct the user to do that).
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>> My big cumbersome was downloading and configuring the missing libraries.
>> I know that since aerogear-android uses maven
>> (and with the Maven SDK Deployer installed) we can do:
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>> mvn dependency:copy  (after we git clone the project)
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>> that will install the missing libraries in the /libs folder of
>> aerogear-android and then be auto picked up by eclipse when we import the
>> project (adding only the support library using the ADT eclipse feature 'Add
>> Support Library' and the google-play services.jar). I tried that too and
>> worked fluenty.
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>> I think for the purpose of the guide it can use the method you describe
>> e.g manually adding the dependencies but probably add a comment in the like
>> that "you can skip the manual process  of downloading the libraries by
>> using the maven sdk deployer plugin that aerogear-android uses, for more
>> information see the installation instructions in the project's web site
>> here <https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-android>)
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>> I think Summers and Passos can comment better on this one.
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> yep.
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> I also had issues with Eclipse, and Summers already commented on some of
> the issues there (see [1]).
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>> Nice work!
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> +1
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> [1]
> http://aerogear-dev.1069024.n5.nabble.com/aerogear-dev-Android-Eclipse-issue-with-the-quot-Push-quot-td3475.html
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>> Thanks,
>> Christos
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>> [1] https://github.com/cvasilak/aerogear.org/commits/initial.review
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>> Depending upon your configuration, you may need to also reference the
>> following external JARs (followed by location) in
>> your aerogear-android project:
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>> On Jun 26, 2013, at 10:52 PM, Tommy McCarthy <tomccart at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> Hey everyone,
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>> I just pushed out the first iteration of the Android Push tutorial,
>> similar to the iOS tutorial, to my GitHub account. I'm looking for some
>> feedback on what I have so far (including style, content, depth, etc.)
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>> https://github.com/tmccarthy9/aerogear.org/tree/master/docs/guides/aerogear-push-android
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>> Of course, I will be both finishing and polishing it up before I submit a
>> pull request, but I'd like to know what everyone thinks so far.
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>> Thanks for your help!
>> Tommy McCarthy
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