[aerogear-dev] Aerogear Cordova Push Plugin

Wed Jan 29 13:58:08 EST 2014

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org>wrote:

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> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Burr Sutter <bsutter at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> My next round of testing, when is onNotification called, please help me
>> think through the scenarios
>> 1) Android: when the app is up and in the foreground - yes
>> 2) iOS: when the app is up and in the foreground - yes
>> 3) Android: when the app is not on - yes (user killed the app)
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> not sure, but I *think* when the user used a 'task killer* to 'kill' the
> app, it's no longer receiving messages
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>> 4) iOS: when the app is not on - yes (user killed the app)
>> 5) Android: when device is on its "lock screen"/screen off - yes -
>> android vibrates
>> 6) * iOS: when device is on its "lock screen"/screen off - sometimes -
>> iOS displays message on lock screen
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> hrm, sometimes ?
> Let me try that out
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>> 7) Android: when app is on but in the background - yes
>> 8) ** iOS: when app is on but in the background - NO
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> hrm... are you on iOS7 ?
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https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGPUSH-530

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>> * seems to depend on how long the device has had its screen off
>> ** this one seems to be a problem - as demonstrated in this video
>> http://screencast.com/t/gtORCvRtNy
>> It seems to me that the iOS app, in the background, should still have its
>> onNotification method called to update its UI
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> hrm. can't watch that video; will test the sometimes in a bit
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>> My sample project deployed across all devices
>> https://github.com/burrsutter/hellopush
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>> On Jan 29, 2014, at 9:59 AM, Jay Balunas <jbalunas at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> Wow, this is a detailed investigation!  Thanks a lot for digging in like
>> this and the jiras!
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>> I think getting these addressed, and other UX items for getting started
>> is a big priority for us going forward.  As well as how to catch these
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>> On Jan 28, 2014, at 6:05 PM, Burr Sutter <bsutter at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> OK, the real gotcha was...
>> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGPUSH-525
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>> There were some smaller issues:
>> - I found the readme.md to be inaccurate
>> - the video is incomplete http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7QVWfEkSpc
>> i watched it several times last week, pausing, trying to tease out the
>> commands needed to replicate the experience
>> - I believe iOS also requires the console plugin be installed - as device
>> ready was failing due to the console.log the sample app contains.
>> - Hand editing the config.xml to provide the App Name and
>> package/bundleID I wanted did not seem to "stick" - I was better off using
>> the command line like so:
>> cordova create hellopush com.burrsutter.hellopush "Hello Push"
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>> cordova create hellopush and editing the config.xml that was generated
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>> on Android 2.3, the app loads but blows up on launch
>> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGPUSH-526
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>> And there is inconsistency between iOS and Android
>> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGPUSH-527
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>> And can we "hide" the older UPS docs that focus on curl and bring the
>> ones that focus on the web UI to the foreground?
>> For instance, at the bottom of this page:
>> http://aerogear.org/docs/guides/aerogear-push-android/google-setup/
>> it links to the curl version - curl is great, but more of an advanced
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>> this is the doc that needs more link love
>> http://aerogear.org/docs/guides/AdminConsoleGuide/
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>> I attempted to document the complete set of steps in my readme.txt
>> https://github.com/burrsutter/hellopush
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>> I suspect I forgot something along the way
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>> On Jan 28, 2014, at 1:25 PM, Burr Sutter <bsutter at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-pushplugin-cordova/
>> My project/notes in the readme.md - it could be that I have missed a
>> step, so I tried to describe my steps carefully in the readme, everything
>> from the command line right now - I will attempt JBoss Tools once the
>> command line steps seem to work.
>> https://github.com/burrsutter/hellopush
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>> I have also tested with
>> https://github.com/edewit/aerogear-pushplugin-cordova/tree/agdroid-195
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>> It only works on Android 4.3, funny enough that was the first device I
>> tried - perhaps there is some "affinity" for a single device? :-)
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>> It fails on:
>> Android 2.3.4
>> Android 4.4.2 (two different devices)
>> iOS 6.1.5
>> iOS 7.0.4
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>> Let's define "fail":
>> - the app always deploys but...
>> - the additional devices never register a device token in the UPS
>> console.  I assume I will see "instances" for the various devices
>> - in the case of iOS, the deviceready does not even fire correctly
>> - in the case of Android (all versions), the onError handler is called
>> with "no value for pushconfig" - including the 4.3 where things do work.
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