[aerogear-dev] pushplugin release

[Karel Piwko]

Hi Stefan,

few comments inline.

Karel

On Wed, 7 May 2014 10:38:36 -0400 (EDT)
Stefan Miklosovic <smikloso at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> regarding of a release, I looked at it little bit closer and these are my
> findings.
> 
> I tried latest master with cordova plugin add
> https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-pushplugin-cordova and I tried it on
> this demo (1)
> 
> 1) What does not work
> 
> a) Android 2.3.3 emulator with Google API + mentioned demo, whole app crashes
> upon its start like (2) b) Android 2.3.4 physical device (My Sony Ericsson
> with Android 2.3.4) - it shows this weird dialog (3) 

Is this error dialog present for both automated (Droidium) and manual (Cordova
CLI) deployments on real device? If not, it might be caused by Selendroid. Same
for c)

> c) Android 4.1.2
> physical device (Samsung) - same as (3) however once it shows it and once
> not ... it is not deterministic
> 
> Regarding of (3), even I cancel it, it just freezes and does nothing.
> 
> 2) What works by automatic test but not deterministically
> 
> Android 4.4.2 emulator + Google API 
> 
> This is little bit more complicated. Droidium can test in a such way that in
> case AVD of your emulator is not present on your machine, that AVD is
> automatically created in test execution itself and emulator is booted, APK is
> deployed there tests are carried out and emulator is dynamically deleted when
> test stops.
> 
> Even emulator is booted and APK is installed there and test proceeds, in the
> background Google GCM service seems to be not initialized in time we are
> sending a message so it is kind of not delivered. By debugging it
> step-by-step it seems it has enough time to initialize itself.

We need an element (with id) in app we can wait for to appear to signalize
registration was finished. Valid feature request for all android/ios/cordova
variants I believe.

> 
> However, the same issue with a message being not delivered has occured at
> fully prepared emulator as well.
> 

This makes sense to me as registration happen after app is installed and opened.

> 3) What works manually
> 
> Android 4.4.2 emulator + Google API meaning without test but buy sending a
> message from web admin of (4)
> 
> Issues:
> 
> 1) For testing purposes we have this UPS installation (4) and while I was
> coping with this testing manually, when I sent some message from UPS web
> admin, it appeared on emulator twice, so it was basically sent two times. Any
> explanation for this?
> 
> 2) Sometime that message was not delivered to emulator at all, meaning even I
> send it from test it has not appeared on emulator. By accident this was
> resolved when I refreshed web admin in browser. I do not know if this is
> somehow related but why not ...

Well, delivery is not guaranteed and can take some time. Might be just a
coincidence :-)

> 
> I used this test (5) which uses Arquillian Droidium. Test is pretty
> straightforward and if you know some Selenium you are already done.
> 
> (1) https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-push-helloworld/tree/master/cordova
> (2) http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=CLrR07mH
> (3) http://devio.us/~stewe/DSC_0164.JPG
> (4) https://cordovaci-mobileqa.rhcloud.com
> (5)
> https://github.com/smiklosovic/cordova-pushplugin-test-/blob/master/src/test/java/org/jboss/aerogear/push/plugin/cordova/AeroGearPushPluginCordovaTestCase.java
> 
> Stefan Miklosovic
> Red Hat Brno - JBoss Mobile Platform
> 
> e-mail: smikloso at redhat.com
> irc: smikloso
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I’ve announced it before, but didn’t came around to actually do it and we
> > started discussing the version number. So end of the week I’ll release a new
> > version of the aerogear-pushplugin-cordova (for real this time) with version
> > 0.5.0 this will include the 64 bit support the new API and some small bug
> > fixes.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 	Erik Jan
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