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    • Vehi_MV
      Vehi_MV last edited by

      Looks like canonical shut down their web app generator page.
      https://developer.ubuntu.com/webapp-generator

      Does any one know of some other easy way of simply creating click packages from web pages?

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        fmulcar last edited by

        In order that to continue with the webapps?
        It is something absurd having the explorer.
        It is to fill the shop of garbage, is my opinion.
        You have alternate-webapp-generator, great option.

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        • Vehi_MV
          Vehi_MV last edited by

          Thank you.
          Alternate-webapp-generator works great.

          I do agree with you that webapps on appstore are garbage.
          I use my webapps to connect to my raspberry-pi and webcam.

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          • Bastos
            Bastos @Vehi_MV last edited by

            @Vehi_MV said in Web App generator:

            Alternate-webapp-generator works great.

            What and where is this? I can't find it in the web. Or do you mean the alternate-webapp-container

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            • Vehi_MV
              Vehi_MV @Bastos last edited by

              @Bastos
              It is a script and you can download it from here:
              https://github.com/Winael/ubuntu/blob/master/ubuntuphone/webapps/Reboot/alternate-webapp-generator.zip

              It uses a config.cfg file, which is included in the zip.
              You just have to put your webapps info in config file and run the script.

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              • Flohack
                Flohack @Vehi_MV last edited by

                @Vehi_MV Dont say this, I made a webapp for a local public transport realtime monitor and its really useful xD

                BR

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                • Vehi_MV
                  Vehi_MV @Flohack last edited by

                  @Flohack
                  I didn't mean they are not usefull, they are very usefull, but to very limited number of people.
                  And there are alot of such webapps, so it's really hard to find webaps that are usefull for me.
                  That is why the webapp-generator is a thing that is nice to have. 😉

                  MV

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                  • Bastos
                    Bastos @Flohack last edited by

                    @Flohack realtime monitoring public transport! that is great. One of the few things fahrplan app is not able to. Is this webapp also due for germany? If yes, can you provide it?

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                    • Flohack
                      Flohack @Bastos last edited by

                      @Bastos No sorry, its done only for the Vienna public transport system 🙂

                      BR

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                        Alexisme last edited by

                        I agree on your points!
                        For web-apps in the store, I totally agree that there are too much and only few users use them (even if they can be really useful!!!)

                        For the alternate-webapp-generator it's better than nothing, but what canonical did was really a wonderful idea!!! Because I'm not a developer and I don't even know how to run a script 😉
                        That's why I have two questions:
                        Would it be possible to do something as canonical did, i.e. a server were you insert a link and you can download a .click?
                        Or a better solution: would it be possible to have a web-app generator on the phone, i.e. an app where you insert a link and it generates an app directly in the phone?

                        Because I think that web-apps are "useless" in the store (even if I could install your app, I'm in Vienna too ;)), so I think there has to be found a solution even for this one day, and a web-app generator could help !

                        What do you think about it?

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                          Aurze last edited by

                          It will be great if you could "generate" web app from the browser on your UT. It will be kinda like bookmark on steroids.

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                            jamesp @Vehi_MV last edited by

                            @Vehi_MV said in Web App generator:

                            @Bastos
                            It is a script and you can download it from here:
                            https://github.com/Winael/ubuntu/blob/master/ubuntuphone/webapps/Reboot/alternate-webapp-generator.zip

                            It uses a config.cfg file, which is included in the zip.
                            You just have to put your webapps info in config file and run the script.

                            Someone should make one simple gui web app creator of this. Script is not very user friendly.

                            Tried to use ubuntu sdk, but it crashes all the time and couldn't transfer web app to device due to unknown error. Is sdk functionality broken with ubports version?

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                              tomoqv last edited by

                              +1

                              I haven't yet managed to get a working environment on my Ubuntu 16.10 system for compiling click apps. I used to have it working with the Ubuntu SDK, but that was a while ago. I tried to install clickable from the instructions in the wiki, but got stuck on some errors that I didn't manage to resolve.

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                              • Vehi_MV
                                Vehi_MV last edited by

                                The webpage that Cannonical had was ok, so if there is someone that can replicate their page, It would be great.
                                At this moment, I am verry happy, that at least this script exists, so we have a possibility to easily generate webapps.

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                                • Bastos
                                  Bastos last edited by Bastos

                                  So first time I tried the webabb generator 🙂
                                  Unfortunately without access 😞

                                  Can maybe someone tell me what I have done wrong:

                                  1. I downloaded and unzipped https://github.com/Winael/ubuntu/blob/master/ubuntuphone/webapps/Reboot/alternate-webapp-generator.zip to my ubuntu 16.04 desktop

                                  2. I made the alternate-webapp-generator.sh file executable

                                  3. I edited the config.cfg

                                    # config.cfg
                                    export namespace="BastosNamespace"
                                    export app_name="xxAppname"
                                    export app_title="xxAppTitle"
                                    export app_url="http://xx.de"
                                    export app_description="A webapp client for xx.de."
                                    export app_UA="Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.0; Nexus 5) AppleWebkit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/38.0.2125.102 Mobile Safari/537.36"
                                    export app_version="0.1"
                                    export maintainer_name="xxx"
                                    export maintainer_email="xxx@gallehr.de"
                                    export icon_path="/home/xxx/xxx.png"
                                    
                                  4. In terminal I cd to the right folder and run . alternate-webapp-generator.sh

                                  5. Everything went with success, I get a .click file created

                                  6. I copied the .click file to my phone

                                  7. With UT Tweak Tool I installed the .click with sucess

                                  BUT unfortunately the webapp doesnt show up at my apps even not after restart.

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                                  • Vehi_MV
                                    Vehi_MV last edited by

                                    Hi.

                                    Just a stupid question. From what I see from your dummy config file.
                                    Are you sure icon_path is OK? Maybe you forgot the username after /home/ ?

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                                    • Bastos
                                      Bastos @Vehi_MV last edited by

                                      @Vehi_MV said in Web App generator:

                                      Maybe you forgot the username after /home/

                                      Thanks. Yes you are right, i used the dummy xxx also for path. I correct it...

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                                      • Bastos
                                        Bastos last edited by

                                        Thanks to @Vehi_MV here is the solution https://forums.ubports.com/topic/469/webapp-generator-clicks-to-get-installed-in-the-phone

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                                          Alexisme last edited by

                                          Here there is a new solution !
                                          https://open.uappexplorer.com/app/webapp-creator.jujuyeh

                                          Thank you for this app !

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                                          • BenTenLol
                                            BenTenLol @Alexisme last edited by

                                            @Alexisme Nice work 😉

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