Blue Carbon Mobile

A PhoneGap application to allow iPad validation of a Blue Carbon data layer, off- or on-line.

Development

The main app is a web application, which lives inside the www/ folder. As we use Coffeescript and Sass, gulp is used for compilation. Run:

npm install
gulp

This will compile the source and assets, and watch them for further changes.

The app is run using the Cordova command line tool:

npm install -g cordova
# cordova emulate ios --target="<device>"
cordova emulate ios --target="iPad-Air"

Debugging

Check out the Phonegap debugging guide for lots of info.

Better remote console logging

Console logging is static and crazy unpredictable in phonegap by default, so there is a hook that forces the application to wait for a manual signal before it starts, thereby allowing better console logging. To use, start the Blue Carbon app (in index.html) with the 'waitForRemoteConsole' set to true:

window.blueCarbonApp = new BlueCarbon.App({waitForRemoteConsole: true});

Then, connect your remote web inspector console, and manually start the app from the console:

window.blueCarbonApp.start();

Enjoy proper console.logging.