So I am having a couple of problems, of which I do NOT think should be hassles of any kind whatsoever in this day in age (Q2 of 2015).
Problem 1: I cannot get the sample Ionic app to startup and work in the IOS emulator, using my Macbook Air 2013.
Problem 2: I cannot get any 3rd party cordova plugins to be available – the “cordova” object is not showing up in the global namespace within the Ionic “lab” browser (e.g. ionic serve --lab).
Paypal ready to go. Will give initial payment of $25, and the remaining $75 upon resolution of these 2 problems.
To those who have resolved these 2 problems, this should be easy-peezy, slam dunk. Like taking candy from a baby ($100 for < 5 min of work).
It simply blows my mind how difficult the most trivial, easy problems is really this hard. Please prove me wrong. Thanks. -Albert
I think this is going to be difficult for anyone since no one has access to your computer but:
Problem 1: could you run ionic info and share what is shown? Does the emulator open? Do you get an error message?
Problem 2: cordova is not available in the browser. You will see a 404 pointing to cordova.js which is only available when you run it on a device. There is an extensión to run cordova projects on Chrome: http://emulate.phonegap.com/ so you might want to give it a try.
Hey joseadrian – thanks for the quick response. Ionic info:
OS: Mac OS X Yosemite
Node Version: v0.10.26
Cordova CLI: 4.3.0
Ionic Version: 1.0.0-rc.3
Ionic CLI Version: 1.3.19
Xcode version: Xcode 6.1.1 Build version 6A2008a
ios-sim version: 3.1.1
ios-deploy version: Not installed
Re: emulator opening, I first get these 2 messages:
2015-04-13 21:12:16.051 ios-sim[1236:17065] stderrPath: /Users/albertchang/Desktop/practice/whatsthat/platforms/ios/cordova/console.log
2015-04-13 21:12:16.051 ios-sim[1236:17065] stdoutPath: /Users/albertchang/Desktop/practice/whatsthat/platforms/ios/cordova/console.log
The Xcode emulator does open, but the screen simply stays at the home screen and does NOT enter the Ionic app. After about 30 seconds, I get the following error in the CLI:
Session could not be started: Error Domain=DTiPhoneSimulatorErrorDomain Code=2 “Simulator session timed out.” UserInfo=0x7ff93b7417c0 {NSLocalizedDescription=Simulator session timed out.}
Error code 1 for command: ios-sim with args: launch,/Users/albertchang/Desktop/practice/whatsthat/platforms/ios/build/emulator/whatsthat.app,–devicetypeid,com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimDeviceType.iPhone-6,–stderr,/Users/albertchang/Desktop/practice/whatsthat/platforms/ios/cordova/console.log,–stdout,/Users/albertchang/Desktop/practice/whatsthat/platforms/ios/cordova/console.log,–exit
Error: /Users/albertchang/Desktop/practice/whatsthat/platforms/ios/cordova/run: Command failed with exit code 2
at ChildProcess.whenDone (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/cordova-lib/src/cordova/superspawn.js:131:23)
at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
at maybeClose (child_process.js:743:16)
at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:810:5)
*************** Problem 2: this whole time I was under the impression that the cordova object would be visible under the window object, despite not being functionally accessible, e.g. console.log(window.cordova). I just downloaded the chrome extension. trying it out now…
///////////// As mentioned before, these errors are ubiquitous within this forum.
Thanks. -Albert
I always had had this problem. I got the exact (not really, i don’t get the messages after session could not be started… :() same errors and I think I have a simple solution
First, open the simulator and wait until the simulator is loaded or run the command ionic run ios
You will get those *messages
run ìonic run ios` again if you already have done it
Your app will open
I wanted to make a video showing that this actually works but since I’ve already tried it, the app opens at the first attempt
yeah it’s really weird. Still cannot get it to run despite doing the alternate approach: run IOS simulator first, then use “ionic run ios”, or even running “ionic run ios” first. Here are the other things I have done, compliments of all the vast amount of instructions and advice within this forum:
Reset Content and Settings (and then hit Reset button)
chmod -R 777 [project root folder]
used “sudo ionic …” for almost every command (except adding plugins, e.g. ionic plugin add [plugin address])
By the way, this was the last error message I got:
“ERROR running one or more of the platforms: Error: /Users/albertchang/Desktop/practice/whatsthat/platforms/ios/cordova/run: Command failed with exit code 2
You may not have the required environment or OS to run this project”
I am officially retiring this problem, as I am now exiting the world of JS and getting into Swift. I have been burned way too many times with frameworks that purport to do this and that, and shit like this – as basic and trivial as they are – persist as complicated problems to solve.
Thanks for the help joseadrian. Do you have a PayPal acct? i’d like to at least give you the $25 despite me not being able to resolve these issues.
The only difference between us is the node version. Could that be?
OS: Mac OS X Yosemite
Node Version: v0.12.0
Cordova CLI: 4.3.0
Ionic CLI Version: 1.3.19
Xcode version: Xcode 6.1.1 Build version 6A2008a
ios-sim version: 3.1.1
ios-deploy version: 1.4.0 # this doesn’t matter right now
Try running (also change ionic with cordova since ionic is on top of it)
I need your email address (at least an email address that I can paypal to).
For the time being, I am installing node .12 on my 2nd laptop. For the record, I have attempted to get the emulator running and getting the cordova object to be available (which I guess is a non-issue at this point) on my other laptop as well as the one i’m currently using now. Also, I had the latest node 0.12 on my previous laptop. All, in all, I have experienced the same exact results on both laptops. We’ll see how node 0.12 will go after it finishes installing here.
