I use Linux, have 2 android phones, and have the emulator installed (it’s not that bad).
ionic run android
When I run my apps on my phone, bugs cause WSOD (white screen of death), so it’s not awesome for debugging
It’s a bit slow for iteration, but ok it could work with a debugger.
ionic emulate android
Ok, about 2x slower than on the phone. There’s a bug in snapshots, but whatever. Same problem though WSOD and no debugger.
ionic run browser
Ok, this doesn’t work on linux. I patched a version of run that works. It looks diff enough from 2.0 code that I skipped a PR. Here I’m getting platform errors:
“Uncaught module cordova/confighelper not found”
“TypeError: Cannot read property ‘dataDirectory’ of undefined” is coming before “adding proxy for File” which may be my root cause.
I tried out ripple, but it’s on Cordova 3.0, so I’m guessing it’s no longer best practice?
I want to work with ngCordova and specifically $cordovaMedia
Help me love this! Cause I’m really struggling now. Thanks
When I run ionic serve the cordova variables don’t appear, making it practically useless for testing and debugging my app. It’s useful for prototyping the UI, but that’s about it.
I’m trying to use the cordova media plugins.
I was hoping the browser platform had a shim but it doesn’t help. I’m not sure what the browser platform does.
That’s a reasonable expectation, but it all depends on each specific plugin. I can see that the cordova-plugin-media says it supports browser in the README, but there’s no browser folder in src…
In my experience you’re better off writing your own fallback implementations for when running without cordova in ionic serve.
Is this common for Cordova plugins? I thought Media would be a super common one? I’ll try again with MediaCapture, but it seems weird.
What’s you’re pattern for the fallback implementations? Do you have an example? I’d guess in Angular if ($ionicPlatform.platform() === ‘browser’) { //stuff }. Or is there a better way? Putting something after ‘cordova.js’ seems like a possibility too.
