notes on setting up from linux

[dominictarr]

I'm on ubuntu, after messing around loads trying to install adb from google's site (and it not even working) I realized I could use apt-get

sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb android-tools-fastboot

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Firefox_OS/Debugging/Installing_ADB says it's obselete but hey it worked.

you'll need to switch your phone into developer mode.
on my phone, that means knowing a cheat code.
http://www.androidcentral.com/how-enable-samsung-galaxy-s5-developer-options

then plug in phone and adb devices (you might need to auth something on your phone)
if that lists something you are ready.
adb shell gets you to a command line (except most of the regular tools arn't there)
adb push copies. my phone didn't have tar so I had to copy the opened files
with adb push ./dir /data/local/tmp/dir that takes ages.

but it can't copy symlinks, but luckly we don't need symlinks, can just delete them.

this script lists all symlinks under the current directory, then delete them.

var pull = require('pull-stream')
var glob = require('pull-glob')
var para = require('pull-paramap')
var fs = require('fs')

pull(
  glob((process.argv[2] || process.cwd())+'/**'),
  para(function (file, cb) {
    fs.lstat(file, function (err, stat) {
      if(!stat.isSymbolicLink()) cb()
      else cb(err, file)
    })
  }),
  pull.filter(Boolean),
  pull.drain(console.log)
)

that is what i did @mixmix
I havn't figured out how to run it in the background yet (have to be connect to a adb shell session, but once we have that we'll have this running on a phone!)

[dominictarr]

we can probably adapt this to get an apk: https://github.com/jxcore/jxcore-cordova

[dominictarr]

okay so looking more deeply into this, we unfortunately cannot create a child process from cordova.
https://developer.android.com/guide/components/fundamentals.html

I did some experiments with: https://github.com/petervojtek/cordova-plugin-shell-exec
and could run commands like ls but not the node command. I also tried with https://github.com/jackpal/Android-Terminal-Emulator and had the same problem. I can only run those commands via adb shell which isn't gonna work...

the conclusion I'm coming to, is that we need to make a java binding for node (it doesn't need any functions, though, just start node and pass in cli arguments. the only thing is it's gotta run in the same process)

[dominictarr]

Okay, I did some more digging here... at least, I figured out a hello world that has C++ inside of Java.
https://github.com/dominictarr/hello-jni
next step is figure out how to build node as a library instead of an executable

[dominictarr]

some resources that might be useful:

• wtf does the gyp syntax actually mean: https://gyp.gsrc.io/docs/InputFormatReference.md#Variables-and-Conditionals
• converting a library to gyp: https://n8.io/converting-a-c-library-to-gyp/

[dominictarr]

just saw this: https://github.com/brodybits/java-node it's a java binding to node, so maybe we can use that?

[gardner]

I started creating a cordova plugin that interfaces with sbot/patchwork: https://github.com/gardner/cordova-plugin-patchwork

It needs more work to be functional. It's on one of the burners (i think in the back).

[dominictarr]

@gardner but how does it work? I don't see anything that starts the sbot process

[gardner]

It hasn't been tested yet and currently the code just runs find in hopes of learning more about the file structure. It's going to try to run patchwork. Check it out: https://github.com/gardner/cordova-plugin-patchwork/blob/master/src/android/Patchwork.java#L61

EDIT: Pointing to the correct line.

[dominictarr]

does that execute a process? this was the docs I was able to find:
http://www.qnx.com/developers/docs/660/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.qnx.doc.web_inspector%2Ftopic%2Fcordova_exec.html

On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 6:38 PM, Gardner Bickford notifications@github.com
wrote:

It hasn't been tested yet and looking at the code it looks like it would
need more path information. It's going to try to run patchwork. Check it
out:
https://github.com/gardner/cordova-plugin-patchwork/blob/master/www/patchwork.js#L8

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[gardner]

Sorry, I updated my comment, it was pointing at the wrong line. The line is in Patchwork.java (line 61)
p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("/system/bin/find .");

[dominictarr]

I tried this approach, but I could only run the built in tools and not a node process... though, if node is part of the same apk then maybe it's owned by the same user and then it works?

I couldn't figure out what path your apk contents ends up in