cordova-app-harness

📌 Deprecation Notice

This repository is deprecated and no more work will be done on this by Apache Cordova. You can continue to use this and it should work as-is but any future issues will not be fixed by the Cordova community.

Feel free to fork this repository and improve your fork. Existing forks are listed in Network and Forks.

• Learn more: https://github.com/apache/cordova/blob/master/deprecated.md#deprecated-other

An App that can run Cordova apps within it.

Primary Goals:

• Super-fast edit & refresh workflow
  • E.g. have a grunt watch that pushes every time a file changes
  • E.g. have livereload-type functionality for CSS & images
• Test on devices without needing platform SDKs
  • E.g. develop for iOS on a Windows machine
  • Non-goal: Release to iOS from Windows

How to use it:

1. Run the app on a device or simulator
2. Push your app to it via the harness-push tool
3. Use two-finger double-tap to bring up in-app menu.

Building the App Harness

Using a Unix environment, run:

./createproject.sh DirName
cd DirName
cordova plugin add PLUGINS_THAT_YOU_WANT

Major Unimplemented Features

• Applying app settings (DisallowOverscroll, etc)
• Applying app splashscreen
• Applying app's whitelist

Major Unimplemented In-App Menu Features

• Inject a JSConsole script tag
• Initiate a weinre session
• Suggestions welcome! :)

Harness Server

A server runs within the app that enables remote control functionality.

Use harness-push/harness-push.js to send commands to the App Harness.