Language Technology at UiT

The Divvun and Giellatekno teams build language technology aimed at minority and indigenous languages

View GiellaLT on GitHub divvungiellatekno/giellalt.uit.no

Gïelese has a client and a remote server for data storage. These steps focus on the compilation of the client.

These are the steps required to build the three apps presently supported by the Gïelese source code:

Preparations

  1. cd $GTHOME/apps/aajege/src/sma-client
  2. sudo port install nodejs npm
  3. npm install

Preparing the JavaScript environment

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Preparing the media server

The latter only installs/updates definitions for existing words from the first step, if you want to just install everything, use:

Prepare JSON files.

Building the internationalisation

Extracting is a little tricky. Mind the dot at the end, as we need the current directory too.

pybabel compile -d translations

Building the media directories for phonegap

In the main directory (~/$GTHOME/apps/aajege/src/) run the following command:

make prepare-for-phonegap

This will take a little while. It does the following:

  1. Extracts database information to JSON
  2. Copies JSON
  3. Copies media files, and trims them depending on various parameters (target device)

Phonegap dependencies

PhoneGap system dependencies:

For building with Android

  1. Android SDK (standalone tools): http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/index.html?pkg=tools
  2. ant (via homebrew)

PhoneGap dependencies must be installed using ‘npm’, globally. NB: you may need sudo permissions for this.

$ npm install -g phonegap@3.6.3-0.22.6
$ npm install -g cordova@3.6.3-0.2.13
$ npm install -g ios-sim@3.1.1

These dependencies are checked in sma-client/phonegap/package.json

Building the apps

  1. ./node_modules/.bin/brunch build --production => webapp
  2. ??? => Android app
  3. ??? => iOS app

Building for Android

    phonegap build android
    cd PATH_TO_RELEASE/platforms/android
    ant release

NB: you will be prompted for the keystore password (twice). This is in priv too.

The file will be generated in bin. This should be enough for building Android .apk files for release, but but if this is not enough see further steps in the following document.

Other relevant docs:

NB: before uploading a new release to the android app store, be sure to update the versionCode in the AndroidManifest.xml file.

Debugging

If you encounter errors in the process of the phonegap build android command, run the following instead:

cordova build android

This will return much more useful feedback.

Known issues

Android Submission

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Beta testers

iOS

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Android

For beta testing on android, users must be a member of the Google group (gielese-tester-community), where they must follow the development link in order to get permission to download any beta versions. After the user is a member of the group, this is automatic.

Invites must be managed within the Group, as it is not listed as public.

Creating a beta testing group restriction

  1. Follow the procedure on http://groups.google.com
  2. Once complete, copy the group e-mail address (*@googlegroups.com)
  3. In the Play admin page, select APK
  4. After uploading a beta, click ‘Manage list of testers’ in the Beta Testers section
  5. Copy & Paste the group e-mail address into the field, and keep track of the #k below
  6. Share the link with potential beta testers. The easiest means here is to just add the link to the Google Group info, so testers will see this as the first thing

Beta tester enrollment

As a beta tester, follow this procedure:

  1. Join the group
  2. If necessary, make sure an admin can confirm you are enrolled
  3. Follow the link provided
  4. Follow the instructions to download the beta

NB: Since it may take a few hours for APKs to be deployed to all of google Play’s servers, it may be so that you will be able to enroll in the beta program, but not access the beta. If this is so, try back in a couple hours.

Deploying an iOS app

In the Apple Developer Member Center, you must have the following things:

The wizards used to create these will explain in good detail how to generate certificates.

The end result will be that you will need to install the Deployment Certificate on your own machine through the Keychain Access app.

Xcode configuration

  1. Add your Apple Dev Center account (which could be different from iTunes Store)
  2. Account must be an admin in order to have access to provisioning profiles
  3. In Xcode preferences, look at Accounts tab
  4. Add the account, or if the account is already added, click on Details, and then click the refresh icon.

Uploading

  1. Build the project with destination iOS Device, and Build for Running.
  2. Troubleshoot any errors that occur in the build process.
  3. Once successful… Select from the Product menu: Archive
  4. Once the archiving process completes, you will see a window with the latest archive
  5. Select this, and choose Submit
  6. Through the following dialog boxes, choose the correct project and team
  7. Wait for archive to be signed (you may have to confirm some accesses to the Key Ring)
  8. Upload it

NB: the Bundle ID must be the same for the upload to work. You can set this on Apple’s side within iTunes Connect.

Upgrading cordova

Follow the documentation, but also make sure that you:

And then check the installed plugins and, remove and add them all individually

Known issuess

Apple complains of aps-environment entitlement

Review process returns:

    Missing Push Notification Entitlement - Your app appears to include API used to
    register with the Apple Push Notification service, but the app signature's
    entitlements do not include the "aps-environment" entitlement.

But, we don’t use push notifications.

  1. https://github.com/meteor/meteor/issues/2974
  2. http://forum.ionicframework.com/t/missing-push-notification-entitlement/5436/4

Problem: Phonegap 3.5 seems to automatically include API calls to set up the push notification API, even though the phonegap project is not configured to use a push notification plugin… Building the XCode project from PhoneGap results in the inclusion of the following lines in Gielese/Classes/AppDelegate.m. Apple is warning that the certificate does not include these entitlements. One way would be to regenerate a provisioning profile with these entitlements, but keeping the app simpler seems to be a better idea.

    // repost all remote and local notification using the default NSNotificationCenter so multiple plugins may respond
    - (void)            application:(UIApplication*)application
        didReceiveLocalNotification:(UILocalNotification*)notification
    {
        // re-post ( broadcast )
        [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] postNotificationName:CDVLocalNotification object:notification];
    }

    - (void)                                application:(UIApplication *)application
       didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken:(NSData *)deviceToken
    {
        // re-post ( broadcast )
        NSString* token = [[[[deviceToken description]
                             stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString: @"<" withString: @""]
                            stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString: @">" withString: @""]
                           stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString: @" " withString: @""];

        [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] postNotificationName:CDVRemoteNotification object:token];
    }

    - (void)                                 application:(UIApplication *)application
        didFailToRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithError:(NSError *)error
    {
        // re-post ( broadcast )
        [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] postNotificationName:CDVRemoteNotificationError object:error];
    }

Commenting these out, rebuilding, and resubmitting, is supposed to fix the problem (currently waiting for proof from the approval process).

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