Support Cordova on Windows

[mojochao]

_21 Upvotes_ When running 'meteor run android-device --verbose' command in Meteor 1.1.0.2 for Windows (on Win 8.1 OS), I receive the following error:

? Can't run on the following platforms on Windows: android-device

Is this expected? I didn't see anything in the release notes about this. If this is not implemented, any ETA on when this will be implemented?

[keithn]

on https://github.com/meteor/meteor/wiki/Preview-of-Meteor-on-Windows it explicitly says its not supported.

[engenheiro]

I want Cordova with Meteor for Windows too. When will be implemented?

[stubailo]

We definitely need to make it more clear that Android is currently not supported on Windows, sorry about that.

[engenheiro]

No man, we just ask for a implementation date. For you, allowing Meteor to be used on mobile devices through Windows is a great marketing, because it will allow the community to grow .

[tsamatech]

@stubailo, any plan to make it available on windows ?

[jwktje]

Any indication of when/if it will be possible would be great! I would love to just test my Android app on my main (windows) machine.

[EmbeddedSam]

Was over the moon when I thought it could do android on windows, you should really update the tutorial to say it wont work on windows. It doesn't mention you need a mac.

[stubailo]

@EmbeddedSam you're totally right, we should definitely update that part of the tutorial to tell people it won't work on Windows. Sorry to get your hopes up!

[shukritobi]

Hey @stubailo, thanks for the great framework. Are you guys planning to add android sdk to windows?

[robertocr]

I'd love it too!

[votivate]

What is the timeline for this to be implemented?

[Adiel-Sharabi]

1+

[ismaelaarab10]

+1

[Type1J]

What's stopping it exactly? If that were posted here, then maybe somebody with enough desire would have a good enough place to start to fix it and give a pull request.

[stubailo]

@martijnwalraven any thoughts?

[martijnwalraven]

As I recently posted in the forum, I'm currently working on some improvements to the Cordova integration that I hope to get into the Meteor 1.2 release.

One of the goals is to get Android development working on Windows. The Cordova integration was developed before Meteor added Windows support, and there are some dependencies on OS X/Linux that I'm in the process of removing. More specifically, the current integration uses bash scripts to call out to various tools (cordova, android, adb), and I'm replacing this with using the Cordova lib from NPM and relying on Cordova to control the Android emulator, etc.

[abhisheksoni27]

That's a great news. When can we expect it to ship?

[Type1J]

@martijnwalraven: Thanks! I'm glad to know that it's on its way.

[martijnwalraven]

@abhisheksoni27 Meteor 1.2 will ship later this summer, see Matt's recent blog post about it.

[caydenlund]

+1

[dhavalrajani92]

I am curious to see this version.

[hkalic]

+1 Any1 have info on adding the next platform - Windows Phone (killed by M$) or now Windows 10 Mobile (Universal Windows app)?

It's smaller market but it's not without any prospect. Right?

[benjick]

@hkalic i think you can just wrap a webapp and it will work fine. I saw a video of them wrapping a canvas game, took just a minute. I'll see if I can find it

[kodybrown]

@stubailo Is there anything I can do to help the Windows development. I am not trying to pester you, but I'd rather help it along on Windows than have to resort to using Linux, or even worse... a Mac... ;-)

[stubailo]

@kodybrown it's up to @martijnwalraven now!

[kodybrown]

@stubailo you're right, sorry.. What do you think @martijnwalraven?

[martijnwalraven]

Just got my first Cordova Android app running on Windows! More work to be done, but I think we're on track for inclusion in Meteor 1.2.

[b14r]

this is really great news, I am really excited to see it working on windows.

[kodybrown]

That is great! Can I beta-test for you!? :-)

[leocavalcante]

It seams that Cordova support for Win isn't working in 1.2rc12. Any plans?

[martijnwalraven]

It's almost there, but there are a few remaining issues and we didn't feel comfortable releasing it for 1.2. But it should come not too long after.

[Leekao]

@martijnwalraven Do you need beta testers?

[Sandeep3005]

That is great we are waiting for it and then android app making will be great fun.

[fabyeah]

+1

[leocavalcante]

:+1: I can beta test too, if you like!

[leocavalcante]

Do you guys know some workaround to build Cordova apps with Meteor on Windows right now?

[mibcadet]

+1

[douaberigoale]

+1

[raix]

@martijnwalraven whats the status on this - will it be ready for the hackathon?

[martijnwalraven]

No, we've prioritized rewriting the file serving and hot code push plugin, which is what I'm currently working on. Windows support isn't too far off, but will require a few additional days of development and a round of testing. Unfortunately, that won't happen before the hackathon.

[RiaanOos]

It seems like the only solution for us folks on the Windows platform is to install a copy of Ubuntu onto our machines in the mean time and boot into it. I have risked it all to start to develop mobile apps with Meteor, so my disappointment was great when I found out (only yesterday) that this is not yet supported on Windows. Luckily the dual boot option with Ubuntu means that we can still carry on developing in Meteor with all of the functionality, Cordova included.

Looking forward to this being supported in Windows and sounds like it's not far off... :-)

[mibcadet]

Go VirtualBox from Oracle + Debian 8.2, need nothing else :)

Still +1 for Windows version.

[manrajgrover]

Eagerly waiting for this feature to be available on Windows.

@RiaanOos I tried it on Ubuntu on VMWare but on running Android simulator didn't open at all. I waited for more than half an hour. Were you able to pull it off?

[leocavalcante]

Well, for those who don't want to switch to a Linux-based desktop, I got this working with Vagrant. Creating Meteor app in ubuntu/trusty64 box, editing with Sublime on Windows (thanks to Vagrant's synced folders), building the Cordova project back to Ubuntu and building/running (emulating) on Windows. Those "switches" was just Alt-tabs between a Vagrant SSH terminal connection and a local pointed terminal.

[rootux]

+1

[nosizejosh]

@leocavalcante please provide some direction as to how you have been able to do this

[Tealons]

@martijnwalraven : Do you have an ETA for this issue/request? If support for windows will release soon, I can avoid installing ubuntu :)

[stubailo]

It probably won't release that soon!

[leocavalcante]

@nosizejosh There is the Vagrantfile with inline shell provision, haven't tested yet, was just the step-by-step I followed after finding some issues. Any trouble running it, let me know. https://gist.github.com/leocavalcante/46afaafeb10599797cc6

[nosizejosh]

@leocavalcante thanx for responding. I am very new to vagrant,virtual box etc.What I have is meteor working on my machine. I run into this because I want to be able to access camera on android device on a project I am working on ( I was fine with my xampp setup :) ). I currently installed vagrant and virtual box and am guessing I need to add the ubntu/trusty64 box. I am not sure whether to cd into my project directory in windows before doing this ( in-order to be able to have the synced folders as you described) or do it from the installation directory of vagrant. Not sure what to do after that either. Started with adding the box from my project directory but it was taking real long and I was not sure what I was doing so I cancelled it. pls help. Thanx