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Add autodiscovery #400

Open timkim opened 8 years ago

timkim commented 8 years ago

Related connect-phonegap issue: https://github.com/phonegap/connect-phonegap/issues/140

Basically we want a way for users to easily pair their device and server without having to type in the ip address.

timkim commented 8 years ago

Work so far: https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-app-developer/tree/autodiscovery

timkim commented 8 years ago

Ok, so it works on serving from a mac machine and can connect to android and ios (ios doesn't fire deviceready for some reason). However, when trying to get connect-phonegap to run on a windows machine, I can't get it to compile the specific node module it uses (https://github.com/phonegap/connect-phonegap/blob/autodiscovery/package.json#L35).

Shelving this for now.

mwbrooks commented 8 years ago

@purplecabbage also did a little research work:

looked at mdns and on windows it requires the Bonjour sdk from Apple, and you are not allowed to redistribute it.