svyPhonegap

Overview

svyPhonegap is a service to provide native mobile functionality from a Servoy application. This guide will help you integrate and build your first mobile app using the service.

Getting Started

Once you've gotten your main Servoy solution created, install the Phonegap Module. This is available under the Servoy Package Manager. Alternatively you can also download this module directly from our github repository.

Initialize the module

Select your main solution and hook up the onOpen event to a new scope method.

You can also hook up a callback method if you need access to native functionality as soon as the device is ready. Your code might look like below

function onSolutionOpen(arg, queryParams) {
//initialize phonegap module
scopes.phonegap.onSolutionOpen(arg,queryParams, onReadyCallback);

}	

function onReadyCallback(){
//device is ready, get information from a plugin
application.output(plugins.svyphonegapDevice.getDeviceInfo());
}

Integrating with your first plugin

Integration examples can be found per plugin for example the Camera plugin guide.

Working Example

To see a Servoy solution that utilizes this module check out svyMobile.

Building a mobile binary

Once you are satisfied with the main solution and code. We will want to be able to export and run this app on a mobile device. First deploy the Servoy solution. Then follow the Building Native Binary guide.

Documentation on specific services or plugins

For the web services to function, we need to have also installed the particular phonegap plugins mentioned.

Browser In-app browser related functions

Camera Camera and media functions

Location Geolocation functionality

Push Notifications Push Notification functionality