Troubleshooting

Android

• Do yourself a favor and add Gradle to your $PATH. Just use the one that comes with Android Studio that gets setup under your home directory:

  ex: export PATH=$PATH:~/.gradle/wrapper/dists/gradle-4.10.1-all/455itskqi2qtf0v2sja68alqd/gradle-4.10.1/bin

• Debugging APKs for production:

  • build APK like you were to submit to store
  • In Android Studio select File -> Profile or Debug APK
  • Select the built APK. Then hit the Play icon and it should start in the simulator.
  • Click on "Logcat" tab in AS to view everything that's going on.

• Must build Android at the following level to support cordova-plugin-advanced-http install. cordova-plugin-file breaks if lower version. May break other things, keep an eye on this.

  ionic cordova platform add android@6.4.0

• In an attempt to make sure the AndroidManaifest.xml file is correct, it will be tracked under platform-configs.

• After a fresh android platform install, may have to run the following:

  chmod +x platforms/android/gradlew
  chmod +x /Applications/Android\ Studio.app/Contents/gradle/gradle-4.10.1/bin/gradle

• If launching sim fails because lack of gradle, open project with Android Studio and follow prompt to set it up.

• If launching app for android sim doesn't work, try a cold boot from the AVD Device manager.

Deeplink intent configs in AndroidManifest

• To get the "App Link Assistant" menu to show, in Android Studio: File->Sync Project with Gradle Files
• Intent filters may be tricky to get working. Android Studio may want to "refactor", it then bugs out and puts a ton of unncessary intents. Remove those. The URL Map editor inside App Link Assistant may help. Then once you've got it looking good, restart the android app run command: ionic cordova run android -l.
• The Ionic configs to set deeplink intents doesn't support pathPattern as far as I can tell, so we have to manually add to AndroidManifest. See below or check the AndroidManifest file we track under platform-configs.

//Android: working intent filter for AndroidManifest.xml  

<intent-filter android:autoVerify="true">
   <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />

   <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
   <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />

   <data
      android:host="fractalstack.com"
      android:scheme="https"
      android:pathPattern="/upbook/.*" />
</intent-filter>  

iOS

• there was a major update in FEB2019 on cordova-ios, so use cordova platform add ios@5.0.0 to make sure to grab the latest.

// to prepare for ios build, run after you add ios platform:

ionic cordova prepare ios