Component that needs to communicate with a local js file

Classic Servoy
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Hi there,

we are developing a web component for our mobile app. We build the app with phoneGap for the login page and the iframe our Servoy app is running in. Now we use a phoneGap plugin which allows us to share stuff with a native socialshare option. The challenge we have right now is that our component needs to talk to a cordova.js file that exist locally on the phone. Servoy don’t know about it. Is there any way we can connect this file to our webcomponent in Servoy?

Thanks in advance

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Hi,

If you need to talk to a phonegap plugin you will need a bridge of sorts between the iframe and phonegap native wrapper. There is one web service that’s in development (https://github.com/Servoy/svyPhonegap) that details how to connect to a camera/location plugin.

There also exists a mobile sample solution that uses it. (https://github.com/Servoy/svyMobile)

Basically - in order to connect your particular plugin, you will have to write a simple web service api to communicate to it from within Servoy.

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Hi,

Thanks for the advice. With a service we got it up and running

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Hi,

i’m fairly new to Servoy and i’m trying to use the Phonegap plugin, i’ve followed the link posted further up that directed me towards a mobile sample of github. The sample readme mentioned that additional libraries are needed to run the sample. I was hoping you could tell me if i’m able to just search github for those libraries or whether I might need to look further afield.

Thanks

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Although most of the software is open source and a few of them might be on Github, it’s easier to just get to the binaries from their respective websites:

Phonegap cli:
http://docs.phonegap.com/references/pho … i/install/

Node.JS
https://nodejs.org/en/

Git
https://git-scm.com/

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Thanks, that’s just what I needed.