Creating an Apache Cordova Project

To create an Apache Cordova project for use with the Hybrid SDK (Kapsel), use the Cordova command line tool.

1. (Optional) Create a folder to hold your Hybrid SDK (Kapsel) Cordova projects.
   For example, on Windows, C:\Documents and Settings\<your_account>\Kapsel_Projects, or on OS X, ~/Documents/Kapsel_Projects.
2. (Optional) Open a Windows command prompt or terminal and navigate into the project folder you created.
3. At the command prompt, enter:

   cordova create <Project_Folder> <Application_ID> <Application Name>

   Use the appropriate delimiter for path names.

   This command may take a few minutes to complete, as an initial download of the template project that is used is downloaded to C:\Users\user\.cordova on Windows, or ~/users/user/.cordova on Mac.

   The parameters are:

   • (Required) <Project_Folder> – the directory to generate for the project.
   • (Optional) <Application_ID> – must match the Application ID as configured on SAP Mobile Platform Server for the application, which is reverse-domain style, for example, com.sap.kapsel.
     Note <Application_ID> cannot be too simple. For example, you can have "a.b" for an ID, but you cannot have "MyApplicationId." The ID is used as the package name (name space) for the application and it must be at least two pieces separated by a period, otherwise, you will get build errors.
   • (Optional) <Application_Name> – name for the application.

   Note

   When installing plugins, you need to specify a path using the --searchpath argument to a location where the local plugin can be found. For example:

   cordova plugin add kapsel-plugin-logon --searchpath $KAPSEL_HOME/plugins

   $KAPSEL_HOME=C:\SAP\MobileSDK3\KapselSDK.

   In this example, you create a project folder named LogonDemo in the Kapsel_Projects directory. The Application ID is "com.mycompany.logon" and the application name is "LogonDemo." Running cordova -d allows you to see the progress of the project creation.

   cordova create ~\Kapsel_Projects\LogonDemo com.mycompany.logon LogonDemo

   Your new project includes scripts to build, emulate, and deploy your application.

   Note All of the Cordova command line interface commands operate against the current folder. The create command creates a folder structure for your Cordova projects while the remaining commands must be issued from within the project folder created by create.
4. To add the platform, change to the folder you created in the previous step:
   cd <~Project_Name>
   This OS X example adds the Android , iOS, and Windows platforms.

   cd ~\Kapsel_Projects\LogonDemo 
   cordova platform add ios android windows

   Note A new plugin, cordova-plugin-whitelist, is available in Cordova 5.x. This plugin is added by default when creating a new project. To configure this plugin, you must add a Content Security Policy. If not configured correctly, this plugin might introduce errors and warning messages. See https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-whitelist
   Note Android is supported on both Windows and OS X, but iOS is supported only on OS X.
   Note You must add the platform before you add any Hybrid SDK (Kapsel) plugins.
   The project directory structure is similar to this:

   LogonDemo/
   |--.cordova/
   |-- merges/
   | |-- android/
   | `-- ios/
   |-- platforms/
   | |-- android/
   | `-- ios/
   |-- plugins/
   |-- www/
    -- config.xml
   `

   • .cordova – identifies the project as a Cordova project. The command line interface uses this folder for storing its lazy loaded files. The folder is located immediately under your user’s home folder (On Windows, c:\users\user_name\ , and on Macintosh, /users/user_name/.cordova).
   • merges – contains your Web application assets, such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files within platform-specific subfolders. Files in this folder override matching files in the www/ folder for each respective platform.
   • www – this folder contains the main HTML, CSS, and JavaScript assets for your application. The index.html file is the default page of the application. Once you finish editing your project's files, update the platform specific files using the cordova -d -prepare command.
   • config.xml – the config.xml file in the root directory contains meta data and native application information needed to generate the application.
   • platforms – native application project structures are contained in subfolders for the platforms you added to your application.
5. (Optional) You can test your Cordova project by opening it in the respective development environment, for example, Xcode or Android Studio, and running it on the simulator or emulator. If you are going to import your project into Android Studio, you must run cordova build android.
6. Add the plugins. See the detailed instructions for adding each plugin in Hybrid SDK (Kapsel) Plugins. For example, to add the Cordova console plugin and the Hybrid SDK (Kapsel) Logon plugin on Windows, enter:

   cordova plugin add https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cordova-plugin-console.git
    cordova plugin add C:\SAP\MobileSDK3\KapselSDK\plugins\logon 

   Note The path you enter to the Hybrid SDK (Kapsel) plugin must be the absolute path (not relative path).
7. Edit the Web application content in the project's www folder and use the cordova prepare command to copy that content into the Android, iOS, and Windows project folders:

   cordova prepare android
   cordova prepare ios
   cordova prepare windows