Mulberry

Mulberry takes content from your filesystem and turns it into a working mobile app on Android and iOS. It also provides a local development server for testing your app, and a framework for adding custom functionality and CSS.

Support

• Google Group
• #touramulberry on irc.freenode.net: A live chat room with Mulberry users and developers. Use your own IRC client or use Freenode's webchat

Installation

• Clone this repository to a location of your choosing.

  git clone [email protected]:Toura/mulberry.git

• Add the full path to mulberry/bin to your path by editing your profile and adding the following:

  export PATH=$PATH:/full/path/to/mulberry/mulberry/bin

For example, if you cloned the repository to ~/projects/mulberry, you would add the following to your .profile file.

export PATH=$PATH:/Users/yourusername/projects/mulberry/mulberry/bin

• Install bundler if it is not already installed (note that you will need to have rubygems installed; it is installed by default on OSX):

  gem install bundler

• From the root directory of the repository, run the following command:

  bundle install

• You're done! You should now be able to run mulberry from any directory.

Setup

Mulberry currently supports the following mobile platforms:

• iOS4 and above on iPhone and iPad
• Android 2.2 and above on Phone only

Mulberry apps have been shown to run on WebOS, although not bug-free.

Mulberry apps do not support Windows Mobile or BlackBerry in any version.

Mulberry development tools are supported on the following platforms:

• OSX Snow Leopard and Lion

Mulberry development is not supported on Linux, but it might work. Please let us know at [email protected] if you can get it working on a particular Linux distro.

We do not currently support running Mulberry on Windows or any other OS; however, some work has been done to get it working on Windows -- additional pull requests welcome!

Installing PhoneGap

Mulberry supports PhoneGap 1.1. Any other version will not work.

Go to the PhoneGap download page and download the 1.1.0 release. Extract it to a convenient directory.

Installing iOS Phonegap Library

In the extracted phonegap directory, go into iOS, and run the installer. The xcode project will call the lib that is installed to your computer.

Installing Droidgap

You do not need to install droidgap as the Android project template included in Mulberry already contains the compiled results.

iOS Development

To build and run apps on iOS Simulator, you must:

• Own an Intel Mac running OSX Snow Leopard or Lion

• Download Xcode 4.1 or greater (preferably 4.2) from the Mac App Store

In order to submit your apps to the Apple iOS App Store, you must sign up with Apple's iOS Developer Program

Android Development

To build and run apps on Android Simulator, you must:

• Install Java JDK 1.6 or above. This should install the java compiler (javac -version should return 1.6.x)

• You may have to install Apache ant (which ant). We develop with ant 1.8.x (ant -version) http://ant.apache.org

• Download Android SDK package for your platform

• On OSX, extract it to /Developer/SDKs/android-sdk-mac_x86/. If you do not place it in this directory, Mulberry should detect the location of it, but this is the preferred location.

• Edit your shell's loading files (.bashrc or .bash\_profile for bash and .zshrc for zsh) and add a line similar to:

  `export PATH=$PATH:/Developer/SDKs/android-sdk-mac_x86/tools:/Developer/SDKs/android-sdk-mac_x86/platform-tools`
  

• Open a new teminal and run the SDK manager:

  `android`
  

• Click "Available packages"

• Expand "Android Repository"

  You should install:

  • "Android SDK Tools" (latest revision)
  • "Android SDK Platform-tools" (latest revision)
  • SDK Platform Android 2.2, 2.3.x, 2.n (up to latest revision)
  • SDK Platform Android 3.x

  Expand "Third party Add-ons", then install:

  • Google APIs 8, 9 (up to latest revision)

  Be careful, as some tools require certain revisions, so if you see "Skipping 'X'; it depends on 'Y'" you'll have to go back and choose X again.

  Keep doing this until you've installed everything.

• You do not need, but may choose, to install the Samples and Documentation. It's pretty useless and just takes up space.

Creating an Android Virtual Device

Run the SDK manager by running android on the command line.

• On the "Virtual Devices" section click the "New..." button

• Name the device

• Select the Google APIs - API Level 8 (to test 2.2) as the target

• Make the SD card size 64 MB

• Click "Create AVD"

Now you can run the device by running emulator @your-device-name -partition-size 128

To rotate the device hit 7 or 9 on your numeric keypad. If you don't have one: CTRL-F12 to rotate to landscape, CTRL-F11 to rotate back.

Installing to your Android Virtual Device

Start the emulator, then type:

  adb install -r /path/to/your.apk

TODOs

See the github issues list https://github.com/Toura/mulberry/issues/

Running the tests

To run the tests, simply run rake from the root of the repository. You can also run individual suites:

rake spec             # run the ruby tests
rake evergreen:run    # run the javascript tests
rake evergreen:serve  # serve the javascript tests for manual testing
rake jshint           # run jshint on the js code and js tests

Installing chromedriver

You will need chromedriver in order to run the JavaScript tests. You can download chromedriver if you do not already have it installed; make sure you install it somewhere in your $PATH.

OSX users with Homebrew installed can just brew install chromedriver.