As we know, an Kendo-UI Mobile application has some major parts:
HTML files
JavaScript files
CSS files
resource files (images)
My main question is: Is there is a way to update HTML, CSS, JS and other resources? I mean doing this without native OS update procedure.
Could I access KendoUI Mobile storage, where these resources (index.html, etc.) are stored?
If the user accesses your application as a web page, then these files are updated automatically. Then the goal is to cache them on the local device so that every time the user accesses them, they are not re-downloaded.
If you want your html + javascript to act like a downloadable app, then Telerik recommends using Phonegap (aka Cordova) to wrap your html into a downloadable app. One of the big advantages of Cordova is that it gives your javascript access to the device's features (such as GPS, camera, contacts, and local storage). Telerik has a dev environment that (Icenium) which makes this extra simple. Once the user has downloaded your app, the standard mobile practice for updating the app to a new version takes place (ex: the user sees version upgrade badge and chooses which apps will be updated). For details as to why an app can't simply update all it's files invisibly, kxb as a great post.
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I am writing a WPF app that will be like a wireframe tool that generates and edits .razor pages for a Blazor Serverside Website.
The issue I run into is that whenever my WPF desktop app writes directly to a component page file (.razor), or creates a new page it requires the Blazor App to be stopped and restarted to view the newly created content.
Is there a way to change a source .razor file where I don't have to restart the Blazor App to see the changes?
There is a way to do it at development time.
Use 'dotnet watch' on the Blazor server-side project while you are editing it with your wireframe tool. Make sure to read over the .NET Hot Reload support article and the related Support Code Changes document so that you know what to expect.
Personally, I have found 'dotnet watch' to be somewhat finicky for certain projects and certain dev workflows, but it can feel like magic when its working.
If you are looking for a way to dynamically modify a deployed application, then 'dotnet watch' wouldn't be appropriate. I am unaware of a safe way to dynamically recompile and integrate .razor files in a deployed (production) web application.
There does appear to be a way to turn on dynamic recompilation of .cshtml Razor files. I'm not sure if that will affect .razor Blazor files or not, but you could give it a try.
How to convert angular website to android app? Is there any tool available to convert?
My website contains data,which is fetched through API calls only.
You may want to take a look at phonegap build from Adobe.
I have used the service before which allows you to upload your web application source and then with some extra config files, launch and splash screen icons and images you can bundle your code up to native apps ready for distribution in app stores.
So no need for knowing any iOS or Android SDK tools, plus it means you can be pretty confident your application will look the same cross platform/device
Im looking for some guidance on a responsive site design written using Bootstrap 3.
Basically I want the mobile version to be as lightweight as possible and only load JS and HTML that is necessary for the mobile view, and not load assets required for the desktop view. I would like to ignore loading specific JS files when the page is loaded via a mobile device.
Is there a simple method to do this with Bootstrap?
My guess is that I need a Javscript function to detect the device and use that as a trigger, however I was wondering if Bootstrap had this capability that I could use?
Appreciate any thoughts.
It seems there is already answer to detect mobile browser with javascript. Detecting a mobile browser
Otherwise you can detect the mobile device by using http_user_agent to decide not to load assets when the page is loading.
Here is already answer to detect mobile device with php.
Check if PHP-page is accessed from an iOS device
You can perhaps do it by user agent. There is an answer here that might help
Load a javascript file and css file depending on user agent
I have a mobile website made in jQuery Mobile and I would like to integrate some parts of it in a Phone Gap mobile app.
The app will provide some offline features (using local html and JS) and will integrate with the mobile website sending forms and receiving its pages (that are already in jQuery Mobile).
What do you think is the best strategy to do this? Should I write services or should I keep the ongoing html pages?
After seeing your comment above, Yes You can wrap it with phonegap and launch in app store. Then consider this, you can create services to return JSON(only for dynamic data) and load all your HTML templates on to the app (wrap with phonegap).
So static data/contents gets loaded from within the app and the dynamic content comes from server. Now enable offline caching for the dynamic contents which you want to enable for offline access.
TO enable offline access, you can either use webkit local storage(5Mb~50Mb) or a native phonegap plugin for more storage.
Hope this helps.
My company has a enrollment website that is currently in DotNetNuke. I've been directed to "strip out nuke from the site" but from everything I've read it is the opposite that the site is in dnn not the other way around.
Has anyone had to migrate a site from dnn and if so can you point me towards some resources or give some insite to get me started?
The site is dnn 5.04
If you want to strip things down to absolute bare bones (HTML, images, JavaScript), you could use a tool that basically copies down an entire website to your local machine, such as HTTrack.
Download the app, give it your DNN website's URL, and it'll spider the entire website, download each page individually, along with any of its images and scripts. You'll be (theoretically) left with a full website containing all your content pages, which you can edit in a plain text editor.
All the user management, role management, content management, admin only areas, protected content, etc. will not carry over with this method, but that will be the case regardless if you're moving from DNN to a normal static HTML website.
An "enrollment website" sounds more like an application than a static HTML site and if that's the case then just grabbing the rendered HTML isn't going to be the best option as you wouldn't get any of the functionality. My approach would be to first find out why they want it pulled out of DotNetNuke. Perhaps it was poorly implemented and they are blaming DNN when the problem was actually how it was built. DNN may be a good solution and it might be best to convince them to leave it as DNN but improve the implementation.
If you do need to pull an application out of DNN and the enrollment piece was built as a custom module, it should be fairly easy to convert the ascx files of the custom module to normal .net User Controls.
If the Enrollment application was built using a Forms Module of some form, then you will likely need to rebuild it from scratch.