Creating cross-platform apps with a tab view template - Part 1

If you have not reviewed my previous posts please do so now.

Cross-Platform Project apps that you can choose for designing apps here:
http://hodentekmobile.blogspot.com/2014/08/creating-projects-with-intel-xdk-part-2.html

Step-by-step procedure to create a ListView app here:
http://hodentekmobile.blogspot.com/2014/09/creating-projects-with-intel-xdk.html

There are some slight changes in this version and I recommend you download the latest.
Here in Part 1, I will cover using the tab view template in Intel XDK for cross-platform and
in Part 2, I will cover modifying the template and deploying it to your device.

If you do not have the latest Intel XDK you can get it from here:
http://hodentekmobile.blogspot.com/2014/11/get-latest-intel-xdk-and-jump-start-app.html

Download the above and double click to install.
Launch the Intel XDK application from its shortcut. You may get a warning as shown.


Click Yes - Safe Restart
This happens if you did not exit the application normally the previous time.

The following page is displayed.


Click Open an Intel XDK project.


You will get displayed the Start a New Project window as shown above.

Click Start with a template
Choose tab view and click on Tab View App.




Click on Use this template

This takes you to:
https://github.com/gomobile/template-tab-view


This template, like the List View template,  uses the Intel App Framework which is free and Open Source targeting mobile apps for HTML5 Mobile browsers.

Click Download ZIP. You could also clone as explained in the my previous post, but to keep it simple just click Download ZIP and save it to a location of your choice.

You have downloaded template-tab-view-master (258KB) file. Extract the files from this ZIP.

In the previous screen  click on Use this template.

You may need to login to your account to get started.



You will be taken to create a Project screen to specify folder and project name.



Click Create.

If successful you will see a congratulatory message. Click OK to the message.

In the Your Intel'XDK Projects page click on MyTabView (the name given by you)


Click on Develop tab in the Toolbar at the top.
You will get displayed the index.html page as shown.


The coding for the tab view is at the bottom as in the enxt paragraph:


   

Each tab is associated with a page having its own icon and navigation.

At this point you can run the app right away.

You can just run this app without doing anything else as the right hand side shows the live development tasks. There are tow of them:
  • Run My App
  • Live Layout Editing
Click Run My App
You can run it on your own device (my Windows Phone) or run in an Emulator of your choice. There is quite a bit of choice of the device here.

For now click on Run in Emulator.
Nokia Icon emulator opens in a new window as shown. You can play clicking the tabs (4 of them) and see how the pages are rendered.


This next one is for iPhone.


There are many other choices here.



You want to build a Web App with Intel XDK? Find here.

Read about other Intel XDK templates here.





Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

UWP: Displaying formatted text in a TextBox Control

Image
The entry you make in a text box control is of data type text and sometimes you need to format it as a currency with thousands separator while displaying. Also, if the number of decimal places you enter is more than 2, you need to round it up to 2 in the output. How do you code this in a UWP app? Create a UWP page starting from a Blank UWP project with three controls as shown. There are two text boxes and a button. You enter a number in the top textbox (txt1) and click the button, the formatted currency will be displayed in the bottom textbox(txt2). The app displays as shown. Now provide for a click event for the button and insert code as shown: Convert_1 The string entered in txt1 is converted to data-type double, it is then 'rounded'. The rounded number is then formatted to show the currency symbol and the 1000's place delimiter you find, for example in Excel formatting. Here is the app after entering a number and c
Read more

UWP: XAML's ComboBox Control -Part 1

Image
Microsoft's Universal Windows Framework apps are well supported by Microsoft and you could use it for not only Windows but for other devices as well. You can also use UWP for cross-platform use. In the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) projects there is an advantage of one code that works on different device families (phone, tablet, desktop etc.). However, the UWP projects depend on using XAML.  ComboBox details can be seen in the Object Explorer of Visual Studio 2017 Community used in writing this post. In this post, I will show you how you may work with this controls for a UWP project. Getting the ComboBox Control Placing ComboBox on the Design area Adding ComboBoxItems We start with a Windows Universal blank C# project with the name JComboBox as shown. You will be asked for what target and minimum versions of Windows 10 that you want. The higher the version the more feature support. The Build version 16299 is chosen for both as shown i
Read more

Handling AppManifest Validation error

This error may show up if one chooses an image file that does not comply with the enumeration. Here is the description of the error: Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State Error  Validation error. error C00CE169: App manifest validation error: The app manifest must be valid as per schema: Line 26, Column 25, Reason: '' violates enumeration constraint of 'badge badgeAndTileText'. The attribute 'Notification' with value '' failed to parse. XXXXXX C:\Users\Owner\source\repos\xxxxxx\bin\ARM\Debug\AppxManifest.xml   I chose a resource for Badge in the Assets and Visual Studio spawned this error. The only way to get out of this was to comment out (or better remove) the following line in the AppManifest .xml Make sure you save the file after the removal as every time you Build, the AppManifest.xml gets recreated.
Read more