I'm trying to access the browser history of the user and display it from my app. From what I've read, Android used to support using Browser.BOOKMARKS to do this, but it got removed in Android 23 and up. I've looked through Chrome's API and other StackOverflow posts but I can't find a way to access the history. Is there any possible way to do this on SDK >= 23? Does Chrome perhaps provide a way to access this information in Android? Even indirect methods like logging keypresses in Chrome, or somehow accessing the text displayed on the user's screen is fine.
I am developing an app for our company; because of legacy reasons when the user logs in we use a
third party JSESSIONID cookie.
Issue
What I am seeing is that the cookie when sent to the client is not saved, and therefore not sent on subsequent requests to the server. As such, the server does not think the user is logged in.
Normally I would attribute this to the blocking of 3rd party cookies feature of WebKit/View, but I have turned this off in the Safari settings.
As an FYI we have an Ionic/Cordova project that is based on the same code and it works fine in iOS.
If I use the Add-in on MacOS (Native Outlook and Outlook Web) it works fine.
Works fine in Chrome/Firefox as well.
Works in Android on Outlook for Android app
Our server sets all the correct CORS headers as well.
Since the add-in is just a webapp, I can launch it directly in Safari on iOS, and login there; this also works.
I am aware that Apple regressed WebKit in version 12 (CORS related), but they fixed it in the latest version of iOS 13/MacOS. However, Outlook for iOS (WebView) does not appear to be saving cookies. I can see that looking at the requests coming to the server, they are missing the SessionID which was sent to the client.
I can also see it from the requests when I run through a proxy (Charles) that the Cookie header is not set.
It is also almost impossible to debug the WebView in Outlook for iOS (the webview does not show up in the Safari Developer menu on my Mac). I am easily able to debug other WebViews such as the mobile project mentioned above.
Question
Is the Webview configured to prevent 3rd party cookies explicitly? if yes, can it be turned off somehow? I have turned off the 3rd party tracking in Safari, but that does not appear to help.
I have been reluctant to use the DialogJS API since the login flow is working on my Mac; and this would considerable change our UX for login. Also, I have not seen any examples of using this API for a mobile project. Can it be used with a mobile project, and if so what would it look like?
All the examples relate to the desktop only.
I am trying to build a simple web application, which capture users photo and sent it my custom server there by connected to some other business use-case. My web page uses HTML's file input control to launch native camera or gallery pick up option.
var input = document.createElement('input');
input.setAttribute('accept', 'image/*');
input.setAttribute('capture', 'camera');
input.setAttribute('type', 'file');
input.click();
This web app, I placed in local webserver with a name "PhotoLocker" and testing with url like
https://localhost(ipaddress to access via mobile browser)/PhotoLocker/index.html
This link is working fine both on desktop and mobile chrome browsers and am able to debug any issues. Where as same link, I try to access from WeChat browser (just opening above link from chat window), it is not at all opening my application in WeChat in app browser.
After googling, I found that https URL scheme is not supported by WeChat. is it True? When I paste the same app url as weixin://ipaddress/PhotoLocker/index.html, I am able to see my web app home page but it is not working as expected.
My Question is - how to debug my webpage opened in WeChat browser? Do I need a official WeChat Dev account even to develop and test sample apps?
Additional Info :
I am able to debug webpage from WeChat web devloper tool as mentioned in below link. But, unable to debug mobile wechat page in this tool. It is always opening chrome dev tools.
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/wiki?action=doc&id=mp1455784140&t=0.06697335132505233#1
I am a frontend developer in China, Chinese. Forgive my English for any mistake, misunderstanding I could make. Some links (dev docs mostly) below contain sites complete in Chinese, because I can not find corresponding English ones for now.
how to debug my webpage opened in WeChat browser?
Tencent provide an IDE for developing regular web interface and WeChat-mini-program, with which developer can directly interact with:
JSSDK (basically a special weixin
Object lives only in in-WeChat-browser);
API provided in WeChat-mini-program.
If you download that IDE:
First it will ask you is to use you WeChat to scan the QRCode, then confirm login with your WeChat account;
Next it will show up two square button (image below), left one is for WeChat-mini-program, the right one is for you to testing regular web page.
Click the right blue one, then you can find your way out, it's just something built top on project Blink.
As you can see the part of debugging regular webpage in WeChat IDE is no more than a simulator (in the WeChat-mini-program part, developer can write code directly in it), and in my experience it does have bugs, you will still need to test code in real machine.
For that Tencent provide another tool called vConsole, tutorials here, with it you can do following things directly in in-WeChat-browsers:
View console logs;
View network requests;
View document elements;
View Cookies and localStorages;
Execute JS command manually
and so on
Do I need a official WeChat Dev account even to develop and test sample apps?
Depends.
You may know the Official Account inside WeChat, with webpages directly opened in any context inside in-WeChat-browser, it will have the ability to interact the weixin Object, or have some API like login with WeChat, pay with WeChat Pay:
API like close current in-WeChat-browser, hide-share-button will not required anything special, you don't need to register any Official Account;
But if you want yo do the Pay, Login thing, you need an Official Account and pay for the ability every year (not sure about this outside China).
The localhost problem you faced
I don't have my working machine with me now so I can not test. Regularly I can proxy localhost with Charles then debugging in WeChat, but never do the https, I will try it later.
All the information got regarding how to debug webpage opened in wechat browser redirects to how to see log or ajax/netwrok calls analysis.
Even with WeChat web devloper tool as mentioned in below link, I am unable to debug mobile wechat page in this tool. It is always opening chrome dev tools.
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/wiki?action=doc&id=mp1455784140&t=0.06697335132505233#1.
Hence further analyzed remote mobile webpage debugging and found that there is no way to put break points, watch, expressions and all just like in chrome dev tools is not possible.
As a work around - you are able to debug code, when you simulate page in dev tools but no way to debug webpage in mobile device.
Same webpage when tried to do remote debugging as per WeChat web devloper tool documentation. here we can only see console logs and network calls.
I tried to port my succesefuly worked my kendo-based site as chrome app. But app does not works. I found on chrome developer console exception message "extensions::platformApp:17 history.pushState is not available in packaged apps." on
<script src="kendo/js/kendo.mobile.min.js"></script> string
I found the same problem on angular with a solution, but did not found for the Kendo.
Any way to resolve it?
By default Kendo UI (and Mobile) doesn't use the History API, due to its rather limited support in the past. If you explicitly enabled it, you can delete this option, though you will probably have to update your navigation throughout the apps:
http://docs.telerik.com/kendo-ui/api/javascript/mobile/application#configuration-pushState
I have created my first Chrome extension/app and found out that lightboxes do not function inside the app. I created the app from the Google example kiosk app. I'm only using webview in the app and have no other customizations. It just points to a link.
I want to use the app as an auto-launch Kiosk app on a Chromebox. Via this website I found that 'alert' and 'confirm' are a disabled web feature on chrome web apps.
I am wondering if it is possible to enable alert and confirm in the Chrome app so that lightboxes will work when interacting with a website.
Thanks in advance.
Yes you can definitely call alert box inside a chrome extension, just like you would in a normal javasript file as stated in this thread.
chrome.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(
alert("Im an alert box triggered by Chrome Extension")
);
The link you provided suggests that you can create a custom popup/lightbox as a workaround. There's a complete tutorial here.
Happy coding! :)