Hey guys,

Again I am a bit lost in the world of JavaScript, frameworks, databases and co (seems I got stuck in the age of VB.NET, to be honest).

I am working on an Android App based on Quasar. The App mainly deals with articles/news. These articles are stored in Google’s Firebase and retrieved via Vuex. So far, so good, that works fine.

But now I am searching for a solution that is conventient for the authors/editors to write and publish new articles - i.e. a kind of CMS or application allowing for creating new articles and storing the content in Firebase, for instance.

I’ve read something about a solution using Wordpress with a plugin (called Firebase PRO) to store content in Firebase. But this seems not to be my first choice.
Scott suggested to also program the admin panel by myself.

But I really wonder if there is no other ready-to-use solution to admin/edit content that is stored in Firebase? How would you guys adress this issue?

Really appreciate any ideas

Dirk

@dobbel Thank you for your ideas, I will take a closer look whether it would be overkill or a fine solution.

Hey guys,

JSON as a file format/database is widely established e.g. also when using VUEX.
One question: Do anyone know an editor for JSON files that shows data in a way that is readable? So I thought of presenting data in form of a table, for instance, or making it easy editing specific entries?

Background is: I am working on an Android App presenting articles (also via Firebase but also via some locally stores data). But I haven’t found a good tool that enables some authors to edit and write articles in a comfortable way.

Any ideas for me?

Thx a lot
Dirk

Thx guys!

Hey guys,

just read about developing Apps for iOS with Cordova. But one point I am not sure about so far: can I build and release for Apple without having an Apple computer with Xcode running?

@metalsadman Thanks a lot, I looked into this document several times but didn’t see it

When using Cordova the version code can be set in config.xml.
But when I use Quasar, Quasar renders the config.xml.

So how can I change the version code?

And also I am not able to change the <description> in config.xml - it also takes a string I do not even know where I is stored

Thanks a lot
Dirk

I try to store a picture taken by camera to a specific folder on the device. Despite a lot of examples on the web I am not able to get the code working.

I try this on the device - so via “quasar build” and afterwards “cordova run android” and not via dev mode.

Got someone a hint for me what I overlook?

data() {
    return {
      imageSrc: "",
      fileStorageDirectory: ""
    };
  },
methods: {
    takePhoto() {
      navigator.camera.getPicture(
        data => {
          this.moveFile(data);
        },
        () => {
          // on fail
          this.$q.notify("Could not access device camera.");
        },
        {
          // Options
          quality: 50,
          destinationType: navigator.camera.DestinationType.FILE_URI,
          encodingType: navigator.camera.EncodingType.JPEG,
          MEDIATYPE: navigator.camera.MediaType.PICTURE,
          sourceType: navigator.camera.PictureSourceType.CAMERA,
          mediaType: navigator.camera.MediaType.PICTURE,
          cameraDirection: navigator.camera.Direction.BACK,
          correctOrientation: false,
          allowEdit: false
        }
      );
    },
    moveFile(fileURI) {
      window.resolveLocalFileSystemURL(
        fileURI,
        function(fileEntry) {
          window.resolveLocalFileSystemURL(
            this.fileStorageDirectory, 
            function(dirEntry) {
              fileEntry.moveTo(
                dirEntry,
                fileEntry.name,
                onSuccess(fileEntry, dirEntry),
                onFail
              );
            },
            onFail
          );
        },
        onFail
      );
    }
  },
  mounted() {
    this.fileStorageDirectory =
      cordova.file.applicationStorageDirectory + "files/Documents";
  }

I am developing a simple survey module with Quasar. Definition of the survey is in data() and all answers I like to store in answer_object, for instance:

data() {
    return {
      answer_object: [],
      survey: {
        surveyname: "Survey 1",
        generateNewSurveyID: true,
        questions: {
          q1: {
            type: "open",
            varname: "age",
            text: "How old are you?"
          },
          q2: {
            type: "single",
            varname: "gender",
            text: "Your gender?",
            options: {
              opt: {
                value: 1,
                label: "male"
              },
              opt: {
                value: 2,
                label: "female"
              }
            }
          }
      }
    }
  };
}

I like to store the answers in an associative array and take the “varname” as key:

answer_object['age']

So I tried to use this in the v-model but I can’t figure out how to do this - have tried quite a lot of approaches but I guess something here I do not understand:

Just one approach as illustration that I have tried to demonstate what I wanna do:

<q-card-section v-for="(quest,index) in survey.questions" :key="index">
    <div v-if="quest.type=='open'">
       <q-input v-model="answer_object[quest.varname]" type="text" :label="quest.text" />
    </div>
</q-card-section>

Best
Dirk

Dear Scott,

Thank you so much - guess I could never figure this out by myself!

Best
Dirk