This is my blog on technology related things and maybe some other stuff too…
This is a blog post I wrote at my company web site MobilApp.nu (mobile app development)
It is aimed for our customers, who are mainly non-developers, on the steps for first time setup Apple Developer and App Store Connect for us to be able to sign and upload apps that we have developed for them. But it should be usable for any non-developer or developer in that same situation.
https://www.mobilapp.nu/2020/02/12/tutorial-add-your-app-to-apple-app-store-preparations-for-non-developers/
Since a few months back Apple does not approve apps that have only social media login (ie not good old fashioned username and password) unless it also has “Sign in with Apple” (SIWA)
All this is probably too new for it to be any good tutorials or examples available, at least I could not find any and I spent quite some time looking. I also spent quite a few hours getting it to work, but here it is:
I used the plugin cordova-plugin-apple-login (version 1.0.0) so go ahead and install it using:
npm i cordova-plugin-apple-login
ionic cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-apple-login
Note that there is no Ionic Native wrapper for the plugin, so you have to declare it instead of importing it on your page:
declare var SignInWithApple: any;
This is the login function:
loginWithApple() {
SignInWithApple.request({requestedScopes: [ SignInWithApple.Scope.Email, SignInWithApple.Scope.FullName ]})
.then((appleCredential) => {
const credential = new firebase.auth.OAuthProvider('apple.com').credential(appleCredential.identityToken);
this.afAuth.auth.signInWithCredential(credential)
.then((response) => {
console.log('Login successful');
})
.catch((error) => {
console.log(error);
alert('error:' + JSON.stringify(error));
});
});
}
This was done using Ionic 4 / Angular, AngularFire2 5.30 and the cordova-plugin-apple-login 1.0.0
You also have to do some configurations…
-> Xcode: Add capability for Sign in with Apple
-> Apple Developer: Add Services id
-> Firebase console: Add Sign-in method for Apple, leave all fields blank if you only use on iOS
If you want to support Android and or Web / PWA, you will need to do some more configuring.
Please comment if it did, or if you had a problem with it. Also if you got it working (or not) using other versions of plugins, frameworks etc or if you found a better solution – it will help others!
P.s. I also posted this solution to Stack Overflow (my first anwer there, yay!)
When trying to build (“ionic cordova build ios”) my Ionic Cordova project, I got this error: “Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory“.
Took me awhile to figure out since I had just copied the project from an older project, made a few changes etc. Turns out the cause was that I had used a slash (“/”) in the app name in config.xml, changing the name fixed the issue.
[code]Copying iOS template project to /xxx/platforms/ios
shell.js: internal error
Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, rename ‘/xxx/platforms/ios/__TEMP__.xcodeproj’ -> ‘/xxx/platforms/ios/project/name.xcodeproj’
at Object.renameSync (fs.js:594:3)
at /xxx/node_modules/cordova-ios/node_modules/shelljs/src/mv.js:77:8
at Array.forEach (<anonymous>)
at Object._mv (/xxx/node_modules/cordova-ios/node_modules/shelljs/src/mv.js:53:11)
at Object.mv (/xxx/node_modules/cordova-ios/node_modules/shelljs/src/common.js:186:23)
at copyTemplateFiles (/xxx/node_modules/cordova-ios/bin/lib/create.js:124:11)
at Object.exports.createProject (/xxx/node_modules/cordova-ios/bin/lib/create.js:228:5)
at Api.createPlatform (/xxx/node_modules/cordova-ios/bin/templates/scripts/cordova/Api.js:122:14)
at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/cordova-lib/src/cordova/platform/addHelper.js:188:28
at _fulfilled (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/q/q.js:854:54
[ERROR] An error occurred while running subprocess cordova.
cordova platform add ios –verbose –save exited with exit code 1.
Re-running this command with the –verbose flag may provide more information. [/code]
When cloning a Bitbucket repository from Xcode (using current version 9.2) I get Authentication failed.
Solution is to insert Password into URL.
Steps:
I recently had the problem where a person sent me a zipped file from his gmail account to my email account at Microsoft online/Office365. The email never reached me and the sender never received any NDR (Non Delivery Report). So I thought he hadn’t sent me anything while he was sure I had received it. Luckily in this case, I was expecting an email from him so I got in touch and we could start troubleshooting. How many other emails like this I have not received since I started using Microsoft online years ago, I will never know.
After some troubleshooting including going into Office 365 Admin – Exchange Admin Center – Mail Flow -Message Trace I found the messages and could see that the zip file had incorrectly been deemed as malware. Messages were marked as deleted and not delivered. I opened a support ticket with Microsoft and found out that the default setting in Microsoft online is to just delete emails with suspected malware without notifying anyone about it.
In my opinion this is not the smartest default setting but fortunately you can change it:
I hope this helps someone else out!
I made a PHP script to export a SQL query (from MySql) to a CSV file for opening in Excel. I cannot control how different users have their Excel setup, ie what separator delimiter they have set (this differs with language settings or user may have changed setting)
So the field separator delimiter gave me some problems, ie Excel would not automatically open file columns correctly but put each row in a single cell, unless you use Import data to make it work.
Some forums suggested setting the separator delimiter in the csv file (delimiter is third argument for fputcsv) to tab (\t) but that did not help.
Then I stumbled upon the possibility to add a parameter as a header to the actual csv file, simply add sep=<delimiter> to the beginning of your csv file and Excel will parse it. So for separator delimiter use comma (,), pipe (|), tab (\t) or whatever you set in your php code.
However I found a few caveats:
Example to use tab as separator:
[code]fwrite($fp, "\"sep=\t\"\n");[/code]
I could not find much info on the subject of csv headers but this is the full thread that lead me on the to it (thanks Burhan Ali)
Tested with Excel 2016 on Windows 10 and Excel for Mac (15.25) on OSX El Capitan (10.11.15).
I have not tested on other spreadsheets software like OpenOffice, LibreOffice etc, so please share in the comments if you have any success with this.
I have some USB Flash Memory drives that I had used on a non-Windows system (ie a TV) so it is using another file system than Windows’ NTFS, FAT or FAT32. When I insert them into my Windows 10 laptop they are connected, ie they are found by Windows and show up under “Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media” and in the Device Manager. But they are not assigned a drive letter and do not show up as a drive in the File Explorer (aka My Computer in earlier Windows versions) or command prompt.
At first, I just thought that the USB Memory stick was not working but after having the same problem with several USB Memories I realized it probably had something to do with the format on them. I tried to download the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool, but the USB drive did not show up there either.
So how can I reformat the USB memory stick if it does not show up in the Windows File Explorer?
I found a solution that works for me from Mosely5165.
WARNING: Make sure you know what you’re doing before trying this. If you select the wrong disk you may loose your data or entire system.
1. Open a Windows Command Prompt as Administrator
[code]cmd.exe[/code]
2. Run Diskpart
[code]diskpart.exe[/code]
This should launch Diskpart and give you the DISKPART> prompt.
3. List available disks
[code]list disk[/code]
4. From the list of disks select the one that is your USB drive, make sure to identify the right one.
WARNING: If you select the wrong disk you may loose your data or entire system
[code]select disk x[/code]
5. Create a primary partition
[code]create partition primary[/code]
If this gives you an error saying there is not enough space, give the Clean command, then try to create the partition again.
[code]clean
create partition primary[/code]
6. Give the following commands.
[code]
select partition 1
active
format fs=ntfs quick
assign
exit
[/code]
Full thread can be found at Tom’s Hardware here.
I have ran into this a few times so I thougt I’d write down the solution as I seem to keep forgetting it. There are probably tons of other problems you can have with iPhone Personal Hotspot and Windows Wifi but this is the solution to one I keep running into.
I turn on the Personal Hotspot on my iPhone and it shows up fine as an available Wifi network in Windows only the Wifi name looks a little off in Windows compared to the iPhone. My iPhone name is “Max’s iPhone” but in Windows the apostrophe looks “scrambled” and is replaced by two “trash” characters, something like this: “Max¿Ǝ iPhone”.
When I try to connect my Windows laptop over Wifi it just keeps trying to connect – showing message “Checking network requirements” – before I finally get “Can’t connect to this network“. On the iPhone I get the blue Personal Hotspot field on top of the screen flashing on and off while Windows tries to connect.
Solution is to change the name of your iPhone to remove or replace the apostrophe.
To change name of your iPhone in iOS: Settings – General – About – Name
I just fixed this and unfortunately cannot recreate or remember exact what the scrambled or trash characters in my iPhone name looked like but I think one of the characters was an upside down letter E and/or question mark. So it looks something like this “Max¿Ǝ iPhone”.
So this seems to be what messes things up for Windows.
For me it has worked both to remove the apostrophe or replace it, ie delete it and then type it again. The name will look the same in your iPhone but after this it will also look ok in Windows Wifi selection and Windows should be able to connect to your iPhone Personal Hotspot without any problem.
It seems this problem keeps reoccuring for me. I do not use Personal Hotspot that often so I’m not sure when or why this reoccurence happens but my best guess is that an iOS upgrade or switching to a new device and installing from backup may be the cause.
Currently running iOS 9.0.2 on an iPhone 6 and Windows 10 but I have had this problem in previous versions of both iOS and Windows.
Please let me and others know by commenting, provide what version of Windows and iOS you are using if you know it.
I have noticed a couple of things where Windows 10 does not support international the way I would expect a 2015 operating system to do. I have not found any solutions yet so any more info on these issues would be appreciated.
Compressed (zipped) folder
I tried to zip a folder in Windows 10 by right clicking and then selecting Send to – Compressed (zipped) folder but got this error:
[code]xxx cannot be compressed because it includes characters that cannot be used in a compressed folder, such as ". You should rename this file or directory. [/code]
The folder contains files with Swedish characters åäö in it. I cannot remember having any problems with this in Windows 7?
Calculator
The calculator (calc.exe) only accepts the period sign (.) as decimal delimiter. In Sweden we have comma (,) as decimal delimiter and this has always worked in all Windows programs for as long as I can remember. Of course any properly written Windows app would know to take such settings from Windows regional settings but apparently the decimal separator is hardcoded in the Windows 10 version of the calculator.
This is an easy way to add a prefix to any set of files in a Windows folder, from a command prompt type this
[code]for %a in (*.*) do ren "%a" "prefix – %a"[/code]
Tried in Windows 10. Thanks to ofer.sheffer in this Stackoverflow post where there is also an example on how to do this in PowerShell.