Check your Cordova plugins if you get :capacitor-cordova-android-plugins:processDebugManifest error after upgrading to Capacitor4 Problem After upgrading to Capacitor 4 everything worked fine when buidling using ionic cap sync (I am using Ionic Framework) and worked fine in Xcode and iOS. However, when building in Android Studio I got this error: :capacitor-cordova-android-plugins:processDebugManifestManifest merger failed with multiple… Continue reading Capacitor 4 upgrade gives processDebugManifest Android Build error
Category: App Development
Get Capacitor iOS to log to console.app
Solution on how to get Capacitor to log to the iOS Device log / Native log that can be read from console.app. This is a must if you need to debug an approved and published App Store production app. Problem with Capacitor logging Capacitor only logs to the Xcode console (or Safari console) but not… Continue reading Get Capacitor iOS to log to console.app
Auto-increment build number in Xcode 11 / Xcode 12
Xcode 11 moved version handling to the .pbxproj file, in addition to Info.plist, which broke my script to automatically increase build number on each build. Solution for Xcode 11/12 is shown below. Background – pre Xcode 11 / Xcode 12 Before Xcode 11 the “normal” way to auto increment build number was to read current… Continue reading Auto-increment build number in Xcode 11 / Xcode 12
How to use iOS device settings for language in Ionic 5 / Cordova
How do set language for context menus (select all, cut, copy, paste…), file upload, camera dialogues and other iOS or plugin functionality that is outside of your core project? The answer is CFBundleDevelopmentRegion set in info.plist It seems CFBundleDevelopmentRegion is always set to en_US by default (or maybe this is because I build on a… Continue reading How to use iOS device settings for language in Ionic 5 / Cordova
Instruction for Apple App Store upload (from an App Developer to Client)
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.… Continue reading Instruction for Apple App Store upload (from an App Developer to Client)
Tutorial: Sign in with Apple (SIWA) and Ionic, Cordova, AngularFire, Firebase
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… Continue reading Tutorial: Sign in with Apple (SIWA) and Ionic, Cordova, AngularFire, Firebase
Ionic Cordova Error – ENOENT: no such file or directory
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… Continue reading Ionic Cordova Error – ENOENT: no such file or directory