sureshvarman / socket-io-cordova

Simple Socket IO+cordova program for web and mobile

Socket-IO-Cordova

Simple Socket IO+cordova program for web and mobile

Nodejs

Nodejs is a server side javascript platform on Chrome's JavaScript runtime. 

Advantages	
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Event-Driven
Non-blocking I/O
Light Weight Because of Javascript

For further Details and installation Guide visit : http://nodejs.org/

Cordova

Apache Cordova is a platform for building mobile applications without the knowledge of native code.

Advantages	
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Multi-platform Mobile application Development with HTML5, Javascript, CSS.
apache cordova engine takes care of native code.
Easy for web developers to create a mobile application without native code knowledge

For Further Details visit : http://cordova.apache.org/

Installing Cordova in Nodejs and creating project visit : http://docs.phonegap.com/en/3.5.0/guide_cli_index.md.html#The%20Command-Line%20Interface

Simple Socket IO+cordova program for web and mobile

Install 'Socket.io' module and 'express' module using npm as

C:\>npm install socket.io
C:\>npm install express

Create New Project in cordova using command line

C:\> cordova create chat com.chat.app Chat

The above command create a simple cordova project with folder structures as follows Chat | |--->hooks |--->platforms |--->plugins |--->www |--->config | The WWW is the root folder where we are going to spend our development Time

copy the directory www from repository and replace that with your www folder

NOTE : For who are not familiar with nodejs you have to copy your node modules socket.io and express to WWW/js/node_modules
		and who have to start your nodeserver using following command
		C:\chat\www\js>node nodeserver.js
		
nodeclient.js
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Change your IP address as follow in nodeclient.js file
var socket = io.connect( 'http://IPAddress:1034' );
This IPAddress shouldn't be localhost give your Valid IP address if you are using mobile broadband 
check your public ip using http://whatismyip.com/ and pass that IP

socket-io-cordova's Issues

Uncaught ReferenceError: io is not defined at nodeClient.js:2

cordova with browser socketio is working fine. but when i use the emulator i got this errors
socket.io.js Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND
nodeClient.js:2 Uncaught ReferenceError: io is not defined
at nodeClient.js:2

in emulator how the socket.io js is taken ?