Great module!

How would I go about implementing an image/filefield within the android application? I have the built in title and body working fine but I would like to add custom text fields, select boxes, and images. Of course i can easily add these fields within Drupal but I am unsure about adding them to the phone gap project.

It would be nice to see a short tutorial or list of steps in loading the files found at http://code.google.com/p/drupal-phonegap/downloads/list into a phonegap project. Do i need to deal with the other plugins found in your repository?

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ngreenup commented

I have been able to successfully recompile your phonegap code in order to make my own android apk. I am still wondering about adding additional fields, tags, images to the form in the android app and have them saved on the drupal site.

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ngreenup commented

I have added an additional text field to the content type and the android application and have it working great.

Still can't figure out how to handle an image upload. Currently I am able to get the android app to open the camera, take the photo, save it locally, and display it in the app. I am having trouble getting the image to transfer between the app and the drupal module/content-type.

Any working examples of a file/image field?

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CarbonPig commented

Same question here. Any ideas or success stories?

Thanks!

CP

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sgp913 commented

I'd like to share my experience with this and maybe bump it along a little bit.

For my case, it involves user profiles, so I had to alter the bottom of the system_resources.inc file in services to push out $user_fields instead of $user, that way all the field api fields would show up. This works great as they now show up in the json and I can call them as I like. Problem is getting updates to that field.

For example, I have a field called 'field_name' which is displayed by calling 'field_name.und[0].safe_value'. I copy pasted the other edit profile code for username and have tried every single variation of 'field_name', 'field_name.und', etc. to no avail. I really have no idea which value would change it. Nothing gets changed in the DB and the app erases out the data and is 'undefined' which crashes it.

I think the main issue here is not the files and images support, as of this moment. It is updating these field api fields. I would also like to upload images, but I think we should try to tackle simple text fields first to make sure they work properly and make everyone aware of a standardized way to do it, then move on to the more complex fields.

ngreenup, could you share what you did to accomplish adding the custom field to the node?

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sgp913 commented

Update: field_whatever[und][0][value] works, however, getting it to that point requires a lot of busy work in Drupalgap because of the verification process, assigning variables, etc. I just copy pasted the 'name' field in every location and changed it to this field.

Now, to move onto the image and audio fields...however the iOS emulator doesn't have a camera. It should just use the iSight camera but that's a different issue.

Another thing I would like to bring up is the reason why it PUT instead of POST. I don't know too much about this but it seems that PUT is only for updating variables instead of creating them? Is there a difference within Drupal or do they function the same because field API handles it?

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rickharington commented

Very interested in seeing file and image support. Trying to build a music app similar to iTunes and would love for visitors to download and upload music files from the App.

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Alex Andrascu commented
Assigned: Unassigned » Alex Andrascu
Category: support » feature

This looks like a nice feature. Let's have a look into it.