Below are some of the issues you may experience when trying to develop Apache Cordova mobile apps with HTML, CSS & JS for Android, iOS and Windows using Microsoft Visual Studio 2017.
This topic includes some of the common Cordova CLI build errors that I’ve found, with the recommended solutions or the ones that worked for me.
Methods to auto-close an opened InAppBrowser window in Cordova, based on an action performed inside the browser window itself. These methods involve using an event listener for either the loadstart or message events. You can also use this message event to communicate directly from the IAB to the Cordova WebView, to perform other actions.
How to compile your Cordova app for iOS from Visual Studio 2017 / 2015, and why you should avoid using Visual Studio’s remote build agent for this. There’s a more reliable way to manage your Android app in Visual Studio and then export it to your iOS platform version and Xcode.
This article provides some of the possible solutions to the issue where some or all of your Windows Store apps refuse to load, or simply hang at the splash screen. Applies to desktop apps in both Windows 10 and Windows 8.1.
If you are experiencing a noticeably high battery loss while your MacBook Pro / Air enters sleep mode, try one of these methods to fix the problem. Ideally, your Mac should lose something between 0 to 1% of battery while sleeping overnight without the charger.
Whenever you connect an Android device, it might not be recognized properly by Windows. One of the causes of this problem is the usage of the broken or incompatible Microsoft-provided MTP Device driver. This article shows how to permanently delete the non working driver from your system.
How to renew the PFX certificate for your Windows 10 / 8.1 app created with Tools for Apache Cordova in Visual Studio 2017 / 2015. The certificate is valid for just one year, so it must be renewed to rebuild the app.
Brief guide that explains how to fix mouse wheel in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 under Windows 8.1 x64 or Windows 10/11, which does not include mouse wheel support by default due to the IDE’s age.
How to connect your Sony, Aiwa, Sharp or any other NetMD minidisc player or recorder via USB to transfer music files in Windows 10/11, using original drivers and latest SonicStage version.
OpenTTD Manager is a freeware program that allows the user to check for OpenTTD version updates and change versions fast and easily. OpenTTD is an open-source recreation of the simulation game Transport Tycoon Deluxe that greatly improves many aspects of the original game.
GRF Wizard is a freeware program that serves as a GUI for the command-line tool GRFCodec, which is used to encode and decode GRF graphic files from the game Transport Tycoon Deluxe, TTDPatch and OpenTTD.
TTDX Configurator is a freeware program that allows the user to configure and update TTDPatch, a patch that provides gameplay enhancements and numerous bugfixes to Transport Tycoon Deluxe by patching its original binary.
Follow this guide to solve problems accessing shared folders from your Windows 98 environments (either real or virtualized with VirtualBox, 86box, etc) to shared folders in Windows XP/7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10/11, etc.
DivXLand Bitrate Calculator is a freeware tool that allows the user to calculate the audio and video bit-rates for encoding DivX and XviD movies with a specific target file size, optimizing target video quality and reducing the wasted free space CDs and DVDs.
DivXLand Subtitler was a free program for creating, editing and correcting external subtitle files. As of December 06 2004, DivXLand Subtitler has been superseded by DivXLand Media Subtitler, which remains free, and features an improved interface and much more capabilities than the original Subtitler program.
PlayCD is a simple and compact audio CD player for Windows, with CD-Text and FreeDB info retrieval, and features a modern and realistic user interface. This software was first released in the site DivXLand.org, developed by Andrés as well.
NFO Editor is a freeware program for editing the NFO files that serve as a base for GRF graphic files for the game Transport Tycoon Deluxe, TTDPatch and OpenTTD.
After decoding a GRF graphics file with GRF Wizard and the GRFCodec, you’ll have an NFO (plain text) file, and one or more PCX or PNG image files. By editing the NFO file, you can alter the size and position from indivial game sprites (graphics). This is an almost impossible process to do by hand, while NFO Editor makes this a quick and effortless task.
TTDXC Pro is a freeware program that allows the user to configure and update TTDPatch, a patch that provides gameplay enhancements and numerous bugfixes to Transport Tycoon Deluxe by patching its original binary.
Shortly after the release of the popular racing game Midtown Madness 2, developed by Microsoft, Andrés created a few additional vehicles for the game using the 3D modelling application Zmodeler, developed by Oleg Melashenko.
GTA ShoutCast Radio is a tool that allows the user to replace the MP3 radio from the video games GTA III and GTA Vice City with a real Internet radio station.
The program will create two buffered MP3 files from any ShoutCast Radio stream and place them in the game’s MP3 folder. These files will be played when the player selects the MP3 radio when inside a vehicle.
GTA Editor is a program that makes the installation of new vehicles for the video games GTA III and GTA Vice City a very easy task. The program allows manual edition of values from the default.ide and handling.cfg setting files, as well as easy importing of entire settings for certain vehicle.
JoeBot Configurator is a simple VB6 programmed utility for managing the JoeBot addon settings for the FPS game Counter-Strike.
PODbot Starter is a simple VB6 programmed utility for managing the PODbot addon settings for the FPS game Counter-Strike.
This is another 3D modelling work by Andrés using Zmodeler. This is a conversion from the original Marcopolo Viale bus for MM2. This vehicle is designed to replace the default bus from the video games Grand Theft Auto III and GTA: Vice City, developed by Rockstar North.
TTD Urban Renewal was a site hosting GRF graphic enhancements created by Andrés for the simulation game Transport Tycoon Deluxe. Since no more GRF files have been released there for a few years, that site was shutdown, but here you can find and download all those graphics and apply them to your TTDPatch or OpenTTD game.
Some of these GRF files are available for direct download from OpenTTD’s Online Content.
