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Mobile iOS, Android App with VueJS in 5 minutes ! Really ! #EN

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Hi beginners or not !
Today i will show you how to make an awesome mobile app from scratch with VueJS and Capacitor, directly compatible with iOS and Android mobile device.

The first question is

How it’s work ?

Did you know CapacitorJS ?

CapacitorJS is full package to set Node app compatible with iOS and Android,

The first step is the requirement:

  • Android Studio with the latest SDK
  • XCode latest version

and now you can start.

Create a basic VueJS app with @vue/cli packages 

vue create app
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set the configuration as you want, not very important at this step.

ok then,

install CapacitorJS on your project 

npm install @capacitor/core @capacitor/cli
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now you can type this command:

npx cap init
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respond to the questions,

so now very important step,
inside the capacitor.config.json file, change

webDir: "www"
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to

webDir: "dist"
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ok you can build your project

npm run build
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and now, it's ready to do the best thing :

Android 

npx cap add android
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iOS 

sudo gem install cocoapods
npx cap add ios
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and now do the magic thing:

npx cap copy
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wow !

Now you can open XCode or Android Studio with this command :

// Android Studio
npx cap open android
// XCode
npx cap open ios
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Android Studio
Build Android App

XCode
Build iOS App

Very awesome no ?

Note

For iOs you need to install xcode dependency, follow XCode install instruction to perform this.

and for lazy people
https://gitlab.com/Simerca/vuejs-mobileapp-exemple

Références

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Ezhaym N •

Thanks!

I made an app using this tutorial to create and publish the apk.
I'd like to make a small contribution.

The app store rejected my app after 2 days online, because Capacitor doesn't have "close app" behavior on hardware back button.

/** Adding hardware back button behavior */
import { Plugins } from '@capacitor/core'
const { App } = Plugins

App.addListener("backButton", () => {
    App.exitApp()
})
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If you want to make a Capacitor app, remember this!

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Ayrton •

Does the tutorial is simple to follow .?
Thanks for your contributing !

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Shubham Siddharth •

Hello, how to add push notification in this ? if any one could help?

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Ayrton •

Hi ! No simple direct way to full implement this ! I can work on another tutorial. 👌

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Ayrton • • Edited

Don't forget to discuss with me ! 🙃
And sorry for my English !
Kiss from France

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