Creating and Opening PDF on Ionic 1 on iOS

Recently I ran into an issue using the PdfMake on Ionic 1 on iOS. It works fine on the browser with a simple download or open command but not on the actual device.

Install the cordova libraries:

cordova.plugins.fileOpener2
cordova-plugin-file

Download the pdfmake javascript files and include them in your index.html

<script src='build/pdfmake.min.js'></script>
<script src='build/vfs_fonts.js'></script>

The code:

  var self = this ; // defined on top of the file

  var docDefinition = { content: 'This is an sample PDF printed with pdfMake' };

            self.pdfObj = pdfMake.createPdf(docDefinition);

            if (window.cordova) {
                self.pdfObj.getBuffer(function (buffer) {
                    var blob = new Blob([buffer], { type: 'application/pdf' });
                    // Save the PDF to the data Directory of our App
                    $cordovaFile.writeFile(cordova.file.dataDirectory, 'myletter.pdf', blob, { replace: true }).then(function () {
                        // Open the PDf with the correct OS tools
                        cordova.plugins.fileOpener2.open(cordova.file.dataDirectory + 'myletter.pdf', 'application/pdf');
                    })
                });
            }

Setup Config.xml

In your config.xml make sure you have the file settings

<preference name="AndroidPersistentFileLocation" value="Compatibility" />
<preference name="iosPersistentFileLocation" value="Library" />

Ionic HTTP posts don’t work on iOS

I ran into this strange problem today where HTTP requests stopped working on iOS alone. Even though I have the latest Ionic CLI, my project was running Ionic 1 still.

To solve this http error I removed this plugin:

ionic cordova plugin remove cordova-plugin-ionic-webview

And added this to config.xml:

<access origin="*" />
<allow-intent href="http://*/*" />
<allow-intent href="https://*/*" />
<allow-intent href="tel:*" />
<allow-intent href="sms:*" />
<allow-intent href="mailto:*" />
<allow-intent href="geo:*" />

Probably a bit unsafe to allow everything but had to get it working again.
If this doesn’t work for you try to also remove the iOS platform and re-add it.

good luck~

How To Embed and Open PDF files in Ionic App on iOS

This is a solution for storing and opening pdf files inside your app for offline use.

  cordova.plugins.fileOpener2.open(
        cordova.file.applicationDirectory + 'www/img/sample.pdf',
        'application/pdf',
        {
          error: function (e) {
            console.log('Error status:'+e.status+'- Error message:'+ e.message);
          },
          success: function () {
            console.log('file opened successfully');
          }
        }
      );

Opening the pdf should be fairly simple using the cordova.plugins.fileOpener2 plugin, but I ran into a strange issue because my app name in the config.xml contained a space such as: <name>My App</name>. This caused the iOS to misread the file path. Removing this space in the app name fixed the file path on iOS.

I put the sample pdf doc in the ionic project under my images folder www/img/sample.pdf.

Good luck!

MQTT.js Download for Ionic/Angular Client Use

What is MQQT.js

MQTT.js is a client library for the MQTT protocol, written in JavaScript for node.js and the browser.

You can download the client/browser version here:

-> browserMqtt.js

Usage

You can then use mqtt.js in the browser with the same API that nodeJS uses.

<html>
<head>
  <title>test Ws mqtt.js</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="./browserMqtt.js"></script>
<script>
      var client = mqtt.connect() // you add a ws:// url here
      client.subscribe("mqtt/demo")

      client.on("message", function (topic, payload) {
        alert([topic, payload].join(": "))
        client.end()
      })

      client.publish("mqtt/demo", "hello world!")
    </script>
</body>
</html>

Source: https://github.com/mqttjs/MQTT.js