Moodle Mobile Building the app for iOS

this is a quick guide to build the official Moodle Mobile app on iOS. It should be pretty easy to do it for your own organization.

1. Install xcode
2. Install NodeJs
   • http://nodejs.org/
3. Install cordova-cli
   • sudo npm install -g cordova - it will install cordova. Note that on my machine I have some warnings about the ios bootstrap process being skipped but all the following steps seem to work ok anyway...
4. Create a Xcode project
   • /usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova/bin/cordova create ~/Apps/moodlemobile_android_cordova com.moodle.moodlemobile MoodleMobileBeta
   • cd ~/Apps/moodlemobile_android_cordova
   • sudo /usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova/bin/cordova platform add ios
   • sudo /usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova/bin/cordova build - not necessary, just check the build works.
5. In Finder change the permission on ~/Apps/moodlemobile_android_cordova folder: Read + Write to everyone
6. Add the cordova plugins
   • git clone git://github.com/alunny/ChildBrowser.git ./ChildBrowser - we are now going to install cordova compatible plugin with the plugin install command line.
   • sudo /usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova/bin/cordova plugin add ChildBrowser/
7. In Finder open /Users/jerome/Apps/moodlemobile_android_cordova/platforms/ios/MoodleMobileBeta.xcodeproj. Test you can build the default Cordova app on your phone.
8. Copy the Moodle mobile app into www folder
   • git clone git://github.com/moodlehq/moodlemobile.git ./moodlemobile
   • mv platforms/ios/www/ platforms/ios/www_old/
   • mv ./moodlemobile/ platforms/ios/www/
   • cp platforms/ios/www_old/cordova.js platforms/ios/www/
   • cp platforms/ios/www_old/childbrowser.js platforms/ios/www/
   • mv platforms/ios/www_old/childbrowser platforms/ios/www/