Any tips on integrating the appworks package generation into the build

Mikhail_Dikov

We would like to have the package generation as part of our build. We run on Windows 7 or Windows Server. Do you have a recommended way of creating the zip as part of the script on windows. Any suggestions for a compression utility?

Benjamin_Chilibeck

Your best bet would likely be the appworks Builder Beta found here:

AppWorks Beta Builder

Its a node.js based packager for appworks apps. The only issue could be that it only supports apps (not services) at the moment.

John_Wilkinson1

Our team uses the Windows native zip.exe in our build scripts. Type 'zip' for options; you probably want -r.

For automated building of both apps and services, we use ant to make a .war file, then rename to .zip; for apps, this all happens after zip.exe has made the mobile.zip.

Mikhail_Dikov

@Ben thanks ben for the info. This looks great, now just add the automatic upload to OTAG and it'll be even better.

@John I decided to use 7za.exe which is pretty much the same as zip.exe, not all developers on our team have npm installed, so this works out better.