This is a Cordova mobile app to get notifications of new messages from the Chamilo LMS campus of your choice.

The finished application should:

• allow you to connect to one or more Chamilo LMS campuses
• notify you when you have a new message on the Chamilo LMS campus(es)
• store your messages locally (but not allow you to answer just yet)

This is developed as a side project and it might require a few updates to Chamilo itself for the first version to work (web services in Chamilo will have to be extended for it to work).

As a consequence, we will try to use PSR-1 and PSR-2 coding conventions as a base, but we know they will not be adapted to our development, so we will update that in the future.

First, clone this repository

git clone [email protected]:chamilo/mobile-messaging.git
cd mobile-messaging

Add the Android platform

cordova platform add android

Add the plugins

cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-network-information
cordova plugin add phonegap-plugin-push

Build an Android APK

cordova build android

Install on an Android device

cordova run android

If you'd like to use push notifications (only tested on Android and only available from Chamilo v1.10.4), you will have to enable and set the following parameters in your Chamilo server's configuration file:

//Allow send a push notification when an email are sent
//$_configuration['messaging_allow_send_push_notification'] = 'true';
//Project number in the Google Developer Console
//$_configuration['messaging_gdc_project_number'] = '';
//Api Key in the Google Developer Console
//$_configuration['messaging_gdc_api_key'] = '';

This development is taken as a side-project, so it might advance slowly at first. Please feel free to send Pull Requests through Github, we will review and include them if we feel they're bringing value.

Coding conventions are not clear at this time as we're mainly PHP developers trying out HTML+JS stuff to generate a mobile app, but we have good grounds with PSR-1 and PSR-2, so we will not accept ugly code, but we will comment on it.