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[TIMOB-24282] Windows: Ability to expose a 3rd party SDK to Titanium

GitHub Issuen/a
TypeStory
PriorityHigh
StatusClosed
ResolutionDone
Resolution Date2017-05-10T04:36:22.000+0000
Affected Version/sRelease 6.0.0
Fix Version/sRelease 6.1.0
ComponentsWindows, Windows phone
Labelseng-priority
ReporterNeeraj Mishra
AssigneeKota Iguchi
Created2017-01-06T21:18:11.000+0000
Updated2017-05-10T04:36:22.000+0000

Description

Problem Description:

We have received the following query on exposing the third party SDK to Titanium. Please find below the detailed info from customer: bq. We need a way to expose SAP's SMP SDK to Titanium in Windows. bq. Background: bq. -------------------- bq. We recently needed to do this for an Android app - What we did was to build a native module that interfaced with all methods from SMP we needed so that Titanium could consume them. This module was a native module, written in Java and Kroll APIs. bq. bq. We need to do something similar with Windows, but we know Kroll is not an option, so we're wondering if Hyperloop would be the right choice for accomplishing this. We need to somehow build something (for Windows) that interfaces with SAP's SMP SDK for Windows and be able to consume these methods from Titanium. As discussed in a call with the Appcelerator team the ability to do this is a go/no-go decision to use Titanium for Cintas.

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Comments

  1. Kota Iguchi 2017-01-09

  2. Kota Iguchi 2017-01-18

    Followed up on the same topic here: TIMOB-24283.
  3. Kota Iguchi 2017-02-07

    [~nmishra] Yes please :)
  4. Kota Iguchi 2017-03-02

    {quote} 1) Modify the Application's manifest to add the Extensions {quote} You can define any Extensions in your applications config (tiapp.xml). Titanium puts them into Appx manifest as it is. For instance. 
         <windows>
      <manifest>
         <Extensions>
           <Extension Name='YOU CAN ADD ANY EXTENSIONS HERE 1' />
           <Extension Name='YOU CAN ADD ANY EXTENSIONS HERE 2' />
           <Extension Name='YOU CAN ADD ANY EXTENSIONS HERE 3' />
         </Extensions>
      </manifest>
     </windows>
    {quote} 2) That our Titanium Module or Application (which consumes such libraries), be set in such a way that, the Application package contain the third party libraries. {quote} In order to package 3rd party libraries with your module, dealing with CMakeLists.txt in your module project is needed to make sure the module includes required libraries since our build system is based on CMake. This will need some CMake commands like [target_link_libraries](https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.3/command/target_link_libraries.html), [target_include_directories](https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.3/command/target_include_directories.html) and so on. After updating CMakeList.txt, you can re-create Visual Studio project files by using --run-cmake option (See TIMOB-24331) So CMake is very flexible tool but I guess the real problem there is that dealing with CMake is generally pain for the most of Titanium developers maybe? We might want to add simple commands or something to deal with those common tasks like this. Feel free to create new ticket for it when you have ideas about this kind of additional functionalities.
  5. Kota Iguchi 2017-03-02

    After some consideration about having easier way to package 3rd party library other than "dealing with CMake manually", I'm planning to come up with following packaging ideas just like what Titanium Android module does for use of 3rd party JARs. - Every \*.lib, \*.dll and \*.winmd files in *lib* folder will be packaged into module and also copied/linked during Ti app build. - Every files in *platform* folder are packaged into module and copied into Ti app so module can overwrite files during Ti app build.
  6. Kota Iguchi 2017-03-06

    Thanks for the info. Created TIMOB-24455 and TIMOB-24454.
  7. Kota Iguchi 2017-04-06

    Status: - Library integration improvement is In Review: TIMOB-24454 - Added documentation on integration with .NET code: [Integrating Windows Runtime Components in C#](https://wiki.appcelerator.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=49158655) TIMOB-24378 You can try it out once TIMOB-24454 is merged to 6.1.0 branch.
  8. Kota Iguchi 2017-05-10

    Closing this as Done, this is implemented in 6.1.0. (TIMOB-24454 and TIMOB-24378)

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