XS Community Edition/0.4/Services/Activity Update
Copying activities
- Insert your USB drive into your computer (I used my regular FAT32 formatted drive that I also use for flashing XOs)and create a directory named xs-activity-server
- Navigate into the xs-activity-server dir and download some activities.
Create Activity Descriptions
which will show up on the entry for the activity in http://schoolserver/activities
- Get the bundle_id for the Activity by running:
zipgrep bundle_id activityname.xo
It should return something like:
JAMediaTube.activity/activity/activity.info:bundle_id = org.laptop.JAMediaTube
You want the bit at the end.
2.Create file named activities.info in the xs-activity-server dir.
For every activity you would like to write a "blurb" for, put an entry for that in the activities.info file. For example:
[org.laptop.JAMediaTube] description = Watch YouTube! It's really fun!
[org.laptop.FakeActivity] description = This is a placeholder for documentation purposes
Notice the bundle_id value we grepped for earlier? That's in brackets in the .info file with the description directly underneath.
3. Create maifest buy running this command:
sha1sum *.xo *.info > manifest.sha1
4. Eject the USB drive and plug it into the XSCE.
You've got your .xo files, set up your activities.info file, it's all on a USB drive in a dir named xs-activity-server, and now that you've got all the ingredients, the last order of business is to create a manifest for the XSCE to read.
1. Plug the USB drive into the XSCE.
And then magic happens! The activities you put on the USB drive in the xs-activity-server dir will just "automagically" show up on http://schoolserver/activities with the "blurbs" you wrote in the activities.info file.
2. Remove the USB drive I don't know how the USB drive gets ejected by novice users from the XSCE. Which could be a concern?
