XS Community Edition/0.4/Services/Activity Update: Difference between revisions

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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 description which will show up on the entry for the activity in http://schoolserver/activities

get the bundle_id for the Activity. In Linux, it's simply:

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.

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.

While in the xs-activity-server dir on your USB drive, run this command:

sha1sum *.xo *.info > manifest.sha1

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.

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.

I don't know how the USB drive gets ejected by novice users from the XSCE. Which could be a concern?

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+Copying activities
-I have never tested or even looked at this before, but today on the call, George made sure I saw this link which has all the details regarding the Activity Update service for the XSCE:  http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/martin/xs-activity-server/tree/README
+#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
-But if you're sitting there with a USB drive, some activities you'd like to include, you've got an XSCE, and you want some simple instructions, here's a digest.
+#Navigate into the xs-activity-server dir and download some activities.
-Unfortunately I'm going to assume you're on a Linux box, apologies to the Windows people.
+Create activity description which will show up on the entry for the activity in http://schoolserver/activities
-First, 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
+#get the bundle_id for the Activity.  In Linux, it's simply:
-Navigate into the xs-activity-server dir and download some activities.
-This isn't necessary, but it's quite nice.  Write a "blurb" for the activity that will show up on the entry for the activity in http://schoolserver/activities
-First, get the bundle_id for the Activity.  In Linux, it's simply:
 zipgrep bundle_id activityname.xo
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 You want the bit at the end.
-Now, create an .info file in the xs-activity-server dir.  It doesn't matter what it's named, just do activities.info or something.
+#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:
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 Notice the bundle_id value we grepped for earlier?  That's in brackets in the .info file with the description directly underneath.
-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.
 While in the xs-activity-server dir on your USB drive, run this command:
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 sha1sum *.xo *.info > manifest.sha1
+#Eject the USB drive and plug it into the XSCE.
-Eject the USB drive and plug it 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.
+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.
-I don't know how the USB drive gets ejected by novice users from the XSCE.  Which could be a concern?
+#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.
-At any rate, this probably needs a wiki entry.
+I don't know how the USB drive gets ejected by novice users from the XSCE.  Which could be a concern?

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