XS Community Edition/0.4/Services/Activity Update

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.

Creating the activity updater

Copying activities

1. Insert your USB drive into your computer (I used my regular FAT32 formatted drive that I also use for flashing XOs)
2. Create a directory named xs-activity-server
3. Navigate into the xs-activity-server dir.
4. Download some activities.

Create Activity Descriptions

Activity Descriptions are shown in http://schoolserver/activities

1. Get the bundle_id for the Activity by running:

zipgrep bundle_id activityname.xo

That command will return something like:

JAMediaTube.activity/activity/activity.info:bundle_id = org.laptop.JAMediaTube

The bundle_id is the section after the = sign.

1. Create file named activities.info in the xs-activity-server dir.

1. Create a section for each activity in the activities.info file which contains:

[bundle_id] description = text description

For example:

[org.laptop.JAMediaTube] description = Watch YouTube! It's really fun!

[org.laptop.FakeActivity] description = This is a placeholder for documentation purposes

Create manifest

1. run this command:

sha1sum *.xo *.info > manifest.sha1

1. Eject the USB drive and plug it into the XSCE.

update a school server

The activities you put on the USB drive in the xs-activity-server dir will be installed. they will appear at http://schoolserver/activities.

1. Plug the USB drive into the XSCE.
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?