Cboard Cordova - AAC communication board with text-to-speech for mobile devices

git clone --recursive [email protected]:nous-/ccboard.git

This is a Cordova application that wraps the original Cboard React application to bring native mobile support. The Cboard react app is maintained to support Cordova detection, setup and bindings.

Text-to-speach (TTS) support is provided via phonegap-plugin-speech-synthesis. This plugin bridges the native operating system TTS functionality to browser app, in a way that mimics W3C Web Speech API: SpeechSynthesis. It uses the android.speech.tts.TextToSpeech interface on Android.

One-time setup

1. git submodule update - Get Cboard app
2. npm i
3. mkdir -p www - Make root cordova app folder
4. cordova platform add android - Add Android Cordova platform. www folder must be present.
5. cd cboard
6. npm i

Building

1. cd cboard
2. Release npm run build / Debug npm run build-cordova-debug
3. cp -r ./build/* ../www
4. cd ..
5. cordova run android --emulator

Generate Release APK

1. Build cordova build android --release

2. Copy cp platforms/android/app/build/outputs/apk/release/app-release-unsigned.apk ccboard.apk

3. Sign

   1. Generate self-signed keys keytool -genkey -v -keystore ccboard.keystore -alias ccboard -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 100000
   2. Sign jarsigner -verbose -sigalg SHA1withRSA -digestalg SHA1 -keystore ccboard.keystore ccboard.apk ccboard

Debugging output

For emulator console.log output, you can either run in the debugging under eg. Android Studio, or in Chrome, navigate to chrome://inspect, and select the remote target that shows up once the emulator starts.