Building

Building the app

ember cdv:build builds the Ember app with Cordova assets injected, and then executes a Cordova build.

    ember cdv:build --platform=ios --environment=production

ios is the default platform - to change this behaviour see the CLI reference. After building, you will need to deploy to a device or emulator for testing.

Release Builds

By default, ember-cordova produces debug builds. You need to add a --release flag for Cordova release builds, see the cli reference for more details.

Obtaining provisioning profile UUID for signing iOS

When signing while building as described here, you can obtain your iOS provisioning profile UUID by downloading it from iTunesConnect and run the following command:

  grep -a -A 1 'UUID' /Users/me/Downloads/myapp_dev.mobileprovision

Deploying to a device or emulator

After building the app, you can deploy to a device or emulator using ember cdv run, like so:

  ember cdv run ios --emulator --nobuild   # Deploy to iOS simulator
  ember cdv run android --device --nobuild  # Deploy to Android device

Alternatively ember cdv:open will open your project in Xcode or Android Studio. The IDE can then be used for starting emulators, code signing & app store uploads.

To deploy to an iOS device, you must have Provisioning Profiles set up. Usually, Xcode can set up development profiles for you automatically.

Debugging

Android Builds can be remotely inspected in Chrome (details), and iOS builds in Safari (details).

Non-Cordova Builds

Cordova Assets & plugins will only be injected to ember cdv:build/serve tasks. Therefore, builds using ember build will not include Cordova assets and will be valid for web. The only service injected by default is the platform service.