Re: [Nolug] Google Voice app for Palm Pre (if anyone here has the ability to test, please provide feedback)

ahh, interesting. I was able to use archive manager to extract it,
and the file info said it was a zip.

Thanks for the heads up.

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Simon Dorfman<simon@yamlike.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Dennis J Harrison Jr
> <dennisharrison@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> http://www.yetanotherdude.com/programming/palm-pre/packages/com.palm.google.gvoice_1.0.0_all.ipk
>> Here is an ultra simple app to use as an example if you're looking to
>> get started with pre dev.  Or, if you are a google voice user, and
>> have a pre, this will help you keep things succinct.
>> an ipk file is just a glorified zip, so to get to the source, just unzip
>> it.
>
> unzip didn't work for me. after opening the file in a text editor, finding
> and googling "debian-binary control.tar.gz", I found this page which is how
> I figured out to us ar.
>
> here's what i did:
> $ ar x com.palm.google.gvoice_1.0.0_all.ipk
>
> That will extract three files:
> debian-binary
> control.tar.gz
> data.tar.gz
>
> Then run this:
> $ tar zxvf data.tar.gz
> /
> tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
> /usr/
> /usr/palm/
> /usr/palm/applications/
> /usr/palm/applications/com.palm.google.gvoice/
> /usr/palm/applications/com.palm.google.gvoice/app/
> /usr/palm/applications/com.palm.google.gvoice/app/assistants/
> /usr/palm/applications/com.palm.google.gvoice/app/assistants/number-enter-assistant.js
> /usr/palm/applications/com.palm.google.gvoice/app/assistants/people-picker-assistant.js
> /usr/palm/applications/com.palm.google.gvoice/app/assistants/stage-assistant.js
> /usr/palm/applications/com.palm.google.gvoice/app/views/
> /usr/palm/applications/com.palm.google.gvoice/app/views/number-enter/
> /usr/palm/applications/com.palm.google.gvoice/app/views/number-enter/number-enter-scene.html
> /usr/palm/applications/com.palm.google.gvoice/app/views/people-picker/
> /usr/palm/applications/com.palm.google.gvoice/app/views/people-picker/people-picker-scene.html
> /usr/palm/applications/com.palm.google.gvoice/appinfo.json
> /usr/palm/applications/com.palm.google.gvoice/framework_config.json
> /usr/palm/applications/com.palm.google.gvoice/icon.png
> /usr/palm/applications/com.palm.google.gvoice/images/
> /usr/palm/applications/com.palm.google.gvoice/index.html
> /usr/palm/applications/com.palm.google.gvoice/license.txt
> /usr/palm/applications/com.palm.google.gvoice/sources.json
> /usr/palm/applications/com.palm.google.gvoice/stylesheets/
> /usr/palm/applications/com.palm.google.gvoice/stylesheets/gdial.css
>
>> I've posted this around a few forums and whatnot.  Will be adding any
>> requested features next week, and writing a tut on start to finish
>> with this.  Hopefully that will help some people who are interested in
>> development for the platform, but need a more solid example to follow
>> beyond the hello world tut.
>
> Cool. looking forward to the tutorial.
>
> Simon
>
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