kioskapp

A android cordova application to display a web page fullscreen and modal. Device have to be rooted. Physical buttons (volume/power/...) are not disabled. For example, this app is used by tamerbooth (https://github.com/dedeweb/tamerbooth)

‼️ This app is in alpha verions (not finished, not stable).

‼️ This app only works on android rooted devices.

Installation

$ npm install
$ npm run build

generated apk's should be located in platforms/android/build/outputs/apk

Usage

The app launch a server on port 1664 to remote control the application. webservice exposed :

GET server:1664/version

Used to check that the app is launched. return a Json with two properties

• app: the name of the app
• version: the version number

POST server:1664/loadUrl

browse the url. App automatically switch to fullscreen mode. Data should be sent using JSON in body, poperty in JSON :

• url : the url to browse

POST server:1664/reload

no parameters. Refresh the current page.

POST server:1664/exit

no parameters. Exit fullscreen mode.

POST server:1664/fullscreen

no parameters. Go to fullscreen mode.

Credits

Denis Messié

License

GPL-3.0