Allowing Images to Display in the Mobile Client or Apache Cordova apps
- Former user (Deleted)
- Jessica Tomkins
- Alex Roytman
In Web applications, it is typical to use relative paths for resources, such as images. Â However, these relatives paths will not work if your application is running locally on a mobile device, while the images are located on the server. Â Profound UI provides a simple solution to resolve the correct path based on the environment the application is running in (directly on the server vs. locally on a mobile device).
On the Mobile Client, Profound UI resolves all common properties that require a resource path automatically.  However, if you're specifying a path using custom JavaScript code or through the use of Apache Cordova, you must manually resolve it through a built-in API called pui.normalizeURL(). For Cordova applications, it can be used in combination with property scripting in Profound UI. For example, when using a background image in a Cordova application, instead of specifying the image location as
/images/background.png
You would use
js: pui.normalizeURL("/images/background.png")
For dynamic paths bound to a server-side variable, you can use the Normalize URL formatting option as demonstrated below:
