How to add capacitor with newly build quasar app?

[KrishnKumar-95]

I created quasar app with below steps but confused where and how the capacitor will be used.

1. Download Quasar CLI : npm i -g @quasar/cli
2. Initialize Quasar App : npm init quasar
3. ✔ What would you like to build? › App with Quasar CLI, let's go!
4. ✔ Project folder: … driver
5. ✔ Pick Quasar version: › Quasar v2 (Vue 3 | latest and greatest)
6. ✔ Pick script type: › Typescript
7. ✔ Pick Quasar App CLI variant: › Quasar App CLI with Vite
8. ✔ Package name: … driver
9. ✔ Project product name: (must start with letter if building mobile apps) … Driver
10. ✔ Project description: … Taxigo driver app providing business to drivers
11. ✔ Author: … Krishan Kumar
12. ✔ Pick a Vue component style: › Composition API with <script setup>
13. ✔ Pick your CSS preprocessor: › Sass with SCSS syntax
14. ✔ Check the features needed for your project: › ESLint, State Management (Pinia), Axios, Vue-i18n
15. ✔ Pick an ESLint preset: › Prettier
16. ✔ Install project dependencies? (recommended) › No, I will handle that myself
17. cd taxigo-driver
18. yarn
19. yarn lint --fix
20. quasar dev

[jimoquinn]

I know this is an old question, but having just started working with Quasar/Capacitor Android myself, the answers are fresh in my mind. In the current set of docs for Quasar under Developing Mobile Apps (either Vite or Webpack) there you'll find a set of instructions on how to get Capacitor added to your project.

The actual commands run from your project directory are quasar mode add capacitor and to build, use quasar dev -m capacitor -T [android|ios], but there is a good bit of upfront work required before you can build the app. You have to install the Android Studio and pick the build targets (SDKs) or if on a Mac and targeting iOS, install XCode, and in both cases setup a handful of environment variables. Not really difficult, but does take a little with the download and the these apps do a bit of self configuration.

It may look daunting at first, but Quasar's docs are so good that if you follow them, you shouldn't have any issues building your first app and deploying it to the phone emulator.