I am new to app development and I am really looking for the best software to build apps. I wanted to know if appcelerator has any watermarks included for the free version. I saw the old ide but I am not sure if the new ide has the same watermark/splash screen.
There are no watermarks embedded in your app when using the Indie Seat license (free version).
When you create a new mobile app (File > New Project) there will be some default splash screens (required by apple/android) with the Appcelerator logo in the appropriate os-named folder. You simply need to create your own splash screens and replace the defaults.
Appcelerator is a great choice if you you know javascript, or start with Xamarin if you are a C# guy.
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I'm completely new to React Native, Expo and App development in general.
I'm building a React Native app solely for iOS using Expo. I've finally managed to finish a version I'm happy with, tested with users etc. I've now been spending time adding all the required screenshots, text, info etc to App Store Connect in order to submit the app. While doing that, I learned that iPad app screenshots was mandatory, which I found weird.
I later found that I had "supportsTablet: true" in my App.json file, so it makes sense that it's expecting iPad pictures. After changing this and making a new build and submitting that, it's still a requirement.
After Google a bit I can see that it has been impossible to change this:
Removing iPad support from app
iOS App Submission : remove iPad support
iOS App Submission want to remove iPad support
This led me down the road of trying to upload the app as a new submission. I can't get this to work though. According to this documentation:
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/qa/qa1623/_index.html
I should change bundle identifier and upload again. Changing this in app.json under expo.ios.bundleIdentifier doesn't work though, as I just get an error that I've already uploaded this app previously.
What are the steps I should do to reupload the app as a new submission, so that I can not support iPad?
In order to upload a new version, you must increase the version and the build number. You can find this if you open the project in Xcode under the General tab and the Identity section. In the same tab, you will see the Deployment Info section where you can untick the iPad. Check the picture attached.
I want to build a simple read-only app which should run on Android, iOS, Windows, OSX and Linux.
Does electron support mobile platform?
I couldn't figure out which one should I go for.
Electron include chrome engine to render web pages as Native apps with support for different plugins to add desktop apps features.
Electrino doesn't include any render engine it uses the Safari engine on the Mac so the installation file is smaller than Electron.
There's no support for Windows yet.
React Native is using a cross-platform render to Android and iOS.
Example: <Text> on Android will be TextView and on iOS will be UITextField
React Native Web made React Native work on web
Example: <Text> on web will be <p> or <label> not sure
and after that, it can work on the desktop by electron
You can build universal apps by using this template by React Native code.
Also if you want a specific target you can add component.web.js or .electron.js
or .android.js or .ios.js so it will render to this target only
https://github.com/react-everywhere/re-start/tree/react-16
Take a look at PWAs. These can be installed on almost all the major mobile and desktop platforms plus it is a web app.
https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps
Electron does not support mobile platforms, but it will be difficult to use one framework for mobile apps and computer apps.
I would recomment to use phonegap for mobile and electron for the computer application
Both frameworks are (hybrid) mobile app frameworks which try to access the native UI components with the JavaScript API provided by the different platforms like iOS and Android. They don't use any HTML and CSS for the UI design like e.g. Ionic do and they are not wrapper frameworks but actually a kind of cross-compiler frameworks. That's what i found out. BUT I didn't get the actual differences between these two frameworks. Why should i prefer one of these? Are they doing exactly the same job?
best regards, Tom
I know this is quite old, but I'll give my answer for the benefit of anyone else arriving here.
Full disclosure, I worked for Appcelerator from 2012-2019.
In short, they're both quite similar.
You write a specific flavor of JavaScript that includes custom objects
Your JavaScript code gets compressed, minified, etc. so it becomes the input to an interpreter that gets shipped with your app
When your app runs, it launches the interpreter which starts executing your code
At this point, JavaScript is being run in "native land", so the interpreter can act as a bridge between your JavaScript code and the native SDK
The result is a native app with access to features of the underlying platform
A "native app" shouldn't simply be defined as an app that runs natively, because that would make a PhoneGap app a native app.
A "native app" should be defined as an app that runs and behaves natively. That means, an app that abides by the native OS' ui/ux guidelines.
MAIN DIFFERENCES?
I'd have to say that the main difference is its internal design. Appcelerator started in 2007, when "mobile" was very young.
React Native was launched in 2015.
In 2015 mobile was already in full swing, and mobile OS' were pretty mature, so I infer that React Native's design benefits from all lessons learned by Appcelerator (and others).
As for which one is better, I'd say React, because Titanium is now dead.
I would like to use the Flash Builder Profiler to analyse the performance of an AIR desktop application that ive built using Flash Professional..
The available help/resources for FlashBuilder show how to set up an existing FlashProfessional project inside FB but theres no mention of what to do if its an Air app.
Basically it defaults it to a Web Application.
Ive tried creating a new Desktop Application profile config but it says 'Project must be an Adobe AIR desktop project'. Looking at the project properties under the ActionScript Compiler section it does look to be targeting AIR SDK.
Really stumped with this and so any help appreciated.
If you need to profile your app, ignore anything from Flash Builder or Flash Pro or Flash Develop or IntelliJ or any other IDE. Instead, use Adobe Scout. Adobe built Scout purposefully for Flash profiling, specifically with AIR apps and games in mind. The app is very powerful and should be everything you should ever need to analyze your app. The profilers provided by the IDEs do not even compare, especially when you turn on advanced-telemetry
I've been developing an app with Titanium, and I've got the app up and running on both iOS and Android.
Today I set up the Blackberry 10 environment to be used with Titanium and tried to compile and deploy to the simulator... It worked! But alas, after a brief peek at the appcelerator splash screen, the app crashes; all without any errors, warnings, or logs of any kind.
I've used telnet to see if there were any logs in the '1000' directory, and the logfile was empty for my app.
From what I've read in appcelerator's documentation and what I've discovered in the Titanium Studio software, Blackberry debugging support is not included.
Further information: I'm using the Parse JS library (not as a titanium module, just as a JS import) and my main window contains a TabGroup.
If anyone has any experience in Titanium for BB10 or insight as to what may point me in the right direction, that would be amazing.