I am new to mobile application development(basically android). I was just wondering that, whenever, we try to update an application, every time, the whole app has to get installed, which is frustrating. Just imagine, reinstalling whole apps for "minor bug fixes". Couldn't we just update that particular feature of the app. That would save a lot of time and money, especially for people in remote areas, where the internet speed is very low.
I searched for a proper answer but couldn't find any.
Thanks, in advance!!
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I published an app to the App Store using Titanium Studio in 2013. I have recently found a bug in the code that I want to fix and publish.
I logged into Appcelerator's website to download the latest studio since it's been three years, only to find out that it's a paid platform now.
I just want to make a quick bug fix and publish. I don't need any of the services that come with the platform.
I realize there is a free SDK that you can compile yourself, etc, etc.
I don't mind paying for a $36 for one month only if it enables me to just publish a new version of my app.
My question is, if I publish the app after paying the $36 and then cancel my subscription, will the cancellation affect my app? Does the IDE inject some sort of "call home" time bomb?
I tried asking the support at appcelerator but they answered like a politician and dodged it.
Thanks for any help.
A published/compiled app has no direct connection with appcelerator. So if you cancel the subscription nothing happens.
However, if you use paid services... things might go wrong.
Statistics for example is a paid service. If you cancel subscription I assume the app keeps working but will make calls to their backend that most likely will fail (not sure about this). App should keep working.
If you use any cloud service (push notifications, arrow storage etc) your app will stop working of course.
If you don't use any of the services, you can just cancel and be done with it.
That said, if you just want to make 1 change to an app you could just dive in and compile without the Appcelerator Platform and just use the Open Source code.
I'm about to implement some unlock-functionality In-App-Purchase in an app. The client would like the functionality to be available the first two weeks after installing the app, and then go away until the user pays up.
I need the app to determine whether it has been previously installed, deleted, and installed again. If I can't do that users can just reinstall the app and get two more weeks for free.
Any ideas?
It seems all data is deleted when the app itself is deleted, which kind of limits my options. There is a server backend to the app. Is my best option to log something there or is there another way?
You can make use of the keychain in iOS. It will not be removed even if you uninstall the app. But you have to make sure you use the same provisioning profile across different versions of your application.
And, have a look at this utility
Forgive me for what may seem as a stupid question but, after some rummaging around on the web, I can't seem to find how to test my Windows Phone Application. I'm not referring to the guidelines, I'm actually referring to sending it to Microsoft for them to check if it's "okay" or checking it on Visual Studio as I think there is a way of doing that in VS.
Any help is highly appreciated.
Thank you.
This should help. Keep in mind that before you send it to microsoft (or appHub) your app needs to be fairly perfect. Submissions aren't free :)
edit: this is assuming you were asking how to submit it for review. When you submit your app, the review process starts.
For app testing you need the sdk... With the sdk you have a perfect emulator for test your apps. For app deploy on your device, after you've bougth the annual subscription to be a developer, you have to associate your phone and install zune on your pc (read here).
After you tests you can submit your app through this process (read here).
I have an app that relies on CoreLocation. In the last week I've had two users send me an email letting me know that location doesn't work anymore in the app. It's a fairly straightforward app that has the ability to display weather based on your current location.
The users swear that location services is enabled, even for the app specifically. In both cases, everything worked perfectly when they first purchased the app but stopped working all of a sudden (their words).
I've had them do several things for me like use other apps that use location services to see if they work or try from alternate locations. They've even uninstalled my app and re-installed to no avail.
Am I crazy or is the users? It just sounds farfetched to me, but I'm far from an expert at this. In both cases they're using an iPod Touch and/or iPad wifi only model. Both are running 5.0.x.
A re-install of the app should certainly reset things to default, right? Do remnants of an app linger around only to be used on a re-install?
In looking through my code I realized that I changed from StartUpdatingLocation to StartMonitoringSignificantLocationChanges which only works on the iPhone 3GS and up. Since it doesn't work on the iPad/iPod Touch this was creating my issue. I changed my code to start the app using StartUpdatingLocation and once a location is received switch over to StartMonitoringSignficantLocationChanges. This resolved the issue for all iOS devices.
I've tried using the download from the sencha website
http://www.sencha.com/learn/Tutorial:Taking_Sencha_Touch_Apps_Offline
when uploaded to my server and viewed on my ipad offline the app just says you need to be connected to the internet or words to that effect. Any ideas how to fix this or does anybody have a working offline example?
Not strictly related to the point, but you could take a look at PhoneGap (http://www.phonegap.com/) if you're looking for a more complete offline solution, at the price of a higher complexity and app store issues.
I found it quite well done and it offers a greater flexibility wrt offline storage and native access.