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Hello Ava,

Please, sorry for the delay! And... you're welcome! :-)

Hello Ava,

Answering your questions, AB controls use pixels, however, if your app have the "Auto scale" option activated, then the design controls' size can vary at runtime, since in this case we use percentage values. There are various samples to deal with images included with DecSoft App Builder. Are you take a look at them? On the other hand, you can use Image controls and also HTML controls in order to shown images, just depending on what you wanted.

Hello Ava,

If I am not wrong, we are talking about the Windows platform. Certainly, it's something common to execute executables and batch files in Windows, however, not from our hybrid apps. The only way to do something like that is try to find an Apache Cordova plugin that doing that... but I am not quite sure if the platform allows something like that for hybrid apps. It's possible... but I can't refer here any know plugin.

P.S. Apache Cordova allows to develop our own plugins, however, probably this is out of the scope here.

Hello Ava,

I am not sure if can understand... do you want to execute a BAT or EXE file from an AB app? If so, probably there is no way to do something like that due to security risks, except if an Apache Cordova plugin to do that exists... but maybe even an Apache Cordova plugin can't do something like that, because the Windows platform do not allow something like that.

Hello Amin,

Thanks for sharing that information here. And yes; certainly the push notifications can be really useful. :-)

Hello to all,

Here is a new DecSoft App Builder release, with the below changes, fixes and enhancements:

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Hello Ava,

That's the point... unfortunately, and, according to the Apache Cordova's Files plugin documentation, and, if I am not wrong... Windows do not offer to us any public directory to be used. I already mention this above: the directories wich we can use in the Windows platforms are only private for the app, for that the FileWrite approach (for what you want to use it) cannot work as expected.

We have the server side approach (using the OpenWindow action), or maybe you can find an specific Apache Cordova plugin that can help in some way... maybe a plugin that allows to show a native Windows "Save file" dialog or something like that.

Hello Ava,

Here is a sample of how to prepare an string to be used with the FileWrite action:

Using AB actions:

Using Javascript code:

Hello Ava,

I am a bit confused, since you refer to a windows APK... but the Windows platform doens't have APKs... when we talk of APKs we are talking about the Android platform. Anyway, maybe the problem is that you cannot specify the Array directly in order to be written.

If you plain to use the FileWrite action, you can prepare an string, instead of an Array: that string can contains any lines and any separated comman values in every line. Then you can save that string in the file using the FileWrite action.

Hello to all,

This App Builder's Javascript plugin allows to authenticate the user by the device's biometric sensor, Fingerprint in Android, and, Touch ID or Face ID in iOS. This App Builder's Javascript plugin uses the Apache Cordova's plugin cordova-plugin-fingerprint-aio, and your app must be compiled with Apache Cordova in order to properly work.

This plugin is included by default with the App Builder's installation. Take a look at the plugin's help file (from the program's options dialog, for example) in order to learn how to use it. A Biometric app sample is also included with the App Builder installation.

Hope can be useful!

Hello to all,

Here is a new DecSoft App Builder release, with the below changes, fixes and enhancements:

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Hello Ava,

Yes; you can try the Files app sample of AB in the Windows platform: they work like expected.

Hello Amin,

Yes; I know you are testing around... because I have installed the sample here in my Android device and receive some notifications. Yes; I also note the "[object]" in the sample... honestly, I am not sure right now about, since the notifications arrive as expected: maybe a mistake in the same. On the other hand, apparently the "[object]" appear only when we send a notification... from the sample app itself... in other words, when we receive a notification from the HTML form, the text appear as expected in both the notification message and the sample app.

Hello Ava,

We have a problem here. The Files app sample works like a charm in the Windows platform, however, this platform don't give us access to any directory outside the app storage, in other words, we can't do the same than in Android and iOS, in which we can write a file in a public directory, ready to be located by the user. I also try the "link technique" (which works in browsers) in the Windows platform, and, confirm that do not work in this platform.

The only way that I see it working implied the usage of an app's server. Yes; we can use the "OpenWindow" to give to the user the ability to download a file. The "trick" is to use the use in our app (check the right checkbox in the app's options dialog) the Cordova "Browser" plugin, and, specify "_system" for the "OpenWindow" action's "target" argument. Doing that a browser window is opened (outside our app) pointed to the right file URL.

Please, go ahead if you have any further question.

Hello Ava,

Maybe you can try to compile the Files app sample for the Windows platform and see if works as expected.