Posts by DecSoft

Hello codex,

Thanks for your interest and your kindly words. I want to answer you by reversing your question's order:

3º Maybe I need to indicate this in some way, but, the splash screen editbox buttons only works if you had previously saved the application. This is valid also for the application's icon, for example, and this is because the program try to establish this kind of stuff relative to the application and not using absolute paths. Then we can share the application or move it into another system without loss such paths.

2º Certainly you found a mistake with the "SelectDirectory" procedure, which is currently used in four program's places. I update App Builder right now and the mistake has been fixed in all the places where the "SelectDirectory" is used. Now the Desktop directory is the default one (when needed), but we also can navigate to others directories and drives. Thanks for the advise codex.

1º The debugger address are not changed, then, probably we have here some other issue. Remember that you no need to try it with an external browser (you can do it, of course, and can be very good) but you must view the application running in the debugger browser. My recomendation for now is delete your app's "_Compiled" directory and try to compile it again. If this fail, please, tell me codex.

You're welcome! :)

Hello edunt,

We need such extras if we want to deal with the AdMob plugin, for example.

Hello to all,

Jürgen, update your App Builder copy. Now we can specify the Ant, Java and Android home (one, two or three) in order to be placed in the right way into the generated Batch files. I test right now and works fine, but please, try it by yourself and tell me if this can help you or what.

Hello,

Take a look at the Android SDK manager and look the below "Extras" are installed:

Hello edunt,

The latest releases touch a bit the Javascript core with enhancements to the Gauge control. This means you must delete the "_Compiled" directory by yourself. However, this is not apparently your problem, so, please, post here the error message you get to try to help you.

Hello,

Ok, there will be some issues for AB beginner users i.e if version numbers changed on Java, and Ant, they might not know how to go about it.

Yes; certainly some implementation can cause problems to beginner users. My plain right now is to add these options completely optional: if we define some specific thing like "JAVA_HOME", then the program take care about. If you just ommit these variables, then the generated BAT files continues exactly like now.

Hello Donald,

Apparently there is an option to "[...] join the iOS Developer Program as a Company to be able to add additional developers to the same program". I just read here. Problem can be due to the fact that the company must be a real established company and not just a developers' group of friends.

Hello Jürgen and edunt,

Honestly I never thinking in this before, but, work with Java (and other tools) and also with App Builder did not sound wrong, iust I am never point in that situation and then BAT files works well. But I think your proposal is reasonable Jürgen, so let me some time to consider what can be the best possible solution here.

Hello,

Jordi add this other tip too:

"Out there exists different XCODE versions who works in Leopart, Lion, Mountain or Captain, which is the latest one. Choose the latest as possible is the best because they allow us to choose a better IOS target version. Mainly because it's interesting to minimum choose the iOS 8 version as the target, because before that version they are only the Ipad2, Ipad1 and iPhone4 devices.".

Probably this information can help too.

Hello Donald,

I don't want to say that but you are right: if we wanted to match the iOS platform probably the best option is to have a Mac or at least an iOS device in order to test it, etc. Some useful information below:

Requirements and Support

Apple® tools required to build iOS applications run only on the OS X operating system on Intel-based Macs. Xcode® 6.0 (the minimum required version) runs only on OS X version 10.9 (Mavericks) or greater, and includes the iOS 8 SDK (Software Development Kit). To submit apps to the Apple App Store? requires the latest versions of the Apple tools.

You can test many of the Cordova features using the iOS emulator installed with the iOS SDK and Xcode, but you need an actual device to fully test all of the app's device features before submitting to the App Store. The device must have at least iOS 6.x installed, the minimum iOS version supported as of Cordova 3.0. Supporting devices include all iPad® models, iPhone® 3GS and above, and iPod® Touch 3rd Generation or later. To install apps onto a device, you must also be a member of Apple's iOS Developer Program, which costs $99 per year. This guide shows how to deploy apps to the iOS emulator, for which you don't need to register with the developer program.

Taken from here: http://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/latest/guide/platforms/ios/index.html

Hello,

I have some news about how to prepare our applications to run in the iOS platform. Today I am talking more with Jordi, an AB customer who already have an AB application into the iTunes store, and they really point me in the right direction.

I was wrong when think we can't do anything from Windows when we are talking about the iOS platform. For that reason App Builder can creates BAT files for all the Cordova's supported platforms except iOS.

But this is not truth at all. On the contrary, Apache Cordova can help us by creating the appropiate files IN WINDOWS in order to be ready to build our applications IN MACOS after that.

You can update now your AB copy, since they include now a new option (app's options dialog -> Cordova tab) in order to generates a BAT file also for the iOS platform.

The steps are:

1º Creates our application, and choose the refered action to generates a BAT file for the iOS platform

2º Execute that BAT file, which tell to Apache Cordova we want our application ready for the iOS platform

3º Copy the "_Compiled" directory to a Mac and open the "\*_Compiled\platforms\ios\New App 1.xcodeproj" with XCODE.

4º That's all! We are ready to generates our application's IPA file, the equivalent to the APK file in Android.

So, in conclusion, and, contrary my first knowledge, we can use Apache Cordova IN WINDOWS to generate the appropiate files ready to be copied in a Mac computer to be finally built with XCODE (XCODE is the development environment in the Mac world).

You know another possible way (basically if we do not have a Mac computer...) is to use the Adobe Phonegap Build online service. I preffer the Apache Cordova way, however, if we really do not have a Mac computer... maybe there is not too much options out there.

Hope this information can results of interest for all!

Hello edunt,

1º You need to prepare certain images to act like the portrait and landscape splash screens.

The program do the rest for you by preparing the images in different files, add the Cordova's Splashcreen plugin and write the appropiate stuff in the "config.xml" file.

4º Nope. I am not talking about save the audio file in the local storage (too big probably!) but just the position of the media player. Supose I open the application an listen the audio for a minute. Then I come to another application and finally open your application again. The point is that using the Pause and Resume app's events probably you can save/restore the position, so I can start to listen the audio in the same position I leave it before.

Related with this last question maybe you can prepare a couple of Push buttons to directly access to some audio position. For example, if you know when certain audio section start, you can have a Push button that jump exactly to that position. Maybe some buttons or a Select control with something like "Chapter 1", "Chapter 2", etc.

5º There is an example of the AdMob plugin included by App Builder. Take a look!

Hello edunt,

Good work! Some sugestion if you allow me, but take only as comments you can take in count or not!

1º Probably a splash screen can be good (maybe the Finnish flag?), even when the application start fast.

2º You know the MediaPlayer can be hidden? Just put their variable "Hidden" to "True". Even when hidden the MediaPlayer is available, then you can, for example, control it (play it) by a Push button. I say that because we are talking about an audio player, so, maybe we no need to view the MediaPlayer and only a Play button and a Range control can be good, this last to change the media player position.

3º The latest releases of App Builder add a new event for the MediaPlayer control: the "CanPlay" event. This can be useful to maintain informed to the user until the media file is ready to be played, for example, by shows a spinner icon, a progressbar or something like this.

4º Maybe you can save into the application's storage (using the "SetOption" action) the position of the MediaPlayer using the app's Resume event, in the way you can then can load the saved position (using the "GetOption" action) to seek the MediaPlayer into the latest position.

And that's all! Maybe another possible ideas come, for example, you can use the AdMob plugin in order to monetize your application, but, these things are all up to you edunt.

Thanks for posting!

You're welcome sir! :)