Re: Splash-stack apps on Google Play

2018-05-23 Thread Brian Milby via use-livecode
Mark is talking about downloading and installing on the fly so as long as baked into the app it would be fine. Widgets do use foreign code if native. As long as the private key isn’t compromised, then you can keep using the same pair. One advantage to changing though would be to ensure that the co

Re: Splash-stack apps on Google Play

2018-05-23 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
Do Android widgets use foreign handlers? If only some of them would be excluded, it would be helpful to know which those are. A symbol or note in the inclusions list would be nice. Or am I conflating widgets with other extensions? I'm using the Android toast library. Would that count? It doesn

Re: Splash-stack apps on Google Play

2018-05-23 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
Thanks very much for this, Brian. It's not only helpful, it's easier than I was trying to make it. Am I correct that I can continue to use the same .pem files for each update, as long as I recreate the signatures? Is there any disadvantage to that? It doesn't matter too much since your generat

Re: Splash-stack apps on Google Play

2018-05-23 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2018-05-23 05:14, Brian Milby wrote: @Mark Would the loading of LCB extensions be a good thing to add to the securityPermissions (or does external already cover it)? The securityPermissions is definitely the right place to do this. Standalones are built with a small startup script which is

Re: Splash-stack apps on Google Play

2018-05-22 Thread Brian Milby via use-livecode
@Mark Would the loading of LCB extensions be a good thing to add to the securityPermissions (or does external already cover it)? On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 7:12 PM Brian Milby wrote: > Well, it isn't a full library, but I did put together a demo of how it can > work: > > https://github.com/bwmilby/

Re: Splash-stack apps on Google Play

2018-05-22 Thread Brian Milby via use-livecode
Well, it isn't a full library, but I did put together a demo of how it can work: https://github.com/bwmilby/lc-misc/tree/master/SignVerify https://github.com/bwmilby/lc-misc/raw/master/SignVerify/SignVerify.livecode I've only tested on Mac, but it should work everywhere if you already have the ke

Re: Splash-stack apps on Google Play

2018-05-22 Thread Brian Milby via use-livecode
Can’t make any changes to the stack once you generate the hash or it will not match. On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 2:41 PM J. Landman Gay via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Would it be okay to store the encrypted hash in a custom property of the > remote stack? > > I'll need to e

Re: Splash-stack apps on Google Play

2018-05-22 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
Would it be okay to store the encrypted hash in a custom property of the remote stack? I'll need to experiment to see if I can do what you've outlined, unless you write a library before I figure it out... ;) On 5/22/18 12:03 AM, Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote: The dictionary entries tha

Re: Splash-stack apps on Google Play

2018-05-21 Thread Brian Milby via use-livecode
The dictionary entries that you want are "encrypt using rsa", "decrypt using rsa", and "messageDigest'. High level process... - Generate a public/private key pair - Package the file that you want to ensure is not tampered with - Generate a hash of the file (messageDigest) - Encrypt the hash with y

Re: Splash-stack apps on Google Play

2018-05-21 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
@Mark, thanks so much for your post, it helps. When you get a chance it would be great to get more detail about how to set up the RSA keys. I'm sure I won't be the only person here who needs this, so you'll be helping everyone. I think I can find out how to generate the keys, but I'm not quite

Re: Splash-stack apps on Google Play

2018-05-21 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2018-05-21 17:51, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: My client sells supplies to hospitals and the mobile app is part of a tracking system. We have been distributing the app from a web site but some users don't trust that and others don't understand why they need to enable "unknown sources

Re: Splash-stack apps on Google Play

2018-05-21 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
That's great! Thanks for posting that Colin, I'm going to take the chance. I didn't know things had proceeded that far. Do you have any more details about the decision so we can avoid potential conflicts? How is the determination about noncompliance made? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@h

Re: Splash-stack apps on Google Play

2018-05-21 Thread Colin Holgate via use-livecode
At the time Mark thought there might be some LCB tweaks LiveCode might make to keep Google happy, but after the Google guys looked at a number of LiveCode apps, they concluded that they don’t seem to violate the new policy. Well, it was new 11 months ago when this came up last time!

Re: Splash-stack apps on Google Play

2018-05-21 Thread Brian Milby via use-livecode
Would you need to go full “splash stack”? Could you have a “supplemental data” stack that is checked for/updated on launch and has data inside it to update any objects that need to be adjusted? On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 10:52 AM J. Landman Gay via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:

Re: Splash-stack apps on Google Play

2018-05-21 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
My client sells supplies to hospitals and the mobile app is part of a tracking system. We have been distributing the app from a web site but some users don't trust that and others don't understand why they need to enable "unknown sources" in prefs. It would be easier to distribute through the o

Re: Splash-stack apps on Google Play

2018-05-21 Thread Lagi Pittas via use-livecode
Hi Jacque, If your app is for a specific client/company do you put it on the Play Store still? Or is it an app for a company who wants to sell it? - Lagi On 20 May 2018 at 21:06, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Has anyone released an Android app on Goog

Splash-stack apps on Google Play

2018-05-20 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
Has anyone released an Android app on Google Play that uses the splash-stack method to download the real working stack from a server? Was it rejected? My current project needs to provide instant updates in case there is a serious bug, and having an accessible stack on the server accomodates tha