Apple is pushing everything to be saved to iCloud, so a properly written school app (by Apple standards!) would have all the school assignments in the student’s iCloud - accessible at home or school or wherever you have net access.
Kelly > On 12Oct, 2020, at 4:09 PM, John Balgenorth via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > On the iPad each app is sandboxed and that means each app has > its own Documents Folder. You can get a url to the Documents > Folder for your app but not other apps. Using that url you can > read, write, append, move, and delete files that are in your apps > Documents Folder. A BIG PROBLEM comes when you delete an > app. All the files in the Documents Folder for your app also get > deleted. So if you have a Note application and have saved a lot > of notes, those notes are saved while your app exists but when > that Note taking app is deleted all of your information you’ve > saved is deleted with it. Most likely it will not be saved to the > icloud independently so the files you have for that app even > though they exist with the app on your icloud backup will be > deleted with the app. > > To me this makes the iPad a poor device for children to be > using for school because they should be allowed to keep > their school work without keeping outdated apps over the > years they go to school. > > JB > > >> On Oct 12, 2020, at 7:50 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> >> It is my understanding that each app has it’s own storage are and that this >> is sandboxed from other apps. That being said, there is obviously a way for >> an app to request permission from the iOS to access another app’s storage. >> I’m not sure if Livecode has that mechanism though. it’s probably some kind >> of Xcode library. >> >> Bob S >> >> >> On Oct 10, 2020, at 8:42 AM, Graham Samuel via use-livecode >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com<mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: >> >> Is it possible to access (write to) the iOS “Files” folder from an iOS app? >> I see that there is no specialFolderPath entry for it, but it appears that >> some apps do allow saving to the folder, and one is then allowed to open >> such files with an appropriate app. Basically I am thinking of giving the >> user a chance to save a text file there for processing by other apps. The >> alternative would involve the internet with all the tedious privacy rules >> etc. and my particular app doesn’t have any other use for the internet at >> all. >> >> Anyone tried it? >> >> Graham >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
