Mike, I found that zipping them up and doing an unzip on first launch was the best compromise. I have an unzip function that will replicate a directory tree if you're interested. It works for Android and iOS.
Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -----Original Message----- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Mike Kerner Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 3:39 PM To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Re: sloooowww standalone building with many included files You don't think it would have anything to do with signing an app that has 8500 files in it, do you? I would bet that THAT would take forEVER On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Chris Sheffield <cmsheffi...@icloud.com>wrote: > So I have an app. An iOS app. This app includes lots and lots of small > audio files (nearly 8500). All those files are in a folder, which is > included in the Copy Files pane of the standalone build settings. > Creating the build works just fine, but it takes a very long time. I > haven’t kept track exactly, but probably close to 10 minutes. Maybe not quite. > > Anyway, can anyone think of a way to speed this up? I tried creating > my own routine to copy that folder into the app bundle in a > savingMobileStandalone handler. This worked very well as far as the > copying goes. I used revCopyFolder and it worked great and was very > quick. It probably only took about 20 seconds to create the build, if that. > Unfortunately, it appears that the signing of the app takes place > *before* what happens in the savingMobileStandalone handler, which > seems to be invalidating the signature, as the app bundle is being > modified after the signing. I was able to manually install the app on > my device and run it just fine, but once I uploaded the build to > Testflight for testing purposes, no one was able to download and > install it successfully from there. > > So any thoughts? Or should I create an enhancement request to see if > the build process can be sped up a bit. Not sure why it takes so long, > when revCopyFolder is quite fast. > > Thanks, > Chris > > > > -- > Chris Sheffield > Read Naturally, Inc. > www.readnaturally.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and did a little diving. And God said, "This is good." _______________________________________________ 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
