Dave, Thank you for this great summary and encouragement for lc8. I'll definitely give it a try soon. This kind of info re strategies for getting apps on mobile, in the store, etc, are really useful. Best, Bill
William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Oct 16, 2015, at 2:53 AM, Dave Kilroy <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just thought I'd report back my experiences of using LC8 (dp7) in doing final > builds and submission to Google Play Store and iTunesConnect. > > The IDE in dp7 is for me now workable because so many weirdnesses have been > ironed out - still plenty remaining but I can live with them in the > knowledge that with each release things will get better. I'm also getting > used to the new property inspector! Also, it sounds like from other threads > that the project browser is going to get a makeover making it even more > useful (ok I already like the project browser - I'm what Jacque calls a > "vertical person" and prefer it to the application browser. > > Android - dp7 built my app just fine for android and when i uploaded the > .apk to the Play Store it was accepted no problem and went live on the store > a couple of hours later. Since then the app has been performing fine (except > for things to do with my own design/code/choices). 10 out of 10 to LC8 for > Android. > > iOS - dp7 again built my app perfectly, I then used Jacque's AirLaunch to > make an .ipa file (I know I'm lazy but I like using her app to do this > simple job) - I then opened Application Loader to submit the binary to > iTunesConnect - and apart from a warning telling me that the .ipa file was > too big to be analysed before submission everything went smoothly (this was > a warning rather than an error and I don't think it's a material issue). A > few minutes later I got an email from iTunes with the customary "Missing > Push Notification Entitlement" warning (which I'm also ignoring). I clicked > the 'Submit for Review' button and the status changed to "Waiting For > Review". So, fingers crossed it seems that dp7 has also performed fine for > iOS. 9 out of 10 to LC8 for iOS (because of those silly warnings about push > notification) > > Testflight - currently LC 6.7.8(rc1) and 7.1.1(rc1) have a nice checkbox in > the standalone application settings dialog box - but LC8(dp7) doesn't yet, I > guess the next LC8 version will have it. However it was the work of 5 > minutes to amend the StoreEntitlements.xcent files as described at > http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=24315&p=127912&hilit=where+is+Entitlements.xcent#p127912 > - I made these changes before I did the final build for iOS - and with it > done was able to set up internal and external testers for testFlight on > iTunesConnect. So 8 out of 10 to LC8 for TestFlight (because I had to edit > plist files) > > So, assuming my app in iTunesConnect doesn't get rejected for some reason to > do with LC8 I think I am now ready to move over to LC8 as my main working > version. > > For some time I've been using LC7 but now that LC8 lets me build and deploy > to iOS and Android - as well as desktop and server - I'm moving over! > > How about the rest of you? Any others with positive experiences of LC8? > > Dave > > PS: I'm running Yosemite with Xcode 6.4 > > PPS: I was impressed when trying out my app with TestFlight as the process > was so smooth (no need for UDID's). In future I think I'll be making use of > it for iOS as well as the excellent alpha/beta testing features in the > Google Play Store. > > > > ----- > "The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits." - > Albert Einstein > -- > View this message in context: > http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/LC8-dp7-pretty-darn-good-tp4697568.html > Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
