Re: Sharing a file between Mac and iOS

2012-07-20 Thread Sean McBride
On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:58:34 -0700, Gavin Stokes said: >Developers could do this routinely in the '90s under Palm OS; and yet years >into the iPhone SDK, Apple still hasn't figured it out? This should have >been expected and resolved within the first couple of SDK updates, if not >at launch. I'm

Re: Sharing a file between Mac and iOS

2012-07-19 Thread Jerry Krinock
On 2012 Jul 19, at 11:32, Jens Alfke wrote: > every time you make a change, the entire file will have to be uploaded [by > Dropbox] (and downloaded on the other devices) so this doesn't scale well. I tested this about a year ago and found otherwise. Drag a large file into your Dropbox. Say t

Re: Sharing a file between Mac and iOS

2012-07-19 Thread Roland King
You've found both the methods which apple makes available. If you don't want to use iCloud, or can't because it ties you to the MAS, then you're left with iTunes file sharing. It's not a lovely solution, it's ok for moving a file every once in a while or priming some data one-time, but more than

Re: Sharing a file between Mac and iOS

2012-07-19 Thread Michael Hall
On Jul 19, 2012, at 6:40 PM, Mark Munz wrote: >> iCloud? If these are your own application's files. Might be a possibility. >> Haven't tried it. > > According to Apple, apps have to be on the Mac App Store in order to > use iCloud APIs. > That makes it an automatic 2nd choice (over something li

Re: Sharing a file between Mac and iOS

2012-07-19 Thread Mark Munz
> iCloud? If these are your own application's files. Might be a possibility. > Haven't tried it. According to Apple, apps have to be on the Mac App Store in order to use iCloud APIs. That makes it an automatic 2nd choice (over something like Dropbox) for any dev that isn't going to be MAS-only.

Re: Sharing a file between Mac and iOS

2012-07-19 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012, at 03:58 PM, Gavin Stokes wrote: > > > > But I am stumped as to how I might be able to more or less seamlessly > > handle syncing the file between the Mac and the iOS device. > > > This is perhaps the most glaring and insufferable omission in the SDK. I > urge you to file a

Re: Sharing a file between Mac and iOS

2012-07-19 Thread Gavin Stokes
> > But I am stumped as to how I might be able to more or less seamlessly > handle syncing the file between the Mac and the iOS device. This is perhaps the most glaring and insufferable omission in the SDK. I urge you to file a bug report on this and tell Apple that you want to be able to sync d

Re: Sharing a file between Mac and iOS

2012-07-19 Thread Michael Hall
On Jul 19, 2012, at 5:16 PM, Dennis wrote: > It looks like I need to explore using Dropbox. iCloud? If these are your own application's files. Might be a possibility. Haven't tried it. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please

Re: Sharing a file between Mac and iOS

2012-07-19 Thread Dennis
On Jul 19, 2012, at 3:12 PM, Jeffrey Oleander wrote: >> If by 'syncing' you mean 'copying'... >> If you really mean 'syncing' > > Or do you mean contention management as you'd > get with a massive data-base running on an NFS > cluster, so that what is really multiple files > on separate devices a

Re: Sharing a file between Mac and iOS

2012-07-19 Thread Jeffrey Oleander
> From: Jens Alfke > Subject: Re: Sharing a file between Mac and iOS > To: "Dennis" > Cc: Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com > Date: Thursday, 2012 July 19, 13:32 >> On 2012 Jul 19, at 08:22, Dennis wrote: >> But I am stumped as to how I might be able to >>

Re: Re: Sharing a file between Mac and iOS

2012-07-19 Thread Marc Respass
> I have written a Mac app (with another, i.e. non-Cocoa, language), and now > that I'm developing iOS apps in Xcode, I'd like to create an iOS app that can > share its files. The file format is fairly straightforward SQLite, and I've > determined that I can work with it just fine with the FMDB

Re: Sharing a file between Mac and iOS

2012-07-19 Thread Jens Alfke
On Jul 19, 2012, at 8:22 AM, Dennis wrote: > But I am stumped as to how I might be able to more or less seamlessly handle > syncing the file between the Mac and the iOS device. Unfortunately iCloud is > not an option for me, and iTunes file sharing seems to be far from seamless. If by 'synci

Re: Sharing a file between Mac and iOS

2012-07-19 Thread Dennis
On Jul 19, 2012, at 9:52 AM, Jerry Krinock wrote: > Dropbox :)) > > Seriously, Dropbox won't give you any crap. Read this, though, and then > research further to learn if the App Store rejection issue has been resolved… > > http://www.macrumors.com/2012/05/02/ios-apps-with-dropbox-integration-

Re: Sharing a file between Mac and iOS

2012-07-19 Thread davelist
On Jul 19, 2012, at 12:52 PM, Jerry Krinock wrote: > > On 2012 Jul 19, at 08:22, Dennis wrote: > >> Unfortunately iCloud is not an option for me > > Dropbox :)) > > Seriously, Dropbox won't give you any crap. Read this, though, and then > research further to learn if the App Store rejection

Re: Sharing a file between Mac and iOS

2012-07-19 Thread Jerry Krinock
On 2012 Jul 19, at 08:22, Dennis wrote: > Unfortunately iCloud is not an option for me Dropbox :)) Seriously, Dropbox won't give you any crap. Read this, though, and then research further to learn if the App Store rejection issue has been resolved… http://www.macrumors.com/2012/05/02/ios-app

Re: Sharing a file between Mac and iOS

2012-07-19 Thread Glenn L. Austin
On Jul 19, 2012, at 8:22 AM, Dennis wrote: > I have written a Mac app (with another, i.e. non-Cocoa, language), and now > that I'm developing iOS apps in Xcode, I'd like to create an iOS app that can > share its files. The file format is fairly straightforward SQLite, and I've > determined that

Sharing a file between Mac and iOS

2012-07-19 Thread Dennis
I have written a Mac app (with another, i.e. non-Cocoa, language), and now that I'm developing iOS apps in Xcode, I'd like to create an iOS app that can share its files. The file format is fairly straightforward SQLite, and I've determined that I can work with it just fine with the FMDB classes.