Devin I am overdue to thank you for this. Up to now, apart from the numerous tasks involved in just keeping going, I have been looking at the functionality of my proposed app - I have already used some of your material on location tracking! However for the deployment side, your links are gold dust to me. Thanks so much.
Graham > On 6 Apr 2020, at 16:55, Devin Asay via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Graham, > > I’ve just been through this gauntlet with my students. I provided some links > and lessons for them at http://livecode.byu.edu/mobile/test-deploy-links.php. > I found the process for setting up Android a little fraught with pitfalls, so > I created an expanded instruction sheet for Android setup, linked to that > page. > > I’m staying with the latest Stable version of LiveCode for my class, 9.5.1. > I’m running on Mac OS 10.14 Mojave. With this setup I have to use Xcode 10.1. > > As a refresher, on developer.apple.com<http://developer.apple.com>, you need > to create your iOS developer certificate, register all of the UDIDs for your > iOS devices, then create a wildcard provisioning profile for testing your > apps. The provisioning profile must include all devices you want to test on. > > A collection of links of instructions for distributing mobile apps: > http://livecode.byu.edu/mobile/mobileAppDistribution.php. > > I hope this will all help jog your memory. I find mine needs to be jogged > every time I come back to this mobile stuff after a long time away. > > Cheers, > > Devin > > > > On Apr 4, 2020, at 2:38 AM, Graham Samuel via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com<mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: > > Hi All - sorry this is a bit long, but I need help. > > I’m a long term LC developer who more or less retired from development a > couple of years ago, but I’ve kept on lurking in this list and trying rather > hopelessly to remain up to date. My experience has been mostly on desktop > apps, with a little iOS work. I haven’t ever done much on Android. I have > just about retained my credentials as an Apple developer. > > Now I find I really want to develop a mobile app at speed, and deploy it. > > I don’t anticipate all that much difficulty in creating my app in the sense > of designing and coding it - this can call on my own quite extensive > experience of the past, the LC documentation and this invaluable list. I can > reasonable hope to create a prototype in a few days. However there is a > massive gap: testing and deployment. > > I don’t have access to my most recent development machine (it’s in another > country and I’m self-isolating), so I am working with an iMac that can only > run MacOS High Sierra (and Windows 10 via Parallels, but I was hoping not to > go there for this project). Now, I clearly need to organise the right version > of XCode and the right SDK for my iOS development, and I need to do the > equivalent thing for Android - and I don’t know how to do it. > > For iOS, I THINK I need XCode 10.2, which I’m trying to download to replace > the copy of 9.2 already on my machine. I obviously need to work with a > compatible SDK. For Android, I don’t know where to start, so for now I am > putting this on the back burner, but I will have to return to it eventually. > Even when I’ve lined all this up (if indeed it’s feasible), I then need to > remind myself how to test via simulators (I used to be good at this, so maybe > that is not so scary, but I am not at all up to date) and then I need to get > the app onto real hardware - starting with iPhones, as I’ve got a few of > these. I really don’t know how to do this for testing, and more so I don’t > know how to distribute a test version to a small population of testers, > although I know this is feasible. The whole project may crash and burn at > this beta testing stage, so actually getting it into the App Store can wait a > bit. > > Obviously I am not expecting people on this list to hold my hand at every > step. My main concern is to be guided through the body of LC notes etc to get > absolutely practical advice and recipes as to what to do at each stage. If I > study the LC stuff long enough, I will get there, but I would dearly love > help to fast-track it all. > > Thanks > > Graham > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com<mailto: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
