LC8 (dp7) - pretty darn good

[Dave Kilroy]

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.



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