sideloading updates to mobile

[Bob Sneidar]

Hell that means EVERYTHING is sandboxed! I need to go buy a pail and shovel! 

Bob S


> On Mar 1, 2024, at 8:31 AM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Both library and documents are sandboxed, I think all the listed folders are. I mostly use documents so that I have the same file paths on both iOS and Android since I generally need to build for both. But either one will work.
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> On March 1, 2024 10:08:15 AM Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
>> Isn’t the Library sandboxed?
>> 
>> Bob S
>> 
>> 
>> On Feb 29, 2024, at 6:35 PM, Mike Kerner via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> any reason to store in documents instead of in library?
>> it seems like there might be less of a chance of the user misusing the
>> Files app to break the app.
>> 
>> On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 5:32 PM Mike Kerner <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com<mailto:MikeKerner at roadrunner.com>>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> ah. that's a better way of handling this. i was going to have the app
>> check the documents folder for updates, before loading a stack, but if i
>> keep the source stacks, there, it will work better.
>> 
>> On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 3:10 PM J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> You can't add or change anything inside the app bundle so downloaded
>> files
>> have to go in specialFolderPath("documents"). Copy the originals from the
>> resources folder to the documents folder on first launch so you always
>> have
>> a known file path location. Any file in documents will be overwritten
>> with
>> the new download if the file name is the same.
>> 
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