sideloading updates to mobile

[J. Landman Gay]

Right. In spite of Android's "external documents" option, which I needed, 
it's still in the sandbox.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
On March 1, 2024 10:42:04 AM Bob Sneidar via use-livecode 
<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> 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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>> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>> 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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