Preferences folder/files on mobile

[Slava Paperno]

Thanks for the exhaustive coverage, Jacque!

S.
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-
> bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of J. Landman Gay
> Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 3:50 PM
> To: How to use LiveCode
> Subject: Re: Preferences folder/files on mobile
> 
> On 7/24/11 1:35 PM, Slava Paperno wrote:
> > Does the special folder "preferences" point to some location on
> mobile
> > devices?
> 
> No. The release notes on each mobile OS have a list of available
> folders
> you can access.
> 
> >
> > If not, where is one supposed to place a preferences file for an
> application
> > on a mobile?
> 
> Generally specialFolderPath("documents"), for a couple of reasons. Not
> only is it one of the folders backed up by iTunes on iOS (all app data
> is backed up on Android) but also since that folder exists and is
> writable on both mobile platforms, you don't have to branch your code.
> 
> >
> > Is the Windows tradition of naming the preferences file with the
> "ini"
> > extension upheld on mobiles?
> 
> As long as you store your file in one of the approved, writable
> folders,
> it doesn't matter what you name it. An "ini" file won't have any
> particular meaning on mobile however. Since it's difficult to see what
> other apps use for their file names because of the sandboxing, I don't
> know if Windows naming conventions are common. It wouldn't matter.
> 
> >
> > A related question: does special folder "home" have any meaning on a
> mobile?
> > The concept of the "current user" does not exist on a mobile device,
> does
> > it?
> 
> iOS has specialFolderPath("home") though I don't know if it is
> writable.
> Android doesn't have a "home" folder; at present it has only three
> special folder locations and only two are writable.
> 
> I don't think mobile devices can have more than one user account (can
> they?) so there wouldn't be a specific "current user". The device
> itself
> would be the current user, I suppose.
> 
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