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How do I implement app updates for users that have my app installed? I can imagine that an app that was installed manually in a desktop environment could possibly update itself, but I have no idea how it works with app stores. I guess it may depend on the platform. Is there an option that works on a...

Hi Neil, thank you for your response and the sample stack. I finally got around to trying to incorporate it into my app, and I am having issues with the native scroller. The touch gestures already worked before adding the native scroller. My tests are primarily on the Android simulator, using LC 6.5...

Hi Neil, thank you for the explanation. I didn't have a specific command in mind. There was just the idea that native commands might allow you to do a copy or paste in native, so I was curious about the general idea. I understand that security is often tighter in mobile environments. I am more famil...

Is it possible to control both vertical scrolling for a text that's longer than the current screen, and horizontal swipe to put the next text into the same field (assuming I have a list of texts I want to switch between, and each one can be more than one screen)? The issue I see is that it seems the...

Thank you for the follow-up, Neil. It looks good on iOS. I would like to have my app work both on iOS and Android, and writing an Android external for it is beyond my scope at this time. Seems I have to put this part of the app on the back burner for now - hopefully the functionality will become ava...

I looked into it a bit more, and the workaround only seems to work for copy-and-paste between LC fields, but not between other apps and an LC app. Is there some kind of workaround that would at least allow me to place the text from a LC field onto the mobile clipboard? E.g. copying the text to a hid...

As a follow-up to my issue and Neil's response: I found a reasonable workaround for the issue. Not sure how ideal it is in general, but it seems to work pretty well for me as it doesn't introduce too many changes from the code for the other platforms and the card layout can stay the same. I am shari...

A couple of comments on the Q&A responses: When I submitted a ticket about the Idea2App forum not showing up in the forum list, Heather responded that only forum admins see the "Private" section that was mentioned here. As none of us participants are admins, we have to use direct links. If there is ...

Hi Neil, thank you for your help! That solved most of the issue. I do have some follow-up questions: 1. In your post you say that modal stacks are not supported on mobile. LC documentation for Android (and iOS) states: The modal command can also still be used, and will cause the calling handler to b...

In this app I open a card in a second stack modal on top of the primary stack. This works as expected in all pc environments and in the iOS simulator. In the Android simulator a part that contains a label and a button is not displayed when the card is open. In that place a piece of the underlying ca...

Thank you, Neil, I will check it out.

Werner

Hi Neil, thank you for your response. Unfortunately it it not very satisfying. Runrev heavily promotes the cross-platform development capabilities of LiveCode. This promise got me started with LiveCode. However, if such an essential feature as copy-and-paste is missing from cross-platform fields, yo...

My desktop app supports copying and pasting text to and from the clipboard on a couple of cards. According to the mobile documentation and the dictionary for 6.5.2 this does not seem to be supported on mobile, both for iOS and Android. Can you confirm this? If it is true, is that planned to change, ...

In my app (which works on Windows, Mac, and Linux, and which I am trying to enhance to also work on iOS and Android) I use an option menu in two places to allow the user the selection between different options. This works well on computers, and for iOS it seems to be translated into a "selection whe...

Based on the video instructions and previous experiences, I have a few questions - hope you can address them in the session. 1. For Android, what are some good AVD settings, both with regard to the Android version and the selected device? As you already mentioned in the video, v 2.2 does not work du...