Hi Werner,
The various mobile stores take care of the update process for you. In the case of iOS,you would log into iTunes Connect and select the option to create a new version of your application. After you have filled in the required information you will be allowed to upload your app via the "Application Launcher”.
The process is slightly different for Google play in that you create an incremented version of your application, upload this APK to the Google play store and update your store listing.
Initial Deployment to the various stores is explained in Lesson 8 of the coding school course.
As long as you have saved your users data into the applicable directories, then it will remain present when the update their application. There are various special folders that deal with this, with the main persistent folders being “Documents” and “Library” on iOS and only “Documents” on Android.
These folders are sandboxed within the application and are separate from any O/S based directories.
More information on these can be found under the “SpecialFolderPath” dictionary entry.
The only way for this user data not to be used during an update is if the user was to fully remove the application from their device prior to the update. This would result in a fresh version of the application being installed instead of an update.
User will be notified of any updates via the applicable store(i.e by device notification). These notification direct the user to your store listing where they are given the option to update or not.
In regards to Mac OSX app store, although it is possible to submit to the Mac app store with LiveCode application, there can be some sandboxing issues as we currently build via the Carbon framework. This should be resolved with the soon to be release cocoa port of LiveCode.
More information on the Mac App store submission process can be found here-
http://newsletters.livecode.com/novembe ... etter4.php
and here
http://newsletters.livecode.com/june/is ... etter4.php
For Windows 8 store, as LiveCode application do not directly support the tiled interface (metro) of these store Apps, I do not believe it is possible to submit to this store.
More information on Windows 8 store app requirements can be found here-
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsstore/ar ... -apps.aspx
I hope the above information is of some assistance.
Kind Regards,
Neil Roger
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RunRev Support Team ~
http://www.runrev.com
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