How do you enable iCloud support?

[donryan]

OK: I've got 2 apps out there now and my customers are expecting that the data would be in sync between all their iOS devices. I had thought that Apple did this automatically with syncing of the apps Documents folder with iCloud, but I guess not.

Anybody know how to get this working?

Thanks! -- Don

[monte]

There's an external here: http://maartenkoopmans.com/micloud

Cheers

Monte

[donryan]

Monte:

Thanks for the info -- but -- shouldn't this be a core functionality of LiveCode? I read the API documentation and it requires modifying files internal to LiveCode. That means on the next update, I'd have to manually modify those files again or loose the functionality.

Seems that runrev should incorporate that functionality directly into the iOS options for LiveCode.

Anyone know if this is being worked on for the next LiveCode upgrade? Anyone???

[jacque]

The LiveCode docs do say that backups will happen on files stored in Documents, Apple does that automatically. But synching and backups are different things in a way. Synching is usually a dynamic process that happens whenever a file changes. Backups on an iOS device are only done when the device is turned off and plugged into a power supply. It's likely your users are expecting immediate synching, which isn't an automatic Apple behavior.

[monte]

Only runrev know what they are working on but I suspect iCloud would be significantly down on the todo list. It's easy to make the plist changes... Just a few minutes work.

Cheers

Monte