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Hello Kim,

Certainly AB do not full document the Cordova / iOS / General and Signing options. But they can be deduced from the iOS and Apple "worlds", to say like that.

So you need to search for information about what a "Bundle version", means in the Apple "world", as well what is the "App ID", the "Deployment target" and the "Target device". Here are examples for these fields:

The above is for the General options. The signing options are the same, that is, refers to things that we need and are more or less common in the Apple development world: "Code sign identity", "Development team", "Package type" and "Build blags".

The Signing options refers to things that you must have available in your Apple Developer account. So, for example, you must have created a "Code sign identity", and that is what you must place in the "Code sign identity" field.

The same for the other options: you must have one or more "Development teams" in your Apple Developer account, so you must place in the "Development team" field one of the availables. The "Package type" refers also to options provided by Apple: probably in your case you must choose the "app-store" value for this option.

The "Build flags" can contain... specific build flags to take in consideration when compile our apps in XCode. In principle you no need to fill this field, if you no need to use specific build flags. Below you can see a sample of build flags that we can use:

I hope this information can help you in some way. I must admit that there are not very well documented in App Builder, however, these options refers to Apple and iOS things, so they can be found documented in the Apple Developer website, we can find the right values from our Apple Developer account, etc.

Anyway, please, go ahead if you have any other specific question and we will try to help you.

Hello Kim,

I am sorry, but, maybe we can help in something. What kind of problems you have? What kind of need do you wanted? What platforms are your targets? Do you already compile your apps to APK, IPA, etc? In few words, maybe we can help you in specific problems or tasks... On the other hand, how to publish the apps in the different stores is something out of the scope of App Builder, that is, every apps store have their rules, instructions, etc. But all of these are documented by the apps stores itself, so, we need to refer to that stores in order to know how to proceed.

Hello to all,

Here is a new DecSoft App Builder release, with the below changes, fixes and enhancements:

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Hello Ava,

Please, sorry for the delay! And... you're welcome! :-)

Hello Ava,

Answering your questions, AB controls use pixels, however, if your app have the "Auto scale" option activated, then the design controls' size can vary at runtime, since in this case we use percentage values. There are various samples to deal with images included with DecSoft App Builder. Are you take a look at them? On the other hand, you can use Image controls and also HTML controls in order to shown images, just depending on what you wanted.

Hello Ava,

If I am not wrong, we are talking about the Windows platform. Certainly, it's something common to execute executables and batch files in Windows, however, not from our hybrid apps. The only way to do something like that is try to find an Apache Cordova plugin that doing that... but I am not quite sure if the platform allows something like that for hybrid apps. It's possible... but I can't refer here any know plugin.

P.S. Apache Cordova allows to develop our own plugins, however, probably this is out of the scope here.

Hello Ava,

I am not sure if can understand... do you want to execute a BAT or EXE file from an AB app? If so, probably there is no way to do something like that due to security risks, except if an Apache Cordova plugin to do that exists... but maybe even an Apache Cordova plugin can't do something like that, because the Windows platform do not allow something like that.

Hello Amin,

Thanks for sharing that information here. And yes; certainly the push notifications can be really useful. :-)

Hello to all,

Here is a new DecSoft App Builder release, with the below changes, fixes and enhancements:

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Hello Ava,

That's the point... unfortunately, and, according to the Apache Cordova's Files plugin documentation, and, if I am not wrong... Windows do not offer to us any public directory to be used. I already mention this above: the directories wich we can use in the Windows platforms are only private for the app, for that the FileWrite approach (for what you want to use it) cannot work as expected.

We have the server side approach (using the OpenWindow action), or maybe you can find an specific Apache Cordova plugin that can help in some way... maybe a plugin that allows to show a native Windows "Save file" dialog or something like that.

Hello Ava,

Here is a sample of how to prepare an string to be used with the FileWrite action:

Using AB actions:

Using Javascript code:

Hello Ava,

I am a bit confused, since you refer to a windows APK... but the Windows platform doens't have APKs... when we talk of APKs we are talking about the Android platform. Anyway, maybe the problem is that you cannot specify the Array directly in order to be written.

If you plain to use the FileWrite action, you can prepare an string, instead of an Array: that string can contains any lines and any separated comman values in every line. Then you can save that string in the file using the FileWrite action.

Hello to all,

This App Builder's Javascript plugin allows to authenticate the user by the device's biometric sensor, Fingerprint in Android, and, Touch ID or Face ID in iOS. This App Builder's Javascript plugin uses the Apache Cordova's plugin cordova-plugin-fingerprint-aio, and your app must be compiled with Apache Cordova in order to properly work.

This plugin is included by default with the App Builder's installation. Take a look at the plugin's help file (from the program's options dialog, for example) in order to learn how to use it. A Biometric app sample is also included with the App Builder installation.

Hope can be useful!

Hello to all,

Here is a new DecSoft App Builder release, with the below changes, fixes and enhancements:

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Hello Ava,

Yes; you can try the Files app sample of AB in the Windows platform: they work like expected.