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11/05/10 12:12 PM (15 years ago)

Testing My App

Hi, hate to bother you while you're traveling... Here's another question I ran into. I'm able to preview some of my screens in the Simulator but the other screens don't show up there. For example the Home Screen shows up but I can't test the other pages to see if they look good. So I was thinking maybe I need to compile the app and submit it to the Android market, then view it on an actual phone. Or is there a way to see the whole app, including all the sub-menus, before finalizing it and compiling it? I just downloaded the JDK, then I need to download the JDE, then Eclipse, and the SDK. I'm drowning in programming acronyms! Crossing fingers. Thanks!
 
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11/05/10 11:26 PM (15 years ago)
No worries, traveling is just kinda part of it ;-) There should be no screens you can't test on the simulator. I would be interested in learning what screens you are having trouble with on the Simulator - all should work (YouTube videos won't actually play on the simulator but you should be able to see the YouTube video start screen). Could it be that changes made to you app in the control panel are not showing on the simulator? If this is the case, tap the Refresh button on the simulator (inside your app) to see changes made on the control panel.
 
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11/06/10 03:29 PM (15 years ago)
I didn't see a Refresh button on the simulator (Inside my App). Maybe I'm missing something... but I looked and looked :-) Some screens are fine, and I'm able to see the content, others still show Sample content and don't reflect what I have set up. I took screenshots and pasted them into powerpoint if you want to take a look. I have a few pages with loads of text (Custom Text sub-menus) and I want to see what they look like on the phone. If they look crappy, I may want to make them Custom HTML and break them up into sections or something. .
 
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11/06/10 04:34 PM (15 years ago)
I didn't see a Refresh button on the simulator (Inside my App). Maybe I'm missing something... but I looked and looked :-) Some screens are fine, and I'm able to see the content, others still show Sample content and don't reflect what I have set up. I took screenshots and pasted them into powerpoint if you want to take a look. I have a few pages with loads of text (Custom Text sub-menus) and I want to see what they look like on the phone. If they look crappy, I may want to make them Custom HTML and break them up into sections or something. .
 
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11/07/10 11:35 AM (15 years ago)
The Refresh button in in the top left (little curved arrow thing) on your apps home screen when it's running in the simulator. Try to refresh the data, it may not do anything but it's work trying. I'm still confused about the Sample Content that you see, buzztouch doesn't provide any sample content so I'm not sure what you're referring to? Feel free to send your powerpoint to info at buzztouch.com, I'll get a look and see if I can figure out where your struggling.
 
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11/08/10 12:23 AM (15 years ago)
Hi, I'm laughing! When you talked about not seeing a Refresh button and not seeing your content, I thought you were talking about the iPhone Simulator in Xcode, not the screenshots used to guide you in the buzztouch control panel - giggles. You won't see any content you enter in the buzztouch control panel. The screenshots are there to guide you along. To see your work, you'll need to download the source-code, compile it then test it. This is done using Xcode for iPhone and Eclipse for Android. See the two videos ion your control panel home screen for examples of how to do this. So, to answer your original question, there is not way to see your work until you compile it using Xcode or Eclipse. Sorry to have misunderstood you. Still giggling. Cool Powerpoint by the way ;-)
 
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11/08/10 11:15 AM (15 years ago)
Thanks! I'm glad I made you laugh :-) if it ain't fun, it ain't worth doing! Also, I downloaded the Java Development Kit and the JDE and SDK and Eclipse and when I clicked eclipse.exe, it gave me an error message. I will send you the screen shot. I've already dreamed up Version 2.0. of the app and I still can't compile Version 1.0. But then, that's what Buzztouch does, it induces a person to see all kinds of wonderful possibilities.. Now if I could only get Eclipse to work. I don't have a Mac so I'm in the same boat as the others.
 

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