How many here have what amounts to separate Android/iOS versions of your Apps, separate Core, separate config,txt?? I have a powerful, yet modestly simple App, with Menu Simple and Location Map. In order to have solid black menu rows, I have to use conflicting statements in config.txt, which means separate config.txt. Android wants one, iOS wants another. How many have far more complex Apps, for which you need separate versions to handle the differences?

I think I suggested Chris1s Menu With Image Advanced in one of your other posts. It can handle both situations. Cheers! -- Smug

I may move forward with another Menu PlugIn. For now, I am very happy that I learned this much more about App programming. I now know two different code statements. Of course, I wouldn't mind finding the source authority for Android and iOS javascript commands. Right now, the one thing that could tip me over the edge from Menu Simple to an image Menu, even though I am not thinking about images, is if I could find a "responsive" Menu, so that in Landscape mode, especially on an iPad and larger Android devices, the Menu rows only went part way across the screen. On 6- to 7-inches of iPad in Landscape, I don't need 6- to 7-inches of black menu rows. Images? I have no clue what I would do to manage such a photo library... I'd rather have the menu rows shortened, and some imagery in the background.

Well, there is nothing that says you 'must' add images to your menus. I created an App for our local NPR affiliate that uses menus with no images; they loved it. Somethings work for 'anything', but the 'best' stuff is customized for the platform and the device. You'll find painfully few things like that in the market... Most things like that need to be customized, and since no one can predict 'what' devices or uses will be needed, it's hard to create something 'for the public'. All of your 'desires' can be done in BT, but a lot of this work will fall on your shoulders, because of the customization needed, that only you understand. It's just the way it goes. When you start programming, you'll find that iOS and Android are very similar. But you'll also find that iOS and Android are very different. It's extremely difficult to get things to look good in both, due to the expertise required for one, the other, or both. Hard to find. I joined Buzztouch a couple of years ago, with the desire to great 'the next great app'. And I'm still trying to build 'the next great app'. But I've found it's easier to create it slowly, by creating 'the next worst app' (*grin*) while figuring out new ways to accomplish what I 'really' want. Cheers! -- Smug

90% of the time I spent on my App, was in PHP, generating the Country > City > Category > Location Map data and config.txt. I have about a dozen PHP scripts that do various forms of data entry, geocoding (converting street addresses to Lat/Lng), sorting of Locations by world regions, filtering duplicates, and creating the (now) Android vs iOS config.txt files. I would like to learn more about modifying Location Map, to add more menu items to the callout bubble linked to each marker pin. That will be v1.5? :)

The callout bubbles are default callouts for each platform. You'll have to subclass them if you want to change the appearance or data capability... Try hunting "SMCallOutView" for iOS... haven't really found anything for Android yet... Cheers! -- Smug