Hello. If I download the source code for my app and import it into Xcode or Eclipse, if I make changes or add files there, will it sync back to Buzztouch? If not, how can I make sure they stay in sync together?

Changes in Xcode/Eclipse don't sync back. It's a one-way process in essence. Your control panel work simply saves a text file online that contains some instructions for the app to read. In technical terms, this is called "JSON". All of the actual code is in Xcode/Exlipse. Your app goes online to fetch the text file to see if it should follow a different path in the code it already has.

So if I add my files (for the file names in BT), everytime I recompile the app, I have to go and re-add all of the images, etc?

If by recompile you mean download the source code from Buzztouch, then yes. But if you're just making changes to the code you previously downloaded and compiled, then no - those images stay in the project folder on your computer

ok, will I need to keep downloading the source code from BT? (If I add a new screen, plugin, etc, do I have to re-download?)

If you add a new plugin, yes. The plugin contains the actual code. If just adding a screen, then no. That just makes a change to the online text file

ok, and I assume all image files go in the same place? And where is that place? I really appreciate your help!

No problem! In Xcode, images go in the BT_Images folder. In Eclipse they go in res/drawable

thanks!

Is the the initial creation/package from Buzztouch only supposed to "start you off" then download to the xcode or eclipse program to refine? Understood it is one way from buzztouch to the project,not including images. The only changes that would "push" any json changes and new plugin info to the project, however any development in the project environment that is made is not changed when a change is made to buzztouch? no json is overwritten? Just making sure it sounds like Buzztouch creates the framework and additions of BT plugins if added but the xcode or eclipse project stays in tact and is not adversely affected by changes made in buzztouch. I was confused by when buzztouch packages things up and you can put a version on it that it is managing the finished product and it sounds like its isn't. which is fine, just clarifying for my own knowledge. Thanks