question for everyone. ive built an app using BT control panel 2.0. Since downloading source, ive done alot of custom coding in xcode and all added a few new screens and menu option on BT. Whenever i load onto iphone/ipad, the screens are outdated and i immediatly have to hit refresh so its how i would expect it. How can i stop this ? Do i have to download the source code again now its all but finished? (im hoping not as this will mean i have to do all the custom code again) or is there something else i can do. im worried that if i send this to app store now, they are going to see the 'old' version instead of my finished version as they will not know to refresh. Any ideas/suggestions? Thanks in advance

Before compiling your app make sure to copy all the json data from the Configuration Data section of your app on bt dashboard. And then paste the same in your bt_config file in the assets folder. This way the contents in the project and on the bt server remain same.

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im worried that if i send this to app store now, they are going to see the 'old' version instead of my finished version as they will not know to refresh. They probably know to refresh, but they'll reject because you're using "place holder" in the app. Fred

Always make sure the configuration data from buzztouch.com and your BT_Config.txt file are in sync before you publish the app. And then don't make any changes until after they approve it, or it'll prompt them for a refresh (which, as @Fred points out, they'll know how to do). If you download your source code again from BT, it won't contain any modifications you've made to the source, and you risk overwriting those modifications and loosing them. The source you get from BT never changes after you download it the first time...only the BT_Configuration.txt file changes. Mark

Mark, am I right in thinking there is one exception to "the source you get from BT never changes after you download it the first time" , which is if you need to add plugins to the control panel after the download. It might sound obvious but I learned this the hard way. So now I load all the 3rd party plugins into my control panel as they come out in case I think I am going to need them. Alan

Hi Alan, Yep, good point! I thought that v2 provides all the plugins available at the time of download, so they're all there. But I'd have to double-check. Mark

You can add plugin files directly to the source code after you've downloaded the source code. If the plugin is also added to the control panel then the plugin should work. If the plugin uses new permissions you will need to modify the manifest (Android). Fred