Discussion Forums  >  Config Data, JSON, App Refresh

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07/26/17 05:07 AM (7 years ago)

I'm new around here. Can someone explain the app refresh process?

Hello! I've been crushing an app out this week for a client, and noticed that the simulator never asks if I want to refresh the app like it used to. Poking around the xCode project, I found this localized string: "updatesAvailable" = "This app's content has changed, would you like to refresh?"; but it never seems to get called anywhere. Is this something that has changed since the olden days? Or is it a "Live" vs "Design" thing? Thanks for any insight! -Chris
 
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07/26/17 09:52 AM (7 years ago)
I only ever use design mode and I see my app refreshing on a real device. So I don't think its a design vs live thing. And I believe the app will not refresh on first load, but it will after that. Not sure about Android though. I don't havethe whole picture but does that help a little bit? Alan.
 
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07/26/17 12:04 PM (7 years ago)
Hmmmm... I've been working on this app all week, and its never popped up and asked to refresh. I've seen it automatically refresh once when coming back to the "home" screen from another tab. But didn't ask. Weird.
 
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07/26/17 12:08 PM (7 years ago)
Looks like it was changed to automatically refresh after all. //refresh app data if something changed... if(![lastModifiedOnServer isEqualToString:previousModifiedOnServer]){ [BT_debugger showIt:self message:@"reportToCloud: app data modified on server, refreshing..."]; [self refreshAppData]; }else{ [BT_debugger showIt:self message:@"reportToCloud: app data not modified on server, not refreshing"]; } No longer pops an alert. Good to know.
 
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07/27/17 05:18 AM (7 years ago)
Thanks for the info! Dave
 

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