Android Question How to stop b4a from trying to install Design apk

[EduardoElias]

I am using an POS android that is full of securities and requiers the apk to be signed with specific key

Desing9.apk is not signed with that key and I rarely use the connect design editor.

So it keeps trying every few seconds and it is a mess.

I need to make it stop installing for this device.

I have renamed the desig9.apk so it did not find and dont install, but in this case it started to drop the connecting with the b4a-bridge so I could not inject my app there.

What to do?

 

[RJB]

Are you installing the production App from the IDE?
Can you install it from it's apk instead?

 

[EduardoElias]

Are you installing the production App from the IDE?
Can you install it from it's apk instead?

I want that b4a IDE stop trying to install the desig9.apk

 

[aeric]

You mean "B4A Designer"?

I don't know if there is any side effect, you can disable the code for CheckIfDesignerIsInstalled sub in the source code and compile your own B4A-Bridge. One thing for sure is you would not able to preview the "live" layout on your phone when debugging.

APK: https://tinyurl.com/2s3vb72e
Source: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/attachments/b4a-bridge-reskinned-ui-no-designer-zip.129033/

 

[agraham]

The source for B4ABridge is here. There is a Sub CheckIfDesignerIsInstalled in Service1 but there are no references to it and the IDE warns it is unused so I can't immediately see how to fool the IDE that the designer is already installed.

B4A-Bridge source code

B4A-Bridge is made of two components. One component is running on the device and the other is embedded in the IDE. The device side is the server side. It waits for connections and when a connection is established it handles the "action" messages. The code itself is made of a simple activity...

www.b4x.com

Have you tried compiling a do nothing apk with the same package name as the designer and signing that and letting the IDE install it?
Package name is "anywheresoftware.b4a.designer"
Version code is 31
Version name is 9.50