Android Question Installing 2 or more versions of B4A on same computer

toby

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I would like to install 2 or more versions of B4A on one single computer and they should not interfere with each other; in case I run into some problem with one version, I could switch to another version to verify whether its isolated to a particular version.

Is that a good ideal? If so, any advice would be welcome.
 
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ac9ts

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I have an older version and the latest. I keep the older version because I have one paid app that uses a Chromecast hack that I can't figure out how to fix with the new version.

I have 2 directories (Android_old and Android_new) that I rename to Android. You need to kill adb.exe before the rename. Not the best but it is all I have time for.
 
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ac9ts said:
I have 2 directories (Android_old and Android_new) that I rename to Android. You need to kill adb.exe before the rename. Not the best but it is all I have time for.
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You have two versions of Android sdk and one version of B4A. Is that correct?
 
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ac9ts

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toby said:
You have two versions of Android sdk and one version of B4A. Is that correct?
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No. I have 2 complete development directories.

C:\Android_Old has B4A 9.0 and the android-sdk directory (with a lot of the old format libraries, etc. required to keep that one app running)

C:\Android_New has B4A 9.9 and the android-sdk package from the installation instructions.

I mostly use the latest version (9.9). When I need to do maintenance on the one app, I kill adb.exe, rename Android to Android_New, and rename Android_Old to Android.

This keeps B4A happy as far as the path locations being C:\Android
 
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AnandGupta

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I too have maintained tow separate B4A installation in separate drives, C: and D:
I have set paths for them in ide and have two icons, renamed, on desktop.

Though now I do not much use the older version.

Regards,

Anand
 
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ac9ts

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Erel said:
There is no need to keep an old version. B4A is fully backward compatible. Keeping an old SDK might make sense in some cases.
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I tried that. In my case, I was getting compile errors (related to a hacked chromecast library) that I didn't get with the old version. The effort vs. reward to try and fix it is low so I keep 2 installations.

B4X: 
B4A Version: 9.90
Java Version: 8
Parsing code.    (0.12s)
Building folders structure.    (0.05s)
Running custom action.    (0.21s)
Compiling code.    (0.21s)
Compiling layouts code.    (0.07s)
Organizing libraries.    (0.00s)
    (Android Support Library)
Generating R file.    (2.44s)
Compiling generated Java code.    Error
B4A line: 768
MediaRouteButton1.SetRouteSelector(MediaRouteSel
javac 1.8.0_212
src\com\Sxxxxxx\Gxxxxx\gui.java:2307: error: package androidx.mediarouter.media does not exist
mostCurrent._mediaroutebutton1.SetRouteSelector((androidx.mediarouter.media.MediaRouteSelector)(_mediarouteselector1.getObject()));
 
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