This is a part of my Code Snippets collection, needed in many projects.
Some things (like sound recording, GPS tracking, ...) works different in iOS with different libraries.
To build cross platform projects we need to implement for that cases classes with same name and public methods, but different implementations for Android and iOS. Only this classes are not in the parent folder (which is for B4A and B4i together).
For this things I like to use an class "OSspecClass" inside of my xGlobalClass and define an cOS object in B4XMainPage.
Cases for the OSspecClass are getting the app version (in B4A with "Application"-object) or keeping the display alive (in B4A with "PhoneWakeState").
Some things (like sound recording, GPS tracking, ...) works different in iOS with different libraries.
To build cross platform projects we need to implement for that cases classes with same name and public methods, but different implementations for Android and iOS. Only this classes are not in the parent folder (which is for B4A and B4i together).
For this things I like to use an class "OSspecClass" inside of my xGlobalClass and define an cOS object in B4XMainPage.
Define in the xGlobalClass:
Sub Class_Globals
Public cOS As OSspecClass 'for platform-specific things
End Sub
Initialize it in B4XMainPage:
Private Sub B4XPage_Created (Root1 As B4XView)
Main.cG.Initialize
Main.cG.cOS.Initialize
End SubCases for the OSspecClass are getting the app version (in B4A with "Application"-object) or keeping the display alive (in B4A with "PhoneWakeState").
If only a view differences in code you can use one class for both:
#if B4A
'Code only for Android
#else if B4i
'Code only for iOS
#End If
'or version 2:
If xui.IsB4A Then
'Code only for Android
Else If xui.IsB4i Then
'Code only for iOS
End If
'only in version 1 the OS foreign code is ignored by compiler. (if you use classes in the other OS, that the compiler don't know)
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