iOS Question Very frustrated with B4i [Solved!]

Didier9 said:

I do not know what I am doing wrong.
I have the hardest times getting my app (or any app, any example downloaded from this site for instance has the same issue) to load/debug. I just downloaded two BLE examples and neither work.
My app is the only one that works, sometimes...

I start B4i-Bridge on the iPad, the screen turns black with the IP address,
I enter the IP address into Tools->Device IP Address,
I click on the Run icon,
B4i does its things,
The screen on the iPad turns white and... nothing.
I put a breakpoint on the first statement in Application_Start and it does not even get there.

It seems that the first time I start after many days of not working on it, it works the first time, just enough to make me think it's ok, then it's over until I give up in frustration after an hour or two and I do something else for a couple of weeks, then if I am lucky it may work one time again.

Sometimes it asks me if I want to install the app but not every time, and even when it asks, the app does not actually load.

I have noticed that when the screen turns white, the B4i-Bridge app shows "B4i-Example" in the top left corner (the "back" icon), even when the app I am trying to load has another name.
The log window occasionally shows error messages and I am invited to "clean project".

My app (an app- imported from B4A) is the only one that works, rarely... None of the examples I have downloaded have loaded, not even once.

Today for the first time, after about an hour, my app runs for the second time in one day. I cleaned all the leftovers (apps that did not work did manage to somehow install themselves on the ipad, there were several with the name "B4i-Example"), clicked Clean Project several times and my app runs. I am too scared to close it...

At that rate, it will take a couple bazillion hours to get anything done...
I have no idea what I am doing wrong, the tablet and laptop are obviously working and communicating, yet the program only loads once.

Any help appreciated, I committed to getting one app working some time this year, I can't afford to spend that much time troubleshooting the tool, I have to get my code working too...

Update: after removing all the remnants of previous apps from the tablet, it seems that B4i-Bridge is working a lot better. Not sure why but it looks like B4i-Bridge was trying to run the same old app I had downloaded way back and not the one I was trying to debug. By cleaning all the old apps, it is working a lot better. The clue is that B4i-Bridge was telling me it was running B4i-Example (the old broken app) even though it was loading another app. Once the old app was removed, it started working.

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Didier9 said:

after removing all the remnants of previous apps from the tablet, it seems that B4i-Bridge is working a lot better. Not sure why but it looks like B4i-Bridge was trying to run the same old app I had downloaded way back and not the one I was trying to debug. By cleaning all the old apps, it is working a lot better. The clue is that B4i-Bridge was telling me it was running B4i-Example (the old broken app) even though it was loading another app. Once the old app was removed, it started working.

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Erel said:

Don't leave old debugging apps installed. Due to iOS restrictions it could cause B4i-Bridge to launch the wrong app and then deployment will fail.

Debugging apps = Apps installed in debug mode.

Note that we offer 30 days of full money back guarantee. If you are still in that period then I can cancel the order.

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BillMeyer said:

I understand your experience and as a newbie way back went through the same thing.

My experience might help. In the beginning, whilst learning, I would also download apps and try to run them and always have a problem until I discovered a small little oversight that causes much problems if you do not know about it. It is also not noted/posted anywhere and it's juts one of those Ah-Ha moments when you find it.

When the "Experts" post an app or it's code for you to download, they almost always do this:
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and this is what gives you the problem. (You can find it at: Project --> Build Configurations or CTRL+B)

You see your B4i bridge does not know which app to look at if, say, you have downloaded 3 or 4 of these and have not changed this to match your Apple Dev Account certificates.

Mine for instance always starts with "com.beekon.myappname"

So please, don't give up - you are sitting on the best there is pertaining to Rapid App Development in the B4X suite of software. My apps developed with B4X makes me a very comfortable monthly income and I am able to react to customer requests very quickly and innovatively with it.

Good Luck. (If at first you don't succeed - try again)

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Alberto Iglesias said:

Hello didier9,


since the beginning of B4i, I had some difficulties too, but most of the time it was my fault for not knowing how to do it, or when there were problems with the B4i, Erel arranged quickly releasing in the next version.

So what can I say to you: Do not ever give up on B4i or B4A, they are the most extraordinary and fast app development tools I've ever met, you can try other ones, but you'll end up coming back to B4x, it's amazing and you'll see The time when there is no better time.

Best regards,

Alberto

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Filippo said:

Hi @Didier9 ,

I'm the first to buy the first version of B4i, and I always buy a new license every two years.
You're right, debugging is not as comfortable as in B4a, but it works.
I think that if it had been possible to make it even easier Erel would have done so long ago.

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BillMeyer said:

I understand your experience and as a newbie way back went through the same thing.

My experience might help. In the beginning, whilst learning, I would also download apps and try to run them and always have a problem until I discovered a small little oversight that causes much problems if you do not know about it. It is also not noted/posted anywhere and it's juts one of those Ah-Ha moments when you find it.

When the "Experts" post an app or it's code for you to download, they almost always do this:
View attachment 66229
and this is what gives you the problem. (You can find it at: Project --> Build Configurations or CTRL+B)

You see your B4i bridge does not know which app to look at if, say, you have downloaded 3 or 4 of these and have not changed this to match your Apple Dev Account certificates.

Mine for instance always starts with "com.beekon.myappname"

So please, don't give up - you are sitting on the best there is pertaining to Rapid App Development in the B4X suite of software. My apps developed with B4X makes me a very comfortable monthly income and I am able to react to customer requests very quickly and innovatively with it.

Good Luck. (If at first you don't succeed - try again)

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tufanv said:

I always thought I was the first to buy b4i

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