Android Question Want to have both 9.01 and 9.50 installations in my laptop

[AnandGupta]

I have B4A version 9.01.2 installed and am happy with it.
I now have version 9.50 and want to be happy with both

So, I want to have both installations in my laptop, may be in different folders/partition etc.

What is the best approach, so that I can use my existing B4A codes in 9.01 and make new in 9.50 ?

Important is that SDK for 9.01 should remain as it is and for 9.5 will have AndroidX and jetifier libs, including Java to remain 8 and 11 respectively. So both must not interact or create problem to each other.

I did search the forum for "two version 9.01.2" but did not get relevant result. May be master are already using such setup and can guide me.

Regards,

Anand

 

[DonManfred]

the problem is that b4a can only be configured to use ONE SDK

Add another user to your PC, configure the user to use your 9.01 installation and a SDK. Install the SDK for this user in another place.

Honestly you should use the AndroidX SDK and 9.5. There is no reason to use the old, deprecated, android support mavens... Note that you´ll not be able to use the newest Firebase artifacts as they depends on Androidx.

 

[Erel]

You can have two Android SDKs installed. The path to android.jar under Tools - Configure Paths determines the Android SDK that will be used.

There is no good reason to use an old version of B4A. All maintained libraries work with AndroidX SDK.

 

[AnandGupta]

Thanks for the advise Erel and DonManfred.

I understand that I should use the latest version, but to fix an error reported by my client urgently, I would prefer the same version I made the app in. You see the clients pay and they do not hear any excuse for any delay due to version, which is anyway not their headache.

I will try separate partition and different folder at first, to keep the 9.01 working along.

I welcome more advise from Experts here.

Regards,

Anand

 

[klaus]

You can have different B4A versions on a same computer, I always install a new version in a different folder.
But, the path setting remains the same for all!
If you want to use different path settings you must reset them every time you use another the B4A version.

 

[DonManfred]

If you want to use different path settings you must reset them every time you use another the B4A version.

or, like i said, you use a second user on your system. Each user can have different path inside the B4A Ide.

 

[AnandGupta]

Don's advise helps but the documents path changes, obviously, making some of my batch files no-usable.
Taking the idea from it, I tried https://www.sandboxie.com/ SANDBOXIE, which is free now, but even in sand-boxed the app is accessing logged user's document path and not in the sandboxed path. Maybe I am doing something wrong.

I am trying to achieve what I want and will reply as and when I get some desired solution.

Regards,

Anand

 

[pclinx]

Create a Virtual Machine to run other version in.
I often create VM's for each client