Has anyone successfully prepared an app for the iOS App Store with animations? If so, how did you get them into the ipa file? Even in a trivial executable, which just plays a single .mov using ioskit, all i get in the .ipa is my icon and launch image files. no movies.
How are you adding them to the project?
i am using a “copy files” build step, which has reliably worked for me in the simulator and local downloads to an iPad.
Try doing a non-app store build and right-click on it and see if they’re in there.
Also, make sure your copy step is set to release or both, and after the build step.
thanks, greg, for engaging on this one. i am copying after build and am set to both. i do get the movies in the non-app build, but not in the app store build. it feels like either:
- xojo does something different in these two instances, or
- i am doing something dumb.
i have a trivial app source that just opens a view with a canvas in it and calls ioskit (in the canvas paint event) to run a movie. it seems to behave normally in the simulator and on non-app builds bit not on app builds. i am happy to send it on (<2Mbytes with two movies, one @2x) if you can tell me how to do so.
Why don’t you simply drag the file into the project ? That will copy it to the bundle just fine, and may solve the issue.
Xojo does not seem to like this approach for “this kind of project.” What I get is:
File .mov can not be
imported into this kind of project
[quote=283047:@James Bailey]thanks, greg, for engaging on this one. i am copying after build and am set to both. i do get the movies in the non-app build, but not in the app store build. it feels like either:
- xojo does something different in these two instances, or
- i am doing something dumb.
i have a trivial app source that just opens a view with a canvas in it and calls ioskit (in the canvas paint event) to run a movie. it seems to behave normally in the simulator and on non-app builds bit not on app builds. i am happy to send it on (<2Mbytes with two movies, one @2x) if you can tell me how to do so.[/quote]
File a private bug report in Feedback and put it there.
i have created feedback report 45016.
Why did you make it private ? Now it is impossible to add to it.
AVI is also rejected, probably others
Because I asked him to. If there’s nothing private in there James can ask us to make it public again.
Oh, that is right. Sorry.
That said, it would be interesting to have a list of all files that are rejected, so they are eventually all fixed at the same time. At first glance, it seems like all video files.
AVI and MP4 are very common video formats, and they both get rejected.
@James Bailey - In your project, move the Copy Files step to before the Sign Step. Once the bundle is signed you can’t copy more stuff in.
Thank you Greg. This certainly looks like my blunder. Alas, I am away until Saturday and will not be able to confirm until then.