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Android Question Üpdate to latest Version of B4A from Tregistered Version 8.50
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It's actually not difficult to answer your question. Changing to the current B4A version 12.8 (64Bit) does not actually represent a risk as far as updating the development environment is concerned. Many new functions have been added to make programming easier for you.
I see a much bigger problem in the further development of the Android operating system itself. Depending on the SDK level with which you have developed your applications, there are many new restrictions on the part of Google, so that you may have to change your programme code considerably in order to meet these new requirements of the operating system on the end device. This applies at least to Android on mobile phones or tablets. I think the same applies to smartwatches if they run on this operating system.
Nobody will give you a guarantee that an old app will also run on modern devices, recently there are even minimum requirements for SDK levels, which means you have to programme your application for a minimum SDK level in order to be able to offer it in the Playstore, for example.
However, your old programme code should also work in a new development environment. Pay attention to notes in the IDE if you load an older programme into the IDE.
I see a much bigger problem in the further development of the Android operating system itself. Depending on the SDK level with which you have developed your applications, there are many new restrictions on the part of Google, so that you may have to change your programme code considerably in order to meet these new requirements of the operating system on the end device. This applies at least to Android on mobile phones or tablets. I think the same applies to smartwatches if they run on this operating system.
Nobody will give you a guarantee that an old app will also run on modern devices, recently there are even minimum requirements for SDK levels, which means you have to programme your application for a minimum SDK level in order to be able to offer it in the Playstore, for example.
However, your old programme code should also work in a new development environment. Pay attention to notes in the IDE if you load an older programme into the IDE.
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Just remember that you need to download even the new SDK from the Installation Instructions page.
Follow exactly and carefully every steps like starting from zero.
You can then extract the new SDK to a new folder without deleting your old one and you can install the latest B4A to a dedicated folder without overwriting your actual one.
In this way you can keep both version up to when you will not feel sure that everything it's ok.
Of course you will need to set up correctly the latest version with the new SDK in the Configure Paths.
But in the end you will see that you will stick to the latest version with happiness.
Follow exactly and carefully every steps like starting from zero.
You can then extract the new SDK to a new folder without deleting your old one and you can install the latest B4A to a dedicated folder without overwriting your actual one.
In this way you can keep both version up to when you will not feel sure that everything it's ok.
Of course you will need to set up correctly the latest version with the new SDK in the Configure Paths.
But in the end you will see that you will stick to the latest version with happiness.
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I don't know if something has changed with latest Wear OS.
It was possible to connect the watch with it's usb cradle and install app directly to the watch with B4A the same way as with phones.
It was just needed to enable developer options and enable USB Debug.
It was possible to connect the watch with it's usb cradle and install app directly to the watch with B4A the same way as with phones.
It was just needed to enable developer options and enable USB Debug.
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I'm afraid that thread is for phones running Android and not Wear OS. A while ago I made a post about Wear OS 2. I assume Wear OS 4 is similar
Using B4A to develop for a Wear OS 2 watch
I just got a Skagen Falster 2 watch and logged my first experiences of trying to use B4A to develop aps for it. Here's what I did! First of all setup the watch with the Wear OS app on a phone. Setup carries over the WiFi settings from phone so don’t need to enter a password, the phone watch...
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