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Hi guys, my exposure to LC8 has been with iOS applications so far, but I do have an application that I was previously building in various versions of LC7 without issue.

Now that I've compiled this application for both iOS and Android, it still works correctly when deployed on Apple devices but the Android version is giving me hassles. The application still runs and all interactive objects still 'work', but no images or buttons are actually visible on the screen. The only visible parts of the application are text fields (labels, entry boxes etc).

I didn't have to change anything from LC7 to LC8 in terms of re-compiling the application to iOS, has something changed in terms of requirements to build for Android?

So, I've drilled further into the issue with some test stacks.

I have an image with the fileName of "./Forma.png" - which displays in the IDE. It only displays on the Android device if, in the standalone settings window, the file "Forma.png" is included separately after choosing "Add File", but not if the entire folder it is located in is included.

Is this a bug? It of course is a major issue when having a vast amount of files that need to be included in a standalone.

Does the file name actually start with a dot? Those are invisible. And I've noticed that LC 8 now filters out dot files in some functions.

jacque wrote:Does the file name actually start with a dot? Those are invisible. And I've noticed that LC 8 now filters out dot files in some functions.

Yes, it starts with a dot. That method has worked consistently all the way through LC7 for me, for iOS and Android.

I'm guesssing the problem is the new, automatic filtering of dot files. I think LC may be ignoring those now, at least, that happened to me on a stack run in OS X recently.