is it possible to install my iOS app on my iPad for free?

[japino]

Hi, this may be a dumb question. I want to create a small tool using LiveCode which I want to install on my own iPad and nowhere else. Is my understanding correct that I still have to enroll in the Apple iOS Developer Program as an individual and pay the annual fee of $99? I read somewhere that this fee is for people who want to get their apps in the App Store, but that's not what I want. Is it possible to get a provisioning file without paying $99? Seems like a lot of money for a small tool just for myself.

[Klaus]

Hi japino,

no, this is an Apple restriction!

You may want to "jailbreak" your device, then this might be possible,
but I have no experience with "jailbreak", I don't even have an iPhone


Best

Klaus

[japino]

OK, that's a pity, but thanks Klaus!

[dave.kilroy]

Japino

Could what you want your app to do be achieved by some LiveCode scripting accessed from a web page instead?

If you explain what you want to do it may be that someone here can help

Regards

Dave

[japino]

Hi Dave,
Ah, I never thought of that, I guess it could. Basically, my app should simply read a text file from Dropbox and display it nicely in a form with some buttons for sorting. I may want to add to this later, but this is the main thing. Are you perhaps talking about using Livecode Server? No experience with that, but I could give it a try. Or are you talking about something else?
Thanks!
Japino

[dave.kilroy]

Hi Japino

Yep I'm talking about LiveCode server - you would have somewhere to host your online app from - but if you could do that then whilst on your iPad you would navigate to your URL and see the 'front page' of your app. I should think you would need some sort of login and password functionality in order to protect your private data plus a datastore on the remote server where you would store it (and that could be a simple text file instead of a database).

But of course you don't need LiveCode to do this - you could use php - or even DreamWeaver (I think) can spit out some basic code

However, don't even think about holding any important or sensitive information on a remote server without implementing some security! There are plenty of places in this forum and LiveCode's tutorials to learn how to go about things securely - and you might even consider revIgniter (a framework for LC Server at http://www.revigniter.com) that is pretty fantastic.

Just about all of the above require some or a lot of learning - but as long as you have somewhere to host from, they could be what you're after

Have fun!

Dave