Question about Taifun File extension

bodymindpower · February 14, 2021, 8:00am

Means the path to the assets on Android 11 with Companion is still:

/storage/emulated/0/Makeroid/assets/

Philaero · February 14, 2021, 8:29am

It works. thank you very much

bodymindpower · February 14, 2021, 9:13am

This is the path to the assets on Beta server for API < 29 (→ Companion).

So this path is changed for the second time:

/storage/emulated/0/AppInventor/assets/
/storage/emulated/0/Makeroid/assets/
/storage/emulated/0/Kodular/assets/

The path to assets for API ≥ 29 (→ Beta server) is:

/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/io.makeroid.companion/files/assets/

Taifun · February 14, 2021, 7:37pm

thank you… good to know…
I will do another update as soon as the new version goes in production…

still some makeroid inside…
@Kodular why not publishing the companion app as io.kodular.companion ?

Taifun

bodymindpower · February 15, 2021, 12:05am

Yes, good question.
But it would be just as good to ask why not leave it at “Makeroid” for Android < 10, instead of changing this for the second time and causing confusion (not least with regard to extensions).

hammerhai · February 15, 2021, 2:36am

Likely because they’d have to republish it.

bodymindpower · February 15, 2021, 9:06am

See also here:

pavi2410 · February 18, 2021, 11:23am

Exactly what @hammerhai said:

Taifun · February 19, 2021, 6:00pm

and where exactly is the problem to republish it?
Taifun

pavi2410 · March 14, 2021, 6:42am

The assets are stored just like App Inventor now, except that “AppInventor” in the path has been replaced by “Kodular” in order to prevent conflicts with the MIT App Inventor companion.

Edit:
Every occurrences of “Makeroid” has now been replaced with “Kodular”

pavi2410 · April 9, 2021, 5:52am

@Boban @bodymindpower @Taifun Could you please test the asset path behaviour with the beta server? I need to ensure that changes made for Android 11 requirement don’t break the functionality.

bodymindpower · April 9, 2021, 7:35am

Taifun · April 9, 2021, 6:40pm

@pavi2410 please first describe, what exactly has been changed and for which Android versions
@bodymindpower it seems to be, you are testing with a device older than Android 10? it might be easier to understand your test results if you could add, whether the result of a test was as expected or not…

Taifun

bodymindpower · April 10, 2021, 5:48am

Android 11:

pavi2410 · April 10, 2021, 1:54pm

To be precise:

First of all, Makeroid has been dropped in favour of Kodular name, except the package name.
As part of the changes to fulfill the Android 10/11 File restrictions, from Android 11 onwards, assets are saved to app’s private storage in the companion mode, i.e, /Android/data/io.makeroid.companion/files/assets/ as found out by @bodymindpower
For devices below Android 11, it resides under /Kodular/assets/ directory.

pavi2410 · April 10, 2021, 1:55pm

Thank you very much for your help and support, @bodymindpower !

pavi2410 · April 10, 2021, 1:57pm

Is there an asset named abc.txt already there?

pavi2410 · April 11, 2021, 11:08am

@bodymindpower I have fixed the bug with Exists block failing to check asset files. I will push it to the beta server soon.

bodymindpower · April 11, 2021, 12:32pm

Let me know when it’s done. I will then test it …

pavi2410 · April 13, 2021, 4:57pm

Beta server has been updated along with the companion app on the Play Store.