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[Ian_I_]

Hi, I have two apps: a development version and production version, that are otherwise mirror images of each other. Somewhat recently, the production version started acting strangely. When I compile an android build or android crosswalk build, and install it on the device, it puts up a message box that says: "Unfortunately, Dollar Candy has closed", and ends… without running even the first line of JavaScript. I verified that all the code was identical in both versions, and that all the Intel xdk project tab settings were duplicated exactly, and yet this problem still occurred on the production version but not the development version.

So I figured it probably had something to do with a hidden setting that had been set on one of the project files. Both of these apps are fairly old, and have been upgraded through numerous updates of the xdk, so I thought perhaps something had happened to one but not the other. So I copied the .xdk,.xdke, and all the other 5-6 configuration files from the root of the development version to the production version. This did indeed stop the error message box from appearing.

So I have two questions about projects.

1) In the production version (before I copied over it), it had a subdirectory called plugins, which seems to have been auto created by the xdk and contained all the Cordova plug-ins that were checked in the project tab. The development version did not have this directory, and after copying over the settings the production version does not anymore either. What is the purpose of this directory, and should I be concerned that it is no longer being auto created?

2) I noticed that in the successful build notification emails for the production app, the name of the project is incorrectly listed as DevDollarCandy (the development project name) rather than DollarCandy (the production project name). I searched every configuration file in the root directory, but could not find this string. What must I change to fix this?

thanks,

Ian

[John_H_Intel2 · Accepted solution]

1878 had a bug where it was creating/populatingthe plugins folder when it should not have been. That bug was fixed in 1912.

If you started copying .xdk files around, that is probably why the name of the app in the email is incorrect. The .xdk and .xdke files are not meant to be edit but the user since they are generated by the project settings. I would recommend that you create a new app, copy your files (in the www folder) over to the new app, and use the project settings screen to setup your app again.

[Ian_I_]

Thanks John, and I will follow your recommendation and create the app from scratch. Thanks.