I am using Advanced Installer to create the installer of java based desktop application, it is working fine. I added a desktop shortcut icon of the EXE, when i install the application on my system its desktop icon is correct as i defined when created the installer, but when i uninstall the app and then reinstall it 2nd or 3rd time sometimes its desktop icon get changed by itself(replaced with no icon).
can someone tell me what is the issue. Thanks in advance.
Usually this is a sign of corrupted Windows Installer cache on your machine. Have you tried testing the package in a VM? The icons are cached by the OS in a special system folder, nothing special is done by the setup package or Advanced Installer in order for the icons to be set on the shortcuts.
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I have successfully built my first app on a Mac using atom and electron, but now I don't know how to get the app to Windows for other people to install.
Basically I don't know how to create an installer for Windows on Mac.
If I understand correctly, you need to know how to create a Windows install package (.exe or .msi) for an Electron app for the situation when you are developing the app on Mac OS.
There are multiple options; identify and choose a packaging solution that meets your needs.
Electron-builder
One of the available packagers for Electron is electron-builder, see documentation here:
https://www.electron.build/multi-platform-build
There are limitations.
From the electron-builder documentation:
On macOS/Linux you can build Electron app for Windows locally, except Appx for Windows Store
Other options
https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome-electron#tools
Look at the great list of tools here for some additional packaging options.
For other options available to you, and some discussion, take a look at the answers to this related question: How to deploy an Electron app as a executable or installable in Windows?
I'm trying to make an update app feature for an electron app I'm working on. I am able to download the installer for the update, but when I try to run the installer I get this message:
Is there something that I need to do in order for the installer to not be flagged as unsafe?
Side Note: When I download the installer using chrome, it works just fine. But when I download it using my electron app, it shows that windows defender popup.
Sign your installer package to avoid smartscreen filtering. https://github.com/electron/windows-installer#sign-your-installer-or-else-bad-things-will-happen
I've been tasked with building a demo suite of our iOS application for our sales team to run on their laptops.
I know that I can install Xcode on their machines and then create a shortcut for the simulator, but that feels really heavyweight for our sales folks.
I've used my google foo and I see that there are several choices in the windows world, but I've not seen an alternative for OS X. Does anyone have suggestions for a standalone iOS emulator on OS X?
I suggest you do the following:
Install Xcode.app on your system
Build & Run your demo app, targeting each sim device you want them to demo (or use xcrun simctl install /path/to/your/built.app)
Make a tarball of ~/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices
Untar that tarball into ~/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices on each demo machine.
Install Xcode.app on each demo machine and just place Simulator.app in the Dock.
If you're really concerned about disk space, you can delete a bunch of things inside of Xcode.app that aren't needed, but make sure you keep CoreSimulator.framework, SimulatorKit.framework, Simulator.app, simctl, and anything that has "CoreSimulator" as a parent directory.
Have you tried https://appetize.io/?
I've used a few demos in the browser and it seems like a very lightweight way to at least demo an app (although performance is suffers a little since its in a web browser).
I was trying to set up the environment to develop and debug a simple android app with the use of Android Virtual Device Manager. I had followed all the steps from google's website.
Moving to the next step, as I had selected the target to be 'Android 4.4W - API Level 20' details in the wizard 'create new android virtual device(AVD)', the CPU/ABI field was grayed out saying 'No system image installed for this target'.
I had opened ANdroid SDK Manager to check if the mentioned target is holding a valid system image.
It had been updated with the latest packages from the respective repositories while contacting few of the repositories was a failure.
In the end, I had a surprise that my Android 4.4W (API 20) is not having its respective system image installed.
When I actually checked the folders that I had downloaded, I couldn't also notice the System Images sub folder under the SDK folder.
Can someone please help me out with this?
Start up Android SDK manager. Under "Android 4.4W (API20), make sure "sources for android sdk" is installed. If not, check the box and installed.
P.S. - I had the same problem.
After installing the image you have to restart eclipse. Otherwise it can't see the image.
Got the same issue. If you're running SDK Manager on Windows 7, run it with the admistrator privileges. That solved the problem in my case.
Open SDK Manager -> Tools -> Options
Check Force https://... sources to be fetched using http://...
You will see sources for android SDK, install it.
Close SDK Manager and open it again, you wil see ARM EABI
I run the drvupdate-64 installer which runs until it closes and I get a notification in the tray icon that '"not supported bluetooth function"' was successfully installed as a driver.
I found that a bit weird and after that NOTHING happens with the installer, it just dissapers and doesn't come back.
In task manager I can see it running as 'driver_setup.exe' with the description 'windows mobile device center setup' but that's it, nothing else seems to be happening.
Any ideas what's going wrong and how I can fix this? I need it to get the windows mobile sdk to install.
I had to navigate to the install directory of WMDC Driver Update and find the installer to continue the process, the installer was bugging out on me and not proceeding to the next step for some reason...
I had a similar issue when installing on Dell laptops models 7480, 7280. I had tried updating removing device drivers as per Microsoft Answers with no success.
Having come across the above I did continue the installer process as per tweetypi comment but still had issues. I was able to install and get this working as per following steps:
After running the WMDC installer I could see that in task manager the install process "driver_setup.exe" was still running.
As per tweetypi answers I then navigated to the install directory for WMDC Driver Update to find the installer and continue the process:
C:\Windows\WindowsMobile
I opened each Drivers folder (Bluetooth, RNDIS, Serial) in turn and run the “wmupdate” installer.
Windows Mobile Device Centre was then listed on my programs list but would not launch.
I then opened Device Manager from Control Panel. Changed view to show hidden devices. This revealed 'Bluetooth Virtual Devices' > 'Not Supported Bluetooth function'.
I then uninstalled this driver and checked delete the driver software for this device
After this, I ended the “driver_setup.exe” process within task manager. Then run the “driver_setup.exe” install file once more. The install process was then able to complete and the Windows Mobile Device Centre was now launching.
The device I needed to connect was for USB, I'm not sure about functionality for Bluetooth after removing the virtual device.