Plan for persisting preferences on iOS applications

2012-10-24 Thread Alex Zavatone
We're currently looking at expanding one of our applications from 1 office to up to 40. It's an app that needs an internal preference to be set and remembered through updates or reinstalls. Since (thanks to the joys of sandboxing), preferences can't be saved outside the app in the

Re: Plan for persisting preferences on iOS applications

2012-10-24 Thread Dave Fernandes
This doesn't answer your question, but it might not be against company policies to encrypt the data and store the ciphertext in iCloud. On 2012-10-24, at 11:24 AM, Alex Zavatone z...@mac.com wrote: We're currently looking at expanding one of our applications from 1 office to up to 40.

Re: Plan for persisting preferences on iOS applications

2012-10-24 Thread Mike Abdullah
On 24 Oct 2012, at 16:24, Alex Zavatone wrote: We're currently looking at expanding one of our applications from 1 office to up to 40. It's an app that needs an internal preference to be set and remembered through updates or reinstalls. I’m confused, what stops a regular preference

Re: Plan for persisting preferences on iOS applications

2012-10-24 Thread Alex Zavatone
On Oct 24, 2012, at 12:40 PM, Mike Abdullah wrote: On 24 Oct 2012, at 16:24, Alex Zavatone wrote: We're currently looking at expanding one of our applications from 1 office to up to 40. It's an app that needs an internal preference to be set and remembered through updates or

Re: Plan for persisting preferences on iOS applications

2012-10-24 Thread David Duncan
On Oct 24, 2012, at 10:03 AM, Alex Zavatone z...@mac.com wrote: On Oct 24, 2012, at 12:40 PM, Mike Abdullah wrote: On 24 Oct 2012, at 16:24, Alex Zavatone wrote: We're currently looking at expanding one of our applications from 1 office to up to 40. It's an app that needs an

Re: Plan for persisting preferences on iOS applications

2012-10-24 Thread Alex Zavatone
On Oct 24, 2012, at 1:13 PM, David Duncan wrote: On Oct 24, 2012, at 10:03 AM, Alex Zavatone z...@mac.com wrote: On Oct 24, 2012, at 12:40 PM, Mike Abdullah wrote: On 24 Oct 2012, at 16:24, Alex Zavatone wrote: We're currently looking at expanding one of our applications from 1

Re: Plan for persisting preferences on iOS applications

2012-10-24 Thread David Duncan
On Oct 24, 2012, at 10:25 AM, Alex Zavatone z...@mac.com wrote: On Oct 24, 2012, at 1:13 PM, David Duncan wrote: On Oct 24, 2012, at 10:03 AM, Alex Zavatone z...@mac.com wrote: On Oct 24, 2012, at 12:40 PM, Mike Abdullah wrote: On 24 Oct 2012, at 16:24, Alex Zavatone wrote:

Re: Plan for persisting preferences on iOS applications

2012-10-24 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Oct 24, 2012, at 10:25 AM, Alex Zavatone z...@mac.com wrote: That's just amazing. Apple's doc writers need to do a much better job of explaining that even though the app is sandboxed, the sandbox exists outside the application and the app and the sandbox folders sit next to it within a

Re: Plan for persisting preferences on iOS applications

2012-10-24 Thread Alex Zavatone
On Oct 24, 2012, at 1:36 PM, David Duncan wrote: ... That's just amazing. Apple's doc writers need to do a much better job of explaining that even though the app is sandboxed, the sandbox exists outside the application and the app and the sandbox folders sit next to it within a folder

Re: Plan for persisting preferences on iOS applications

2012-10-24 Thread Alex Zavatone
I'm referring to the iOS docs. Sorry if I didn't specify that this was for iOS. On Oct 24, 2012, at 1:59 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: On Oct 24, 2012, at 10:25 AM, Alex Zavatone z...@mac.com wrote: That's just amazing. Apple's doc writers need to do a much better job of explaining that even