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• talis Guru

  February 2013 edited February 2013 Accepted Answer

  First of all welcome on board !
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  With the urlloader class it is so easy to do that. Please have a look at those threads to have some basic knowledge. Than if you have further questions feel free to ask
  
  UrlLoader Reference Manual Link
  1-http://www.giderosmobile.com/documentation/reference_manual.html#UrlLoader
  
  So much good example of calling Web-Services from Gideros by @joelghill
  2-http://li229-214.members.linode.com/forum/discussion/2111/calling-a-webservice
  
  Just in case a definition of Htpp protocol Post-Get and other
  3-http://jmarshall.com/easy/http/#othermethods
  
  Note:
  By default urlloader.new is using get method. I become so much confused in the beginning till i discover this. So i am sharing in the beginning
  

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• Scouser Guru

  February 2013 Accepted Answer

  Hi Victor & welcome to the mad fun house

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• techdojo Guru

  February 2013 edited February 2013 Accepted Answer

  Welcome,
  The easiest way to update your app is simply to put a json file with all your events, data, links etc, in your public dropbox folder, then just use the urlLoader class to download it when the app runs.
  
  You can store a copy locally in case the app runs and there's no internet connection.
  
  You can then parse the content to show the data however you want. The core part could be implemented in less than an hour - yes Gideros / Lua / json files are that easy to use and so flexible it's just plain silly.
  
  When you want to update the information in the app, just edit the json file and copy it to your dropbox folder.
  
  Have a look on the forum, I posted a library to read / write JSON files elsewhere (in fact it's here)

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• victor_cappa Member

  February 2013

  Thank you very much for your responses, it was really helpful!
  regards from Brazil

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• victor_cappa Member

  February 2013

  techdojo - but the users of the app have to download dropbox too, or the app will update all the information for them?

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• Nascode Guru

  February 2013 edited February 2013 Accepted Answer

  @victor_cappa dropbox have public folder feature in which you could get public url
  
  Update: alas it wont be available anymore with new dropbox account http://www.slashgear.com/dropbox-confirms-public-folder-phase-out-15234163/

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• techdojo Guru

  February 2013 Accepted Answer

  @victor_cappa - As Nascode said - you just put the file in the public folder and it's publicly accessible to everyone (applications included), I've used it on a couple of occasions for apps and it works fine.
  
  Public folders will still continue to work after the phase out - just create an account (or 6) now and your sorted.
  
  Even if dropbox public folders no longer work - you just need to find a bit of online space (Google sites works as well) where you can host a file, if you use your own hosting, then you just have to make sure you have enough monthly bandwidth to accommodate the usage, one trick I learned is to have a settings file, that contains links to all the download urls, then providing you don't move the settings file your app will continue to work even if you need to change the urls (just edit the settings file). I also usually put a version number in the settings file so the app can know instantly if it's out of date and should get a new version.

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• Scouser Guru

  February 2013 Accepted Answer

  Also as @techdojo said if you have a url settings file, you can store different files on different servers, thus cutting down bandwidth usage on servers.

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• victor_cappa Member

  February 2013

  Oh I see. So the users will just need to acess the app to get the information? Like, the app will acess the drop box folder and the users will acess the app (they will not acess a drop box folder inside the app - with the drop box folder interface)... I already got a drop box account, so I guess I still can have a public folder.

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• techdojo Guru

  February 2013

  exactly
  

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