Has Anyone updated to the latest release 8867? is it stable?

[PaulAmmoun]

Hello,
The title says everything...

Thank you

[peteconway]

going by other posts it definitely 'stabe'

[PaulAmmoun]

Thanks pete,
I will update and I hope I don't get stabbed :lol

[RustyB]

I have a Cordova app that runs offline on Android. It is a data intensive app that has upwards of 50 lists that are persisted to the file system. I know some of these lists can be converted to data cache, but that is a conversation for another time.

The app currently takes 24 seconds to load as it restores all these lists from the file system. I tried the new version of Alpha (8867) and the new static html page feature for loading the app which is supposed to make it much faster. Load time actually got worse at 47 seconds. I then went back to using the a5w page, and load time was about 38 seconds. So even without using the new static html feature, my app still loaded almost 15 seconds slower on the new version of Alpha.

Anyway, I am sure this is a problem that most will not have as most do not have apps with as many lists as mine. Besides this, I haven't noticed any other problems with 8867.

[PaulAmmoun]

Hi,
Thank you for the feedback, I also have a cordova app that is slow, with multiple lists (I didn't count) but more than 10.
For me even navigating through the app is slow if it is on a slow device. I mean I need an android phone with 8gb ram and a good processor in order for it to be smooth.
I use "client side data cache" so loading the app is not that slow, I tried to use SQLite but I found there is a learning curve and I don't have time for it now

I will update within the weekend and post back here,

Have a nice day

[dfricke10]

I found it worked very well. However, I have a part that is loaded based on the URL that the page comes from and haven't got around to figuring that one out yet, so a lot of my pages are on hold converting to the cache. But the ones that don't load much, much faster.

[CharlesParker]

Trying out the new update so far so good however I am running into an issue with security settings on the new htmlstatic page - looking in where I think everything is and making sure the security settings are good doesn't seem to help. Not sure if its because I am using a page alias or not but will certainly post back anything I find.

[CharlesParker]

not sure if there is a bug or what, but turning off security at page & component level def affects the static html page and individually setting it to always allowed does not seem to grant permission to the page generated.

[dfricke10]

Are you viewing locally or publishing to a server? I've found that the entire thing has to be published locally in order to get anything to work. It doesn't work as simple as a live preview in Chrome like the video.

[CharlesParker]

I get this error when attempting to create the static page. definitely think its a bug but probably very difficult for them to reproduce outside of my machine. I am considering recreating the component from scratch to see if happens only with components made with a previous version of AA - but man this component has 445 objects! I know because I attempted to copy all of the controls and paste them into a new UX - that caused another error, lol.
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[dfricke10]

Are you using a nightly build or a stable release? That looks like a bug for sure.

That's a huge component. I have one with 597 that keeps corrupting on me and every few months I have to copy everything to a new UX. Something to do with the button actions all converting themselves to text. Selwyn looked at it and wasn't able to figure out why. Still works fine, just slower to save and the buttons now need to be edited manually if needed. Annoying.

However, I did apply the static HTML page to it though the TabbedUI and it sped it up incredibly fast when loading.

[CharlesParker]

Using the last stable release, still having the issue. Tried everything I can think of other than as I said actually creating a new component and then seeing if I get the same error. One thing I know about submitting bug reports is that you really need to be able to reproduce it with a test case. Sometimes in building it you find the issue is not reproducible, and points to the component itself for whatever reason. I am looking forward to automagically improving speed, glad you got it working for you - hope to get there soon!

[PaulAmmoun]

Hi Charles,
When this happens to me, I try to delete controls from the components to see what is giving the error,
The problem it is time consuming since sometimes you have to remove the code underlying so it does not give an error.
I have a component with 528 objects and I am being paranoid, I have many many many many copies of it :)

I just upgraded now, I am seeing what will happens.

I hope you will be able to solve it

[dfricke10]

Charles, it must be something in your component. And yes, I too hate when that happens. I installed the last stable build and used an old backup of my huge component. It created it just fine with no error. I would try a separate install of the latest nightly update and see if that fixes the issue. I have multiple installs and play with the nightly updates and new stuff and help with bugs. I guess it's the ADHD to find something new to play with. I know I did run across a few issues with the static HTML throughout the builds, but don't recall offhand. But also, don't want to confuse anyone newer here by reporting on those things. Feel free to message me about the nightly stuff so we don't get in trouble. :)

[PaulAmmoun]

Building the Cordova app failed :(
Everything else seems to work fine for me.
I will try the PWA, if it works, I might get rid of Cordova and use the new PWA