First time upgrading XCode, IPhone SDK, Cocos2d, any pitfalls or best practices?

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First time upgrading XCode, IPhone SDK, Cocos2d, any pitfalls or best practices?

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Started 2 years ago by Questor
Latest reply from Codemattic

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Questor
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Greetings,

Being new to iphone SDK, xcode, and cocos2d, I have never done the whole upgrade thing and now it appears I am faced with upgrading all three. I am additionally apprehensive since I am pretty much in the middle of development of my game.

My question is just basically what is the best way to upgrade these? Coming from Windows, I have often seen that sometimes it is better to uninstall old versions of software and then simply install new versions (clean install) as opposed to doing upgrades. Furthermore, I am unsure what pitfalls may await me and what common mistakes to avoid.

If anyone could give me some tips (or even just a link) to the best way of approaching upgrading XCode+Iphone/IPad SDK, as well as Cocos2d (coming from 0.9alpha) I would appreciate it.

I realize I may be over thinking this, but even with Time Machine backups in hand I figure it is better to ask first rather than jump in an uninformed manner and pay the consequences later.

Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Q

Posted 2 years ago #
Codemattic
Moderator

Has anyone installed multiple copies of XCode so you could run the most recent release and the most recent beta side-by-side. The beta you cant publish off of, but you can write for iPad. Is it just a matter of during the installation, in the "installation type" phase, choosing "other..." from the drop-down in the "essentials" item? Or are there more steps?

When the current beta, becomes an official release, how do you go back to a single XCode?

Posted 2 years ago #
Steve Oldmeadow
Administrator

@Codemattic - I'm running two copies of XCode, I got burnt with previous betas and learnt the hard way ;)

During the installation you get to choose where the installation goes, I can't remember the exact dialog. The first location I chose was my hard drive and I didn't get a choice to install it anywhere else but after that you can choose where the files are installed.

Posted 2 years ago #
ejfarraro
Member

I've never bothered installing one of the betas, but I assume you could still publish on it -- you would just pick a different target OS version in XCode. For the games I've published thus far, I develop on 3.X but publish for 2.X. I assumed beta would be the same, but I don't know for sure.

One gotcha I've run into is if you install a beta and/or upgrade your iDevice OS but not XCode, it won't even let you transfer your app to your iDevice anymore. I think you have to download the new XCode/SDK first, which is a multi-GB download. Huge pain if you're not expecting it.

Posted 2 years ago #
Codemattic
Moderator

@ejfarraro "I've never bothered installing one of the betas, but I assume you could still publish on it -- you would just pick a different target OS version in XCode."

I would of thought that too - but I dont think thats the case. From Apple's site:

"# iPhone SDK 3.2 beta is for development purposes only and should not be used for submitting applications to the App Store."

Notice it says "iPhone SDK 3.2 beta" aka XCode and not "iPhone OS 3.2 beta".

@Steve thanks!

Posted 2 years ago #
Questor
Member

Thanks everyone for all the info regarding upgrading Xcode and the iPhoneSDK.

For now, I think I will just stick with my current version of XCode since by the time I have something worth porting to iPad, the beta will probably be over and I will be upgrading it again. And if not, I don't want the beta build to hold me up from submitting to the app store in the off chance my development moves along faster than expected (like that ever happens ;-).

I was thinking about the two copies of XCode idea, but does that mean I need two copies of my project? (or will the XCode versions play nice together?)

Posted 2 years ago #
LongJohnnyE
Member

Yea, I just got burned bad by the new beta, cost me 5 days of debugging and then waiting around to get a response. Last time I upgrade to beta SDK :(.

http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/forum/topic/4256?replies=6#post-25519

Posted 2 years ago #
Steve Oldmeadow
Administrator

@Questor - you don't need two copies of your project, however, I would highly recommend not running the beta XCode/SDK against a production project. I've run into problems with different versions of XCode having slightly different project formats and then certain project options (such as which provisioning profile to use, compiler settings etc) are no longer accessible. You could still go in and edit the plist directly but that is a major pain IMHO.

Posted 2 years ago #
Codemattic
Moderator

So far it seems to work pretty well - but I havent given the setup a full workout yet. I have the beta on a 2nd HD bc I was running out of space and it works. redsky posted a good link here:

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/04/xcode-101-installing-the-3-2-sdk-alongside-the-3-1-1-sdk/

also you may want to edit the beta icons so you can easily see which app is which in the dock:

http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com/2009/03/multiple-developer-tool-installs.html

If I run in to problems Ill post back here with any tips I learn or figure out.

Posted 2 years ago #

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