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Josip Juric87Josip Juric87 

XCode development - Mobile SDK

I'm developing a hybrid (local) app in XCode. It has been setup with the forceios command line.
In XCode there are 2 www-folders - 1) At the top level, 2) in the Staging folder. When I change something in the 1), it is not displayed in the resulting app, until I run "cordova prepare" in the command line. This command line migrates the changes to the Staging folder. On the other hand, if I try to change the Staging folder, it asks me to unlock the file.
What is the correct way of development in this case? Do I need to run the cordova prepare line before every test-run?
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Gaurav KheterpalGaurav Kheterpal
This behavior was actually introduced in Cordova 3.4  and I agree it can be a bit confusing at first. The right way to do it is to run this command
  
cordova build
and then execute your project from XCode.  In reality, The folder: 
my_cordova_project/platforms/ios/www/

is "mapped" in Xcode to
  
/my_xcode_project/staging/www/
The problem though is that Xcode's build for running command does not copy all/my_xcode_project/www/ into /my_xcode_project/staging/www/. This is done only by the cordova build command.

I hope this clarifies.

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Gaurav Kheterpal
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