How to Make Your App State Skiing smoothly During State TransitionsPosted by Lambertsen Hvidberg on May 26th, 2021 It's time to get your App State running and testing! This is where you will learn how to properly create and test your application on the App Store. snonav can get the code for this app from our site. Here are the basics: Let's begin with a test drive. First, make sure your users have Internet access and they are connected to a cellular network. Run the app on an empty App State, without any user data loaded. On an iPhone, you would use your tap-to-run capability to load your app. It would take just a couple of seconds. Next, we'll run the app on the iPhone Simulator. Tap the App State icon on the left and select the Create App State from the drop-down menu. Your App State should be created. Next, drag and drop your widgets from your primary app onto your App State. Drag and drop your user data onto the widget areas in the app grid. Open the App you just created in the App Store and tap the Test tab. Select the Automated Test from the drop-down menu. Continue testing your app by navigating to the green dot. The green dot means that your app is currently being tested. If you were to launch your app on an iPhone, you would see two buttons. One would be the Continue button and the Test button. If you were to tap the red button, it would halt the testing process. This is important so that you won't accidentally kill your app or lose user data. We need to save our data so we could continue testing. Tap the Save button. A dialog box would appear. Choose a name for your newly saved user data and enter a description about your saved data. After saving, tap the Done button. Your app state has changed! Your app state now contains two user views: one for the user testing the app and one for the user who is actually using the app. Now you will be able to see which view is active. Your next step is to recreate the app state, but this time change the variables of the App State so that it matches the user experience in the real app. Tap the Edit button. You would now be able to change any variables that you want to. For instance, if you changed the velocity of the character in the first scene, your velocity in the test view should match the velocity of the character in the real app. It's time for you to publish your app. Create a push notification for your app. This would run every time the app would start. Your app users would receive an automatic message about changes in the app. If they accept your push notification, it means they are interested to test your app. When you are testing your app, make sure you always start in the public test mode. This is the same state your app would be in when you were in the development stage. The only difference is that your app users would be in the Testing stage. They could not do anything to the app. But you should still start in the public test mode every time you make a change in the code. How to get into the testing state? In the top right corner of your app's page, you should see some buttons. The left button opens the portal where you can go into the testing state. The right button would take them to the actual testing state. After logging into the testing version of your app, you would receive notifications. You should also be informed when changes have been made. For example, the next step that your user has taken would be shown as a progress. If you want your app to remember this progress, you can set it up so it would store it in the user's memory. These are just simple things that you could do to ensure that your app runs smoothly during a state transition. State changes can cause a lot of problems in apps, especially if users do not have a smooth experience after the changes. With snonav , you would not have a hard time making your app run smoothly even when you change app versions.Like it? Share it! More by this author |