I had an app created for me--Demeter's Harvest (iOS). The company that built it has dropped off the map, so I can't get them to help me with this.
I get a message when I try to access it all that reads: An App ID with Identifier 'info.NAMEOFDEVELOPER.demeter' is not available. Please enter a different string." and another one for the Bundle ID that shows the Identifier 'info.ORIGINALDEVNAME.demeter' with the version and build.
I placed my name into the team area, and got a message that says no non-expired provisioning profiles are installed with a "Fix Issue" button.
How do I go about gaining access to my app code (if that is what it does) so I can get a new developer to make changes and updates to it?
Thanks,
Ed
You're likely up a creek here. If you don't have your app code there's no way anyone can help you gain access to it except the developer.
Regarding the bundleID it will be tied to whichever Dev Portal created it. If you own that portal you're fine. If the developer owns that portal and they either don't renew their account or block you from accessing it there will be no way for you to re-use it.
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We have been trying to set up the sample app for Play Billing workflow with subscriptions as we are looking to introduce subscriptions in our app. We wanted to have the ClassyTaxi app running end to end in order to understand the flows better. Although for past 2 days, we are only trying to debug issues and/or missteps because of some really poor documentation on Google's front.
After ensuring every single step was correctly followed, we were able to make some progress and have the app working with the correct Skus as configured in Play Console. But now the backend server (ClassyTaxiServer) is throwing below error:
"Unexpected error when querying Google Play Developer API. Please check if you use a correct service account" - "OtherError: The project id used to call the Google Play Developer API has not been linked in the Google Play Developer Console.".
We have relooked, recreated the service account on the Cloud Console several times, but no luck.
The Play Console is correctly linked with the Google Cloud project and the access is correctly granted to the service account.
Anyone has any suggestions? How can a sample app be so difficult to set up and function as expected? Or are we doing something terribly stupid?
Please help.
Thanks.
I passed trough similar situation, and I get same issue. After checking I found a note in google documentation saying the following:
Note: As of December 1, 2019, the Google Play Developer API is available only for version 3 and higher. If you're using a lower version of the API, you must migrate to version 3 by this date. For more information on migrating to version 3, see Changes to the Google Play Developer API.
Investigating the implemented code I found that the sample uses v2 of the google API (check ./subscriptions/play-billing/PlayBilling.ts line 70). So to avoid this situation, you will need to set it to v3, and update googleapis dependency to latest version in package.json.
Additional Notes
After solving this issue, I had a different message in 'OtherError', this time is “The current user has insufficient permissions to perform the requested operation.”. I will note my solution here just someone passed through similar situation:
In google play console, and after clicking on 'Grant access' in 'API Access' tab, you will need to select the user and add some permissions to the user (in my case I set it to admin, but I think it's larger than needed), make sure also to add the app/apps you are listening to.
If the issue is still running, just edit any of your products or just try creating new one, this step will clear the google cash and refresh permissions. (Check this question).
Background:
I'm quite new to App Maker, but have been involved in programming/IT for over 2 decades.
I have created an App Maker app, which works fine. It is deployed, and functions internally in our organization.
It accesses a Team Drive spreadsheet, makes modifications to it based on input criteria, and sends an email out to a hardcoded user. It uses no external GCP database or other resource.
The OAuth scopes it requires are:
admin.directory.user.readonly
drive.readonly
script.send_mail
spreadsheets
userinfo.email
Problem:
I can no longer preview the app.
When I click on "Preview" at the top right, a new tab opens and a spinning wheels seems to indicate that the preview is loading. Within about 4 seconds, the tab closes and the original tab (with the scripts, UI etc) gives a "Previewing failed. Dismiss" error in the bottom centre.
I am both able to deploy the exact same code/UI/etc, as well as run it without issue.
I do not know what I changed, since being able to preview the app, but cannot seem to regress to that state.
What I've tried:
Admittedly not much, as I don't know where to look. I'm rather certain that there must be some setting somewhere, but for all my googling, I've come up empty.
This can't be a client/server script or other syntax issue, as otherwise the deployment also wouldn't work.
With a more meaningful error, I would know where to look.
Expected Result:
Obviously, I should be able to preview the app if it is deployable.
Following #Morfinismo's comment, I contacted G Suite Support; my matter was escalated to the API Team.
I was asked by Google Cloud Support ("Support") to provide network traffic info using FiddlerCap. As I am on a linux machine and FiddlerCap is a windows application, I suggested alternatives (eg:Wireshark). It was eventually not required and never provided.
I noticed that on the Google scripts page, when accessing the project in question selecting "Preview", it was missing the following OAuth:
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/admin.directory.user.readonly
The functioning deployed version did not have this missing.
Still in the Preview, I selected "Stackdriver (logs)", which gave me an error that the project had been deleted. The actual wording was:
Access forbidden
Project XXXX is shut down and scheduled to be deleted. A project owner can cancel the shutdown on the projects list page.
Clicking on the link in the error "Go to projects list page" brought me to a page with the title "Resources pending deletion", which did not load a list of projects (but otherwise fully loaded) and would display the spinning wheel in perpetuity. I attempted this multiple times, including leaving it overnight once.
Support presumed that I had deleted the GCP project, although I honestly don't/didn't think I had. I also confirmed that creating new previews did not work, but creating new deployments did. I also confirm(ed) that this particular App Maker app did not require (eg) a GCP SQL database.
Support pointed me toward the following website: Google undelete project and I was asked to follow these steps (copy-pasted here):
a. For projectId, enter your project ID. From the screenshot you provided, this is "XXX (redacted)" (the quotes are just to emphasise the project ID, you shouldn't enter them.
b. Click EXECUTE.
c. You'll be prompted to grant authorisation, which may be preceded by a prompt to choose your admin account. Please do so.
d. You should receive a 200 response, with an empty body, that is {}.
e. Attempt to access the project via Project link (with the actual project id redacted here).
The above yielded some strange behaviour:
a. undeleteing the project gave it a different name that the App Maker app;
b. I notice that I had 3 other projects all called correctly (the App Maker app name).
c. When asked to reauthorize, I was provided with yet another project name ("Untitled project"), which was different from the correct one and different from the one in para. 7a, above.
d. I then also obtained another error in a new window which read:
That's an error
Request Details
(a bunch of stuff)
That's all we know.
Support advised that there may be a propagation issue, and that I should wait up to 30 minutes. I did, and it then worked! The only weird thing was the project name was wrong, but it was only for the preview, so I didn't really care.
If anyone needs additional information, I can PM screenshots I took along the way.
Hope this helps someone!
SJL
Can I give another person publishing rights to my deployment? If so, how?
I tried adding the other person to 'Admins' of that deployment, but at least the rights haven't updated, as I did it approx. 30 minutes ago. I also just published it, and the rights have not updated.
Of course, they could make their own deployment, but then the URL would change. Is there a way to solve this?
This appears to be a bug -- Google's documentation about App Maker describes the ability to do this in detail, but there are no such actions visible in the app.
That documentation says "A project owner also has full access to the data in all deployments of the app, even if the project or deployments restrict the owner from having that access (because the project owner can give themself access)." and "An app owner can take ownership of a deployment." and even has a section "Take ownership of a deployment" saying "If the owner of a deployment edits or republishes a deployment that an editor originally published, this takes ownership of the deployment."
We can report this to google.
I am working on one side project, it has image view where a user can click and select an image from the photo library. I am using UIImagePickerController.
My question is I haven't added user Permission on plist nor anywhere else. and as far I know app crashed if you don't add permission, Plus when the app opens for the first time the dialog appears asking for permission but in my case, it's not asking.
I like to know how this can be possible or does Apple have changed something in new Xcode or OS?
I am using Version 9.2 (9C40b) and tried running the code on iPhone 6(real device iOS 11.2.6,) and in different simulator same result, I deleted the app and run it again, same no dialog.
And if Apple has changed something in iOS 11, Should we add or not the permission? whats the best way to a developer we don't want to ask, and also don't want the app to be crashed.
The answer is YES you have to provide the description
It is mandatory to add usage description(from iOS 11) of permissions you are going to use.
Apple states that
Your app is responsible for all usage of privacy-sensitive data, including access to this data by all third-party libraries used in your app. If your app attempts to access privacy-sensitive data without a usage description, your app will exit.
You will see this error in console log if permission description is not provided in Info.plist
This app has crashed because it attempted to access privacy-sensitive data without a usage description. The app's Info.plist must contain an NSCameraUsageDescription key with a string value explaining to the user how the app uses this data.
If you try to submit the app without description for release Apple will reject it with this message
Missing Info.plist key - This app attempts to access privacy-sensitive data without a usage description. The app's Info.plist must contain an NSSpeechRecognitionUsageDescription key with a string value explaining to the user how the app uses this data.
Summary:
If you have not provided usage description and uploaded the app earlier then your app will crash without asking for permission
If you have not provided usage description and tried to submit recently then apple will reject it.
Reference:
Privacy Settings in iOS 10
I'm trying to use the boxr package to link my box account to R-Server.
I get as far in the box_auth() instructions as step 3 from the box pdf https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/boxr/boxr.pdf
A window pops up and I authorise connection then I get the error 'Safari can't connect to the server'.
I have no knowledge of how apache or web development works so forgive my naivety, I've come to understand the problem is I don't have localhost set up on my Mac.
I'm unable to turn these features on because it requires admin rights and my company won't allow users to have this.
Is there something else I can put in the redirect_uri box apart from localhost that will allow this to authenticate?
Thanks
The issue i had was mostly that authenticating box through R-Server isn't supported. https://github.com/brendan-r/boxr/issues/23
To get around this I used my personal laptop to authenticate locally then uploaded the .Renviron and .boxr-oauth files to R server (which is the advice in the github post)
This was slightly tricky as R wasn't showing the .boxr-oauth file but I managed to copy it to a folder, zip the folder, then upload that to R-Server.
Now running the box_auth() function authenticates as it should.
As of v0.3.5 (November 2019) boxr has a new alternative authentication method designed for remote servers, box_auth_service(), that closes issue 23. It's slightly is different than the oAuth way, because it uses "Service" accounts as the actors instead of the "User" account. But the "Service" accounts are what's needed to maintain security within a organization, so we opted for that. Please open an issue on the repo if you run into any issues.