Reconfigure by Epredator, Ian Hughes
Authors: Epredator, Ian Hughes
Tags: Sci Fi & Fantasy
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There is something worse in the tech world than a CLI after all, Roisin thought. Provisioning profiles for mobile devices and their app stores! As the mobile world had developed and the mighty app culture appeared, the virtual land grab for control of applications and how to get a financial cut from the developers efforts to supply these platforms, had led to huge monolithic walled gardens. Now just to put an app on your own device you had to register as a developer, provide proof of identity then keep up a bewildering level of development and implementation keys and permissions. Yes, it was simple if you did it all the time, but when, like Roisin, you just wanted to put your own damn app on your own damn phone it got in the way, big time. A whole industry had sprung up in creating containers to help you deploy an app indirectly. Many of the big companies had then bought those up too. The connected world, great as it was, meant you never really owned a device anymore, it was on some sort of weird legal twist of a loan. It was a wonder anything ever got done but the corporations had all the developers over a barrel. Even the open source original efforts to bypass the big companies had succumbed. Android was not exactly a free and open ecosystem. It just had way more app stores to faff around with.
Unity3D to Xcode was nice and straight forward for the FMM app. Roisin added a few extra UI parameters to deal with a touch screen and simply did a publish to iOS. She had to set the magic incantation of package and company to meet the provisioning profile. That, being digital paperwork, seems to take longer than writing the application despite only being 15 minutes of password resets and accepting new versions of terms and conditions. The Xcode compilation whizzed through. The usual sets of warnings and blips, but she was happy to let it synch to the iPhone. The codebase itself was a few megabytes, the Unity wrapper far outweighed her code but it certainly made life a lot easier than coding native. In addition she could port to Android or anything else at any time. She also pondered an Xbox and Kinect interface.
Roisin was glad she had the larger screen of the 6S. She clicked the FMM icon with its standard Unity3D cube and turned the phone to landscape mode. She was used to seeing the virtual representation of cubes and her sphere on a 15” monitor, the mobile display looked tiny, or was it just far away? She smirked. Good grief, just imagine, Dougal from Father Ted with access to this sort of power! “Ah! Go on, go on, go on.” She said out loud in a mock Irish accent.
Already showered, dried and dressed in her usual jeans and now with a white t-shirt with a cartoon picture of Black Widow on it she felt ready to take on the World. Her iPhone was now her portable World changing device. She performed a coin move test with the phone, using the FMM app, and it was working just as it had on the laptop last night. No funny sandbox issues with the stream connection to RC on Twitter.
She checked the phone had a passcode lock set, which she always did. Sometimes she increased the timeout when using it as second screen. She wasn’t about to lose this, she was refreshed and being careful now.
She slipped on her red Converse shoes and her grey SuperDry hoody. The phone just squeezed into her jeans front pocket. She picked up her odd cartoon looking bag, full of all the essentials she might need, lip gloss, money, cards, keys, moleskin notebook, hand wipes. The handbag was a regular size but looked slight larger due to the cartoon cel shaded look that it had. The front panel looked like a 2d drawing of a 3d object in a video game. Thick black lines added around the primary coloured sections.
She set her house alarm and walked out of the front door, waiting for the warning beeps to die down and the tone to stabilise. Roisin locked the door and headed along the now busy and bustling suburban street.
She wanted to give
There is something worse in the tech world than a CLI after all, Roisin thought. Provisioning profiles for mobile devices and their app stores! As the mobile world had developed and the mighty app culture appeared, the virtual land grab for control of applications and how to get a financial cut from the developers efforts to supply these platforms, had led to huge monolithic walled gardens. Now just to put an app on your own device you had to register as a developer, provide proof of identity then keep up a bewildering level of development and implementation keys and permissions. Yes, it was simple if you did it all the time, but when, like Roisin, you just wanted to put your own damn app on your own damn phone it got in the way, big time. A whole industry had sprung up in creating containers to help you deploy an app indirectly. Many of the big companies had then bought those up too. The connected world, great as it was, meant you never really owned a device anymore, it was on some sort of weird legal twist of a loan. It was a wonder anything ever got done but the corporations had all the developers over a barrel. Even the open source original efforts to bypass the big companies had succumbed. Android was not exactly a free and open ecosystem. It just had way more app stores to faff around with.
Unity3D to Xcode was nice and straight forward for the FMM app. Roisin added a few extra UI parameters to deal with a touch screen and simply did a publish to iOS. She had to set the magic incantation of package and company to meet the provisioning profile. That, being digital paperwork, seems to take longer than writing the application despite only being 15 minutes of password resets and accepting new versions of terms and conditions. The Xcode compilation whizzed through. The usual sets of warnings and blips, but she was happy to let it synch to the iPhone. The codebase itself was a few megabytes, the Unity wrapper far outweighed her code but it certainly made life a lot easier than coding native. In addition she could port to Android or anything else at any time. She also pondered an Xbox and Kinect interface.
Roisin was glad she had the larger screen of the 6S. She clicked the FMM icon with its standard Unity3D cube and turned the phone to landscape mode. She was used to seeing the virtual representation of cubes and her sphere on a 15” monitor, the mobile display looked tiny, or was it just far away? She smirked. Good grief, just imagine, Dougal from Father Ted with access to this sort of power! “Ah! Go on, go on, go on.” She said out loud in a mock Irish accent.
Already showered, dried and dressed in her usual jeans and now with a white t-shirt with a cartoon picture of Black Widow on it she felt ready to take on the World. Her iPhone was now her portable World changing device. She performed a coin move test with the phone, using the FMM app, and it was working just as it had on the laptop last night. No funny sandbox issues with the stream connection to RC on Twitter.
She checked the phone had a passcode lock set, which she always did. Sometimes she increased the timeout when using it as second screen. She wasn’t about to lose this, she was refreshed and being careful now.
She slipped on her red Converse shoes and her grey SuperDry hoody. The phone just squeezed into her jeans front pocket. She picked up her odd cartoon looking bag, full of all the essentials she might need, lip gloss, money, cards, keys, moleskin notebook, hand wipes. The handbag was a regular size but looked slight larger due to the cartoon cel shaded look that it had. The front panel looked like a 2d drawing of a 3d object in a video game. Thick black lines added around the primary coloured sections.
She set her house alarm and walked out of the front door, waiting for the warning beeps to die down and the tone to stabilise. Roisin locked the door and headed along the now busy and bustling suburban street.
She wanted to give
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