[living.horses]

Hi, I am planning on creating 3 apps. Lite, Full & Pro.

Package name will be com.domain.applite, com.domain.appfull, & com.domain.pro

Data across the apps will be the same, except the higher the app, the more data the user can input and save.

Is there a way where a user/purchaser of the ‘Lite’ version, who has entered and saved their data to local storage, upgrade to the full or pro version, and automatically have that data transferred over to the new app?

ie page name saving the user data will be the same in all versions, as will the ID name in all versions.

Thank you in advance

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Monika

[Brandon]

I believe this may depend on how you are storing and calling your data. I am guessing you will have to write the data to a server or something so they can sign in with the higher version app and recall it. If you are already saving data to/from a server this should not be too big of an issue. Can you offer more info on the data type, storage, etc?

[Code_A]

I would agree with Cincy. I imagine that local storage is tied to each app’s unique id so then you would not be able to access the local storage data for the other versions of the app. Therefore, the data would need to be stored on a web server so that it can be accessed by all versions of the apps. I have passed data back and forth to a web server so I can post an example if needed. If you find a way to accomplish through local storage, then please post because I would be interested to see how it can be done.

[support-michael]

>ie page name saving the user data will be the same in all versions, as will the ID name in all versions.

I agree with the other comments that each app’s local data is isolated and can not be accessed by another app. There are native platform specific solutions but we won’t go there since they are out of scope for mobione-based apps. I have encountered this delimma with several ios apps. When I upgraded them from free to pro version I lost all of data (my awesome high score).

[Unknown Author]

Wait for iOS 8:

http://9to5mac.com/2014/03/14/ios-8-besides-new-apps-apple-to-focus-on-refining-its-new-beginning-for-iphone-ipad-software/

[living.horses]

thank you for feed back
(sorry I didn’t reply earlier, I have not had notifications on for some reason, and I forget to select it when I post).
I have not had time to look at this again, but I plan too, as it would be really great if someone who has had the ‘Lite’ version installed, and inputted data (stored locally) to be able to purchase the ‘full’ version, and click on ‘import data from lite version’ without having to re-input all the data again. Especially if the text fields etc ID’s are the same.
again, thank you

[support-octavio]

Hi living.horses,

One thing to keep in mind is that if your pro and lite versions of the app are distinctly different (e.g., different app ids) then local data for one version may not be visible to the other app.

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