AL isnt the culprit for why Xojo doesnt support more than one size for Android
iOS for instance uses AL and does support multiple sizes
EDIT : although I thin youād get the same āwe have to start some where responseā that is given in
Coulda shoulda woulda
It is what it is now 
Small team, small result.
āwe have to start some whereā
But didnāt they do THAT over seven years ago? Tells me that the initial design didnāt cover the ābasicsā (no pun intended)
I know of at least two restarts of the entire Android project. So there was certainly some pressure to finally deliver something.
This is the way.
Well, for Xojo thatās true. But for most other programming languages and IDEs itās not. For those AI is already a fact and useful in 2023.
If you leave out the justified copyright and security discussions, the tools are useful, very useful - even today. Less in the sense that complete apps are written, but autocomplete gets better, error messages can be interpreted, repetitive tasks are simplified via suggestions, etc. And very often you even get useful suggestions just by writing in a comment what should happen when next. Of course, AI sometimes fantasizes, but so do users on stackoverflow and Reddit.
Iām not talking about using chatGPT as yet another search engine, but included AI helpers (Github CoPilot, Jetbrainās integrated AI in the lastest IDEs etc.)
BUT, I havenāt the faintest idea how this is supposed to happen in Xojo:
I asked Bard how to load a text file with Swift and it gaves me:
The result runs, ask to choose a file, but none is selectableā¦ (with .txt or without).
I had fun with Bard AI, lately.
Google might not endorse Swift too much 
- of course it is often no different than asking reddit or stackoverflow but at least you donāt see all the comments and therefore not the abysses of humanity 
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You may want to look here:
Video: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10056/
Sample code: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swiftui/building-a-document-based-app-using-swiftdata
Spoiler: this only works from Swift v6 and Xcode v15 on.
Using the same reference, āI have spokenā also works.
Genius overperformingā¦ In this country you normally have to spend a lot of money for theater performances of this high standard.
I look at this and shake my head in wonder. If this Xojo āexpertā doesnāt know what his own product has in it already, and canāt be bothered to do research (on his own product), it makes me wonder how far gone is he? I mean this is not the first Issue Iāve seen where he asked for something and either staff or user explains that itās not a bug or that itās working as expected.
In the ideal world the CEO should be one of the most knowledgeable people about their product. Instead, I feel like weāre getting a ācitizen developerā (not a knock on citizen developers) with only rudimentary knowledge - and not just about Xojo but development in general.
Now we know why they are looking for a technical writer, looks like that person has to sit close to genius and explain, explain, explain ā¦
I wonder if we are looking at a case of cognitive decline or a case of continued overconfidence. In aeronautics the term overconfident is employed for people who are so convinced of their superior intellect and ability to handle situations that they fail to double-check or accept warnings from peers. This behavioural pattern has lead to a number of fatal crashes. Companies can crash, tooā¦The product has already crashed.
Yes, sometimes pilots are miscalculating wind and so starting to land in wrong angle and speed. Ends at their funeral
Our wanna-be Steve Jobs acting like a donkey, lacking basic knowledge on concepts or his own product or on both.
Poor staffā¦ led by a donkey.
Xojo and geniusā input - this will be a tough nut for many AI systems ā¦ - But probably AI systems specialized in antiques will manage such challenges.
