Experimenting with the sample application

If you are the adventurous type, then feel free to start playing around and modifying the sample application code. There are two steps to switch the iOS application into development mode:

  1. Open the AppDelegate.m file in Xcode and uncomment the jsCodeLocation assignment from OPTION 1 and comment out the statement in OPTION 2:
    NSURL *jsCodeLocation; /** * Loading JavaScript code - uncomment the one you want. * * OPTION 1 * Load from development server. Start the server from the repository root: * * $ npm start * * To run on device, change `localhost` to the IP address of your computer * (you can get this by typing `ifconfig` into the terminal and selecting the * `inet` value under `en0:`) and make sure your ...

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