In the good old days, my preferred method for backing up my projects was to connect my iPad to my computer and copy the files over. Once on my computer, I could version control them or whatever. Trouble was, that method relied on the fact that we could access the documents directory of Codea. At the moment, we can’t.
I don’t like using a third-party service to back up my projects. For some reason, there’s something odd about sending my files half way around the world to get them to travel a distance of two feet.
I tried playing around with AirCode, but ran into a few issues. Eventually, I settled on sockets as the obvious way to communicate between two devices.
The result is a Codea project and a computer program that communicate together to transfer files between them. It can also run between two iPads.
The code, and a little more info, are available on github. (I’m quite happy to use github for code sharing!)
If nothing else, I’ve learnt a lot about sockets through doing this (my thanks to JakAttak - I think it was - for the initial discussion of sockets on these forums).
