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Portable App Development

Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.

Java Applications in Launcher

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Submitted by Warmango on May 25, 2021 - 11:41pm

If you have an 3rd Party Application (non-PortableApps Format), and its a jar file, it should show up as an launchable program inside the Launcher, assuming the user has one of the two Java Runtimes installed

Screenshot with the two I am talking about

This would help with the portable nature of the launcher, as while I do have a Program that I have written myself for minecraft that can be configured to serve this purpose, it is still not the best way to do it,

Portable desktop apps without installation

Submitted by vladimirmandac on May 15, 2021 - 1:49pm

Hello everyone!
Is it possible to run multiple times some portable app(without installation) on Windows 10 independent instances at the same time?
I tried to find the answer on the internet, and I found the answer only for applications that must installed, but I need solution for application that runs without installation.
Thanks for any help!

How should I handle an application suite with a common directory?

Submitted by nnewton on May 7, 2021 - 11:03am

I am trying to portablise an application suite that consists of three separate applications. Individually, this is no problem, I have done the three launcher.inis and they all run fine as separate PortableApps.

The problem is, all three apps use common directories in \Users\[user]\AppData\Roaming\[AppPublisher]\Common and \ProgramData\[AppPublisher]\Common to store dictionaries, clipboard data and other things, data that can be shared across all three apps in the suite.

Portable Enviroment for Games

AntiVirGear's picture
Submitted by AntiVirGear on April 23, 2021 - 8:19am

Hi there,

I'm trying to make some of my favourite, old games portable by using Portable Apps Launcher and I'm now stuck with
Need for Speed Underground...

For anyone who would like to test/play with it around, may feel free to try out
REMEMBER you have to put inside the App Folder the game files!

https://usersdrive.com/i9qr9840phd4.html

So what's my problem?

Data Files Loss

Submitted by dtpeterson on April 9, 2021 - 10:58am

I just installed (April 9, 2021) a "Required Update" to Portable App which I keep on a flash drive and during the installation virtually all of my data files were deleted from the flash drive. I would be very careful with the update and recommend not installing it until a further explanation is provided by the software developer.

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