There´s no "Developer mode" setting

[SunboX]

I want to install a privileged package. It installs fine without "privileged", but with this config the install fails. So I wanted to turn on "Developer mode", but there´s no setting menu for it.

So how to turn on Developer mode?

[robnyman]

It was available in version 1.1pre3 of the Simulator. Unfortunately, it seems to have been taken out at the moment.
You can get that version from the list of all Simulator versions - hopefully it works as expected for you.

[SunboX]

Oh, great! Thanks for the feedback! I really need this, I want to save images to the local file system. This API requires "privileged" right. Without this "Developer mode" I can't test anything :/

Thanks for your Feedback! 👍

[SunboX]

Maybe this should be mentioned in your Readme. ;) took me some hours ...

[robnyman]

Yeah… Problem is that it's all in flux and it should be in there to enable, so I'm trying to figure out what's happening.

[SunboX]

*g ok, thanks for your help! And good luck! (really ;))

[robnyman]

Thanks, I think it's needed. :-)

[SunboX]

hm, doesn´t really work ... switched "Developer mode" on ... but install fails with message "Bessa Install failed". Without the "type": "privileged",it installs fine. But as far as I try to store an image, I get a "SecurityError".

my manifest looks like:

{
    "name": "Bessa",
    "description": "Bessa - the Image Editor",
    "version": "xxx",
    "launch_path": "/bessa-app/release/index.html",
    "developer": {
        "name": "André Fiedler",
        "url": "http://bessa-app.com/"
    },
    "installs_allowed_from": ["*"],
    "activities": {
        "open": {
            "filters": {
                "type": ["image/png", "image/jpg", "image/jpeg"]
            },
            "href": "/bessa-app/release/index.html",
            "disposition": "window"
        }
    },
    "type": "privileged",
    "permissions": {
        "device-storage:pictures": {
            "description": "Required for saving images",
            "access": "readwrite"
        }
    },
    "locales": {
        "en": {
            "name": "Bessa",
            "description": "Bessa - the Image Editor"
        },
        "de": {
            "name": "Bessa",
            "description": "Bessa - Bessere Bilder"
        }
    },
    "default_locale": "en",
    "icons": {
        "16": "/bessa-app/release/style/icons/16/Bessa.png",
        "32": "/bessa-app/release/style/icons/32/Bessa.png",
        "48": "/bessa-app/release/style/icons/48/Bessa.png",
        "64": "/bessa-app/release/style/icons/64/Bessa.png",
        "128": "/bessa-app/release/style/icons/128/Bessa.png"
    }
}

[robnyman]

In that case, I'm sorry. Then it won't work with the Simulator at the moment. One option is to upload it to the Firefox Marketplace and install it from there. Or try the experimental approach of b2gremote.

[SunboX]

I got it working with Simulator 2.0. You need to install it via Firefox OS Simulator Dashboard (!), because that's the only way you can test "privileged" apps by now. I tried the JavaScript installPackage() all the time. that doesn´t work. I don´t know why.

[robnyman]

Yes, that should work. I plan to look into installPackage and what the actual options are. Thanks for the update!