Storyline Presentation Crashes Articulate iPad App

Nov 07, 2012

Hi Heroes,

I have a Storyline project that has been published to Articulate Online (http://uucme.articulate-online.com/7640783695). It looks beautiful in a standard browser, but when I go to test it on my iPad (as have other team members here), it appears to download and begin in the Articulate App but then when you try to advance/begin it crashes.

I did have the Articulate App box checked when I published the project to Articulate Online.

Can someone please help me troubleshoot why this project works in one platform but not the other?

Thanks!--Kim

7 Replies
Neil Stadlman

I've encounter the same issue recently.  Published with Storyline with approprate options checked, but on iPAD  receive message: "....cannot download the content because one or more files cannot be found."   Have doubled checked that  all files are same.   Earlier versions  worked fine, and I haven't done any until recently.  Tried different ones, but get same error.    Have reviewd other resource links in the forum, but no resolution yet.

Kim Mahoney

Hi All,

I also submitted a ticket some time ago and nothing ever came of it.  The representative who was helping me said there wasn't a fix.

I'm wondering, Russ, if our content is similar and that's why we both encounter issues?

I have video, scrolling text box, and questions interspersed: http://uucme.articulate-online.com/p/7640771790/DocumentViewRouter.ashx?Cust=76407&DocumentID=0c5f1845-ec86-4c3b-8234-c9524ad91aa8&Popped=True&InitialPage=story.html

I also have shorter stories that are quiz-only that work fine in the Mobile Player App.  Uninstalling and reinstalling the App did not result in a fix.

Thanks,

Kim

Russ Crowley

I haven't been on here for a while and my inbox is inundated with elearning hero 'follow-up' emails and I have somehow missed the additions to this thread.

@ Kim, I communicated with Magnus via email, and he is convinced it is a memory issue with the iPad. I have a 64 GB iPad 2 and the AS app keeps crashing on my 'full size' project; however, it runs my published trial - stripped down - project.

I emailed him the link to the web version of my 45 MB published full-sized published project, and it worked his end. I believe he said he was using iPad 3; so it may be that version 1 and 2 simply don't have the memory for it.

This seems strange compared to purchasing apps of 700 MB+in size from the iStore as they have amazing graphics, interactions, videos, and so forth, yet they work fine, and rarely crash my system. However, I am no developer and as I do not understand the inner workings of this, would not deem to question why.

When I was at the point where my full size project did work on my iPad, I then added (inserted) a number of training videos to my project via a scene of help files which incorporates the videos, tabbed screens, lighbox screens and so on; this increased the uncompiled project file size from approx 84 MB to around 130 MB. Published, it went from 30 MB up to 45 MB - it was at this point, it stopped working in the AS app.

My trial version, which has 70% of the questions banks removed - but still has all the help and videos - works on the iPad2. The file size of this trial version is 32 MB.

I am now at the point where I'm trying to get all the extraneous items into place (website, sales pages, autoresponders, uni, exams, Christmas, proper work, etc.) before I then make the move to strip out all the help stuff , and make it web as opposed to app-based. I really would like this available on the iPad for my users, so will have to spend a few more days taking the above scenes out, setting it all up on the website and then go back and re-test the app once again. More wasted time - and there has been a HUGE amount of that with AS - but, sadly essential to getting a finished, useable project.

Regards,

Russ

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