[TIMOB-23347] Windows: Unable to build different apps to the same device

GitHub Issue	n/a
Type	Bug
Priority	None
Status	Open
Resolution	Unresolved
Affected Version/s	Release 5.3.0
Fix Version/s	n/a
Components	Windows
Labels	n/a
Reporter	Fokke Zandbergen
Assignee	Christopher Williams
Created	2016-05-10T09:22:57.000+0000
Updated	2016-05-11T10:21:35.000+0000

Description

Once I have build a Windows app to my device and then build another (different) one the console says:

[ERROR] :  A debug application is already installed, please remove existing debug application
[ERROR] :  Error: A debug application is already installed, please remove existing debug application

I have to remove the previous app before I can install the other. This is a bad Developer Experience. I cannot keep an app I need to demo every to a client or co-worker installed while working on another. This might be a Windows limitation since it's an error we translate: https://github.com/appcelerator/windowslib/blob/master/lib/wptool.js#L835

Comments

Gary Mathews 2016-05-10

Yes this is a limitation of the Windows tooling, there's no way of knowing what debug application is currently installed. So it's down to the user to uninstall it. I don't think there is much we can do about this.
Fokke Zandbergen 2016-05-11

[~gmathews] I was afraid for that :( So on an Windows Phone device you can only develop one app at the same time? Crazy.

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