Will App Designer file be compatible with software version control (e.g. git or svn) ?
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It seems the actual App Designer file is in a binary format. This makes it pointless for software version control. We can see the text in the protected editor so we can tell it's still a text file inside. Will it be possible to detach the text file from the gui development and then continue as an m file? If not then I think App Designer will be of limited use in complex GUI development.
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Luke M
2017-1-12
I agree with this and would like to bring this back to the top. I know that appdesigner is in early stages of development, but I work on a project that has several branches, and using appdesigner would make it impossible to merge changes between those branches. It seems like a good idea and definitely has improvements over GUIDE, but as Sean mentioned, it is not something I'll be able to use for this project for this reason. Even GUIDE has a similar issue in the .fig files, but at least the bulk of the code resides in a .m file in that case.
Walter Roberson
2017-1-12
Appdesigner is following the same framework as the .xlsx format: text files that are zip'd together in an archive. You can probably unzip and put the results under version control.
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Tish Sheridan
2018-11-12
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2020-9-24
UPDATE: Starting in R2020b, you can use the Comparison Tool to diff and merge App Designer files. You can learn more about this new feature on this page: Compare and Merge Apps.
Previous answer for prior to 20b:
> Yes, as Steve said, you can use MATLAB Comparison Tool to diff but not merge App Designer files (mlapp).
- You can manually select 2 mlapp files to compare - MATLAB will choose App Code Comparison for the comparison type.
- If you use source control in MATLAB (Git, SVN or other) you can compare revisions of your mlapp files: Review changes in source control
- Or you can use MATLAB comparison as an external diff tool: Customize External Source Control to Use MATLAB for Diff and Merge
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David Wasserman
2023-11-17
They could make it compatible with Git by not using zip. You can concatenate everything in one file without using zip. The zip saves some space, but I don't think that benefit justifies breaking version control.
Walter Roberson
2023-11-17
It is not a single file internally, it is a directory with subfolders and multiple XML file... using the international Open Documents standard.
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Steven Lord
2017-1-12
Are you concerned about being able to diff and/or merge the App Designer files? I haven't tested that following the steps to which I linked previously will allow your source control system to use the MATLAB Comparison Tool for App Designer files, but I suspect it will.
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Walter Roberson
2016-5-6
It uses a zip format of some kind. The first unarchiver I tried expanded it without difficulty.
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