Livesync starts the app twice on iOS devices

[pkoleva]

1. Create an app and add ios platform and navigate to the app's folder
2. Deploy the app on the device and make sure it is not opened
3. Run tns livesync

Expected result: App is started and synced with current state
Actual result: Splash screen is opened, closed and opened once again

[dtopuzov]

Works for me with {N} 2.1.1

[slavchev]

ping @pkoleva @dtopuzov

Can we close this issue?

[pkoleva]

Hey guys, would you please stop moving this issue as Ready for Test and have a look at it. It is still reproduced in 2.5 master. The issue reproduces when the app is already installed on the device.

[Plamen5kov]

fixed by: #2484

Edit: Problem is when we stop the application, we do kill gdb, server which starts the application for a second, before killing it. This line starts the application if it's not started already, before excuting the kill command.

[rosen-vladimirov]

As @Plamen5kov described - the problem is with the GDB server on device - if the application is not runnning, calling stopApplication starts it and stops it after that. That causes the blink effect (double restart). As we cannot detect if application is currently running (and skip stopApplication in case it is not), we always call stopApplication. So I'm closing this issue as we cannot fix it.