From Desktop and Web to Android Devices : I Need Help
For over twenty years I have developed apps using Borland's Delphi and BDS development tools. I now want to migrate a subset of that functionality to Android devices ... but need help getting over the learning curve hump.
The general particulars are:
1. Master-Detail, content management. Multiple detail data tables for each master record.
2. Image gallery. See all images in the gallery or only those images which have been linked to a master record.
3. Taking a pic and linking it to a master record.
4. Ability to query for local businesses ... such as "Find <business name> within <x miles> of my current GPS location.
I currently have Eclipse and the latest ADK tools installed. Also, I have some Java experience.
Is there a place I can go to find a baseline source code framework that satisfies these requirements and demonstrates how to store and manage the master and detail data and links?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I can be contacted at [email protected]
Many thanks, from an old dog trying to learn new tricks.
Patrick
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I am hoping that someone out there will be able to help.
From within my pocketpc web application, I require a signature to be written on the screen and captured as an image. This then has to be put into a database for strorage. I do not require any digital encryption or authorisation etc, it just needs to be real simple.
Eg. User opens webpage, user signs screen and submits the signature. Job done.
That is what I am trying to achieve. Has anyone ever seen this or done it? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Note I have seen some apps but they are to be used within a .NET environment, and seeing as I am developing in php they are no good to me.
Many thanks.
I think you must to develop an application that you embed into PocketIE. Something like AciveX on a desktop. This application grab the image and send to your PHP application.
I can't help in this way.
Another tipp:
There is Macromedia Flash Player avaible for PocketIE. I don't know, that Flash can make an image and post it to a PHP script, but it can grab the stylus strokes, and send the line's coordinates to your PHP program. (With a smart ActionScript)
Booth way, your application must to preinstalled in the users pda.
Guys, good afternoon.
I'm doing a project where I need a web system, done in ASP.NET, to communicate with an android system.
Thus, the two systems will use the same database.
I came to find out about WEBSERVER, but I found this on a forum that left me a little confused:
"It is worth noting that the consumption of Web services on mobile devices is not recommended by the Android development team due to the processing overhead of SOAP calls. If you have control over the server, the ideal is to use REST-based architectures such as OData . "
It is not recommended to use webserver in android?
How then can I do to create that communication between the two systems?
Now appreciate everyone's help.
Hello all, I have a question about developing an application for my graduation project. The idea is to develop an application in which the various books/information sources get a place and can be placed under different semesters/years. The information as provided has to have an easy way of updating for teachers(probbebly web-based). The aplication also has to work on iOS. Can you guys give me an idea on how to start i think HTML5 is a good option.
For cross platform application you can try PhoneGap(phonegap.com) with Dojo (dojotoolkit.org).
Front end is only half!
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Hello all, I have a question about developing an application for my graduation project. The idea is to develop an application in which the various books/information sources get a place and can be placed under different semesters/years. The information as provided has to have an easy way of updating for teachers(probbebly web-based). The aplication also has to work on iOS. Can you guys give me an idea on how to start i think HTML5 is a good option.
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HTML5 will be great, but it will be difficult for a school to update as a native app. I suggest simply using a mobile-ready website. jQuery Mobile is great for this, and it handles all the cross platform issues. Have you given any consideration to serverside code? Php, .Net, and Node.js are all great options. Talk with an administrator about what kind of system they use to store files & links currently. You could fairly simply make a page that scans a file share they maintain to build the page .
Are all current (including budget) phones capeble of running .net or PHP? I'll probebly host the site/app myselve for a while during the test phase so if i go web-based it will be PHP since my host is a linux host. I'll have a look tomorrow, I'm studying to be an officer on a ship not an programmer so all programming is new, I did some vb/php but nothing fancy.
i started with icenium, but found out that icenium doesn't offer to store the webfiles on your own server. So thats not an option.
I have to start android programming for a project.
The project involves using the App to remote control a camera attached to the pc which is running the web-server.
The App does two things:
1) Send user-inputted parameters for the photo capture to a web-server.
This is relayed to the web-server (using gSOAP or other web-service).
The web-server then calls the program i create on the server, which captures an image from the camera.
The program also has other functionality like image manipulation, making a timelapse movie etc using these captured images.
The program sends back to the app a video file or image.
2) Receive a video file (either saved in Gallery, or viewed inside App).
As you can see bulk of my project will be not on the android but on the server.
My question then is, how do i approach android programming?
I want to make the best use of my time and not have to learn the A-Z of android programming. This is not me being lazy (I have done a few chapters of Sams teach Yourself Android & completed Google's online tutorial on android) but just wanting to spend, what little time i have, wisely.
So i suppose my question is:
1. What areas of android should i concentrate on for this app (e.g. web-services, drawing buttons etc).
2. Any resources that would help me in this quest (e.g. templates)
Apologies if it was long and drawn out, and thanks for reading so far
What are the requirements of android app development?
what all am i suppose to know? rit now i just know c++ is that sufficient?
any help will be appreciated
Hello, I am looking Android App Development help please.
I would like to make an Android TV box app and was wondering if I can get some help creating one with the following requirements;
1) Looking for a Template, for starters, so I don't have to code one from scratch since I have no idea of what I'm doing
2) Configure the app to utilize a Username/Password which verifies the account on a server database that I control.
3) Hopefully it will be easy to include a link within the code that reaches out to an XML file on my server or whatever where I have a list of Video Streams/Feeds that the app reads and you can select what video you want to play.
Thank you
Hi I'm not an android coder but a c# coder in terms of a template project, something like this? https://github.com/hitherejoe/AndroidTvBoilerplate
I just searched android TV boilerplate (a boilerplate is template). Hope it helped.