I'm new to app development. I have spent some time building web sites using php and MySQL. I have a MySQL database that I would like to use the information from with an Android app I have in mind. Is this something I can do?
Best practice would be to create some interface on your server that has the MySQL database so that your app can call it. You can create PHP pages that you can call with your app and get back results in JSON or XML format and then process them in your app.
Android development is done with JAVA so you can do pretty much anything that you want including directly connecting to a MySQL database but I would really avoid that. Create yourself an interface.
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Hi all,
There are a lot of apps out there like MightyText, AirDroid, or DesktopSMS that allow you to send SMS messages from your PC. The problem with these services is that all the TOSs show that messages could be saved on their server. They also give pretty universal permission control to the application. While I'm sure these apps are "safe," I'm looking for a self-hosted solution, where I can host a website that my SMS/MMS content is synchronized to, and allows me to send SMS/MMS from the web browser (or companion app).
Is there something out there that does this? If not, I'm going to look into developing it myself.
Thanks!
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I'm a developer and I had to create something for one project of mine and in time it became a whole project by himself.
I've created a self-hosted SMS marketing platform that it's integrated with more than 150 SMS providers you can bring your own device if you require it.
Have a look at selfhostedsms.com
I have a very basic knowledge of C++. I studied it two years back and haven't practiced it since.
My college has an attendance page where students can log in and check their attendance. I want to develop an app that will log in to the attendance page and fetch the attendance of the students. I may also need to do some mathematical operations on this attendance data. Is it possible to make such an app? Is it too complex to make?
There's already an app (let's call this app 'A') that fetches and displays the attendance data but I want my app not just to simply fetch and display the attendance data, but to also perform certain mathematical operations using this data. If making an app that will log in to the attendance page and fetch the data is too complicated, is it possible to make an app that will use the data fetched by 'A' to perform mathematical functions?
Please help me out and bear with my curiosity. Thanks in advance
Depends on how app 'A' stores the data. If it is in a standard sqlite database or simple text file with a clear format then you can probably read it. If it uses some obscure file format then you might run into some trouble. Basically you will need to browse the file system of the phone and dig around for how app 'A' stores data.
Is it possible for you to let me know if I post the link to the app here? Then on the basis of the nature of the format, I'll ask my programmer friend to make the code.
Hello? Can someone please help me?
dakshay95 said:
I have a very basic knowledge of C++. I studied it two years back and haven't practiced it since.
My college has an attendance page where students can log in and check their attendance. I want to develop an app that will log in to the attendance page and fetch the attendance of the students. I may also need to do some mathematical operations on this attendance data. Is it possible to make such an app? Is it too complex to make?
There's already an app (let's call this app 'A') that fetches and displays the attendance data but I want my app not just to simply fetch and display the attendance data, but to also perform certain mathematical operations using this data. If making an app that will log in to the attendance page and fetch the data is too complicated, is it possible to make an app that will use the data fetched by 'A' to perform mathematical functions?
Please help me out and bear with my curiosity. Thanks in advance
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Well, I too have a very little knowledge in C++. Only messed with Console so far, so I'am not familiar with C++ in many ways.
This is my Opinion - As long as you are able to login there, I guess you can download whole page or it's with your logic to fetch data. So as long as you can fetch the data you want messing with the data is so easy. Even I have little knowledge of what you are going to do. I'm not familiar with 'web', but I'm pretty sure that u can find examaples if you do a "google". Anyway why won't you use C#?
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It seems I didn't realize your question. Seems like that you want to do your mathematical functions from an app other than app 'A'. As @CellCB mentioned above, you have to find where does that app store the data and in which format. ofc you can't do it if it's encrypted or like that.
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Hey, Im developing a web app with java servlets that can access an oracle database through the tomcat server. I am also developing an android app that I want to use to be able to display the information that is stored on this database.
I am just wondering how I do this or is it even possible with oracle & tomcat? If not what other databse/server should i use? The data will also have gps coordinates to display the items on a map.
Fairly new to this type of application
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Hi.
I am new to Android and am looking to solve a problem.
I want to create an Android app that has a login and that you can send messages back and forth with the people who use that app. Similar to the Facebook Messenger App. Also similar to Facebook, I want to users to be able to log in via a web-app in their browsers and view/exchange messages.
My idea was MySQL as the database that stores all of this information. The website will then be made with a PHP framework to access that MySQL data and similarly, I was thinking the Android App would read/write to that same MySQL Database.
I already proto-typed this and was able to create an android app that posts data to a process.php file I have sitting on a web server which then queries the MySQL database, and returns a JSON object back to the Android App for consumption. I followed this guide from Stack Overflow to accomplish this and it worked good. I also searched these forums and found this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2325799 which seems to sort of do things the same way.
My question is:
1) Is this the right way to do things for an app I want to scale to 10,000 users? I want to ask the more experienced developers if this is how they would go about creating such an app. Is there a better way besides what I described? I am a noobie so this was the best way I could come up with from searching the internet.
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I do not know if I am asking in the correct place, or the correct way. I am not a developer and so far attempts to use google to find the answer to my question has been in the form of developer answers which are useless to me since I am not writing a program. I am looking for one.
I am trying to build myself a database. On my desktop I can use Open Office Base to do this, but the database is only accessible on my desktop.
I have tried Momento database app and its desktop counterpart, but its limited to 3 tables only unless I buy a monthly subscription and it relys on an external web service to function.
I have looked at the Cellica program for syncing database, but it does not support the Open Office Base format, and Open Office can not export to MS Access format.
What I am looking for is the best free database program for my desktop which has an android app, which I can use to sync my database between my android tablet and my desktop over wi-fy when I'm at home.
If its good enough I may even consider a paid program, as long as there is no subscription fee.