Hiya,
I am new to android app development and am trying to make my first project. I am interested in making a very simple app that captures customer information and project details and then at the end gives the option to print and email the captured information.
For example the first page of the app would ask for date,name, phone number and email. The second page would consist of a number of boxes that can be bubbled to select material to be used. Lastly would be a page that had total and deposit amount boxes to fill in and the print and email buttons respectively.
My questions are as follows;
1. What program is the best to use to help develop such an app?
2. Can it even be done?
3. Can it be deployed on a tablet device?
4. What resources do you know of that could help me in this over ambitious endeavor?
5. How do I create a gui with custom colors and such?
Any and all help will be greatly appreciated and I look forward to helping others with the knowledge I obtain from this journey.
Thank you,
Newbie
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Hellluuuuu there everybody!!!! :mrgreen:
I'm new to this forum as well as to Android programming!!!
I've bagged a semester project recently, called 'Social Data Mining on Smartphones'. I've added the task description as an attachment to this post. Do have a look!
Now - I installed the ADT/SDK plugins for Eclipse and tried out the 'Hello World' programme once following the Developer's Tutorial - that's it!
I'm all set to being my project... but.. there's a tiny snag in my way
--> I have absolutement NO clue where to begin
I'd be grateful to you guys if you could guide me through my project and be available for answering questions/solving problems.. I'm also open to new ideas/suggestions/creative input, etc.
So......... how to get started?
Okies - I managed to make the GUI.
Download it from the attachment.
Comments welcome : )
So, now I need to get started with the actual coding.
Step 1) Extract data from the contact application
Any ideas how to get started?
So I recently got very interested in Windows Phone 7 (mango) and I had been thinking about starting to create my own apps for a while. The result is the idea for an app that is as follows:
Name: Crumbs
Possible abbreviation: to send somebody a "crumb"
In short: An app that capable of: writing/creating, organising, sharing and following instructions, AKA crumbs.
What I want to achieve with this is a new option into social networking, but this time it's also very useful and not just fun to show off. What could these crumbs be? Well, I've thought of some categories already:
Routinely task:
like the stuff you do every morning, shouldn't forget, etc.
Work/study task:
some sort of study schedule, with certain points you should handle to complete the whole task.
Preparation/cooking task:
doesn't need any explanation.
Scavenger hunt/adventure:
wouldn't it be great if you can give a list of instructions to someone with some reward at the end?
Travelling:
similar to your adventure, but could contain various flight data or a couple of options (so you don't "finish" an item, but finish 1 item in a dillema.
Other: always have some other category..
User defined: if a user wants to make his/her own category.So these are the categories, but as you've already seen, each category has different types of commands/operations one has to perform to complete the whole task. So when writing a new one, you could filter the entry-options by the ones most important for that category and give the users a seperate option to add another operation than the ones listed by default. Some possible operations and their integration ideas are as stated below:
Action: very straightforward, do something and when executing the crumb you simply check the box when done. Maybe some option with a timer that alerts you that you should be done with the operation soon (for example: cooking).
Navigate: go to a specific location and then you check the operation. Possible GPS integration/maps?
Input: give certain input to go on. For example useful when creating an adventure (go there, look for the church and read what's on it) or something else that should need a password or any other input.
Alert: to alert yourself/the executor OR (and this is important) some other user that you've arrived at a certain operation in your crumb.
Yeah, you read it right, another user. Because one other important aspect of almost every app nowadays is SHARING. So ofcourse, there will have to be the option to share crumbs. People will be able to manage their crumbs on a phone ofcourse, but if there's a lot, wouldn't it be easy to have them stored online too? A place where you can rapidly type, organise and share your crumbs. So there should be a format to save them in (.crumb looks fantastic ). So, you simply send someone the crumb using a public link you create for your privately stored crumb. But what about something called instructors/friends? Wouldn't it be awesome if you can allow certain people to GIVE you crumbs straightaway, so you'll get alerted and know you have to do something (OK, "your mom" wouldn't be awesome, but useful nonetheless). To make things easier for this, the users will have to be able to manage these friends/instructors too and have their own cookie jar/cake box to receive their crumbs directly in (on the website and in the app). I sense some Facebook/social integration, don't you?
Then there's this weird habit of people: they've got calendars and tasks on them. Wouldn't it be great if the crumbs are linked to calendar and/or outlook-task items?
Sooo... This is my (already quite complex) idea. To conclude things once again: the outlook task system isn't capable of managing real tasks. You can give certain progress percentages, but that's just something that could be managed by this app, since it's much more in depth.
Problem is, I'm not that good at developing (yet)! So if any developer out there is willing to take this thing on with me (I just feel this could turn out great), please let me know. Meanwhile, I'll keep dreaming on and I'm a quick learner, so I hope to show a mockup of some sorts soon . I've already thought out some sort of menu structure/frame everything should be hung up in and that's what I'll be working on the time to come.
And keep in mind:
This idea is NOT for sharing by anyone but me right now. That it may be very clear that this idea is not for your own use!
Guys I am new to Windows Phone development as i have just started, so please forgive my mistakes.
I am planning to develop an app, simple app for viewing time table of my classes.
My couching classes regularly updates the time table on their website. And the link can be found here
http://www.professionalacademyca.in/time_table.php
source code
http://pastebin.com/6yUH1Q8t
Questions
1) How can I compile this app?
2) Is this possible or not?
3) if yes, than how?
please give suggestions
DBZo07 said:
Guys I am new to Windows Phone development as i have just started, so please forgive my mistakes.
I am planning to develop an app, simple app for viewing time table of my classes.
My couching classes regularly updates the time table on their website. And the link can be found here
http://www.professionalacademyca.in/time_table.php
source code
http://pastebin.com/6yUH1Q8t
Questions
1) How can I compile this app?
2) Is this possible or not?
3) if yes, than how?
please give suggestions
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1. You will have to work with microsoft visual studio and windows phone sdk.
2. Yes it is possible
3. You can use htmlagilitypack for parsing the html. This is a very nice tutorial for that.
Ofcourse you should be familiar with programming in C# and XAML. You can easily find tutorials for these.
You could also use the AppStudio, which is an online environment for creating simple apps. It's way less powerful than Visual Studio + WP8 SDK, but it doesn't require a download and it's reportedly very easy to use (I'm used to VS, so AppStudio is no big deal to me, but you may find it more your speed).
Hi guys,
my name is Fabio Falanga and I want to introduce an idea that I developed with my friend Dario Carella.
Our idea was to create something that could simplify creation of web services could be used in our Android app, which is useful especially in the early stages of developing an app, where you do not yet provide a complete backend .
The idea is to have to devote himself to the Android code omitting start writing the backend of our app (plus point is if you do not have the skills or if you do not have time to make it happen, but you want to present a prototype in short).
Through the portal arrray.com you can create JSON service accessible from the mobile (or even from the web) in a completely free way. Simply insert the JSON document that you want to use, the name, a description (optional), tags (optional) and save the entry.
Once this is done we will be given a url address containing a token with which we can then make changes to the document, which will be public but not editable by anyone (just who will have the token can do so). In this way you can also create projects in teams. We preferred this approach to prevent users another tedious registration.
Once the insertion, just make an HTTP request from our Android app api.arrray.com/ID address (url provided following the creation of arrray.com). Requests must be made in reading as is normal REST through the GET method. In doing so we will have our backend ready to use, according to our specifications and without having to use any programming language, if not the knowledge of the JSON format.
We are open to suggestions of any kind (note that arrray is at a preliminary stage of development, many tasks are already in the queue: P).
I hope that arrray can be useful for the realization of your app with Web Service,
Fabio
Hello everyone I have to create a project for my database class and it consist of creating a android app that communicates with MySQL. I just started playing WAMP and started to learn PHP and using phpmyadmin to manage my database. I would like some pointers of how can I start to learn the process of making my app communicate with my database? Also what is the best site to host my database so my app can be accessed anywhere not just localhost. I appreciate everyone's feedback. Thank You!
- Any links to good example videos would be appreciated free or paid just want something that will guide me to the right direction