Going to begin some work on an xda app for windows 8 , Any chance there is a way I can get the source code for the android xda app?
Try search in Google.com
I think they are using (or support) tapatalk's engine. maybe you can start from there.
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I think they are using (or support) tapatalk's engine. maybe you can start from there.
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Correct. Good luck getting any source though
good luck man!
wont be easy^^
Just set up a poxy server and and use the xda app so you can see how the app communicates with the api (if there is such a thing). I imagine there is one as I can't see it being a scraping app. That would just be horrible!
BTW, I do know it's proxy. I just like the word "poxy".
Thanks guys, the more I look into windows 8 the more it seems the our normal android apps should work on it with a bit of tweaking as long as they are built on java visual basic C++ or c#. Which would be amazingly nice, working on trying to figure out how to do it now. I have a small team working on this acctualy. We are making nice headway, just need to find a way to install them really. I hope I can figure it out and supply Windows 8 users with many an app. Wish me luck!
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A) What programming language do Android developers use??
B) and what language are most apps written on?
B) Java
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.html Everything to get started is there.
Android programming is done in linux, apps are written in java.
jroid said:
Android programming is done in linux, apps are written in java.
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Android programming can be done on any OS platform.
kopykatkiller said:
Android programming can be done on any OS platform.
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Yes, but the operating system is based in linux.
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Yes, but the operating system is based in linux.
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Yeah, but the way he said it sounded wrong. The Android kernel is programmed in c,c++ and is a Linux based os. You can program apps for Android in most languages now: c++, c, and ruby just to name a few. Most choose java since google has pushed it enough and made it simple.
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The app itself is written in java. And, there is some XML.
Check out eclipse.
Here is a help site for windows: but you can apply it to linux or macosx
http://www.vogella.de/articles/Android/article.html
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A) What programming language do Android developers use??
B) and what language are most apps written on?
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dattas said:
Yeah, but the way he said it sounded wrong. The Android kernel is programmed in c,c++ and is a Linux based os. You can program apps for Android in most languages now: c++, c, and ruby just to name a few. Most choose java since google has pushed it enough and made it simple.
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This. Java is certainly the most widely-used and most supported by Google, but more and more compilers and VMs are emerging. For example, the MonoDroid project is working on a Mono VM for apps written in C#.
PHP is also on the rise
http://www.infoworld.com/d/develope...-google-android-652?source=rss_infoworld_news
http://www.slideshare.net/coogle/building-php-powered-android-applications
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Yes, but the operating system is based in linux.
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Linux isn't a language. The user is asking for programming languages.
Pretty sure you can also code apps in C using the NDK. Or maybe that's just OS code, can't remember. Either way it runs extraordinarily faster than Java obviously.
EDIT: Just read up on it and apparently you can only embed C in apps using the NDK in conjunction with the SDK
I think I am going to jump in. I am a software/web developer and I have the Android SDK, Eclipse, Visual Studio 2008 and a number of other tools on my dev box. I love coding in C# but I can do Java and some other stuff too. What is a good way to get my feet wet....aka "Hello World" ?
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I think I am going to jump in. I am a software/web developer and I have the Android SDK, Eclipse, Visual Studio 2008 and a number of other tools on my dev box. I love coding in C# but I can do Java and some other stuff too. What is a good way to get my feet wet....aka "Hello World" ?
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http://developer.android.com/guide/tutorials/hello-world.html
http://www.vogella.de/articles/Android/article.html
Thanks. I just got Eclipse (Helios) setup with the ADT pluging and I am messing around with the emulator. So this is basically what it used for testing/debugging etc. or is there something better?
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Thanks. I just got Eclipse (Helios) setup with the ADT pluging and I am messing around with the emulator. So this is basically what it used for testing/debugging etc. or is there something better?
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That's pretty much it. You won't enjoy anything remotely on the level of what you're used to out of something like Visual Studio, but once you figure out Eclipse (and that can take awhile, it's probably one of the more inscrutable modern-style IDEs I've ever used, and I've been doing this for 30 years; and I'm sure I'll get flamed for that)... but once you see the world through Eclipse's eyes, it's about like writing any other app.
I've gotten into Android dev and back out again several times. Usually I get tired of Google's rather sub-par developer support and go back to some type of paying project.
But for some reason, there is a certain kick to seeing your app run on a phone the first few times.
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Thanks. I just got Eclipse (Helios) setup with the ADT pluging and I am messing around with the emulator. So this is basically what it used for testing/debugging etc. or is there something better?
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Yeah you can either use the Virtual Android Device to test your app OR use your phone and you the ADT plugin will install the app onto your device. The emulator takes a long time to start up. Whenever I'm bored and want to write a app for fun, I tend to use my old device (G1) as a debugging device because I can't stand how long emulator takes to stat up.
Thanks guys. I have my first little app up and running in the VAD emulator.
I found out that you need Eclipse 3.5 (not 3.6) and the JRE 1.6 for everything to be happy. Now where to go from here....
This is turning into a nice little getting started thread. I hope people who have other suggestions for noob developers will continue to post.
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This. Java is certainly the most widely-used and most supported by Google, but more and more compilers and VMs are emerging. For example, the MonoDroid project is working on a Mono VM for apps written in C#.
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Google is also big on Python (Google app engine), supposedly there will be support to create .apk's using python in the feature.
Hi,
I want to develop a ROM for the x10...
How should I begin.
Thanks in advance.
PlauGunsta
My friend,
It's so easy to do.
You just need the Flashtool SW (pls use the last version) I guest it is on rev. 0.2.9
then after you look for a tutorial explaining how to make it.. you can find it here in XDA Developers.
BR/
Hi,
well you need good knowledge of C and java. C is used for kernel related stuff and programs runned from shell and java is needed for android and all,because it is running in the so called dalvikVM (a java virtual machine).
Aswell a little asm knowledge might be useful but not that important.
Get the X10 kernel-source install a unix distro and start compiling modules to integrate in the the phone, just like its done on custom roms.
Thats the best you can do to learn, beside reading books
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Hi,
well you need good knowledge of C and java. C is used for kernel related stuff and programs runned from shell and java is needed for android and all,because it is running in the so called dalvikVM (a java virtual machine).
Aswell a little asm knowledge might be useful but not that important.
Get the X10 kernel-source install a unix distro and start compiling modules to integrate in the the phone, just like its done on custom roms.
Thats the best you can do to learn, beside reading books
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To do that I will need a faster computer right? If it's so I won't be able to be a good developer for the x10 I got just 1gb RAM on my slow laptop with windows 7 )
Do you think it's possible for me if I have no knowledge to create a own 2.2.1 ROM? I want to release one with a great theme, tweaks and stuff.
Yes its better to have a faster PC. There have been many cases where either the motherboard or the hard disk gets burnt due to excessive load while compilation.
About the froyo question, my answer is no.
You have to know Java for development of roms
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To do that I will need a faster computer right? If it's so I won't be able to be a good developer for the x10 I got just 1gb RAM on my slow laptop with windows 7 )
Do you think it's possible for me if I have no knowledge to create a own 2.2.1 ROM? I want to release one with a great theme, tweaks and stuff.
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no way, lol.
It Takes many years of practice before you can really do that...
A damn...
Well if you want to start from Scratch it is going to be a Mission Imposible to develop without the knowledge. But if you take let's say Zdizihu's AOSP Froyo ROM which is really clean with no extra ads and you add your theme (Framework and services.jar) and made the "Tweaks" most of them are stored in build.prop then you don't need that much knowledge just:
Winrar
Notepad++
and enough time to test it.
My suggestion don't release it as ROM since there are too many "ROMS" using Z's base and quite honestly is boering to see that lol... I myself have in my phone Z's ROM with CM Settings, Arc Launcher, OpenVPN tweaks, build.prop tweaks etc but not releasing it since it is not a real ROM.
If you have a good theme then release it as theme, people will equaly appreciate it my friend and the best thing it will not wipe their data
Have a good day.
A thanks, how do I create themes then ?
There is a tutorial regarding the same in the themes and apps section. Make a search there. All the best
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A thanks, how do I create themes then ?
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Hi,
I want to develop a ROM for the x10...
How should I begin.
Thanks in advance.
PlauGunsta
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In x10 mini sectio you have a tutorial how to make a rom!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=888227
Thanks for all replies, I will look into it.
can someone of the developers make a converter.
IPA to APK converter, something like the PSXperia tool.
Doesn't work, ipa is iPhone and apk is Android
Posts like this remind me of when Super Nintendo came out and all these parents were freaking out on the evening news that their kids would want it and it wasn't fair... and that they should make an "adapter" so that the old NES system could play the new games. LOL
This has got to be the stupidest question I have ever seen on XDA.
Agreed
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This has got to be the stupidest question I have ever seen on XDA.
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More so than this one?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1370549
I like IPA... But I also like APK.
But which one's better ?
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There's only one way to find out......
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I like IPA... But I also like APK.
But which one's better ?
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There's only one way to find out......
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whats that? u have me wondering now...
Lmao
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Wow...
You guys need to calm down. It's just a question. You don't need to make him look like an idiot, you look like an idiot when calling him one. Just sayin.
Anyway, sorry, its not that easy. I wish it was that easy and often wondered the same thing at times.
Excpet the guy who ask the question your all idiota since devlopers are working on this just havent said whsts going on for a while it can be done just takes so much work
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Excpet the guy who ask the question your all idiota since devlopers are working on this just havent said whsts going on for a while it can be done just takes so much work
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Developers are working on what? An .ipa to .apk converter? Lmfao Android uses java. Its not even the same language as the iPhone
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Rofl the other one is funnier lol can my xplay be 3d
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Excpet the guy who ask the question your all idiota since devlopers are working on this just havent said whsts going on for a while it can be done just takes so much work
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Spoken by someone who has never written a program in his life.
The logistics of this requires human interaction. Android programs are written in a COMPLETELY different language than iOS programs. While both programming languages can produce the same results, and obviously use the same graphics data and stuff like that, a human programmer must make that conversion as how they get to that end result is completely different.
No developers are working on this. Its a waste of time.
Question: if I remember properly, Android uses a virtual machine, called Dalvik, to run Java code. Could Dalvik actually run Objective C (iOS language) code somehow?
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Question: if I remember properly, Android uses a virtual machine, called Dalvik, to run Java code. Could Dalvik actually run Objective C (iOS language) code somehow?
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programs that are coded in C run natively they dont run in a VM like android apps. Thats why its possible to use android apps on other platforms (providing they have the dalvik VM) like the blackberry playbook but you couldn't do that the other way around.
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Question: if I remember properly, Android uses a virtual machine, called Dalvik, to run Java code. Could Dalvik actually run Objective C (iOS language) code somehow?
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The Dalvik VM is just a Java VM right?
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I remember reading somewhere that it doesn't actually run Java code by itself...
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The Dalvik VM is just a Java VM right?
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I remember reading somewhere that it doesn't actually run Java code by itself...
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No its not just a Java VM and actually works quite differently than a normal Java VM. A regular Java VM works almost like an Emulator within the device running it. The Dalvik VM actually takes the program and uses its own class libraries, it converts some of the java files when its compiled into its own format. This saves space and memory usage, due to the programs obviously needing to be run on devices with limited memory.
The Android SDK also has an ungodly huge amount of libraries within it as well withe specific code design to do basically anything.
have an idea ask Google to try and create android to read IPA or other formats then android will be the best as developers will want to create games, apps and other things and make life easier for everyone as it will be like this in left hand iphone in right hand Samsung galaxy s2 really good android phone which will you pick me i would go for the Samsung as it's better as i have one but if it could run IPA. Iphone will probably unexistant just saying but it's best to ask google. for more easier methods to create games and apps just like ipa is really easy to create apps
Edit: posted and look up, HTC G1?? WTH! not where I wanted to be..oh well.
wow wow wow it very good job
nice, thanks
I FLIPPED OUT when I heard of this on the ubuntu web site. Cant wait to have it running one i save up for the htc one x. Lubuntu seems like a better choice though for distro. hopefully you can run just server and install everything else from bash shell. I think this is simply home folder redirection. the same as my computer but without the reboot.
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I FLIPPED OUT when I heard of this on the ubuntu web site. Cant wait to have it running one i save up for the htc one x. Lubuntu seems like a better choice though for distro. hopefully you can run just server and install everything else from bash shell. I think this is simply home folder redirection. the same as my computer but without the reboot.
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+1 for looking forward to this with the one x. I can't understand why there isn't any bigger excitement for this. The xda threads are few and not much of a discussion in them. I've been dreaming of something like this for years, ONE unit for everything basic. I had put my hopes to MS to make a solution like this but there's nothing implying that there will be win 8 phones in the near future.
This is great. Would love to use Ubuntu from my phone.
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Hello XDA Devs. I am pretty new to the concept of people like me creating apps. I am very inexperienced and I am trying to make a game for my android phone. I knew that Google had an Android SDK but I learned that Adobe's Flash Professional can create apps for Android as well. So which program should I use to create a game?
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Hello XDA Devs. I am pretty new to the concept of people like me creating apps. I am very inexperienced and I am trying to make a game for my android phone. I knew that Google had an Android SDK but I learned that Adobe's Flash Professional can create apps for Android as well. So which program should I use to create a game?
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Uh, I wouldn't use the Adobe Flash thing. First of all, it should be slower and Adobe doesn't provide flash player support for Jelly Bean and later. So it runs on old phone only. (I know there are ways to get flash on newer versions. But they aren't optimal.)
So use the SDK. It offers much more functions.
You can use an engine like AndEngine though. I'd recommend that. However, you need to know Java and the Android part.
Although I agree with going down the Java route, as you will be able to do a LOT more with it, Adobe Air is a viable platform for a Flash developer. (It's not the same as the flash plugin for browsers.)
Have a look here for more info...
http://www.adobe.com/products/air.html
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Although I agree with going down the Java route, as you will be able to do a LOT more with it, Adobe Air is a viable platform for a Flash developer. (It's not the same as the flash plugin for browsers.)
Have a look here for more info...
http://www.adobe.com/products/air.html
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Thanks.
I just though of all apps in whose description you can find a sentence like "You need to have flash player installed.".
Did you try Adobe Air?
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Thanks.
I just though of all apps in whose description you can find a sentence like "You need to have flash player installed.".
Did you try Adobe Air?
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I've not used it for a long time, no. I know it's compatible with my HTC One, and that's running Android 4.2, so it's been kept up-to-date. I did think it was the way to go for a long time, purely because of the fact that it's cross-platform, but I have less faith in it now. If I want cross-platform then I use Phonegap.
I'm curious now. Going to install it and have a play around
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I've not used it for a long time, no. I know it's compatible with my HTC One, and that's running Android 4.2, so it's been kept up-to-date. I did think it was the way to go for a long time, purely because of the fact that it's cross-platform, but I have less faith in it now. If I want cross-platform then I use Phonegap.
I'm curious now. Going to install it and have a play around
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I'm curious, too. Please keep us updated.
As mentioned above you could used engines like AndEngine. But if you are new to java as well then I suggest learning java and move on to creating simple apps. You can use websites like thenewboston or other various tutorials all over the net. Make use of youtube and google... they will help you.