Is this the right forum/section to post this or is there anywhere else in the site i can post the question?
Any suggestions on sites or even books would be great.
I have already developed an app and the current issues im having are taking the response back from my webservice and binding to a gridview or some sort of view that can display my records..
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Greetings all,
I'll cut right to the chase. I'm looking for a enthusiastic developer to help me develop an application for a 'iPhone' style app store.
I have some rough ideas on how to go about this, but im not completely in touch with the development of Windows Mobile Based applications.
The application will essentially connect to a hosted website of mine containing free / opensource / demo WM6 applications with the option to download and install to your phone.
I've thought of using a RSS style backbone for the application as i think it would be the easiest way to go about receiving updates from the website with links to .cab 's for download.
I'm aiming for this to be a free hosting service for aspiring developers to get their applications out there and easily accessable for others on their WM6 devices
The only thing i can really offer in return is credit on my application hosting page for the client software, and a agreed percentage of any revenue i may or may not receive in the future.
I am aware of the proposed one by MS but they are asking $99 for devs to post their applications on there, i would like for this to be a free alternative for poor devs.
Sorry for the long post, and any thoughts regarding this will be greatly appreciated! If anyone is further interested, provide your email and i can write up a more detailed explaination with diagrams.
**Edit: I've got a professional web developer who is a friend of mine on the Site side of things
I'll be keen to help out on the Web Side of things. Looks like M$ Apps is gonna be a failure.
Email me: 89jase<at>gmail<dot>com
Hope a few people get on board, sounds like a great idea!
Thanks Jase!
I thought no one here wanted to help. I'll be in touch with some further details.
Though i still need a someone to point me in the right direction with the client side of it. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Stop developing such things, that already exists...
scilor,
Not that im trying to be rude when i say this, but why?
It's something i want to do, you havn't inputed contructively so why bother at all?
Futhermore, i do not know of a solution such as this currently developed. So if this is the case, perhaps you could link me to it? That would be helpful.
Guys,
I apologise if this topic has been raised in other forums or threads. I tried using the search option under diamond, but could not find any answer.
I am a great fan of WinMo and am now getting a Diamond for my son. Apart from remotetracker, what I am looking at is firewall kind of parental control software - something like NetNanny or CyberPatrol on the PC.
I have tried Airscanner, but need me to input the IP addresses of all websites that have to be barred. It does not take the URLs which is quite cumbersome.
Anybody has any idea what can be done?
Thanks in advance.
im not aware of any software to block urls for the mobile device but there is this http://wmpoweruser.com/?p=4346 or you could try emailing the editor to see if he has found any other application since he wrote the article
Thanks. Will get in touch with the Editor.
Hi,
This is one of the most essential things for internet safety for your kids you can do. Parental control software helps to protect kids from online predators. With a parental control software you can record websites visited, block unwanted websites, record emails & attachments and more.
The harvard university android app from google play store. (I can't seem to post any outside link yet for this account)
I want to create one for may school but I'm just starting to learn android programming, so guys I need your help on the topics that I need to study to create an app like that. I greatly appreciate any kind of comments. Cheers!
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The harvard university android app from google play store. (I can't seem to post any outside link yet for this account)
I want to create one for may school but I'm just starting to learn android programming, so guys I need your help on the topics that I need to study to create an app like that. I greatly appreciate any kind of comments. Cheers!
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Fragments, ListViews, JSON parsing (for communication with the web server to download news etc), Android SQLite databases (I suggest using this to store the information from the webserver locally so the app does not require a constant internet connection to view a news article for example), Google Cloud Messaging notifications, notifications, encryption.
There are lots more but these are some of the main ones. In addition I would not advise trying to copy the "look" or aesthetics of the Harvard application as it frankly looks disgusting, whoever designed that needs a course in UI design
any book suggestions?? im only studying at home and wanted to start studying android app development
m0nm0npalam0n said:
any book suggestions?? im only studying at home and wanted to start studying android app development
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Android Application Development for Dummies and Learn Java for Android Development are 2 that I have in ebook form, though I can't say I've used them much as I don't really learn by reading books, more like looking at the source code of other apps and messing with it to see what happens
Android Application Development for Dummies goes through a wide range of topics including widgets, SQLite storage, possibly SharedPreferences (can't remember), ListView etc but does assume that you can at least follow what the sample code is doing - the sample code is commented but if you have not done any coding at all before then you probably should learn the basics of Java before reading it
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Android Application Development for Dummies and Learn Java for Android Development are 2 that I have in ebook form, though I can't say I've used them much as I don't really learn by reading books, more like looking at the source code of other apps and messing with it to see what happens
Android Application Development for Dummies goes through a wide range of topics including widgets, SQLite storage, possibly SharedPreferences (can't remember), ListView etc but does assume that you can at least follow what the sample code is doing - the sample code is commented but if you have not done any coding at all before then you probably should learn the basics of Java before reading it
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thanks man! this really helps
Jonny said:
Fragments, ListViews, JSON parsing (for communication with the web server to download news etc), Android SQLite databases (I suggest using this to store the information from the webserver locally so the app does not require a constant internet connection to view a news article for example), Google Cloud Messaging notifications, notifications, encryption.
There are lots more but these are some of the main ones. In addition I would not advise trying to copy the "look" or aesthetics of the Harvard application as it frankly looks disgusting, whoever designed that needs a course in UI design
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Thank you very much for the reply, I'm really thankful for the information that you share. Can you please clear this one for me?
I suggest using this to store the information from the webserver locally so the app does not require a constant internet connection to view a news article for example
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Thank you very much for the reply, I'm really thankful for the information that you share. Can you please clear this one for me?
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When you get data from a server to an Android app you use php for the server code - for example you can use php/mysql to run a search for calendar events in the database and return those events. Then you need to use php's JSON encode function to send the data in a JSON array.
The output should look something like this - this is the output of the calendar database for my school:
http://wgsb.cobainschofield.com/android_db/get_calendar.php (note this is not the live schools site, its the test server the guy who maintains the live site allows me to mess with err use).
You would then use a JSON parser class and an AsyncTask from within the app to "download" the content of the JSON array and then display it in a listview or textview etc.
Now obviously to get this information requires an internet connection yes? So every time someone wanted to check for an event on the calendar or read a news article for example they would need a working internet connection to receive the output of the get_calendar script, this is inefficient and bad design as it does not allow for offline viewing of the data.
Therefore what you can do is use androids SQLite implementation to create a local sql database then the first time you need to get the data from the webserver, you connect to the internet and get the output of the php script, the using the JSON parser class you store the information in the sqlite database then get the information from the database to display to the user.
By this way users can view news articles or calendar events offline and you only need to connect to the internet to refresh the information
I've uploaded screenshots in the attachments of how I've done it for my school's app.
That made it clear! Thank you very much.
Hey everyone,
New developer & member here. I've been programming for about a year now, so I'm not completely novice, but when it comes to Java and Android ..I'm a rookie. What I'm working on now is bringing an app to a secure share site I created, SecurSend. Essentially what this is meant for is sharing private information without any prying eyes, SSL connection, on-screen keyboard to deter keyloggers, RAT blackout features, etc. What I'm having the most trouble with converting this to an android app, is I just don't have a good understanding of the environment, or Java language.
So what I need here is a text box, and button. When pressing the button, whatever was inputted in the text box, should be uploaded to my already established server, and create a unique link to send to the recipient. Once the link is clicked, it is completely destroyed from the server.
Does anyone have any recommendations on resources that could benefit me in learning how to effectively perform this action? If anyone here is interested in the project, I wouldn't mind having some experienced developers on the project as well! SecurSend's web-app is currently down, but I can provide a local copy if you'd like to play around with it.
Thanks for any help in advance, everyone!
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So what I need here is a text box, and button. When pressing the button, whatever was inputted in the text box, should be uploaded to my already established server, and create a unique link to send to the recipient. Once the link is clicked, it is completely destroyed from the server.
Does anyone have any recommendations on resources that could benefit me in learning how to effectively perform this action? If anyone here is interested in the project, I wouldn't mind having some experienced developers on the project as well! SecurSend's web-app is currently down, but I can provide a local copy if you'd like to play around with it.
Thanks for any help in advance, everyone!
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I'm not sure exactly what you might be asking =)
Are you interested in learning how to establish a connection to a server and perform an HTTP POST operation? (Checkout DefaultHttpClient)
Are you interested in how to create the textbox and button? (Check out TextView and Button in the Android API docs)
Are you interested in popping up Android's "Share via" dialog? (Checkout Intent.createChooser())
Sorry, I can't post links =/
Hi Everyone,
I am currently a very new starter in the Android App Development stage. I have tried to develop a ListView with Searchbox facility to search data that comes from a specific URL in the form of JSON data. I managed to understand displaying this data in ListView, but adding a search facility is something I'm struggling to grasp somehow.
The code attached is a reference code I am trying to tune before I move on to actually developing my app. However, it doesn't seem to work on the emulator, giving me the error that the MainActivity file has stopped working.
I am unsure if there is a fundamental error somewhere, and would be really grateful to get some advice on this. I have looked online and can't seem to find a good resource that explains merging ListView with JSON data effectively with a Searchbox.
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Hi Everyone,
I am currently a very new starter in the Android App Development stage. I have tried to develop a ListView with Searchbox facility to search data that comes from a specific URL in the form of JSON data. I managed to understand displaying this data in ListView, but adding a search facility is something I'm struggling to grasp somehow.
The code attached is a reference code I am trying to tune before I move on to actually developing my app. However, it doesn't seem to work on the emulator, giving me the error that the MainActivity file has stopped working.
I am unsure if there is a fundamental error somewhere, and would be really grateful to get some advice on this. I have looked online and can't seem to find a good resource that explains merging ListView with JSON data effectively with a Searchbox.
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You should implement the search on the listview adapter, not on the activity itself.
Take a look at the following article:
http://www.mokasocial.com/2010/07/arrayadapte-filtering-and-you/