Hello Community,
I am extremely new to creating Android Apps. I was curious how difficult is it to create an app that has 4 buttons. 2 of the buttons will take you to parts of my company's website, 1 will call our support and 1 will open the email client to email our support address. I am going over the tutorials that are free for android and just want to make sure that this is possible. Please let me know.
Thank You,
Zack
Hey Zack,
Yes your idea is possible and I think it isn't very difficulty.
What you need are intents. Here is a link about this topic. It was very helpful for me.
ww.vogella.com/articles/AndroidIntent/article.html
I hope my first post was helpful.
PS: if you want contact me and I will write you an example app with the 4 buttons and the corresponding functions. Sry for my english I'm from Germany
Tom
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Hi all,
I'm neither a software developer nor an harcore techie, just a plain PPC user, but after crawling the web for days and nights I feel this forum is the only place where I can find an answer to my question. Admins, please forgive me if this is not the right spot and feel free to move my post to a most appropriate location.
I'm looking for a location-sensitive reminder & to-do list app for GPS-enabled cellphones; for example, you could drive nearby a drugstore and the device would remind you that you need to buy some particular medicine. Or, if you're near the video store, it can remind you of a movie you wanted to rent.
I know the concept exists and has been used by a student for his Ph.D, but AFAIK I never found anything similar. I really hope some of you experts have an answer to this.
Thanks a million in advance
If something like this could get programmed for a pocket pc it would probably be a gold mine. Currently not many ppc's have GPS built in but the number is growing quickly.
clandestino_usr said:
Hi all,
I'm neither a software developer nor an harcore techie, just a plain PPC user, but after crawling the web for days and nights I feel this forum is the only place where I can find an answer to my question. Admins, please forgive me if this is not the right spot and feel free to move my post to a most appropriate location.
I'm looking for a location-sensitive reminder & to-do list app for GPS-enabled cellphones; for example, you could drive nearby a drugstore and the device would remind you that you need to buy some particular medicine. Or, if you're near the video store, it can remind you of a movie you wanted to rent.
I know the concept exists and has been used by a student for his Ph.D, but AFAIK I never found anything similar. I really hope some of you experts have an answer to this.
Thanks a million in advance
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That could be a very good application. I also think it's not so difficult to implement.
Very good idea!
Marshall
awesome idea.......i used to use a garmin ique3600 with palm 5 on it...in the calendar function you could assign specific addresses/.......sooo as you went through your day hyou could just click on "meet john doe..." hit route me to it button and off you went.....my trinity shows up in a few days and i have not seen any calendar function that does this, or what you have described.....does anyone know how to assign 1 location to a calendar activity?
Im new to forums and this one has ALOT of info, Please help. I have the HTC TILT 8925 I really hate allot of the features and layout especially the speed dial it takes to long, and it doesnt group the text messages together.
I have been trying to install touchflo and a few other mod's but im having major issues with the downloads on here and knowing whats, what and up to date.
I know its a bit to ask but could someone just email me the installs for all needed apps to mod my tilt PLEASE..... Im willing to donate I just need some help and the forums are over welming.... Any and all mod's would be great....
PLEASE Thanks
Chico
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http://www.cinetsystems.com/xda/index.php?path=Kaiser+Cab+Collections/
I've sent my banking details in a private message so you can donate.... cheers
Hello Chico.
Welcome to the forum!
I know there is a lot to read here but please start with the rules. They don't just tell you what not to do, but also how to post to get the beast and fastest results.
I removed your email address from you post because by putting it in the open you expose it to spammers. As long as it is in your profile any forum user can email you simply by clicking your user name at the top of the post.
(If you wish you can put it back but I advise against it).
Finally, while I understand your enthusiasm to improve your phone I suggest you pinpoint your question and go for a specific feature one at a time.
Installing everything all together may mess up your phone.
Since you are bothered by SMS not being grouped check out this app for starters: Threaded SMS
First, for the people who don't know yet the akinator web site, plase visit http://www.devinettor.com/aki_en/ it's very intresting, you think in one famous person, answer 20 questions, and the genious say the person that you thought.
I would like to have an app that create an interface to akinator website, for our ppc, to use it like a windows mobile game.
I know that it's possible to use via browser, but it will be more interesting if we have an app, that create an interface to the DB of akinator, I think that it's easy do that for a developer, I don't how to develop it, but should be just an app that comm with the Akinator's database.
Sorry for my english, I'm brazilian, my english is poor.
thanks!!
please post question in the questions and answers section, development and hacking section is for contributing.....
All question threads will be deleted
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thanks for the cooperation
"Warranty Expiry Tracker"
Hi, I pretty much like the idea of this app (market) but the UI could really need some love.
It's also just availabe in English which makes it hard for some to understand.
Unfortunately, I don't know enough about Android development to code this.
Are there any wizards out there interested in making such an app? I'd volunteer to translate to German...
Hmm, that looks like a very simple app. You could probably learn how to do it in a month if you have some basic programming background. I'd do it but I have some projects I'm working on currently.
I'll keep this in the back of my head though.
Btw, I wonder if App Inventor could handle this, just a thought.
Bounty: 20$
Re-tested the Miritech App mentioned above but sadly it doesn't work on my German i9000, I can reproduce FCs and the programmer doesn't care to fix them.
I have gotten my AppInventor account lately, but don't have time left as I'm leaving my job to do something else. So I can't do this myself and I'd pay someone to do it.
Basically, this app can just consist of a couple of buttons:
- Add item to list*
- Search for item in list
- show list of items with warranty expired
* Item might contain item's name, its details, date of purchase, name of store, duration of warranty in month, picture of invoice / recipt
Any help is appreciated, thank you!
Hii marty,
thanks for your comments... but can you please specify the FC's you are getting on our application so that we can fix it right way and also we will take care of your needs if any in this application.
And this application is standardised app in english. If you want us to translate it in german then we can do it exclusively for you.. For this please contact us
Thanks..
narindersingh80 said:
can you please specify the FC's you are getting on our application so that we can fix it right way and also we will take care of your needs if any in this application.
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I already emailed twice to [email protected], the address displayed on the Android Market, but I didn't get a response.
Anyway, here are my suggestions:
- Larger buttons on all screens (theres lot's of empty space left on my screen)
- Service contact details should not be mandatory
- Service contact mobile phone number doesn't accept arbitrary numbers
I will send you a logfile when it FCs again, please PM me an email adress.
An added bonus would be the possibility to localize the app. Are the strings hardcoded, or perhaps pulled from a file or database? If you send me a file, I'll translate all strings to German...
Hii marty,
We have uploaded updated version.Please Check it and let us know about FC.
Thanks
Naarinder Singh
I am interested in creating and android based app where short posts like twitter can be shared with a group of people who has that app. So for example if 10 people have this app and one of them decided to create a post and share it then all the other 9 people should be able to see it in there feed. I am new to app development and was hoping I can get some kind of guidance from here as to where to start. I am not sure what kind of platform or technology is used in facebook and twitter for this specific purpose but I would like a similar setup. I really appreciate any help or guidance to help me get started and thanks in advance.
Google Cloud Messaging might be helpful in that case: http://developer.android.com/google/gcm/index.html
I'd, however, suggest to create some easier apps first, just for learning. Keep in mind, a twitter clone is a big and difficult project.
Smaller project
I would like to start from a smaller project but not sure about this area at all. I was thinking to just create a small app first where I create a post and it appears on the other end. Any ideas as how to go about it? thank you for your help.
sbcoder said:
I would like to start from a smaller project but not sure about this area at all. I was thinking to just create a small app first where I create a post and it appears on the other end. Any ideas as how to go about it? thank you for your help.
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I don't know how to do that as I've never really been interested in networking. I'd suggest to do something without networking as your first application to get used to Android's UI elements and to Android code in general.
As soon as you understood that you can do as much networking as you want but I would start with something that is easier. (A calculator is a typical beginner project. )
sbcoder said:
I would like to start from a smaller project but not sure about this area at all. I was thinking to just create a small app first where I create a post and it appears on the other end. Any ideas as how to go about it? thank you for your help.
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i ll give the example of Facebook
there
newsfeeds run on Hadoop
messages are on nosql not sure about this
all the searches you perform on the new graph interface (exculding those on messages) are through FQL
its a language of their own Facebook Query Language
Python is the backbone of it all, chief scripting language on thier server
of course the webinterface you see is php and javascript
........ this much only i know
but there are a few more
as u can see there's more to it than it seems to be so starting with such a thing won't be a wise decision !
"no hill too high to climb" - proceed this project if you really want to !
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