Hello, everyone!
I am very new to the Android Platform. I would like to develop a simple app.
I want to create something like a shortcut to a website. I have seen quite a few in the market and I would appreciate it if you guys could help me.
When the users launch the app, it should open the site in the webbrowser.
Originally, I was thinking about creating an app that would open my site inside the app and not the browser but I think that will take much longer and I don't have much time.
I already have the tools needed I just need a "how-to for dummies" lol
thanks,
Xtrigit
http://www.anddev.org/
Great community forum for Android development.
You should also watch these groups. They provide THE info on Android development.
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Adrian Vintu
The easiest way should be using a WebView: http://vinnysoft.blogspot.com/2009/08/webview-in-android.html
Follow the link and should be pretty straightforward.
Needed information: -Currently I working on an my first app (besides Hello World) for a club that I am in on campus.
-I want to display the news feed of a closed group in a small window- but I have been lead to believe that I would need to make an app on Facebook.
-My current "solution" would be to link up the group with Wordpress and use Wordpress to displayed a "window" in the app.
-I am using Eclipse ( since netbeans lacks a gui editor)
- any other solutions need to be as basic as possible on the front end. Any possible president in the future would need to be able to work with it, and updates need to be kept easy to follow with or without much computer skills.
-help would be appreciated.
Background: -Originally I was going to display a window of the twitter feed from the app-and I found that twitter has a library to work with.
-Other app features are a calender that would be synced with one that the President works with.
-There will be a set of "themes" within the app for the members customization.
-I am new to developing and coding. I come from the world of designing and audio editing. I have been studying on my own, but have had little hands on. With the twitter I was able to find a tutorial that both walked me through and explained the concepts.
hello, i am using phonegap to develop an application in html angular and the generating the application, i am facing a problem adding the ads section to the application, i don't know which service is bet to use to generate the ads, can anyone help me please? thank you...
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karine2 said:
hello, i am using phonegap to develop an application in html angular and the generating the application, i am facing a problem adding the ads section to the application, i don't know which service is bet to use to generate the ads, can anyone help me please? thank you...
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Hi there,
You can try out Avocarrot ads. We created a phonegap plugin to help devs integrate our ads but the bad news is that the current version is outdated. The good news is that it is open source and you can inspect the code on how we built the old version and create a new plugin. Phonegap provides extensive docs for plugins so it won't be a big problem.
Thanks,
George
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!
clonedaccnt said:
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
Jonny said:
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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clonedaccnt said:
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.
Hi just want to share this with your guys. Hope it would be useful for anyone who wants to start a new Android app quickly by leveraging as many as possible.
Sorry I am a new account so I cannot paste a URL yet.
The thing is under Github:
mingyuan-xia/DevAndroidQuickly