I have implemented the VisionKit VNDocumentCameraViewController that is used in the notes application on iPhone .. which works quite well. Takes several picture and then straitens them, But I wonder if there is anything like this control for Android? I have tried to google it, I really have but I just can't find anything that work the same. Do you guys have some experience with this?
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This might come off as a weird post, because I don't directly want answers to how to fix this just yet. Over the past few weeks now I've been searching for good tutorials/information on opening the camera in Android Studio Kotlin with a button and having it ask for permission and all that jazz and allow you to take a picture and save it to the app, not the camera roll (I want to use the picture in several places of the app, and having it in the camera roll is not needed and also just takes up space). As of now I've tried several YouTube tutorials, and tried a few different ways that have been posted over the years but it seems most don't work and are severely outdated. I don't know if I'm implementing them wrong, which is very possible, I'm not well versed in Android Studio, and have been trying to learn. However most of the times the button just ends up not working, sometimes it doesn't do anything, sometimes it ends up crashing depending on which tutorial I use to help, or whatnot. I'm mainly here asking if anyone has any updated sources that I can look towards and at this point I will take anything, API Pages, YouTube, another Forum, anything that can point me in the right direction for this is insanely appreciated, the only thing I don't want is direct answers because I do want to be able to learn from this experience and hopefully be able to move forward with it without having to use a tutorial every time in the future, and direct answers aren't really going to help me achieve that.
I've tried to use several different ways to open the android camera, ask permission, and take a picture. So far the farthest I've gotten is it crashing, but most often it just doesn't do anything when said button is pushed. I even went for a more direct approach originally, eliminating the button as a whole and using just the navigation bar, but that went about as well as anything else did. Over this time I've tried maybe half a dozen or more tutorials and/or posts on another sites and stack overflow, and not only are each a different way, they're either many years old or using deprecated ways to complete the objective, and none seem to work. From this I would greatly appreciate just a link to a more up to date spot to learn how to use the camera.
I am pretty much curious to know If there is any solution to detect whether the app is modified by the user or not? I am using flutter for development. Cause nowadays I can see people are trying to modify apk files according to their needs. So I am confused about the spike for reverse engineers. If you people can give me a good suggestion to detect the app is modified by that particular user.
I will be thankful if you give effort to find a better solution for this issue.
I know this has been asked before (did not find a straight forward answer) but can I (Or how can I) create and Android App using CSS/HTML/Jquery ?
I will not need to hook into native functions, such as the accelerometer, camera, or even the Toast Messages...I only need to create an app to show a list of names and some details when name is selected, therefore I don't know if it's worth learning to make my life more complicated for something like this.
PS: I need the app to work offline, otherwise I would have just made it with jQuery Mobile and uploaded it on a server.
UPDATE AFTER GETTING DOWNVOTED
Ok, so I get downvotes for this question, probably because it's been asked before, or maybe not, since he/she didn't take the time to write a reason...
Anyway, my point is: I did googled it and searched, but at this moment there are a lot of ads of websites and web apps that will help you do this BUT are they reliable, safe..do they really do the trick or it comes with bugs? That is why I asked the question, to see who used what and what was their experience with it. So yeah, you can downvote me for not trusting every ad and not taking the time to try out everything out there!
Well you can use https://software.intel.com/en-us/html5/tools to develop cross-platform apps. I used it to develop too. It is quite good but it only has one major issue: you can't use php. It also enables you to do on-device testing.
I'm developing an Android app that will do a Google Image Search and return the images to the user in a list. I've looked around on StackOverflow and have run into some problems. First off, I'm a total newbie programmer with only 4 months' worth of programming experience, so I appreciate you guys being patient with me.
I looked through Google Image Search API and I know it's being depreciated and will get shut down someday. Because of this, I don't want to use it. After extensive research on the topic, I don't want to use Bing or another image search service, and I don't want to do a "reverse image search. I just want to use a simple image search via string. I've used this app (https://github.com/tonytamsf/Android-Image-Search) to look at the code, but in all honesty, it's just not helping and it's confusing me more on how to exactly search for an image on Google. Plus, the app won't compile in Eclipse :(
I've also looked around at Google Developer APIs, and I'm not sure if I need to turn on an API key for myself? Still, a bit confused about that. I thought I needed to do a custom search engine, but just by looking at that, I don't think it's exactly what I'm looking for.
Can anyone point me to some resources for this? I would really appreciate it. Thank you!
Just a heads up, but what you're asking is pretty challenging and it sounds like you're just getting started. Here's what I can suggest though:
To get that demo code working in eclipse, I had to right-click the project, click properties, click Android, then check the box for the version of android installed. (I had android 19 installed, and the code was expecting 16, so it was giving up. Tell it to use what you have, which probably is 19). This worked for me after using the git plugin in eclipse to import the project. If you are importing a different way, you may have different issues. * Using git and importing the project is a good skill to have, so if that's unfamiliar territory, take the time to look at that.
Ok, that's the end of what I am sure of. The rest is an educated guess, but I'm sure others can correct me.
Next, if tinkering with that project isn't enough, getting real google image search working will take several skills, especially since the old API is gone. In total you'll need to know:
Java
Android programming
google cloud services
google custom search API
REST
some other libraries to glue the custom search to your app
It's a big chunk there. Currently, it seems the only way to use google's image search is to run a google app engine (you basically set up an online account for google to run a server for you. It does computation and sends messages back and forth for you. You only get a little bit for free each day and then if you want more you have to pay. This is one-way Google earns money. It's not something they let you run on your own computer anymore.). Then you make your android app talk to that server using your new login ID, and the server will take the search term and send back the answers to your android app.
You can get the app engine running and use it in chrome without dealing with android to save yourself time, then add the android part later in the future. Good luck!
I am about to decide which way to push our smartphone development.
I have read numerous articles about these technologies. I have also created test apps, but wanted to be 100% sure that I get this right.
I am not able to create EXACTLY the same look and feel like native app in PhoneGap because it runs in WebView Controler. And the webish look and feel is as far as I will get with this tech. correct?
(In the example app I have created with PG, the look might be similar, but there is a delay when i click on buttons and the animation is not so fluent as in native apps)
Latest Titanium seems to have changed its approach to WebView, to remedy that lack of look and feel of native apps. My question is (I havent tested this myself). Can I create EXACTLY the same look and feel of an native app with Titanium?
EXACTLY is the key word. I mean can a person tell a difference if app was created with Titanium? because I can definitely tell that app was created with PG.
Final goal is the UX, ppl sense this things, and on smartphones anything that is webish and is suppose to be appish is a bad UX i believe.
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Compared to PG Titanium is more Native like UI experience but it's kinda problematic for Android.Since it's originally intended for IOS.
Titanium for Android is pretty buggy and can mess you up and the thing that you have to come up with workarounds and if you cant find any then you are stuck.
But if you are okay with that and i can easily advise that Titanium is way to go though it's nearly native (not exactly) which close to exactly.I dont think an average user would understand Titanium .
2) yes, since titanium uses the original UI. your javascript code is wrapped to native Objective c code that creates native elements. only constraint is that your are not as flexible as with real native code written by yourself. but you can write native modules and add them to your projekt. so you're able to expand your project with custom UI too.