I want to make an application for my website but I don't want it to be really an application. I want to deliver and apk that can be installed on android device and just I frames the website and show the site in responsive mode. Is it easy to do that or any online tool for that!?
what is your email? If you want, send me your app logo that you want and website link. I can send you .apk app if you want. My email is graspery#gmail.com
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I'm looking to build an android app based off a mobile site. Basically, I just need an app with a browser that I can use as a platform.
Many of the "build an app online" sites offer this, where you just put in the home url etc, but they all include their own ads etc.
Any ideas where to start?
If you want to make your own simple app without Ads, use just a WebView inside of a simgle activity layout set to fill the screen.
Doing this you will eliminate all ads, as well as have the ability to add in more features later on if you so choose.
If you just want to create a launcher icon that will open up the default browser to your sites page, you can do that by just starting a browser intent, and then closing the actual app.
This will allow you to have an app icon and play store listing, however the only thing that iw will do is bring the user to your website like you have mentioned.
Create an Activity with a WebView.
I think you're looking for an app that displays a WebView. However, that will only display the website as if you were looking at it in a mobile browser such as Android Chrome.
If you want the data from a mobile site, without anything else, then you have to hope that the site provides that, or you have to download its HTML and scrape it.
Im trying to make an app that will basically be able to be downloaded directly from my mobile website. I honestly want to just make something so users can download the app to their phone and when they click on it they will be directed to my mobile website. So basically i just need to design the button and make it so it can be downloaded and installed on mobile phones.
I have searched the net looking for how to do this and nobody specifically explains how to build this. Does anyone have any idea of how i can go about this?
What works for me with Android is email the APK file. The user can open the mail on their phone. In Gmail you will see the install button which of course can be used to install the app.
I use this to distribute my apps outside the market.
I want to allow for visitors of some exhibition install and test my app that doesn't listed in app store and android market at this moment. And of course I don't know any id of visitor devices.
Is it possible and which is the easiest way to do that?
For Android you could put your app in a Dropbox folder of yours. Then using an app like ZXing barcode scanner share that link as a QR code in an email to yourself. Extract the .png image from the email (maybe enlarge it) and print it out again. Attach the QR code to the welcome poster at the exhibition and invite visitors to scan it with their Android phone (assuming they have a barcode scanner app on their phone - if not suggest they download a free one from Google Play). They can then install the app easily, as scanning the code will download it.
Transfer the .apk file(for android) to the user's phone through bluetooth so that people can install your app
check hockeyApp http://www.hockeyapp.net/
You upload your app on it, and register "testers",
they receive a mail with a link to download the app(for iPhone you need to provision the phones).
After the installation it sends back crash reports with the type of the device and the OS version. I think it's a great tool for what you need.
It has a free version.
Currently only for iOS but have a look at TestFlight
I am a .NET guy, so I am developing apps for WP7.
On Windows marketplace, they do not approve applications if it only opens a
WebBrowser control and a mobile website in it. You have to write main functionality with Silverlight, C# and XAML.
For android I just want to use m.myapplication.com in a WebView control,
so as soon as you will open app it will show that url to you.
Will this application be OK for android market? Or will they require me to write
java code to fill the content?
P.S: I also wonder is there any basic android template that I can take for eclipse, and fill url for my mobile website, and it will run on my phone?
There is no "review" process for any apps that get uploaded to the market (other than checking to see that they are signed with a valid release key)
So yes you will be allowed to upload your app to the market. Even if it is just a webview pointing to a mobile site.
I know of no such template, but that doesn't mean that one doesn't exist. if you search around online for things like "Android WebView example" and have worked your way through the Hello World tutorial you should be able to implement your webview without too much hassle.
I currently have a web app already and I would like to create a bookmark that can be downloaded from the android marketplace (and app store if possible) and it would redirect the user to my web app. I want to know if this is possible and if so how can it be done?
You can build your own webview app shell around your website:
http://developer.android.com/guide/webapps/webview.html
Or you can have your app simply launch the default browser with your specific url:
Sending an Intent to browser to open specific URL
If you use PhoneGap, you can do an iphone app at the same time..