I recently heard about google nearby API, which supports both IOS and Android. I want to create a chat app. I want to know weather can I use this nearby api to create an app which chat between an android and IOS device (platform independent). Does this google nearby thing have this feature in it! Is that possible by any way?
Thanks in advance!
Using Nearby on both Android and iOS and yes, it works fine. We're having trouble getting the iOS app through Apple's review process - they don't like the use of the mic even though we don't use it explicitly, although the library does.
Yes, it is possible, you can see some sample codes here
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I'm currently building an online tutoring app to help solve my country's crisis in education.
To do this, I need to integrate a video calling service. I'd prefer to use Hangouts over other services since it is based on webRTC and its free. However after much searching, I haven't found anything that explicitly states whether or not its possible to integrate it natively or through a webview. Do you have any ideas on how to go about doing this or if its even possible?
Thank you so much! :)
Unfortunately there is no way to integrate this functionality yet, the hangout API is web based and since hangout requires the camera there is no way to enable this from a webview.
See these answers:
start google hangouts in android
Google hangout API for Android
How to embed Hangout chat in my Android App
Is it possible to define an Android Virtual Device for use to develop Google Glass apps (until the devices become widely available)?
There's no official Glass Emulator yet.
I overcame this via installing Glass APKs into Nexus 7 tablet.
It worked perfectly:
I can control it in http://google.com/myglass
Mirror API works flawlessly.
GDK Sneak Peak doesn't work.
I described all the required steps here:
http://www.elekslabs.com/2013/11/google-glass-development-without-glass.html
There isn't an out the box emulator.
You can use the playground to preview your cards, this will show you how your card will be laid out depending on what attributes you provide in your timeline post object. On the right. Just switch that view on the right to HTML if you want to provide a custom HTML template for your cards.
Yes you can.. Use your phone as google glass.
http://pathofacoder.com/2013/07/19/installing-google-glass-in-an-android-phone/
here are infos about an available emulator for people without google glass
google glass emulator
and a project on github
Scarigami Mirror API
As a matter of fact, I just saw an Engadget article (this morning I think) that announced that the Google Glass API is now live
Additional links from the Engadget article:
https://plus.google.com/+GoogleDevelopers/posts/cwWuUY6xYKW (Originaly announced on)
https://developers.google.com/glass/ (The ACTUAL Link to the API) :-)
However, as the developer site lists, there is nothing specific for Android. :-(
(Source: https://developers.google.com/glass/downloads/)
The supported platforms at the moment are:
Java
Python
Go
PHP
.NET
Ruby
Dart
I've been digging the docs all this morning and as far as I understood, you can see what type of code/objects would be sent to the Glass using the same code on the example https://glass-java-starter-demo.appspot.com/ (code available here https://github.com/googleglass/mirror-quickstart-java )
But an actual emulator that you can see how what the Glass screen would be showing, not really.
There is an Unofficial Mirror API that tries to reproduce the behaviour of glass device with the existing Google API's.
you can check it here. I have not tested it yet.
http://glass-apps.org/google-glass-emulator
According to google, Glass has to be treated as a unique platform. And the apps developed for glass are called as Glasswares. And they're all almost web-based services which are hosted in GAE. Official statement says,
The Google Mirror API allows you to build web-based services, called
Glassware, that interact with Google Glass.
Of-course glass runs on ICS Android 4.0.4 which doesn't mean you can develop glasswares as much as like developing android apps. You need Google's Mirror API to sync data between your glass and glasswares.
And as of now, it's in explorer state and only developers and explorers who has google glass are having access to Mirror API. But as #infoman answered, you can use the Scarigami Mirror API and playground can be acting as your emulator.
I'm completely new to Android DEV.
I want to make an app for a client that sells music, the idea is that it will be an alternate front end to the PHP site but will use some of the phone functionality such as locality etc.
Could anyone recommend the best approach to this? Would I look at developing via the Android SDK or via Flex/Flash? Is it possible to use php connections to retrieve dynamic data via android?
Any advice very gratefully received.
Thanks
Paul
Your best bet would be developing your app using Android SDK as you can use all the available native features. From a Flex perspective, you have a limited set of existing android API functionality that is supported.
As long as your PHP backend supports all your HTTP requests, you are good with both Flex as well as Android way.
Hope it helped.
I highly recommend you check out jQuery touch. It is a simple UI, but you get features like access to location (I believe through the html5 geolocation api (if they allow you to know their location)) and the list layout would work perfectly for purchasing music.
Obviously this is just my opinion. The Android API can be a little overwhelming at times but you will obviously have the most control over the phone and hardware, but jQuery touch keeps it simple. http://jqtouch.com
I 'm thinking about developing a restaurant application using Flex Burrito.
Is there anyone who can tell me if it possible to print from an Android enabled device to a WIFI printer / kitchen printer? (is it possible to do this also on an IPAD, Blackberry?)
Thanks in advance
Google Cloud Print?
http://code.google.com/intl/de-DE/apis/cloudprint/docs/overview.html
AirPrint for the iPad. However this is currently available only for HP printers. http://www.apple.com/ipad/features/airprint.html. From a Blackberry you need to do it using a custom created app. There are also some 3rd party apps created for the BB. Check http://thinkabdul.com/2007/10/02/free-beamberry-blackberry-suite-to-view-print-documents-via-bluetooth-usb-store-pdf-ms-office-zip-files-on-rim-41/
Hope this helps. If so, +1 :)
Google has speech recognition services available for use from mobile phones (Android has it built in, iPhone users can use the Google application) - http://www.google.com/mobile/. We've found one article where someone tried to reverse engineer the service at http://waxy.org/2008/11/deconstructing_google_mobiles_voice_search_on_the_iphone/.
We want to better understand what is happening over the network when we use Android's RecognizerIntent. Does anyone have any experience using this service over the web or know of other articles that may explain its workings?
I read this presentation few weeks ago- http://www.abelski.com/courses/android/speechinput.pdf
The following link is a 3 mile high review of the Google Voice Server ....
http://www.google.co.jp/events/developerday/2010/tokyo/pdf/tt1-gruenstein.pdf
Answer: just move your .apk file to your android phone it will work. Error is only occuring because we are trying to do in emulator