My aim is to build a screen sharing (or remote viewing) application for android just like there is VNC for desktop. For this purpose i need to take screenshots and then relay them over the network to the target. I browsed through the solutions offered on a post on stack overflow.
Having a slight knowledge of android (i am a beginner), I noticed that all the answers used the View object to get the screenshot. Now, if im not wrong, this means that they are taking a screenshot of their own app and not other running apps. And to take a screenshot of other running apps I would have to run as a background service which does not have access to the View object.
I found another link but it was not useful. So I want to know if it is possible to take a screenshot of other apps in android. Im beginning to think that it is not. Maybe it would be a security risk? Please correct me if im wrong. Im just a beginner at this. Your help is much appreciated. Thanks.
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I am starting to learn mobile programming through a Flutter course, and I had the idea of an app to fulfill a need of mine. However, I'm not sure if Flutter has a library capable of that; I searched a lot and could not find it.
Below is a drawing of what I intend to do.
Diagram
Can anyone tell me if it is possible to do this with flutter or even pure development for android (then I'll start to learn this)? If you know the library, could you inform me? The apps in question are not relevant to this question, but they would be two very specific apps. The goal is for the app to work when activated and stop when deactivated, without the need for headsets.
I just wish someone with more experience could point me in the right direction.
I am a long time lurker on Stack Overflow where generally the solutions I sought already existed on here. However, I am stumped trying to find information on tackling this problem.
Basically, I am looking at making an Android app - first time making such an app - and part of the functionality is to monitor what else the phone user is doing and then maybe create a log of what the person has done. For example, spent 27% of the time when the phone screen is on using Facebook.
As for my actual Android Studio experience, all I have created so far is a simple app that takes in text from an input field and alerts it back out to you. I am studying a video series to learn how to use and develop with Android Studio.
I am enthusiastic about the challenge, so if anyone has some good resources or information to help me achieve this I would be really grateful.
Yes it is possible to track applications usage, using google API.
Here is google resource link
What may interest you the most is the part concerning UsageStats
You can use this since api 5.0. You can then for example use method getTotalTimeInForeground() to get the total time this package spent in the foreground, measured in milliseconds, which seems to correspond to your needs.
Therefore, using your Facebook example. After you get the package name (com.facebook.katana) , you could get the application (Facebook) uptime on a daily/weekly/monthly base.
Also, you could use getLastTimeUsed() and make your application logs those timestamp then do some maths.
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 want to know how to control system resources and services like bluetooth, SMS, phone contacts etc.
Honestly, i want to know how or what to do to control sms usage based on user behavior, block incoming call or change it to auto vibrate mode without user noticed like that.
Actually, I want it for my assignment about context aware access control paper.
I choose Android for implementation but i am afraid i
couldn't submit my paper in time if i study android from the beginning and all by myself.
No offense but I want to avoid errors.
I feel my head becomes swollen whenever "force close error" show as I need it urgent.
As Willytete said developer site is the best one for you
There you can find
Application Fundamentals
Download the Android SDK and start programing
The first program tutorial where you can start Hello World
Notepad Tutorial where it give you a lot of ideas
List of Sample Apps, where there is a lot of codes
Getting the Samples, it explain how to use this.
You will get all the information from developer site that you needed, while move from beginner to an expert