I am building a web application that takes reservations for rentals, the application needs to be able to print the reservation.
Is it possible to print directly from the browser on the Android platform? Currently my Print button works on desktop, and iOS-based devices. However, Android doesn't seem to even blink when the same button is clicked.
Can printing on the Android platform be done from the browser? Or does it require external applications?
You may want to look into Google Cloud Printing... This is the mechanism used to print for owners of the google chromebooks. It can be used for other purposes as well.
Can Android print directly from browser? not very directly but
of corse we can, first of all you have to set your content in a new tab(windows.open()) then you can print this page through browser share, most of the browsers have a share option from menu, find printer from options print it and DONE, that's it.
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I have been struggling to get my app working the way I want it to. I have an ionic/angular based app that is meant to be only for the Android platform. It is basically a wrapper for an already-existing website from the company I work at. The InAppBrowserObject works great for this, it does exactly what I want except that it doesn't auto-fill the login credentials. It makes it so users need to login every time they open the app which is not what we want. We want the external website to open in the app itself and not in the device's browser, so I use "_self" as target.
I have noticed that when I use the device's browser (target: _system) that it asks for permission to save the credentials and then it does actually save them. It is only when I use the targets: "_self" or "_blank" that I get no popup asking to save it (it also doesn't save it). In the image below you can see the code in the app.component.ts file and some information about the app which might be important. The app is small, it literally only has the app.component files and that's it. It opens the external website immediatly when the app is started.
At this point I am clueless as to what to do about this problem. I think I have visited every website that is related to this subject and the solutions are either outdated or there is no solution at all. I hope I gave enough information as to what the problem is, if not, I can always add more.
Information:
using Angular(ts), Ionic in vs-code. Testing apk in Android Studio.
InAppBrowserObject (Cordova, #awesome-cordova-plugins/in-app-browser)
app.component.ts file ^
target set to _self and not auto-filling the inputs (the inputs in the website are set with autocomplete on)
target set to _system and auto-filling is working correctly.
I have a mobile website, users user smart phone browser to access my site.
Now some users would like to have an Android App.
So is there any easy and fast way to create an Android App which will access the existing mobile website so that I can have an Android App without developing Android app?
You would have to create a "wrapper" Android App. That is a native Android App with a Main Activity that contains a WebView with JavaScript enabled and some sort of navigation controls either on the mobile website or the native app (buttons or menu) but you could bump into problems such as:
Users being stuck in a particular page with no way to navigating back or forward.
Google is now more picky with the apps and they have policies to reject or ban apps that are only wrappers or point to external websites (kind of what Apple did for iOS)
Any case, you would have to create a mobile layout for your website or a make it responsive (special CSS and JS UI/UX that fits better on mobile devices).
Another alternative is to make your website compatible with PROGRESSIVE WEB APPS (https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/) which is basically a Web app with some special elements that allow it to receive push notifications, put a shortcut or app icon on the device's home screen, etc.
Good luck! Hope this helped!
You can use android WebView. For more details you go through the link Android Webview
the only way to do that, using WebView on your apps or you need to create manually
You can put your code into Cordova and convert it into other IDE like android studio or eclipse .
reference:
Import Cordova project in Android Studio
I am trying to interact with a website from an android application. More specifically I am trying to login to my online depot and retrieve different data like balances, profit/loss on current day and so on because I don't want to log on to the webpage manually every time I want to see how my stocks are doing. Unfortunately my bank does not have an android app for those purposes.
What I want is an app that automatically retrieves the information from the website and shows it as an notification. So I need to open the website, login with username, password and cookie and then find specific elements (e.g. by css selector).
So far I only achieved something similar with selenium webdriver on windows. Since selenium does not run on android I have to find another solution.
What I have look into so far:
HTMLUnit (not running on android)
HttpURLConnection + JSoup (not sure if this allows me to simulate clicks on specific buttons...)
Robotium (can it only be used for testing apps or also for my purposes?)
Are there alternatives? Can this be achieved with one of the listed tools?
Any ideas are appreciated. Cheers!
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.
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.