I have seen a lot of fan applications on google play. They seem to be HTML5 running on a webview. They show a list of videos, images and information (Seem like RSS) about a subject. Do anybody know if they could be easily done with worpress? I know wordpress comes with some built-in mobile views, but I'm openend to move to any other technology to accomplish this. What really amazed me is how easily is to show/retrieve content to the user through this kind application when you have a little framework based on Wordpress or any other CMS.
Thanks in advance.
All you need to do is use the REST Api that wordpress provides.
Here is a link to the documentation: http://developer.wordpress.com/docs/api/
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However, you shouldn't develop an
Android app simply as a means to
view your website. Rather, the web
pages you embed in your app should
be designed especially for that
environment.
I was reading this in android documentation. https://developer.android.com/guide/webapps/best-practices
I don't totally understand what the last line means. I know that web view is used to load urls in android activity.
Web view simply loads a url in app. But can it be used in another way. Can anyone explain me what does it mean and how can I do that? Please provide some details.
However, you shouldn't develop an Android app simply as a means to view your website.
If the app is for viewing your website, we can as well use the browser for that.
Rather, the web pages you embed in your app should be designed especially for that environment.
Say there is a terms and conditions screen in your web site that you don't want to develop for mobile apps. This single screen can be loaded on a web view inside your android app.
I have a website which needs authentication. Each user can have some personalized graphics. I am looking for a way to create an app which displays the graphics for a particular user when he logs in using the app. Is there an existing solution for this which I can OEM to create my app.
As I said in my comment, your question is very broad. Generally speaking, an app can display any web page using a WebView.
I have just created a website based on prestahsop template (PHP + SMARTY), and I have made it work online.
Now I want to migrate the project on mobiles. I searched for several means of doing that, finally I am about to use PhoneGap for my solution.
But I have no idea if that can encapsulate the whole project on the mobile platform, and ideally be launched on Apple store. If not, I would like to get some advice to make changes.
Anyone having former experience can come to help? Thanks so much!
In addition to andre3wap response, you can use Prestashop Webservice API to link your application to your website. I've already done this in the past, the tricky part comes when you need to create an order in your Prestashop website from your application. But it's completely doable.
You will have to create an HTML + Javascript application with PhoneGap, that calls Prestashop via Ajax requests. If you want your application to work offline (and only create the order when the customer is back online) you will have to load every products on installation and sync when the app is online.
It's a lot of work.
EDIT related question: How to integrate prestashop with android?
If your web site only consists of HTML pages, yes; PhoneGap will be able to do most of the work(Just upload your HTML pages in a folder to build.phonegap.com for the conversion), there are other methods that can do the conversion, but that one is easier to me. (Read their documentation)
If your web site was created from a server side language, NO, phoneGap will not be able to fully convert it into a full fledged HyBrid App.
It gets very tricky when it comes on to Server Side scripting + phoneGap. What you can do is build html pages, and create "APIs" to load the data in the APP and use JavaScript to parse the data respectfully. (That phoneGap can handle)
You can read this article for an even more detailed explanation:
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I have a website/web app which I want to make available on mobile devices.
The website is responsive and can be used inthe mobile browser, but I want to make it available on google play / app store. My question is: how could I create a simple app that is actually a browser, which would run natively on the phone but load my web page in full screen?
Any simple solutions or frameworks?
Well there are different approaches to solve your questions I am trying to give you some rough idea with following two approaches.
Easy and simple one
1) Use web views and call home page url that's all.
For better performance.
2) Create a REST apis with only required data for your mobile app . And then use either web view or create your own views and show it to user . In this case if you create your native view then app will perform faster but development will take time.
I was wondering if there was an open source project for a Wordpress Android app ? I don't want to administrate Wordpress via the app, just make them available for my users to browse my news via an app. I would need the code to adapt it and I don't want just a webview, although what I want is pretty simple (4 tabs, and a tab for news the rest for static pages).
I searched on the net and I couldn't find anything, looking at how many people use WP, I thought someone might have come with an app that they d be willing to share ?
There are plenty of Wordpress plugins out there that will convert your site into a native or html5 based mobile app for several different platforms. You can find a list of some of the Android ones here:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/android
UppSite looks like a pretty easy one to use.