I'm starting to work on a project for my Collage . The project is to take the collage website and make an android app that loads the website in the app .
the website use jinitiator for registration and i should be able to register via mobile .
does android support jinitiator
You could try it out but jinitiator has been obsolete since 2008 and oracle itself says there is no need for it anymore.
Legacy technology integration might pose some serious incompatibility problems for you. I would rather suggest that your college upgrade their registration system. I feel safe in assuming they need it badly.
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Computer science student trying to get my feet wet with android development. I am trying to build an app where I am pretty sure a graph database is going to be required (its an app the creates relationships between user created objects, think of a unidirectional mind map).
I have found a few graph databases ported for android.
Neo4j for Android
Titan for Android
Sparksee Mobile
My issue with the first two is that I am not sure if they are even up to date. The last commits are from 2013. I attempted to build the sample project for neo4j for android but got stuck where it required me to use android sdk version 14 (My current sdk manager api 23 doesn't include the option to download api 14). Now I am not sure if I should continue trying to get it to run because I have no idea if it will even work on my app 23 projects.
Sparksee mobile looks like it might work but the licensing is making it really complicated for something I have 0 plans on ever monetizing.
I'm surprised a graph database for android is so hard to find. When I recently learned what a graph database was I can see it being immensely helpful in a ton of applications, yet I feel like I am searching for some obscure thing. I simply can't imagine how any kind of social network or navigation app is built without some kind of graph database. Perhaps I am misled and am just barking up the wrong tree. Any advice?
The Neo4j for Android project that you reference is a port of a very outdated version of Neo4j (and as you mention is built against an outdated version of Android).
Instead of running the database on the Android device, you should consider running the database on a server and using the database's API to interact with it. Sparksee Mobile is the only graph database that I'm aware of that targets running on mobile devices.
For Neo4j, services such as GrapheneDB provide free or very low cost hosted Neo4j instances that you can use for development and testing.
Another option is to go with a hosted graph db. IBM Graph provides a REST API that you can call from any platform and it's basically TP 3.x and Titan 1.x. Here's a link to where you can create an instance https://console.ng.bluemix.net/catalog/services/graph-data-store/
I have successfully developed an android application with Google App Engine as the Backend. Now I want to develop 2nd android application and want to connect it to the same App Engine of the 1st App. In short. 2 android applications with same App Engine at the backend hence common datastore.
Could not find the detailed and satisfactory answer, please provide the answer in detail. Thanks
I am assuming that the first Android application connects to the App Engine backend using a REST APIo r in general a Web Service. That is the recommended route and you should be able to use the same API in your second Android Application too !
Do give more details if this is not what you were looking for.
Surprisingly, the Eclipse plug-in doesn't really support this - it will only automatically copy the generated client files into a single project.
Fortunately, there are some (manual) solutions that are discussed here:
How to move Cloud Endpoints generated sources.jar library into Android project
How to integrate Aweber in android ,i research lot but there is no source code for this, so please help and should be appreciated
AWeber doesn't currently have a ready-made Android client library. You can approach this in a couple of ways:
One possibility is to implement your own API code. AWeber's API uses REST-based resources over standard HTTPS, and uses oAuth 1.0a for authentication. There should be libraries available for Android development that can accomodate your needs - I know that there have been successful "home-rolled" Java, .Net, and other integrations done by third parties so I don't see why Android should be any different.
In this case, I would suggest using the official Python or PHP library as an example of how your code can be implemented. In particular the PHP library has all of the oAuth code out "in plain sight" so it's useful in gaining insight into how authentication works.
Another interesting possibility is to attempt to use the AWeber Python module along with some of the open source projects out there that purport to allow developers to use Python on Android. I find this possibility personally intriguing but I haven't had the spare time to try it out.
While AWeber doesn't currently offer support for Android itself, the API team has documented the authentication process in some detail here:
https://labs.aweber.com/docs/authentication
That reference may help you out if you decide to go the route of rolling your own library.
If you run into any issues with your library, definitely contact the API Support team at api#aweber.com - while they may not have direct support for Android right now, they can often be of assistance in debugging your own library based on what they see on the server side.
I want connect sales Force from my Android Program please suggest which one is correct way to achieve this I am new to sales Force I have some knowledge in Android Application Developement.
Thanks in Advance.
You definitely want to use the REST API for mobile apps. The SOAP API is really heavy, and is better for Server-to-Server integrations. The best way to get started building an Android app for Salesforce.com is to take a look at the Salesforce Mobile SDK for Android:
http://wiki.developerforce.com/page/Mobile_SDK
There's a very helpful getting started PDF linked on that page.
However, the SDK is meant mostly for starting new apps, so you'll have some work ahead of you integrating it into an existing application. The main things you want are the oAuth 2.0 User-Agent login and REST wrappers.
You may also find this app useful -- I put it together for a presentation at Dreamforce '11, which was shortly before the Mobile SDK for Android came out, so I wrote the oAuth and REST stuff myself. Might be a simpler starting point for you.
https://github.com/tomgersic/DreamforcengerHunt
Hope that helps!
You can either use the RESTful interface or the SOAP webservices. The latter is a bit easier to deal with IMHO.
Under setup in salesforce, download the partner or enterprise WSDL (partner = generic, enterprise = specific for your SF-instance). Now with wsdl2java you can create Stubs for those wsdl entries. Import those into your android app and use them. See here for a Java Exampe by Salesforce.com.
Be sure your user has the permission to "do API". You might want to look into SSO if you want to make a "production"/commercial app. Also, to login, remember to use the correct password, you might need to add the API key (generate using the Setup tab in SF). Hope this helps.
Try checking out some of the open-source SDK projects the developer evangelists have added to the forcedotcom github
Lots of good examples on different platforms, including android with phonegap/html5 and a native SDK for android (iOS and Android) to get you past authentication and onto building your app.
Salesforce Provides mobile SDK for development on mobile device, here is the link for android SDK:
http://wiki.developerforce.com/page/Getting_Started_with_the_Mobile_SDK_for_Android
You need to:
Download SDK.
Add a sample project included in SDK's native/SampleApps folder(make sure you check include to the workspace while importing the project).
Get your remote access form salesforce and update in your app.
--This should get you started with a sample app form salsforce.
After this you need to modify existing code to your own code.
You can go to trailhead and start browsing on it, while working with your own application you will have to learn a lot about smartStore and smartSync,
I did implemented A smartStore App with using salesforce as database provider, if you want i can upload it to drive and share a link to you and
if you have any doubts about using or understanding the flow be free to ask..
I am looking into building an android app, which holds some simple data (probably stored in sqlite). I also have a app engine app which I intend to be an online data store for the information (the app engine app is wrote in python).
The question here is, what is the best way to authenticate a user with the app and how to get the data from the android app to the Google data store?
Thanks
Mike
You could use Google Account authentication and follow this useful post about Authenticating against App Engine from an Android app
You can also give a look at the SampleSyncAdapter sample from the SDK
If you want to authenticate using OAuth, you can do that. The only trick is that you need to launch the flow in an internal WebView, because App Engine's OAuth implementation doesn't allow custom protocols in the redirect. I recommend the Signpost library. If you'd like an example, the 2cloud Android client is licensed under the MIT license (full disclosure, I'm the lead dev for 2cloud). The benefit of this is it allows you to support Android 1.5 and higher. The Accounts API is only supported starting in 2.1.
Another option is the Accounts API. #systempuntoout has good links for that, so I won't reinvent the wheel here.
Finally, it might be worth taking a look at the App Engine-powered Android Eclipse project that was demo'd at I/O this year. It makes keeping code in sync and shared between the two simple. Only downsides are it requires Android 2.2 or higher, and it requires you to write in Java on the App Engine side and GWT for the client side.