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.
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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 want my website should act as Google play store app.
For example, go to-> hytoz
and hytoz app
Both source are same. But when I open this app, website will shown as app and after click back or close, it's asking confirm like application.
How I can make this? I'm not android person. I'm in PHP.
First of all, making Android app isn't a one click process. To make a simple Android app, you can make use of Android WebView. Since you're new to Android, I'd suggest you to take courses on basics of Android.
You've mentioned you're familiar with PHP. You can better try PhoneGap, with basics of HTML5, CSS3 and JS, you can build an app. Also, your needs like back, close can also be done with it, and moreover, it's cross platform, you can ship to other operating systems too.
Good Luck.
This is my first time on StackOverflow, so I come with two questions at the same time because they are related :
1 - I have a website that works great on my local server. It is made on Joomla. I heard about the "WebView" thing that iPhone and Android offer and I would like to know if it is possible, still in 2015/2016 to make an app that is basically just a WebView of a website ?
2 - If yes, I saw on old forums (earliest 2014) that Apple rejects WebView apps. Is it still the case nowadays, is there any "tricks" I should know about it ?
Thank you very much
Yes you can make the WebView only app but it should be mobile responsive
No apple don't reject the app with only webview in it but the website should be mobile responsive and you have to fill all other info to approve it(I know because I have few apps with webview only).
I don’t have any knowledge for iOS but I can tell you about android one:
In android devices you can open a web site through 2 different ways, the first one is through web browser and the second one is the one you mentioned web view. Web view is a system component for Android OS that allows your application to display content from the web page directly inside it (the application).
Yes it is still available for Android you can make one.
I am quite new to Android App Development. This could be a very basic question for gurus...
Here is my scenario!
I've a website developed in wordpress. Users generally post stories / articles / news on this site. I want to develop an Android app for this site. Whenever a new story is posted, I want the android app to know about it and update the contents to display the latest post. This should be done silently meaning no action shall be needed from user.
Thanks in advance
Vaibhav
I suppose the simpliest way to achieve this would be use an RSS feed and an Android application generator. The idea is that the application watches the RSS feed and shows the latest content from there. I'm not familiar with Wordpress but I'm sure it's possible to get RSS working there.
Google around for something like android app generator RSS. For example, TheAppBuilder mentions support for wordpress. Another generator is AppYet and there are many more.
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/