I am using phone gap to program an android app and I want one page on the app that is updated daily with news and information.
I have a few ideas and have tried a few solutions mainly just linking to a website where I am hosting a page that I update.
Does anyone have any better, more built-in solutions?
Have you considered an RSS feed (or several)? There are plenty of examples of basic RSS readers in Phonegap. This one, http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2011/10/11/PhoneGap-RSS-Reader could be a good start.
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I am trying to figure out if I can scrape an android app in a similar way that I would a website. For example, in scraping a website I might use selenium to control a browser and collect data from the HTML code.
I have downloaded the chrome extension ARC Welder, which as far as I can tell simulates the app. However I cannot figure out how to "control" the app (i.e. press buttons, scroll, collect information such as prices of products).
Can anyone help or point to some useful information? I can't seem to find an answer for this anywhere.
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.
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.
The company I work for is exploring creating "an app" version of their online video delivery webapp. The webapp is HTML5 and streams video. Nothing too scary but a lot of the stuff is server-side authentication with third party video hosts, code that will never be in a mobile app for security reasons.
The webapp has a lovely mobile stylesheet that works fine. We want an app that:
Shows a quick splash screen (and even that's optional)
Load the existing mobile website (not include it within the app)
And have the ability to specify an icon, give it a name and then shove it in the relevant marketplaces. That should satisfy the marketing department and it means I stay in control of what the app actually does.
Yeah, it's possibly the laziest app development ever... But, what's the simplest way to generate something like this? I was imagining there might be something out there already where you feed it your starting URL, splash screen, icon and name and it hands you back a multi-platform app.
Note: I'm not looking for something to create an app that looks like the mobile website and I'm not looking to put the content of the mobile website inside the app, I essentially just want a browser that loads the real mobile site.
Have a look at https://www.shoutem.com/. They provide a service similar to what you seem to be looking for but they charge royally for it. Considering the extra features you can easily add with their service your marketing department might just smell profit from using it and may therefore happily sign it off with their well known satanic smile.
There are a number of websites which provide easy web app development for a website. One of the famous is App Maker . Others include:http://www.viziapps.com/ and http://ibuildapp.com/
Since posting this, I have found:
http://www.websitetoapp.net/create
Feed it a URL and an Icon and it'll give you an Android app. Pay $5 and they'll disable adverts. Seems like it might be perfect for the Android half of this project.
Now, is there anything out there that will do this for other platforms?
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.