Im looking into wrapping a existing web app for Android. Im doing some research to find the bets ways to do this?
Does anyone have any good links or tips that might be good to know?
Thankful for advice!
The standard way to do this is to wrap the web app in a WebView. The android dev guide also has a whole section on things you should do when wrapping.
I don't know what is the meaning of your wrapping.
But if you want a tool to make an application that looks like a native android app but instead use the the web technology, you can use PhoneGap.
Find it here
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I'm a noob self learning programmer and i'm wondering how can i make an application for mobile. As an example, so you can understand what i need (and easier for me to explain), think of an application where the user can store products and related information by filling forms (an icon, price, name, features, weight...) and then consult stored information.
For me it looks like the best way to create it is by using web related tools like HTML, CSS, MySQL...
The problem i find is that i don't know how to create a web shaped application and then turn it into a mobile app.
I'm sorry if i didn't explain the best way, but hope you guys get my point are able to put me in the right way!
Thanks a lot in advance!!
P.S. Beyond HTML and CSS and a little MySQL i have basic knowledge of JS, C++ and C#.
As a newbie, it's better to do the correct choice at the beginning.
For Android development, the entry point is the developer portal: https://developer.android.com/
The app you've thinking of is quite classic: You won't have troubles to find some tutorials on the web.
You can do that with either SQLite or Firebase Realtime Database, you choose.
I guess, the easiest way will be creating responsive website and then include that in your app as a WebView. However, this might give users the feel that you're just loading the website in a WebView if you don't include some features like, maybe, push notifications, update checker, theme changer, something like that.
You can alos find a lot of easy tutorials and templates to build a WebView app.
P.S.: I myself have made an Android app of my friend's blog by first making a website and then using WebViews.
I'm a new Android developer and I need to create an Android application which looks like Apple's App store (on both phone and tablet).
I'm a bit familiar with Native layout designer in Eclipse (ADT) and I find it really hard to design such an amazing UI.
I've searched a lot and I've found some web-based UI frameworks such as Phonegap and Chocolatechip-UI. Are these frameworks capable of designing such apps or not? Or do you suggest something else?
Thnx in advance
This question does not have a right or wrong answer. It really depends on how complex your UI is. How sleek you want it to be.
If your UI is pretty but simple and does not require very complex animations you could go for PhoneGap. however, if you have got very complex UI and want very sleek animations I suggest you use the native APIs.
This however, may change in the near future as web technology is improving really fast :)
I want to develop some application for android, but struggled to decide what it should do :)
Is there a collection/list of web-sites which have REST api? So I can implement in in my app
and make use of it?
thanks!
Try taking a look at http://www.programmableweb.com/apis. I'm sure there others out there as well, but that's what I'm familiar with.
I am starting to develop android applications using AS3.
As much as I've searched I did not find how to make android loading box using AIR!
It seems there is no way to do so!
Can anybody help me in this regard please?!
I kindly beg you to search more and more. Your topic is a rare and helpful one I also appreciate that but I think you just need to increase your Googling Abilities :D
I guess I know what you were searching for so I just searched about your topic and the result is exactly what you need I am sure.
You know,, you can not access android device-specific libraries and features with AS3 for these are not available in the built-in AS3 classes. There are some air extensions provided to help us the air developers who want to make Android or iOS apps though.
Am I clear enough? if not go to this link please. Here you can learn more and even use some extensions in your projects if necessary: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/native-extensions-for-air.html
And a happy link for you and your topic:
http://www.myappsnippet.com/loading-dialog-air-extension
Just tell me if this is what you wanted. I'll be happy!
This is fairly standard and has been covered here a few times. Like this for example.
as3 loading screen
or this ROC tutorial
as3 preloader
U basically calculate the current percentage in a progress event and change a bar's width or scale accordingly.
is there any way to create ios like more button in android ?
here is some examples in ios.
http://docs.xamarin.com/static/recipes/ios/content_controls/tab_bar/specify_customizable_tab_bar_buttons/Images/Picture_1.png
http://i.stack.imgur.com/iNpMh.png
Thanks
You should stick to the user interface guidelines of android and not try to copy functionality of iOS. Android users expect their apps to work in certain ways, which often differ from the way iOS apps may work.
So stick to the Android ways -- it makes coding a lot easier and your users happy.