Hi, I am putting forward to you all a request for devs to help develop an app which I think would be very helpful for me and many others. I have no coding experience, I am willing to learn but I would much rather stick to my skillset being graphics and design.
The app will be very simple. Press to check in and press to check out. It will be used for recording hours at work. When I arrive, I press the check in button, when I leave, I press check out. I can then, possibly, enter a small note.. and then easily check my hours in a table on another panorama for the week - and of course proceed to fill out my timesheet!
Devs! Help get this app together! I will happily do whatever needs to be done on my side, but when it comes to coding I would not know where to start.
I will mock up a template shortly.
Thanks in advance!
simmos
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Looking for possible ROM testers.
I'm currently learning about the all of the potential that the android operating system has and would like to get feedback and reports from other users. I'm looking for one or two testers (if i get quite a few PM's, i will definitely consider changing this, but I want to stick with a captive audience at least in the beginng). The knowledge level can vary, as I'm looking for feedback and checking to see what works/doesn't work. I only have a few specific criteria that I'm looking for in testers which I will note at the bottom.
A little something about my expectations...
I will in no way ever refer to myself as a developer. I'm merely a person that can follow directions, ask the right questions to the right person, and learn along the way. I'm not starting this to make money, to show off any sort of skills that i may posess. I would just like to make this a hobby as other "developers" and users like myself have done. I cannot promise a fast ROM. I cannot promise that it will look the best (at least in the beginning). I can promise I will take in all feedback and suggestions and have some consideration towards them. My biggest reason for testing is to find all the nooks and crannies and make sure they're clean. I do not have 4G here in arizona, so i have no clue if it works or not (It's based off stock so I don't see any reason it shouldn't). Etc etc..
Tester Criteria
I would like at least one user that has not formatted their SD card with ext2/ext3 file system for apps2sd. I will provide help with this if/when needed and I would like to give instructions to verify that it is working.
Someone who has 4G in there area, that also uses social networking.
Some sort of Instant Messanging application, you name it and I'll download it and make a username. It makes it so much easier to talk and get feedback when a conversation can be held. A definite plus is someone that has a headset and knows how to use programs such as Ventrilo or Teamspeak (think xbox live for Windows).
Patience with myself.
PM me and I will get back with you as soon as i can.
I'll help no apps2sd and I have 4g I'm not a dev dev but know a lot of android stuff b
I am looking for a very specific app to assist me with interviews. What I need is an app that can open a Word or Excel style template page. The page will have a list of questions and the space to fill in answers just like any normal paper application form.
Name:.........................................................................
Address :.....................................................................
..................................................................................
..................................................................................
Tel:................................................
Etc.
Now this bit is easy I have seen many app's that can do this, the next is the difficult bit,. I need the app to allow me to use a stylus to handwrite the answers in the fields. It does not need to recognise what I have written just save the page as I have annotated it with the handwritten answers. I can then open the template again and conduct the next interview.
Is there such an app out there? If not would anyone be interested in creating one? If this is a new idea then whoever wants it can use it. Thanks all.
Sounds like a good idea that can easily be accomplished using the Google App Inventor.
If I have a few spare cycles I'll see if I can throw it together.
Nice idea, would be a handy little app for many i'm sure.
Would be nice for it to have a "done and save" button so it auto went to the next form, and have an edit mode to edit the forms themselves (making it applicable for any survey, data collect use).
I'll have a look at the app maker today and see if a noob like me could knock something up (allthough its probably best left to those with experience).
Definately a good idea though ^^
EDIT: Oeer, think i may need to readup on the Appmaker for a week before i start ...Spose have to start somewhere. Consider me outof the dev picture for a mo ...allthough need any art/buttons i can help anytime xD
I was hoping one of the software devs on this site can build a skeleton of an app for me. I have very little experience developing software, but would love to learn, and there is an app that I would love to have, but it hasn't been built yet. I have enough knowledge to edit pre-build apps in Eclipse, so the skeleton is all i need. I need an app that can access a database that is in a simple text format which would be located on the device. The idea is very simple, there would be 3 or 4 buttons that when presses would each access their own database of words and display them in a text box right next to the button.
BUTTON TEXT
BUTTON TEXT
so on...
I should think the coding would be very easy to do, and hopefully this would help me further learn how to develop simple applications for the future. Thank you for your time.
Here you go, but *please* don't say it was easy to do... it took me 30-60 minutes to put this together - *real* time I could have been doing something else!
Unzip buttontext.zip into your workspace, and open with eclipse.
Unzip wordsrcfiles.zip and extract the three .json files... copy them to the root of your phone or emulator SD card. I use JSON because it's easy to import, export and modify (www.jsonlint.com is your friend)
Hope this gives you the nudge you need to write some great apps for all of us
Thank you xaffron, I know this took a whilefor me to get back... life has a way of making things difficult. I appreciate your work on this.
I have been programming with Java for about 6 years now. I am currently getting my masters in college for Computer Science (Programming).
I just finished reading the book Hello, Android by Ed Burnette. It was a pretty good book I must say and got me on my feet towards developing for an Android device. For those who do not know the book, each chapter you gradually build a Sudoku game. In the later chapters it discusses some openGL, sound, video. Overall the game is pointless and a waiste.
I never really liked game programming, I wish to do something such as tools, or a feature. However I have hit a roadblock and do not know where to go from here or what to read. I get the structure of the app, the XML setups, etc but the book did not give me a good enough background on the Android System for what I would like to do.
Any suggestions?
Thanks for your help in advanced.
Travmanx I think the way to go from here is use your Java experience to assist in unlocking these phones. I know these guys that are doing the hard work would appreciate all the help they can get.
ZC
I'm very new to android programming too and I agree there does seem to be a big gap in going from the usual tutorials and guides to really getting your feet wet and digging into proper coding.
I think the key here is to think of a simple idea and start to program it, by choosing something simple you can get the basics working quickly, while still giving you room to experiment further with extra features and improvements later on (where the real learning happens).
As to what idea... that is more difficult, I would suggest you do something which you will use so that you've got a drive to keep working on it and improve it.
i.e. If you travel, then a quick currency converter could be useful...if you play tennis then perhaps a score board...it doesn't matter much as long as the incentive is there to code it.
Look forward to hear what you decide to write!
hello there
I would suggest you do something which you will use so that you've got a drive to keep working on it and improve it
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first of all +10 for ^ meltwater
i did an app to (scoreboard) for a card game, instead of using paper and pen.
then:
i am a Java Developer to,
and recently started doing some android apps
i already have 2 of them in the market...
i am just like you, don't like to do games, i prefer tools and other staff...
however, my point is, whenever you can build an app whatever it is,... all you need now is an idea
try to find an idea and start developing it, and on every problem you face try to dig and fix it, then continue on ur main target... otherwise i don't see any advantage of reading more books, because you have to find something to do, then try to find how to do it (based on your input with 6 years java dev)
otherwise i think you will get lost.
my opinion, find an idea and start with it, then fix every block you face.
Good Luck
Hello everyone,
I want to share with all of you my first Android application with is published in Google Play.
Here is the link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ssb.gestitime
This is a simple but advance tool to schedule your time. It can help you to your studies, workouts in the gym, Kitchen, control your breaks/lunch/time in your work, and so forth.
The project started when I had to study for an important oral exam where I have a limited time. In this sort of oral exam, I really think it is not a smart way staring continuously at your watch. I wanted a simple and easy way to be able to control my remaining time. It would have to let me think and speak about whatever I had to speak about. It could be very useful to schedule my time in my phone.
One possibility could be to look for an App that let me configure the total time and some intermediate notifications to help me know how long I had been talking.
Then, in silent mode, I could get in my pocket and it could vibrate according with times I have previously configured. This way no body knows about it and only me could know about time and notifications/vibrations...
I didn't found any app that let me solve this problem and I thought it could be very useful for students and professionals, so after the exam, I started to develop gestitime!!!
This is my first Android App and I am trying to learn every day.
During the development, improvements, new ideas and useful functionalities come to my mind, so I am trying to do my best to get a good, easy-to-use and useful application updating continuously
I will also enjoy your feedback and comments.
In my opinion, user interface has a long way to improve, so I would really like tips and help!
I am also looking for volunteers to translate it in more languages, so any help would be welcome!!
Thanks!!!
PS: I want to apology for not having linked the App before.
I had forgot to tell that the App has an Apache 2.0 licence: Here is the link to Bitbucket if you want to contribute or, maybe, some novel developer wants to look at the code in order to learn something (have in mind that I am also a novel developer ):
https://[email protected]/sesaba23/gestitime.git
Thanks
Hi again,
Tonight gestitime was update. I added an interesting features I think few similar apps have.
I've included custom expandable notification. You also can manage countdown from it. Even when the device is locked.
I hope someone enjoy and some feedback in this forum
Thanks
Hi again!
Yesterday I reach 100 downloads! you may think those are very few downloads but it has been a long way since I started to learn JAVA and Android by myself, three years ago. Challenging hard work that makes me feel proud!
To celebrate it I have just made a major update with a new design in the main screen much more close to Material Design paradigm.
I hope you like and someone could write some comment. These things make me feel motivated to go on! I am looking forward to hearing from all of you...
I also want to say thanks to al translator volunteers! German, Brazilian and Russian has been translated by xda members: noc.jfcbs, brenosnt and DumF0rGaming! Thanks mates!
If you want to help to translate to any language or maybe you need some translation volunteers, then you can miss this awesome thread;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2069390&page=301#post68483556