Hi,
I would like to make a little app that basically packages my company's artwork (from TRPG books) into an apk, distribute it on the Market for free, and allows the user to set the artwork as a wallpaper.
I downloaded and used APK Manager the other day (while looking at a thread about modifying the "framework" file to adjust the auto-brightness settings on my SGS2). I noticed that this program can just take the apks apart and then re-compile. My question is, is it possible to use something like this to take apart a free open-source simple wallpaper setting app, then insert the art I need to insert, then recompile and publish? Or...do I need to go through the whole shabang and make a new simple app from scratch?
BTW, Yes I'm lazy to learn programing, and i'm not making enough money to hire someone to do this. And my PC at home has some USB problems. And I live in China where it seems that downloading the java SDK, android SDK, Eclipse, and the other things I need takes for ever. And I don't really know any programming. If I have to, I can learn. But that means less sleep for me, which I already don't get enough of.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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Re: OilCan
I have recently stumbled across Oilcan, the greasemonkey style browser for android http://www.jsharkey.org/blog/. I've tried it and the default stuff is all very impressive, and to be honest i wanna use it. But its not fully finished, and the Dev has just been employed by google and seems to have abadoned the project. The browser is basic, it appears to be based on an old version of the google browser.
Whats the future of this application? since it was a proof of concept. The only futures i can see are;
he continues development by himself - unlikely
he adds this functionailty nativily to the google browser - unlikely as he's very smart and likely to be on other more interesting projects
The community take up the slack (thats us) use he's code and create a super brower - what i'd quite like to happen. the source is available, and it appears to be quite simple. I think that if it was to be patched into the jf1.41 multitouch brower it would be a killer application.
http://code.google.com/p/android-cookbook/source/browse/#svn/trunk/OilCan?state=closed
Whatcha all think?
DarkFlare
anyone considering this? these are pretty cool features.
well personally im studying the oilcan code, mostly for the user scripts aspect and it seems fairly easy to implement, and so im hacking away the other features to begin with as i dont see much of a use for filling in forms using my android contacts or scanning barcodes and getting there values. So basically im removing the intent code.
My plan is to edit the main browser to add in the userscript functionailty, but im new to the android platform so it could take a while. I can program in java though which gives me a good head start.
Anyone else interested in helping out?
I just found a site where someone is developing user scripts for the Android browser.
At the moment its only a proof of concept but after watching the video is coming along very nicely
http://oilcan.jsharkey.org/
Hopefully it wont be too long before we can get our hands on it
You alreday can get your hands on it.
http://www.jsharkey.org/blog/2008/12/15/oilcan-greasemonkey-on-steroids-for-android/
APK: http://www.jsharkey.org/downloads/OilCan-100.apk
They got some cool scripts on their website that I would like to use but do they work with the g1? It says some will but the top says scripts for firefox. Also... how would we apply the scripts on the g1? Does the app look for them on the sd or what?
EDIT: Nevermind it says you can load them from the sd or browse to them yourself
i guess i should change it from "coming" to "here"
thanks mannyb
Custom Scripts
EDIT: He figured it out between page refreshs
He released this like a month ago before he went to work for google. It was a nice proof of concept but he was done working on it and was asking for someone to take it over.
atrackdog reported to me that someone has OilCan 2.0
I have not found a dload link yet...
It would be nice if someone picked up where he left off, because OilCan 1.0 is buggy as hell. I'd like to see it built into Steel.
I'm not a programmer or I'd do this in a heartbeat. I use a journaling/note application on linux called Rednotebook. It's on sourceforge, sorry I'm still under 10 posts so I can't post a link.
It is a simple, lightweight, app that you can drop notes, pics, diary entrys, whatever, and easily find them again. Pretty much what evernote does only without the massive bloat and eye-bleed interface. It feels a lot like a personal wiki interface. I use this and evernote and constantly go back to this because it is so much easier to deal with.
I don't know how the author would deal with royalties from the app store but he has indicated on his forums he has no interest in porting to android but would be glad to help someone else do it. I run this on all of my linux system and would buy it in a heartbeat to run on my tablet.
My hope is to be able to run this on all of my systems and export/import it as necessary. A way to sync this securely without putting personal stuff out on the internet somewhere would be icing on the cake but manual would work just fine.
Just putting it out there. I'd definately pay more than the average $1.99 google play app for this port.
Hello! I´m not a developer and i dont think that i want to learn everything about developing an app. I just want to make the management part of it.
My App is something like an calculator where you enter (input) some data in some fields and you will get an excel based pdf document with a table and a chart as output.
The excel file is allready done and i just need to convert it into an app with the GUI and some other small features like settings, output formats, checkboxes and so on....
So i have my first project and i need that app to run without bugs and so on. My Questions:
- Is it recommended to use one of these automatic App builders if im a bloody beginner or would you recommend to hire a developer?
- If i take a developer, what kind of details does he need to start that application?
- How much should i pay for such an app? I guess its not a complex app so it should not be very costly, right?
Thanks for your support and help!
Hi guys I am a 16 year old student in the UK and has just started college. One of the subjects I am taking is computing. In computing I am learning visual basic. So far I am learning how to write console applications. I have attached a piece of code that demonstrates my skill. But what I would like is to start developing apps. If anyone can point me to tutorials or anything that would be helpful. I also attached a data dictionary to help decipher my code. (what I want to start with is a simple torch app and then build my skill from there)
There is a 'thanks' in there for you.
I took a gander upon your code and wish you good luck with your journey of your programming career. I'm also working towards coding certain apps and utilities myself. Just stick to what you want to and write down in a notepad or if you're more of a person who writes things down in a notebook do that. Write down what you want in a program as well as extra's that you want implemented (such as Beta, Alpha, Free, Pro features, and keep in mind if you're gonna have open source applications for download or put your program on a website for people to download) or something along those lines.
I neve ever build an app (but have enough other experience) and i need some advice to point me in the right direction
I need to build a app which can do the following:
1) show a form with 5 Fields (Name - Adress)
2) on this form there is a button to take a picture.
When done: a save button is pressed and the picture is saved into a folder (upload) together with an xml file containing the field data.
These is also a submit button which connects to a server to send all the files in the upload folder.
(will be a small no commercial app for a few users)
Questions:
What framework would be best to use for something this small. (do I even need a framwork?)
Is there a way to create this for android and Iphone in one go?
Thanks in advance
Ron
Subscribed. I would like to see how people would do this so I can learn. I am needing to set up multiple forms for my app, and was thinking about including the ability to include images for users to keep track of things.
maybe use something like this :
appmakr.com
If you want to develop the app for Android and iOS, you can use Ionic and Cordova frameworks.
How much experience do you have with programming in general?
What languages if any are you familiar with?
What kinds of software have you built?
I would be able to guide you on the best way to proceed with this information.
Libgdx is a framework that you can use to make apps for android, ios, html5 and desktop at the same time. It's also free and open source.
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