[Q] Diving into the mobile app world - General Questions and Answers

Hi,
Am happy to have found this forum. After spending time reading through some of the threads, it made sense for me to be part of this platform.
I believe, am here for business.
Am very optimistic about the mobile app world and am eager to connect with guys who believe they have the ability to build amazing apps, with guys who believe they have great ideas but not the push to move ahead.
Lets get along and make it big for all of us.
Looking forward to some interesting interactions..
Regards,
Pankaj

pankajjain said:
Hi,
Am happy to have found this forum. After spending time reading through some of the threads, it made sense for me to be part of this platform.
I believe, am here for business.
Am very optimistic about the mobile app world and am eager to connect with guys who believe they have the ability to build amazing apps, with guys who believe they have great ideas but not the push to move ahead.
Lets get along and make it big for all of us.
Looking forward to some interesting interactions..
Regards,
Pankaj
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hello pankaj, welcome to xda.. what are your intentions.. will you pls specify! :Confused:

Intentions are good
sralli said:
hello pankaj, welcome to xda.. what are your intentions.. will you pls specify! :Confused:
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Hi Sralli,
Intentions are simple and good. I believe there is unlimited potential around us, just that most times it does not get channelized because of which great ideas get lost.
I think, if there is a good idea, I can help making it great and contribute in the execution, possibly in all ways. Likewise, if someone believes that he or she can develop anything, then, I would want to be in his friends list because, I can any day come up with a most idiotic coding idea for him to execute.
Hope, this helps..
Regards,

Related

JiveTalk Blackberry

Hi everyone,
I was hoping I can get some help from the experience and expertise of the xda developers!
I am trying to find a cracked version of JiveTalk (www.beejive.com) but it is for blackberry! thanks a lot i hope someone can do something.... thanks guys
harddriveplaya said:
Hi everyone,
I was hoping I can get some help from the experience and expertise of the xda developers!
I am trying to find a cracked version of JiveTalk (www.beejive.com) but it is for blackberry! thanks a lot i hope someone can do something.... thanks guys
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So many things wrong with what you want its kinda funny.
sounds familiar....
"... It's alright stewardess. I speak Jive."
courtlandre said:
So many things wrong with what you want its kinda funny.
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how is it funny? cuz its a blackberry?
First of all, this is a Windows Mobile site.
Second of all, If you read the RULES you will notice :
11. No Piracy
We don't tolerate piracy facilitated through this board. What you do in your own time is your business, but this is a publicly used resource and we don't want to be threatened with legal action. Please, use common sense and respect the forum, its users, and those coders that write great code.

Our Little World

i know this is not the place for this, i dont even know why am i doing this, but i felt the need to say it: as imperfect as it is, with all our noobs, experienced users, rom cooking just for the fun of it, donations (hell, smb was willing to donate even a whole kaiser!!), advices for free, fun all around, helpful persons willing to help just because we share a common passion...
... all these mean so much to me and in my eyes they are a lot more beautiful than the world we see everyday.
dont know exactly why i had to say this, but please go on and keep it as such. also, thanks to all of you for putting your little brick at the foundation of a beautiful building!
as smb was saying in another post, love is in the air... maybe its the spring...
Although it's a bit twee, I have to agree.
The concept of developers & users sharing ideas and code and actually HELPING each other in return for donations to the level you can afford is a fantastic concept - and one that Microsoft would do well to learn from (amongst others).
The end result is everyone is MUCH happier and the product is much better. The only problem is I suspect nobody on here could make a living from it...
I'm feeling all teary eyed now. But you guys & gals are right. Group hug.
Let's all sing together now.
Koom By Ya...... why am I the only one singing?
Sorry....
I was too busy reaching for the kleenex box
hehe... bunch of nerds... really!!... get all hot and flustered at the idea of a new rom or some cab file... it's so sweet...
isn't there a restaurant in London with no prices on the menu but where patrons pay what they believe the meal is worth? Remember hearing about it years ago. Wonder if they still in business.
Yeah there are some talented cooks/programmers on this site. It's a wonderful site for owners of pda's looking for a little doctoring of their phones and I wish xda-developers.com all the best in the future...
Because...
ionutz6 said:
i know this is not the place for this, i dont even know why am i doing this...
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...you fell down and cracked your head ?
Just kidding mate
I cracked my screen last night.... was thinking of having a service for my phone.... bagpipes and everything... let me know if you guys will be coming.
What the hell's the matter with you blundering boobs & sniveling sissies?
This belongs in the Development Forum why?
And you Tater, kumbaya????
Oh...
GSLEON3 said:
What the hell's the matter with you blundering boobs & sniveling sissies?
This belongs in the Development Forum why?
And you Tater, kumbaya????
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...you just hurt my feelings...
I agree
ionutz6 said:
love is in the air... maybe its the spring...
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I am totaly Agree, specialy If you post something, if it is already posted, there is alot of love around...Yeah its the spring
i must say its very touching what u wrote and very true. even though i am new to xda being here has truly been a wonderful experience.
The amount of knowledge is truly monumental.
now on singing kombaya i need some body to give me a beat ...
its not even about money or anything, its about people. just hearing that laurentius spent one whole day (9am - 12pm) to tweak a new rom for us, for you, for anybody, made me think that passion is everything, or anyway a lot more than what people are forced to do for a living.
ive been reading this forum for over 2 years now and remember a lot of things, funny posts, things that, together with the great pieces of software developed, made my day now and then. thank ya all for this!
as you say, this is a silly thread and should under no circumstances stay especially here under the rom development section. kyphur, related to a discussion from laurentius new diamond rom thread, feel free to delete all these.
thesire said:
i must say its very touching what u wrote and very true. even though i am new to xda being here has truly been a wonderful experience.
The amount of knowledge is truly monumental.
now on singing kombaya i need some body to give me a beat ...
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as most of you probably, i am user on different forums as well. although some amount of flaming is present here as well, it is under no circumstances comparable to things happening on other sites and im grateful to all of you for this.
maybe we should have the national hymn of xdadev, for example Kombaya, somewhere to be downloaded or at least to be visible.
Me too!
Just wanted to add my agreement and appreciation for all that is offered from xda and the people that make it all work. A heart felt "Thank you very much!"
Delete this thread? NEVER...
I'll just move it to someplace more appropriate (but I did leave a perm redirect so it's always hooked to Kaiser Rom Dev)...
True, true... To be honest the only reason I keep buying HTC devices is xda-developers community Although HTC with their support and behavior is trying really hard to persuade me from these decisions on buying new HTC hardware )
harry_x said:
True, true... To be honest the only reason I keep buying HTC devices is xda-developers community Although HTC with their support and behavior is trying really hard to persuade me from these decisions on buying new HTC hardware )
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Agreed, if I were head of marketing for HTC I would pay Dutty (amongst others) to continue cooking roms for our devices.
OMG, sensitive nerds! *turns around and sneaks away*
Just to also add few thoughts on this forum.
This year I bought my first ever PDA, and had to go to considerable trouble to have it delivered here. In a country where the concept of customer support is not yet in existence, and with thousand noob questions, this forum has provided all the help that I needed. So, this forum means a lot to people like me who have no access to official customer support services or other facilities available elsewhere.
My only regret is that as yet, I am unable to more actively contribute to the great community here.
Thanks XDA developers and keep it up.

[Q] Where can I learn how to develop apps?

Hi, I am looking to develop windows mobile apps for my HTC HD2 and I was wondering if there is a free online course or some places that I can learn everything I need to know to start developing ASAP, I hope to become good at this and I will be posting on the forums frequently but can someone help me out? It would be greatly appreciated if you could give me some links.
TechBurrow said:
Hi, I am looking to develop windows mobile apps for my HTC HD2 and I was wondering if there is a free online course or some places that I can learn everything I need to know to start developing ASAP, I hope to become good at this and I will be posting on the forums frequently but can someone help me out? It would be greatly appreciated if you could give me some links.
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ASAP? you could also begin with Visual Basic. thats Easy to learn and quite powerful.
hey yo techburrow i am really new to smartphones and apps. i got my hd2 less than a month ago...but i feel the same way...it feels like it's really underground to learn and teach this stuff. i wish i new someone to teach me some of it...but i have learned more on this topic at this site in a week than anywhere else. it is truly wonderful. have you tried wikipedia for more info? i wish this site had a "xda term dictionary". i'm having trouble just figuring out what words mean...but maybe they do and i haven't found it yet. good luck...your first app should be for people llike you who want to know how to build there own apps and don't know how. "myappbuilder" or something...peace.
Start here :
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Development Tools
The link at the bottom takes you to a pile of other stuff.
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Complete list of Development links and resources
P.S. Don't expect to learn all this stuff overnight, it's a long hard slog to become any good at it. Even then you'll still find room for improvement.
Good luck and don't give up.
Join some good school....

Anyone want to help me with a survey (3-5 min) for my exams?

Hello there, good people of XDA!
I'm not really sure if this is best suited here or in "Off-topic", but since it is phone-related, I figured I'd give it a go here.
It's a short survey about how you use your smartphone, and any help would be greatly appreciated. It's completely anonymous, as all I ask for is your age and gender.
For anyone wondering, it's for an contextual analysis about people and their smartphone usage, and it will be used as reference for my exam in consumer sociology.
Thank you for any help, and give me a head ups if it is better suited for another board.
Link for survey:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BY2Q33Y
EDIT:
I've, shamelessly, added another more in-depth survey, where you have to type in quite a few of the answers. It shouldn't take more than 5 minutes to complete, and would be of great help for me. The first few questions are pretty similar, but the last few are, as I said, a bit more in-depth. There's no need to take them both, and you can chose for yourself which one you want to give a go. I'm happy either way.
Link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1K8IJeLCfd3QefA0_gBnDDvDtiRER0bMk9uLWfbw4Yo8/viewform
maggot_ff said:
Hello there, good people of XDA!
I'm not really sure if this is best suited here or in "Off-topic", but since it is phone-related, I figured I'd give it a go here.
It's a short survey about how you use your smartphone, and any help would be greatly appreciated. It's completely anonymous, as all I ask for is your age and gender.
For anyone wondering, it's for an contextual analysis about people and their smartphone usage, and it will be used as reference for my exam in consumer sociology.
Thank you for any help, and give me a head ups if it is better suited for another board.
Link for survey:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BY2Q33Y
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Hey mate, I just completed answering your survey...
For some bizzare reason, I like answering surveys.. so if you need any other surveys to be answered then do tell me
Sami Kabir said:
Hey mate, I just completed answering your survey...
For some bizzare reason, I like answering surveys.. so if you need any other surveys to be answered then do tell me
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I thought this was supposedly your exam?
Just took it. One problem though is that question 7 implies that everyone is in school, so I don't know how you will differentiate between people who use their phones in school who chose 1 and people who are not in school who chose 1 for that reason.
Completed the survey, Good luck with your exams! =)
Thanks for taking it guys.
ivan.untalan said:
I thought this was supposedly your exam?
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Not quite sure what you meant there, but yes, it is for my exam.
ChrisMills83 said:
Just took it. One problem though is that question 7 implies that everyone is in school, so I don't know how you will differentiate between people who use their phones in school who chose 1 and people who are not in school who chose 1 for that reason.
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Yeah, I guess I could have done that part differently. Actually, this go for a few of the questions. But people can just chose "1", for the things that don't apply for them, and I'll take it into account when analyzing the answers.
I can only have 10 questions before i have to start paying for the service, so i had to make the survey a bit more compact than what would be optimal. I could have used Google docs or something else for the survey, but i feel surveymonkey is pretty easy to use when analyzing the answers compared to many other services.
Anyways, thanks for helping out guys! I still need more answers, so keep'em coming! :good:

University

Hey everyone at XDA, this is probably in the wrong section and i apologise for that, i am currently at college doing a software development course, and i would like a few tips into what course to take when i go uni, i want to continue into developing for phones, apps and stuff, as that is currently whats going forward in the world and its not dying any time soon, so i think it is a great thing to go into, i just dont know which course i should take, any pointers?
Thank you very much in advance for any help given :good:
ZakBrindle said:
Hey everyone at XDA, this is probably in the wrong section and i apologise for that, i am currently at college doing a software development course, and i would like a few tips into what course to take when i go uni, i want to continue into developing for phones, apps and stuff, as that is currently whats going forward in the world and its not dying any time soon, so i think it is a great thing to go into, i just dont know which course i should take, any pointers?
Thank you very much in advance for any help given :good:
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Java. Everything is Java. LOL
Beyond that, basic programming courses, C language (and any variants)...
It'll really depend on the platform you wish to code for, Ubuntu Touch, I'm sure, is inherently different from Android, as Android is from Apple, etc...
There are guides on here (actually in this very forum) that give you links to free programming courses from MIT.
Anything else a quick google search should turn up for you:good:
Good luck, and happy Dev'ing :victory:
ZakBrindle said:
Hey everyone at XDA, this is probably in the wrong section and i apologise for that, i am currently at college doing a software development course, and i would like a few tips into what course to take when i go uni, i want to continue into developing for phones, apps and stuff, as that is currently whats going forward in the world and its not dying any time soon, so i think it is a great thing to go into, i just dont know which course i should take, any pointers?
Thank you very much in advance for any help given :good:
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What @Stryke_the_Orc said.. for android app development many people don't take a course as such just learn it in their free time as a branch away from their regular course. We have an app development forum as well where there are links to many guides as well as packages and libraries which you may find useful during the development of any app.. most of them are open source..
Also there are many Youtube video tutors which are available for app development and so is Google's own website @ developer.android..
So if you plan on taking on another course you can do this in your free time as well provided you know Java / C and its branches .. learning a new computer language is different skill set altogether.. which will require your full attention. So, depending upon your caliber and your own potential choose your course wisely.
Okay thank you very very much for both of your answers, they are both extremely helpful and i will take it all into consideration Thanks again
Whichever development path you choose, don’t forget good old fashioned Mathematics. In fact, stuffing as much of it into your head as it will stand, is not such a bad thing.
Sometimes it lets you see a much better/faster way of doing something.
Sign up for a course, or there are books from the library, even articles on Wikipedia.
Good Luck!
If you want to start developing for Android and you know Java, check out The New Boston's Android Development YouTube videos. They helped me a lot!
Am sure the best platform you can focus on now is Android
Sent from my TECNO P3 using xda app-developers app

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