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Simple Progrqamming Languages/environment ????

I want to program simple applications, one or two screens, a few input boxes, simple graphics, display the output. Compile to an .exe. I "sorta" program, I can do a lot in Excel VBA, can't do C++ never tried Java or others.
Are there any easy to use programing languages (and environments) that would do what I need?
I look forward to you insight.
Nick

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maybe get a copy of visual studio, it's pretty easy to create a simple forms app in VB.net or c# with it.

Thanks for the reply...
Do you need "Visual Studio"? Or will Visual Basic 2008 work?
Are there free Visual Studio versions? If so, I haven't found the right link yet.
Nick

C++ and Java are similar and easy to pick up, and java is even based off c++, personally I use codeblocks as my IDE, but there are many others to choose from

nkemp said:
I want to program simple applications, one or two screens, a few input boxes, simple graphics, display the output. Compile to an .exe. I "sorta" program, I can do a lot in Excel VBA, can't do C++ never tried Java or others.
Are there any easy to use programing languages (and environments) that would do what I need?
I look forward to you insight.
Nick
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There has been a lot of question on how to program lately.
Before asking, please:
1) Do a search on the forums
2) Look at the sticky in the front of the forum. There is plenty of information on programming in the Wiki pages.
Good luck!

nkemp said:
Thanks for the reply...
Do you need "Visual Studio"? Or will Visual Basic 2008 work?
Are there free Visual Studio versions? If so, I haven't found the right link yet.
Nick
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The free version is called Visual Studio Express
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Go to: microsoft.com/express/Downloads

Search for Basic4PPC and try it. It has a similar interface to VS and much cheaper (there's a demo you can download so you can try out for yourself.) The language is similar to VB. The end result is an application written using Compact Net Framework.
Good luck

Thanks for the help folks ...
There area a lot of options listed in the sticky but the problem is that there is no evaluation of ease of use.
- I did download basic4ppc and it seems easy enough to use ... for a fee
- but you don't know that until you download (unless you click through to the wiki)
- I downloaded SharpDevelop but have not been able to figure out the code (poor documentation and dead links to things like the C# book)
- Next I'll try FBA Creator
Nick
Later ..... So I tried FBACreator and a lot simpler ... but no no way to graphically design the screen like basic4ppc or SharpDevelop.

App creating for WP7

Hi,
I'm interested in creating apps for restaurants and takeaways.
Apps that will show logos, menus, directions to the place. I'm not a programmer and never created apps before...
Is there a software available that will allow me to design bespoke apps easily?
What decent app creator softwares are there that are sufficient for non programmers?
I will be doing the designing and a programmer friend will do the work behind it...
thanks

rafter_01 said:
Hi,
I'm interested in creating apps for restaurants and takeaways.
Apps that will show logos, menus, directions to the place. I'm not a programmer and never created apps before...
Is there a software available that will allow me to design bespoke apps easily?
What decent app creator softwares are there that are sufficient for non programmers?
I will be doing the designing and a programmer friend will do the work behind it...
thanks
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Install the developers toolkit (http://create.msdn.com/en-US/) It includes expression blend for WP7 (for free). This is a great tool for WP7 design, and allows the design to be separated out from the development

AceofSpades25 said:
Install the developers toolkit (http://create.msdn.com/en-US/) It includes expression blend for WP7 (for free). This is a great tool for WP7 design, and allows the design to be separated out from the development
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thanks,
would the app work for both 6.5 and wp7?

AceofSpades25 said:
Install the developers toolkit (http://create.msdn.com/en-US/) It includes expression blend for WP7 (for free). This is a great tool for WP7 design, and allows the design to be separated out from the development
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I have to pay £65... no free app designing software?

rafter_01 said:
I have to pay £65... no free app designing software?
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lol... Did you not click on the huge link saying "download the free tools to get started now"?
This will only work for WP7, since the tool i mentioned is for designing the UI for silverlight apps.

AceofSpades25 said:
lol... Did you not click on the huge link saying "download the free tools to get started now"?
This will only work for WP7, since the tool i mentioned is for designing the UI for silverlight apps.
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Silverlight apps? whats the difference between normal apps and silverlight apps?

Porting Open-Source-Games

What do you think about porting some Open-Source-Games to Wíndows Phone 7? The Source-Code is open , so it shouldn't be too hard to port these games.
There are (for example):
- Knytt Stories (not really Open-Source, but the Source-Code for a DS-Version is available on http://www.rodrigoroman.com/rrc2soft/nds_dsknytt.html)
- Battle for Wesnoth (an iOS-Version is actually available on Wesnoth iOS)
- ManiaDrive (like Trackmania, but not as good as this)
- Warzone 2100
- Glest (a little bit like Warcraft)
- Neverball (like Monkeyball)
- Secret Maryo Chronicles (Mario!)
There are many games more (like Nexuiz or Bos Wars and so on)
What do you think? Where should this be downloadable? In the Marketplace or as a hombrew-app? If it's in the marketplace, would you pay for it (just 0,99 to 1,99)?

Please keep discussions and ongoing developmental projects out of the app release forum. You could post in the Software Development section since that is for ongoing projects or help with app development.
~~Tito~~

~~Tito~~ said:
Please keep discussions and ongoing developmental projects out of the app release forum. You could post in the Software Development section since that is for ongoing projects or help with app development.
~~Tito~~
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Sorry, I clicked too fast. I wanted to post it in the "Developement-Forum". Thank's for moving.

i would play for this games and you should develop it in the marketplace

Which game would you prefer?

Secret Maryo Chronicles, Glest and Neverball

What about some of these open source emulators? Like the ones made for the HD2?

vagabond1 said:
What about some of these open source emulators? Like the ones made for the HD2?
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Have you used the forum search? There is another thread. ...

i would like to see stargus or wargus on WP7

But there is a problem: I haven't got my computer in the moment. So it could take a while until I could develope it. Is anybody else here, who could develope / port a game?

Neverball looks like a great one to port. I would help or try a start if you can give me some advice where to start.

toolsche said:
Neverball looks like a great one to port. I would help or try a start if you can give me some advice where to start.
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You gotta download the Source from here and extract it (I prefer 7zip). Then you shut reprogram the game (I don't know in which language it's written) in C#.
There is some help for you at Code2Code (if it's written in C++ or at CodeConverter (if it's written in VB.net). If it's written in Python (OpenSource-Games are written in Python often) or another language I can't help you, I'm "speaking" VB.net, C# and C++ only (in the moment). After you've rewritten the code you've to add the tilt-functions (for the tilt-sensor which shut move the board at the end) and the touch-functions (moving camera, menu ...). I would advise you to not integrate Neverputt (which is in the package too) at the moment and develope Neverball only.
Tell me, if you're doing this; then I won't do this anymore. You can sell it yourself.
Good Luck.

If there is anybody else, who wanna "develope" one of these games (or another one) than told it to us, please.

Darkyyy said:
i would like to see stargus or wargus on WP7
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This would be great, but Warcraft and Starcraft are not Open-Source-Games. So you can't port them (legal). But Glest is a Warcraft-like-game and is Open-Source.

Phonegap discussion/Q&A

I've just started using Phonegap to develop Android apps and found it ridiculously easy (for simple stuff). I've got a background in Windows development for many years, and also a long-standing history of web development, both client and server-side, so for me Phonegap is an answer to many prayers.
I thought this would be an ideal place to share ideas and thrash out problems for anyone that's developing using Phonegap.
If you're not familiar with it but you have web development skills then you really need to look into it...
http://phonegap.com/
I also currently use adobe builder at to build my apps...
https://build.phonegap.com/
That will change when I start integrating my own plugins, using Java and Eclipse, but for now it's awesome as it builds my app for 6 different platforms, including Android, iOS and WP.
I'm new to this so I'm hoping this will be a good place for us to learn together and pick up any tips from each other. There's also the most awesome stack overflow where help can be garnered, as they have a phonegap tag for asking questions. Between there and here we should be covered

I may also use phonegap for my next project. It's either that or Xamarin/Mono. I'd be more comfortable out of the box with the latter, but it's probably more "useful" for me to start prodding HTML5.
Have you taken a look at VSNomad? Lets you work in Visual Studio if you're already familiar with that.

jmbillings said:
I may also use phonegap for my next project. It's either that or Xamarin/Mono. I'd be more comfortable out of the box with the latter, but it's probably more "useful" for me to start prodding HTML5.
Have you taken a look at VSNomad? Lets you work in Visual Studio if you're already familiar with that.
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I just had a look at VSNomad and it does look very interesting, but it's damn pricey! I'm certainly not used to paying subscription costs to develop software.

Some of the tools and tech I use to develop phonegap app
APTANA 3
GIT GUI
bootstrap.js
ADT
Dreamweaver CS 6
AppLaud - Mobile Developer Solutions
Best of all and universal tools to develop.

some other useful tools with phonegap
I usually develop applications with PhoneGap using the following tools:
Eclipse
ant scripts for packaging and javascript compression
jasmine for javascript module testing
karma for test in real time
I found very useful to use the last tool for testing on multiple browsers and mobile emulators because it allows to detect possible errors in real-time.

salamanred said:
I usually develop applications with PhoneGap using the following tools:
Eclipse
ant scripts for packaging and javascript compression
jasmine for javascript module testing
karma for test in real time
I found very useful to use the last tool for testing on multiple browsers and mobile emulators because it allows to detect possible errors in real-time.
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Karma sounds great for compatibility and debugging. I searched online and there are tons of results. Could you share more info so I can find it?
I currently use Eclipse with the Phonegap plugin and Firefox for basic debugging until I near final production.

How to create an Android app using HTML, CSS and JavaScript

Hello, I have a question on Android development. Personally, I know web development but I do not know JAVA programming because I am not into software development.
I want to develop an android app by using HTML5, CSS3 and JQuery Mobile. The app will be simple, it will be just an app on poetry where users will click some categories and read poems, and also search. That's all. It will be free, no registration, no ads and no server side. I want to use JQuery Mobile for this or even pure HTML5 and CSS3. In fact, HTML and CSS will be used of course.
Bear in ind that I am NOT converting an existing website into an app, but rather creating an app through HTML, CSS and JavaScript. So, the Web View tool is not appropriate here.
My questions are:
1/ Can we really create an APK with obly HTML, CSS or JavaScript?
2/ If we can create, what software (which is free) can I use to create the APK by compiling/converting my web pages?
Thank!

ali20142014 said:
Hello, I have a question on Android development. Personally, I know web development but I do not know JAVA programming because I am not into software development.
I want to develop an android app by using HTML5, CSS3 and JQuery Mobile. The app will be simple, it will be just an app on poetry where users will click some categories and read poems, and also search. That's all. It will be free, no registration, no ads and no server side. I want to use JQuery Mobile for this or even pure HTML5 and CSS3. In fact, HTML and CSS will be used of course.
Bear in ind that I am NOT converting an existing website into an app, but rather creating an app through HTML, CSS and JavaScript. So, the Web View tool is not appropriate here.
My questions are:
1/ Can we really create an APK with obly HTML, CSS or JavaScript?
2/ If we can create, what software (which is free) can I use to create the APK by compiling/converting my web pages?
Thank!
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You'll need to go through the (sometimes painful) installation of Eclipse/Android Developer Tools and the Android SDK...
https://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/bundle.html
After that you can then do exactly what you are asking for with this...
http://cordova.apache.org/
I'm using that technology to create professional apps (as in, commercial apps for customers) using HTML5 & CSS, Javascript, jQuery and I opt for Bootstrap over jQuery Mobile as it's a lot lighter, but jQuery Mobile works fine with it too.
There's also PhoneGap, but that's just a rebranding of Cordova at the moment. They may branch out in different directions at some point, but at the moment there's no difference. The only advantage to PhoneGap is that you can point it at your source on GitHub and it will build online for you. Very handy if you want to do pure online development, but a bit messy.

Thank you for replying. I think I will try with the PhoneGap and Eclipse as you suggested. I have other questions:
1/ Even the APK will be developed using just HTML, CSS and JavaScript, how to notify the user an update is available through a notification method? I am not asking for tutorials, but just the steps.
2/ As you know, to view the source code of a website, a user will right click and view. As the APK will be developed using client side languages, will they be able to view the source codes in any other way apart decompiling?

ali20142014 said:
Thank you for replying. I think I will try with the PhoneGap and Eclipse as you suggested. I have other questions:
1/ Even the APK will be developed using just HTML, CSS and JavaScript, how to notify the user an update is available through a notification method? I am not asking for tutorials, but just the steps.
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Your best bet is to let Google Play Store do all that for you. It means paying for a developer account, but it's not expensive and it means that people can get your app from the Play Store, which looks a lot more credible than a link and instructions how to allow 3rd party apps. Also, you push an update to the Play Store, and that pushes the update to all your users. You can't really ask for better than that.
ali20142014 said:
2/ As you know, to view the source code of a website, a user will right click and view. As the APK will be developed using client side languages, will they be able to view the source codes in any other way apart decompiling?
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They can't do anything as simple as "View source" as all the files are embedded in the application, but they can decompile it and get at your source that way, but there's nothing to stop someone doing that with an APK anyway. They best thing would be to develop your app till your happy with it, and then obfuscate the crap out of the html, css & js files. Sure someone could decompile the app and get your source, but they'd really struggle to do anything with it.
Have a play with it and see if it's any good for you. It really does make it simple for a developer with web experience to make apps.
Also, if this is of any use, I made a guide for developing and building Phonegap Android apps purely online, without any SDK or IDE installation. It's not ideal as debugging would be a nightmare. I mostly made it as reference for myself, but check it out anyway...
http://johncmolyneux.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/how-to-build-android-apps-online.html

Sorry for the late reply. Can I know where is the APK file is stored?

ali20142014 said:
Sorry for the late reply. Can I know where is the APK file is stored?
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/data/app/packagename-1.apk

You tube is your friend
Just do a youtube search with these key words "html5 webview android" and you should be able to find everything you need to know on how to build your html5 powered app
Google offers a "ProGuard" solution on how to mask your code by obfuscation. Good luck!

You can also use phonegap build to build your web apps without using eclipse.

You can't make an app using HTML and all these web developing languages but you can simply make a responsive website (I hope you know that) and then integrate that website into the android app. You may also add something like that once a user opens app once his app will connect to your website and then download the files offline for future offline use.

You can make fully functional games and apps with HTML + Javascript. Once you learn a the basic's you can use the framework I posted here to make a quiz game. As you learn more you can make small puzzle games and action games but that takes time to learn. Start by using this framework to build a game.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2785378
And if you dont know how to use eclipse then use phonegap build it will build the game for you and the 1st game is free with their service.

Sorry, just saw this now... i could have saved you a bit of hassle
If you really dont want to make a deep dive and stay with your current skills theres a really great way to do so (no, im not involed in the project and wanna advertise it i just use it and love it).
Theres really great tool from Intel, named Intel XDK. This thingy lets you easyly use either the Intel based framework (thats really fast and depending on how you "build" the app at the end you get native code, not just an simple AKP that displays content in a webview.).
The above mentioned Cordova is also a build option, so if you already learned about that, you can still use it in here. You can also make the userinterface of your app in a drag&drop IDE that saves you TONS of time.
Check here for some easy examples:
http://app-framework-software.intel.com/components.php
The very best comes at the end, you dont have to care ONE BIT about installing anything on your machine, all build stuff is done on Intel servers. You code the app, decide on a way to build it (Cordova, Android, iOS or whatever) and you get an APK out of it. Whats more, you can test/debug directly on device, in browser or any other possible way.
If you dont want to learn the appfraework (whats is basically just like jquery, you dont really have to "learn" it if your familiar with javascript) or use other known frameworks like jQuery mobile. Best is, you can still use the IDE-Designer even with jQuery. So you can for example choose jquerymobile framework and but in a nvigation layout just with drag&drop. Of course you als have a standard Code-View with autocompletion and all if you want.
Take alook, its awesome...
The reason why i post this here that tere is one flaw (in my opinion), the documentation is not the best (its there of course, full API guides and all) and the Intel foum is not really active, since noone really knows about it it seems. If more ppl use it the community could be great and starters have a really easy tool at hand to get into the world of mobile-development.

Hi,
You can create an Android app using the HTML, CSS, JavaScript by PhoneGap. PhoneGap is a free and open source framework that allows you to create mobile apps using standardized web APIs for the platforms you care about. You can learn it at: phonegap.com
Good luck!

Website 2 APK Builder
The all new Website 2 APK Builder for Windows is now available at sourceforge.
as i'm new and can't post external links,
so i'm unable to provide a link of it,
try searching "Website 2 APK Builder" on Google.
Just Launched Yesterday,
that's all.
Easy to use,
Generates ad-free apps.
and available for offline use.
Give it a try.

Oboy
oboy

If you're planning on making a update thingy like that basically use github for that where you have a text file and test for the version every time the app launches with window.onload in JS

ali20142014 said:
Hello, I have a question on Android development. Personally, I know web development but I do not know JAVA programming because I am not into software development.
I want to develop an android app by using HTML5, CSS3 and JQuery Mobile. The app will be simple, it will be just an app on poetry where users will click some categories and read poems, and also search. That's all. It will be free, no registration, no ads and no server side. I want to use JQuery Mobile for this or even pure HTML5 and CSS3. In fact, HTML and CSS will be used of course.
Bear in ind that I am NOT converting an existing website into an app, but rather creating an app through HTML, CSS and JavaScript. So, the Web View tool is not appropriate here.
My questions are:
1/ Can we really create an APK with obly HTML, CSS or JavaScript?
2/ If we can create, what software (which is free) can I use to create the APK by compiling/converting my web pages?
Thank!
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I'm not sure if it's still a question for you but maybe try to search some helpful articles on this subject? They are usually easy to read and you'll an understanding of what you need to do.

we can create an APK with only HTML, CSS or JavaScript through new frameworks
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