Hi all,
New here. Stumbled upon this tool/forum while searching for an Android app development platform. I have some initial questions I hope someone can answer...
Some background: I did some Android programming about 4-5 years ago (Java + SDK), but even though I have used Java a decade prior, it's a lot to know/remember for an occasional app developer, as I will be. And I hated Eclipse. Yes, it's supposed to be powerful, but I really did not need all the fancy bells and whistles. I'm really an embedded C & assembly programmer nowadays.
Most of what I want to do here is create various UI apps that will let me send and receive data through bluetooth (and probably wifi later), to my microcontroller/electronics projects. About 4-5 years ago, the SDK API docs for bluetooth were still a work in progress, so that added to the frustration.
I'm back in a similar situation again and hoping that B4A can simplify things for me. BASIC should be much simpler to pick up (and remember) than Java, so that is a good start. Is bluetooth/serial simple in B4A? Good examples available? Is B4A relatively stable? Though I don't need any screaming performance, is it decent with B4A?
What else should I know here?
Thanks.
New here. Stumbled upon this tool/forum while searching for an Android app development platform. I have some initial questions I hope someone can answer...
Some background: I did some Android programming about 4-5 years ago (Java + SDK), but even though I have used Java a decade prior, it's a lot to know/remember for an occasional app developer, as I will be. And I hated Eclipse. Yes, it's supposed to be powerful, but I really did not need all the fancy bells and whistles. I'm really an embedded C & assembly programmer nowadays.
Most of what I want to do here is create various UI apps that will let me send and receive data through bluetooth (and probably wifi later), to my microcontroller/electronics projects. About 4-5 years ago, the SDK API docs for bluetooth were still a work in progress, so that added to the frustration.
I'm back in a similar situation again and hoping that B4A can simplify things for me. BASIC should be much simpler to pick up (and remember) than Java, so that is a good start. Is bluetooth/serial simple in B4A? Good examples available? Is B4A relatively stable? Though I don't need any screaming performance, is it decent with B4A?
What else should I know here?
Thanks.