Hello,
I am trying to learn B4A but somehow I am not able to gain enough confidence to really invest time. Please understand here money is no the question. Here spending precious time in learning and developing app in B4A is more important.
Before I go any further I would like to give some information so that the community can help me motivate myself and move along with B4A.
But before I go any further I would like say that I am not trying to push or advertise any third product here. I just want help to get rid of my confusion and come to a sane decision.
My preferred to program even today is VB6 and B4A is similar to VB6 but somehow my gut feeling tells me that I may not be able to achieve what I want using B4A. I may be wrong. In fact I want to be proved wrong here...
Currently I am using a very expensive tool called WinDev Mobile (WM) for developing Mobile Apps for Android, iOS as well as Windows. In WM I have one single code base which I can compile for different targets. WM is huge and it provides many features out of the box (so to say) but when I want to do something that is not out of the box I am out of luck as it does not allow me to do that easily. For example I one of the out of the box feature that I want to implement is OnDemand loading of images. That is I want to load images only when they scroll into the view in a separate thread. But I am not able to achieve this..... (This is just one such limitation. There are others that I will discuss here as the post will get rather toooo long.)
Because of this I want to switch over to B4A (as I want complete flexibility) but, but... I am not able to determine whether I will be able to recreate the following Android app with all their currently implemented features in B4A or not.
1. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mycompany.pushti.marg.sahitya
2. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.infovalley.HarshidShahClasses
Both these apps are also submitted to Apple Store and we are waiting for approval.
The First app is currently being updated but I personally wish to build it from scratch in B4A. It retrieves all its data from a remote web in which a web service is implemented. This web service is designed to return data as per queries sent by the app. Secondly the app loads images that are stored on the remote server. Please install the check the app for better details.
The Second app is completed and there are no plans to update it but I would like to know if it is possible to build such an app that retrieves all the data from remote MySQL server and store nothing in the mobile phone except login information. What you may not be able to understand it full functionality just by using it. It is designed to support multiple types of log in. As the app is for an education institution it allows Students and student's Parents to login. So based on who logs in different set of features are made available.
To try this app please use following login details:
Login Name: 8kinjal
Password: Asckinjal
I hope the community will help me clear my doubts and guide me as to how to achieve a particular feature, so that I can be up and running with B4A as quickly as possible.
Regards,
I am trying to learn B4A but somehow I am not able to gain enough confidence to really invest time. Please understand here money is no the question. Here spending precious time in learning and developing app in B4A is more important.
Before I go any further I would like to give some information so that the community can help me motivate myself and move along with B4A.
But before I go any further I would like say that I am not trying to push or advertise any third product here. I just want help to get rid of my confusion and come to a sane decision.
My preferred to program even today is VB6 and B4A is similar to VB6 but somehow my gut feeling tells me that I may not be able to achieve what I want using B4A. I may be wrong. In fact I want to be proved wrong here...
Currently I am using a very expensive tool called WinDev Mobile (WM) for developing Mobile Apps for Android, iOS as well as Windows. In WM I have one single code base which I can compile for different targets. WM is huge and it provides many features out of the box (so to say) but when I want to do something that is not out of the box I am out of luck as it does not allow me to do that easily. For example I one of the out of the box feature that I want to implement is OnDemand loading of images. That is I want to load images only when they scroll into the view in a separate thread. But I am not able to achieve this..... (This is just one such limitation. There are others that I will discuss here as the post will get rather toooo long.)
Because of this I want to switch over to B4A (as I want complete flexibility) but, but... I am not able to determine whether I will be able to recreate the following Android app with all their currently implemented features in B4A or not.
1. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mycompany.pushti.marg.sahitya
2. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.infovalley.HarshidShahClasses
Both these apps are also submitted to Apple Store and we are waiting for approval.
The First app is currently being updated but I personally wish to build it from scratch in B4A. It retrieves all its data from a remote web in which a web service is implemented. This web service is designed to return data as per queries sent by the app. Secondly the app loads images that are stored on the remote server. Please install the check the app for better details.
The Second app is completed and there are no plans to update it but I would like to know if it is possible to build such an app that retrieves all the data from remote MySQL server and store nothing in the mobile phone except login information. What you may not be able to understand it full functionality just by using it. It is designed to support multiple types of log in. As the app is for an education institution it allows Students and student's Parents to login. So based on who logs in different set of features are made available.
To try this app please use following login details:
Login Name: 8kinjal
Password: Asckinjal
I hope the community will help me clear my doubts and guide me as to how to achieve a particular feature, so that I can be up and running with B4A as quickly as possible.
Regards,