Calling Java developers
 

Who do we have that knows Java or is willing to learn?

Sign me up. I am just finishing a semester of java in school, and I have a bit of experiance with java on phones (symbian)

No reason to be so secretive, if you're asking for devs you could let us know what's up?

He's not being secretive, we are looking for someone to assist with mobile apps for Subsim.

I understand that Neal, I was wondering whether McBeck had decided on what the general plan was. Native app it sounds like based on the request for Java people? Will this be Android only or? That's all I'm wondering. :)

I would love to help out when I can, I'm awfully short of time lately though.

PD

No secrets here :-D
Basicly, I have little insight into the limitations of development for android, but it seems that Java is the most used language, but if you are good in other stuff then fine.

Android should be the only plan and at least one person have signed up for windows phone :-D

My initial idea was to be able to access news and the forum in a more friendly way than just normal browsing.

But I'm all open to ideas!

Sounds cool.

This is actually kind of perfect for me because I need to get reacquainted with Android. I haven't done any serious Android development since about a year ago when my company hired an Android developer and let me go back to my primary responsibilities (iOS). They sent him to Google's developer conference last year, but this year he is unable to go since he's having a child any day now and they're sending me. So I have to become familiar with Android again before I'm sitting through technical presentations on it in two weeks time.

Is there any sort of rough mockups/ideas of what the app should look like and do? I can get a skeletal Android project going (maybe tonight?) and pushed up to whatever source control we plan on using. Github, or does anybody have something else in mind?

PD

Would you be OK to have others help as well? In that case should we align tools?
I have installed the latest JDK, android sdk and eclipse.
I have an idea to use tabs, but how do I best share my layout with you?

I would love for others to help. My time commitment will probably widely vary with work and life.

I have always used eclipse as well for android, I would think the main tool to align on would be source control?

When you say share my layout, I assume you mean an xml Android layout? A source control tool would be the way to do that. Do you have one you would prefer?

Cool! I have no preferences in source control tool, so do you have a free tool in mind?
Ill publish the software versions we use then.

To be honest, I have never touched android or any other Java development before. I have done a little ASP as a hobby and c++ back on school, so I can recognize some structures, but consider me dum as a doorpost :-D

I have posted a thread on the software to use

I have also made a thread for the Android development, where theres a screenshot of the main xml i thought of.

I have asked Neal to enable mobile versions of the news and the forums.

Can you help me with one thing?
How do I link the layout with functionality? I mean, how do I set it up, so when you press a button in the layout, the default browser opens a url of your choice?

You have to do this in actual java code. Android tap callback methods are generally called onClick(). I would read through the google dev guides (the google docs are kind of terrible sometimes, though), find hello world type Android blog posts, and also looking through other people's Android code at github.com and bitbucket.org.

If you zip up the project I will put it up on a subsim bitbucket repo. I prefer git for source control, but mercurial is probably easier to use.

PD

I have uploaded a zipped file, but the only thing I have put in are the tabs :D
If you could change the code to make it call
Button 1:http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/index.php
Button 2:http://www.subsim.com/nucleus/index.php?blogid=4
Button 3:http://www.subsim.com/subsim_reviews_index.html
And then send it back, so I can see how it works?


And yes, please create this project on bitbucket. Does it make sense to have 1 project for each platform?