I am trying to send a voice note from app inventor via whatsapp can I do that ,the activity starter isn't helping me at all. I tried creating a file text but still cant get through.It says unsupported file format.
Yes you can share via WhatsApp. You need to add element "sharing" for that.
Here's the example of sharing the image file to the whats app through the app created with app inventor.
But first you need to understand that there are two paths for any files while creating apps with app inventor.
Path where files are stored while development (live previews)
Path where files are stored after producing the app
path while development is:
file:///mnt/sdcard/AppInventor/assets/myFile
path after production is:
file:///android_asset/myFile
So while using "SHARE" component of app inventor you have to specify both paths to avoid any errors in future.
So here is the app:
Front End Arrangements:
Block Arrangements:
Pay attention to the if then else block.
It says if the image is not in the development path then the app is installed in the phone(produced). It saves our time to change path very often(and saves us from error if we forget to change paths)
Snapshot from the app:
After pressing share button:
After sharing through whats app:
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I am a noob with everything related to coding, except for some knowledge of the linux command line. Anyway, I have this idea for a project. I need a website with an image that updates every few hours or so. I have a folder in google drive, and every few hours a new image is uploaded. These times are not regular, but as long as the website gets the new photo within an hour-2hours, it will be fine. I was thinking of making an alias folder that links to the latest image in a folder (like how apple does it with time machine backups) if that makes sense. Then I would copy the link on google drive (of the alias folder) and put that into wordpress. It would pull that link, which would go to the latest image in a folder. I have a feeling that this would not work out, however. Basically, I just want an automated updater to pull the latest image from a google drive folder and publish it to the website. If it needs to be local, I could use the backup and sync for drive and the google drive folder would be synced to my local machine.
Another thing I was thinking of was a automatic slideshow maker. I would use some kind of script in google to delete all files in a folder except for the latest one. Then I would use the automatic slideshow maker to make a slideshow based on data in the particular google drive folder, which would be the latest photo.
Again, these are just some ideas that I have had, and they are both likely not going to work.
I have a self hosted web server (docker) and could put a wordpress instance on that, or I could use an online website builder like weebly or wix or even google sites. It needs to be free because this is for a community service project and I do not want to have to constantly fundraise. However, if my only option requires payment, I am open to that.
Does anybody have a solution for this?
Thanks!
There are several ways to achieve what you desire.
One approach:
I would suggest naming the image that you put in drive with the same filename. (renaming the old ones, as each new image is uploaded)
Google Apps script makes it easy (and free) to deploy a Web App, and using it gives you the benefit of using it's Drive Service among others.
Use a time-driven trigger to execute a function that renames your images so that the most recently uploaded one has the name of the image your website is requesting.
Alright, I have found an awesome solution! First, I setup a google account and made a folder in google drive. Then, I downloaded an app called DriveSync. I used the app Automate (by llamalab) to take photos (you can program it however you want it to trigger the photo). The trigger happens, then it deletes a file called latest.jpg in the Automate Image folder (on the android phone). Then it takes a photo with an image name of latest.jpg. And all of this is synced to the remote Google Drive Folder thanks to DriveSync. So now we have a synced google drive folder. Then, I setup a Wordpress Instance. Get the Add-On called Image and video gallery from Google Drive here https://wordpress.org/plugins/skaut-google-drive-gallery/. Now, follow the steps to link up your google drive folder to it, and configure your website to display this addon on your page of choice. It will pull the only image in the folder we configured earlier, and it will display it on the website! Plus it auto updates. Also, you can configure the image size which is helpful as this was probably meant to display more than one photo, but with only one photo there is a lot of empty space.
Hope you found this helpful!
I have a sandboxed osx app which contains a huge number of logos as png-files.
If there are any logos missing, the app downloads the missing logos automitcally from the web.
Because the app is sandboxed, all logos are stored in a folder in Library > Applikation Support.
My question is now, how I could distribute the already existing logos with an app bundle?
The best way would be, if the app launches the first time, the logo-folder inside Application Support gets created and all Logos are copied from the bundle inside the new folder.
Is this possible with an app bundle or do I have to create an installer?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Let's see if we can round out the comments you've received so far.
My question is now, how I could distribute the already existing logos with an app bundle?
Short answer: just include them in the bundle as resources. Many applications include images for use in their GUI the only difference you have is maybe its a "huge number".
Long answer:
Here is the outline one way to do it:
Create a Group in Xcode, say Logos, which is associated with a folder (in Xcode 9 New Group generates the folder, prior to that you can create the folder-less Group and then use the File Inspector to add one).
Add your logos to this group. Do not mark these images as part of your target (otherwise Xcode will copy and flatten your folder structure)
Add a Copy Files or Run Script Build Phase to copy the images to a subfolder of Resources, say Logos.
As the images are part of your app bundle you can access them directly from there using standard bundle and file routines. There is no need to copy them anywhere.
Finally you managed to cause some confusion with the statement:
Because the app is sandboxed, all logos are stored in a folder in Library > Applikation Support.
It is unclear which folder you mean here, there are three obvious candidates:
System: /Library/Application Support
User: ~/Library/Application Support
Sandboxed App: ~/Library/Containers/<bundle id>/Data/Library/Application Support
If you are using the APIs (URLsForDirectory:inDomains:, URLForDirectory:inDomain:appropriateForURL:create:error:, NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains), request the user domain, and are in a sandboxed app then (3) is returned instead of (2) and your sandboxed app has access to it with asking permission from the user.
A subfolder of Application Support (whichever one you use but (3) is recommended), typically named according to the bundle ID of your app, is the place you should store logos your app downloads – there is no need to copy images you include in your app bundle into the same location.
HTH
I have successfully deployed a running website on the app engine - here is the URL:
https://black-backup-96302.appspot.com/
This website was on a PHP hosting, and we migrated it to Google Apps, and deployed it using the App Engine. I understand that to put up any media, I will have to change my local version, and then re-deploy it. Same goes for plugins. However, when I browse into my local version using the App Engine launcher, login wordpress, and try to add an image in the media section, I get an error, as shown in the image below:
I googled this, and understand it is a permission error from the file system. My folder has a "Read only" checkbox which is marked blue, and no matter how many times I uncheck it, it is checked again.
I also assigned all the users full control, i.e. the following privileges (to folders, and subfolders)
Any help or ideas will be appreciated!
Adding google_app_engine.disable_readonly_filesystem = 1 to your php.ini file should fix the issue.
I'm using Marmalade to develop iOS applications via VisualStudio and a PC. The integration of a social feature like HeyZap needs its initialization by the use of:
loadHeyzap("YOUR_APP_ID_HERE","YOUR_APP_URL_HERE", true);
App_ID is the ID as defined in the itunes app page (I got it).
App_URL "should also similarly be replaced with your URL scheme for the iPhone" [from the HeyZap integration doc].
Well, the HeyZap help desk weren't useful to obtain this string via the use of VisualStudio+PC (in fact, they told me "use XCode+Mac instead...").
Since this is a simple string, I suppose I could obtain it starting from known parameters of my app. I suppose to find inside it something like [app_name]&=other-chars-....
Is there a way to build this string without the use of XCode, just starting from info I already have and putting here and there some special chars?
In other words, is there a standard way to automate the build of this string without the neeed to do it via XCode? I wonder to prepare a function in which I would pass my app parameters and I got the URL Scheme string as a result.
Cheers,
Zapp
The answer by Creator is incorrect. A URL schema is how apps can communicate with each other in iOS.
Here is what Apple has to say
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#featuredarticles/iPhoneURLScheme_Reference/Introduction/Introduction.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40007899
An example would be:
yourgame://
Here's how you would define one in XCode
When you define a URL schema in XCode, you can call that URL from Safari or any app installed on the device and it will switch to your game.
The way you define it in XCode is by going to your project settings, clicking the Info tab at the top, going to the bottom where it says "URL Types", expand that, and click the + button at the bottom. Then define both the identifier and the URL schemes with something reasonably unique like "yourgamename". Done!
http://i.stack.imgur.com/pxEKd.png
URL scheme is most probably the url of your app in App Store. You can obtain it from iTunesConnect. Go to your application and copy the url of View in App Store link. That's the string you wanted ;-)
Let me know if it doesn't work.
Edit:
Well App url worked for me, dunno why its not working for you. If you want to edit the URL scheme, you can do it without using XCode too. You need to include Info.plist file in the mkb settings. You can edit or check the current URL scheme being used by marmalade there. The default plist file is in the s3e folder. Don't know the exact location.
I'm getting quite a few emails with logs in XML format attached and I want to associate my own app with the XML file type on Windows Phone Mango, overwriting the default xml viewer.
If overwriting isn't possible I can get the logs generated with a custom extension. I would then need to associate the extension with my app same way Adobe Reader does it for PDFs.
Is this possible?
Thanks
Currently there is no way to set your app as the default viewer for any file extension. The closest you can get at the moment is using extensibility. However, these are limited to Photos, Music and Search and not custom extensions. (Even then, your app wouldn't be the default viewer, but it would be accessible from the respective hubs).