RELEASE: Android Community Viewer App

[kaziko]

Ive been thinking of how I can go about developing an app to quickly and easily view the android community forums without just hotlinking to the browser... does AC use databases and if so is it possible to query the databases and put the forums in app form for quick AC access? I'm somewhat new to coding java and android.. so any help or pointers in the right direction would be a great help if yoyou're an android dev send me a gtalk IM to philip.brown.86@gmail.com or if that fails respond here


First Release v1.0

The only function right now is to click Login and it will load the AC website.
Username, Password, Clear objects are not valid at the moment

DOWNLOAD:
http://rapidshare.com/files/161093323/ACdroid.apk

[matthewboii]

http://androidcommunity.com/forums/archive/index.php/

dont know if that helps but there ya go!

[kaziko]

http://androidcommunity.com/forums/archive/index.php/

dont know if that helps but there ya go!

It really doesn't... I need to know if I can somehow query the database of this website to post data to my app and have a login feature and viewing/posting/moderating tool basically a toned down version of this site.

[mrcbrown]

It appears to be running vB (http://www.vbulletin.com/) which is traditionally PHP + MySQL - so most likely it is running on some sort of SQL backend as well I think it has a API like setup for modules to hook in might want to check their site for more information.

Now getting access to said database you'll need to contact them (http://androidcommunity.com/contact) - but you could almost avoid the DB and simple write your app to scrape / db the threads from RSS and maybe see if they could fire up some sort of RSS + Mobile version - but that's just what my own sleepy brain came up with this early AM.

Good luck!

[Jorsher]

I've thought of making one of these as well. Using the SQL database would be the easiest way, but you would need the login information to do the queries. Reformatting the full pages would be possible without the login info, but would be a waste of bandwidth.

Not sure.

[kaziko]

jorsher I think we should make a dev team for this task and get it handled....

[Jorsher]

I'd be glad to help out. I'll admit I don't have much time to dedicate to it but would definitely be helpful with general UI design, ideas, debugging, etc.

[Wrytch]

Would anyone else be interested in an app built around AC discussions and other content?

[Jorsher]

You might be interested in this thread:
http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f...progress-5758/

I'm merging this to that thread, not that you posted in the wrong location (since it would be a new app), but because we already have a thread for it and we're trying to keep things as tidy as possible

[Wrytch]

Thanks for the link to this thread Jorsher.

I need to read more and type less.