Tutorials & Examples

I just got a Skagen Falster 2 watch and logged my first experiences of trying to use B4A to develop aps for it. Here's what I did!

First of all setup the watch with the Wear OS app on a phone...

 

This is an enhanced version based on @Erel 's ContactsUtils v1.20.

NOTE: DeleteContact didn't work on an Amazon Fire tablet with Android 5.1.1 but did on a Moto X Style phone with...

 

Most of us know the material icons / fontawesome.

https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/b4x-materialicons-web-font-chooser.103985/#content

That link is some what outdated. So made a...

 

This example uses SimpleMediaManager to show a list of 400 top sites, based on Alexa dataset.

Each item is made of two panels and a label:
- Panel for the favicon.
- Panel for the...

 

The ConnectAndReconnect sub takes care of connecting to the broker and reconnecting if the connection has broken.
It sends a "ping" request every 5 seconds to help the MQTT client recognize...

 

Hi all,

This is a simple example of moving files across the internal/external memory boundary.
EG Transferring a CSV file from an external location to an internal folder to load a database in the...

 

The "smart string" literal is a more powerful version of the standard string literal.
It has three advantages:

1. Supports multi-line strings.
2. No need to escape quotes.
3. Supports string...

 

Download library here: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/abwearos-library-1-0.98036/

This library requires B4A 8.50+

This library should implement the new datalayer...

 

Quickly create a File_Chooser, and choose any type of File without any Library.


Download code Here

 

    Dim metaRetriver As JavaObject
    metaRetriver.InitializeNewInstance("android.media.MediaMetadataRetriever", Null)
    metaRetriver.RunMethod("setDataSource"...

 

This flow chart will help you choose the folder in all kinds of different cases:

There were reasons to use other folders in the past. Those reasons are no longer relevant, mainly...

 

Hello Community!
This is the first UI Example by XTools Group and more examples are on the way
In this example we've used CustomListView & XUI Views Librarys and implement a self-made Bottom...

 

Hi all,

Attached are txt files that are really windows .bat files. These are to help with building multiple libraries.

If you are building a large project with multiple libraries it can get hard...

 

The primary objective of this cross-platform B4XPages SQLite FTS example is to show the syntax used for Full Text Search queries in SQLite. The database consists of close to 400000 records. It is...

 

Learn to use Design Views in B4A (Learn to use Design Views in B4A)

 

This example shows how to create an app that can act as a sharing target. It will be listed in the list of apps that show when the user shares an image.

The first step is to add an intent filter...

 

Hello team,

If you want to scan QR code from a file (Bitmap or pdf) you can try this code:
You need PDFium and Barcode Reader

'Code module
'Subs in this code module will be...

 

If you receive an email from google announcing the new 15% service fee (instead of 30%) that looks like this:

I was a little confused of why do I have to create a group if I only...

 

This is a B4i + B4A example. It adds a dynamic badge to the menu icon. It also shows how to update menu items at runtime.

Don't miss:
1. B4A - theme settings in manifest editor.
2...

 

Hi I share a simple solution to calculate the distance in km between two points on MapFragment. I hope it will be of help to anyone who works with the GoogleMaps v2.50 library.

The coordinates...