Tutorials & Examples

Just wanted to share the news about a new (in development) android-emulator called Jar of Beans.

You can find it over at XDA here:

Jar of Beans - Android Emulator Portable - Beta3 + PLAY...

 

Hi

I have just purchased Basic4Android and I am having difficulty getting started with it. I need to create an app with 3 tabs on top with each of the container having a webview, which should...

 

I'm getting no where trying to use the SMB library.
Specifically I need to read a text file, but the DownloadFile2 function uses a Java InputStream structure, and I'm not familiar with Java or...

 

Trying to find a way to copy barcode scanner example barcode into Android ClipBoard.
Not having very much luck finding a Basic example.


Embarassing it took me a long time to find this.
And I'm...

 

How to setup a android tablet with no wifi or bluetooth with layout designer
I f you tablet is out of range of Wifi (and has no bluetooth), but you have a windows computer that is in range...

 

[Reworked] Custom "push" notifications (server included)

So I have come up with a better(?) way of doing push notifications.

This time I will provide a usable server executable.
Download the...

 

Hi All,

I've just had a fun time trying to get a webservice to receive a byte array converted from an XML file with data to upload. I'd always used parameters for web service stuff and never...

 

Hello everyone,

I'm Yang from sellAring ad network, very happy to be here at Basic4Android.
SellAring is a mobile advertising network that delivers innovative ad solutions to the market. We...

 

I recently purchased an Arduino USBDroid. The spiel told me I could connect it to my Android phone, but that was about it! I eventually worked it out after a week or so, and a bit of luck and...

 

First off, Erel is the man!

Attached is my result from below:

I researched through the forums and found that people were looking for a way to catch swipe events, without passing them down to...

 

Here's a link to my new tutorial (in french):
Comment font-ils ? #4

The translation by Google Translate in english is horrible. The translation by Bing Translator is much better.

 

I found that B4A runs really well in VirtualBox (on a Linux host). Also, I downloaded an Ice Cream Sandwich iso file (generic_x86-20120909.iso) which can run in VB too. This is much faster than...

 

Hello,

here is a small example how to make a xml and send it to a server which is hosting a wcf rest service.
Maybe it helps someone to start a bit faster with it...

Here a little...

 

XmlSax - Exposing the Parser at work

I wanted to understand how the XmlSax worked so as to fully understand how to write the code to access the different elements.

Found an example on...

 

How do you make changes to the basic layout (design) of a program? I opened the following sample file: DataBaseProgSample1.5.b4a I wanted to change the sizes of the edit fields, but when I...

 

A Tilt Shift effect for Basic4Android! Because of the pictures, the project is to big to attach to this forum but you can download it from my blog...

 

sorry, I don't see "not post questions in this sub-forum." please any admin can delete this?

 

There is a nice "Getting Started" article in the August Nuts and Volts magazine:

Fred Eady, "Putting Basic4Android in the Driver's Seat", Nuts and Volts, August, 2012 (pp 68-73)

Baxter

 

The canonical way to share files between emulator and PC is using
adb utility from android-sdk, but is a command line utility and is a little bit hard to use, you have to use adb push and adb...

 

Here is a simple example of how to support dragging a panel of buttons or other views like EditText around the screen.

I extracted the code from one of my apps and added detailed comments. It...