Tutorials & Examples

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How to connect to your Arduino using B4A

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...
 

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Better Sliding Panels with Transparent Top

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...
 

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How do they ... ? #4 (FR)

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.
 
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Fastest method to code/compile as a Linux user.

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...
 
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Create XML and Send to WCF Rest Service

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...
 

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XmlSax - Exposing the Parser at work

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...
 

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Altering existing design.

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...
 
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A tilt shift Effect

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...
 
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Help, access to localhost from buildroid virtual device

sorry, I don't see "not post questions in this sub-forum." please any admin can delete this?
 
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B4A Article in Nuts and Volts Magazine

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
 
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Share files between emulator and PC

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...
 
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EXAMPLE - Drag a panel of buttons or EditText

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...
 

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listview reading second line

I dont know how to get the second line returned from a listview

help is appreciated

reading from the manual:

However you can change it to any object you like by using:
AddSingleLine2...
 
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LeadBolt Tutorial

Hi Everyone,

Is there a LeadBolt tutorial?

I just signed up with them and have no idea on how to start and add it to my app.

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Completely new to Visual Basic language - How should I proceed?

Hi guys. I'm thinking about stat coding for android using Basic4Android but I've never even saw a code in Visual Basic.

I do code in C/C++, PHP.

How should I proceed? Should I just dive in...
 
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Problems With App Closing On Back Button Press? (Tutorial)

Ok so this was one of the first issues I ran into when first starting in B4A. I want to write this tutorial to help people out that might have the same issues as I did. So lets start.

Whenever...
 
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Class example - Galaxy system emulation

This "galaxy" example simulates planets movements based on the gravity forces.

The purpose of this example is to demonstrate the usage of classes in a graphical program...
 

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Creating and Using a Virtual SD Card - Tutorial

Creating and Using a Virtual SD Card - A Tutorial

Here is a tutorial for creating a virtual SD-Card, copying your SD-card files and reading them. It includes screen-shots of each stage and a...
 
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GSMA Doc: Smarter Apps for Smarter Phones

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Any threads just for newbies?

Just getting started with BA4 and am very confused. I don't understand many terms and terminology. Have next to no experience with Java though am reasonably proficient with Basic.

A friend sent...
 
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