Android Question Build a form with B4A

Peter Simpson said:

Firstly welcome to the forum,
If need be you could start with reading the B4X guides below.

B4A Documentation

www.b4x.com

Here is a list of tutorial videos

B4X Programming Video Tutorials

www.b4x.com

First UI program video

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Arta said:

Hello
I want to create a program where people enter their information in the form. Please help me to make this program. I want people to be able to fill out the form several times, and each time they fill out the form, the information they have entered will be sent to me in the form of a database, email or anything else. If possible, provide me with training and resources. Thankful

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Peter Simpson said:

@Arta you should start with getting a basic form obviously created in layout to save to a database, whilst learning you should start with saving to an SQLite on device database.

After that you can start to utilise the same code but using MySQL.

There are plenty of ways that you can achieve what you are trying to do. You need to start with the very basics though.

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Brian Dean said:

Here is an absolutely basic app that will collect data and send you an email, which is what you asked for in your first post. It is just a starting point.

Sending emails from Android is not very slick, but this might do if your app is only meant to be used by a limited number of people. If it is intended for a business then you need to think about sending the messages to somewhere on the web. You can still get away without needing a server application on the web if the message volume is low, but that is another story.

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Brian Dean said:

Here is an absolutely basic app that will collect data and send you an email, which is what you asked for in your first post. It is just a starting point.

Sending emails from Android is not very slick, but this might do if your app is only meant to be used by a limited number of people. If it is intended for a business then you need to think about sending the messages to somewhere on the web. You can still get away without needing a server application on the web if the message volume is low, but that is another story.

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The second line gives an error.

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Private Sub sendEmail
    Dim mail As Email
    mail.To.Add("somebody@somewhere.com")
    mail.Subject = "New Subscription"
    mail.Body = "Name = " & txtName.Text & ";  Number = " & txtNumber.Text
' You can replace the line above with  -   mail.Body = "Name = A Name;  Number = 0123-456789"
    Dim intMsg As Intent = mail.GetIntent
    StartActivity(intMsg)
End Sub

Brian Dean said:

I don't know why that is, but you can remove that line - the project should still run. Try it.

In any case you can see the subroutine that sends an email -

B4X:

Private Sub sendEmail
    Dim mail As Email
    mail.To.Add("somebody@somewhere.com")
    mail.Subject = "New Subscription"
    mail.Body = "Name = " & txtName.Text & ";  Number = " & txtNumber.Text
' You can replace the line above with  -   mail.Body = "Name = A Name;  Number = 0123-456789"
    Dim intMsg As Intent = mail.GetIntent
    StartActivity(intMsg)
End Sub

You can copy this into a project of your own. Note that you need to select the "Phone" library in the "Libraries" tab. That will show you how the process for sending an email works.

Try either of these things and let me know if you still get any problems. And let me know if it works, too.

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