Making a website viewing app

i-ongei · December 23, 2014

Okay, hi.

I've had some experience with C++, Java and Pawno. Haven't touched them in ages so I probably forgot most of it. But still, if I start doing something I might regain a lot of it. Anyway I was trying to make a simple app to view a website for android. Something like the 9gag app but to view a forum. There are a lot of auto builder online but I don't really feel like using them. So, anywhere I might get a tutorial or something? Any ideas or suggestions?

Darkswormlv · December 23, 2014

There are many android and java tutorials available on the web, as long as you know what you want to do, all you have to do is google and the answer will pop right up!

Hansell · December 24, 2014

Okay, hi.

I've had some experience with C++, Java and Pawno. Haven't touched them in ages so I probably forgot most of it. But still, if I start doing something I might regain a lot of it. Anyway I was trying to make a simple app to view a website for android. Something like the 9gag app but to view a forum. There are a lot of auto builder online but I don't really feel like using them. So, anywhere I might get a tutorial or something? Any ideas or suggestions?

hmm... app to view a website... I still don't get it

in my mind input: url, output: screenshots? / output: real content? <-- this will be a browser

and yes I'm not helping at all, sorry

i-ongei · December 25, 2014

As I said, something like the 9gag app. Or like one of those 4Chan apps out there. Something with an interface for viewing a forum.

There are many android and java tutorials available on the web, as long as you know what you want to do, all you have to do is google and the answer will pop right up!

Provide me with a link as a start?

madknight3 · December 26, 2014

As I said, something like the 9gag app. Or like one of those 4Chan apps out there. Something with an interface for viewing a forum.

For third party 4chan/9gag apps, they might be using 4chan and 9gag APIs.

I'm pretty sure things like Tapatalk require websites be set up to work with their API.

So I'm not sure you can do what you want. I suppose you can gather up as many API's for sites that you can find, but your app would only support those specific sites.

DevBlox · December 27, 2014

To make something like this from scratch you need to write services in the server-side that will service the app, the app will have to make requests to the server and form an interface according to the received data. That's one way to do it. It's not really hard(if you know a thing or two about how to do it quickly, what to choose in terms of frameworks and so on), but you do have to work on both server-side and client-side, sometimes not desireable. If you just want to have to work on the client-side only, you will need an existing service or an API. So that's that.

EDIT: Oh that assumes if you want to make a custom app like you mentioned. You can make an app in android that views webpages in a blink of an eye, extremely simple, depends on what you want.