Thanks Jacque, that's a very generous offer. It sounds like I should try
again for Android (I did try Android once before, with some success; but
the only Android device I had was a Kindle Fire, which adds its own
complexities, so that mini project just kind of withered :-)
I'll investigate it some more, and scream for help if I need it.
Basically it's :
- for the village I live in, and surrounding areas
- majority of the houses have *only* a name - no number, no
street/road, just a name ...
What I'm doing is in 3 parts :
- really simple web page to search based on partial house/street
names (trivial)
- desktop/laptop app to display a map and allow volunteer/user to
position a marker "at" the house
- tablet/phone app to allow a volunteer to walk/cycle around and click
when outside each named house
First two parts are done - except for tidying up; I'll finish them off
sometime over the next week or two (school holidays, so we hobbyists
have limited in to play on our computers :-) and post or upload them.
And I'll give the mobile app a try as well - may be an excuse to buy a
new gadget/phone :-)
-- Alex.
On 09/04/2017 02:40, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote:
If you go for Android it is trivial to build and distribute. There are
no restrictions, you can email the app or supply a web download link,
or put it on a public server. Apple is more restrictive, so you'd need
to get the UUIDs of everyone who will use the device, or else pay for
an Enterprise license, or else put it in the App Store.
If you want to create the stack I'd be happy to build it in Android
for you, and show you how to do it yourself if you like. It isn't
difficult.
On 4/8/17 7:58 PM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote:
It would be the most trivial app to write in LC
- ask the postcode
- download the list of addresses in that postcode, and put it into a
selection control
- have a button that takes current location and stores it for the
selected address
[walk along the road, selecting and clicking as I pass each house :-) ]
- upload the completed file of locations + addresses
BUT - I would need to figure out how to build an iOS and/or Android app,
and how to release it or get it on to the phones of my volunteers, which
seems to be so troublesome I'd rather avoid it :-)
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