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Build dynamic user interfaces with Android and XML

Collect data using an Android forms engine

Frank Ableson, Entrepreneur, MSI Services, Inc.

W. Frank Ableson is an entrepreneur living in northern New Jersey with his wife Nikki and their children. His professional interests include mobile software and embedded design. He is the author of Unlocking Android (Manning Publications, 2010), and he is the mobile editor for Linux Magazine.

Summary: A number of websites cater to non-profits that provide easily set-up and used forms for taking polls and collecting data. This tutorial introduces a simple architecture for designing similar applications for Android—dynamic user interfaces that allow non-programmers to collect data from mobile users. You will create an example forms engine in this tutorial with both server and mobile sides.

Date: 07 Sep 2010
Level: Intermediate
PDF: A4 and Letter (1212 KB | 42 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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This tutorial presented a framework for serving dynamic questions to an Android user based on a native application approach utilizing the Android SDK. You saw dynamic form presentation, validation and processing techniques, and application-to-web server communications.

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