I am developing web application which is need to get the contact information from mobile(iPhone,Noakia, etc...).My application is in PHP.Please advice me over this issues
Thanks in advance.
It is impossible to do in PHP. PHP is working server side while your mobile phone operates client side.
The only possible way would be for an ActiveX style script to run on the Windows Mobile device which then sends the data back to PHP. You'll probably be unable to do this under Javascript because of the sandbox: and ActiveX, in my eyes at least, should be similarly sandboxed (as you don't want sites arbitrarily getting your contact information).
If the phone has a sync system (such as the iPhone's contact list sync item), you may be able to utilise that for people to sync to your app.
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I tried searching these issues. Some sites say I need to do some stuff with php in order to make 3rd party server while others don't mention anything. some says it need JSON. Guide me please. PS I am a beginner and know java, XML,SQL only.
You should only need one server. The second server you are reading about may be the Google GCM cloud server? When I did a GCM project a few years ago, I had one server, it happened to be a App Engine instance. It generated events and sent them to Google via the GCM api and then onto onto the device. I don't remember it being that difficult.
I did have more than one server in the mix though, there were others that sent messages to the AppEngine server, but it was not required to send a GCM message.
Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) is a service that enables developers to send data from servers to both Android applications or Chrome apps and extensions.
So if you want to send data to the users of your App then you must have an interface or dashboard from where you can send some data (typically push notification) to the users of your app.
This dashboard (server from which you can send data) can be developed by using PHP or any script languages.
Now a though can come up in your mind:
"I am suppose to develop both the mobile app and the server then what
role does GCM play?"
Yes, GCM is playing a vital role indeed. The server we have to develop is just to design an interface so that you can type your message/notification and select the recipients. Rest of the part of (managing the queue, communication with the apps checking for authentication and all other stuffs will be done by mighty GCM )
In order to have an bird-eye overview you can take a look on this image collected form android hive
Server side coding is doesn't need you to be expert in php. So you can go through to this article. It helped me a lot to learn.
I am trying to code a messenger service that will store sent messages in a server and then push the message to all devices connected to the server.
The messenger will be used in a classroom environment and the messages will never be sent to one individual device. At the moment a message can be sent and stored in the database but the app needs to be refreshed for all the messages to be displayed. A simple way would be to continuously run the stored procedure but that would require extra bandwidth and i'm sure there is a better way to do it.
I am currently coding in Android Studio and I'm using MySQL as my database and PHP for my stored procedures. I am very new at Java and this type of coding so any help will be appreciated.
Thanks
Yes, what you are suggesting is named "polling" => check if the server has some updates each 10sec or something like that. You're right, it's evil (drains the battery, use a lot of bad=ndwidth, etc.)
What you need is a "push" service. If you are working with Android, the easiest way of doing it is to use GCM (Google Cloud Messaging) : http://developer.android.com/google/gcm/index.html
This little guy will provide you a way of notifying all the devices that theure have been some changes on the server.
It's pretty well done (if it can't reach the devices, it will try again with an exponential time delay, etc.).
You can use google cloud messaging service to send notification in device so please register your application on google service all step are cover below link.
Open below link and follow step
http://www.androidhive.info/2012/10/android-push-notifications-using-google-cloud-messaging-gcm-php-and-mysql/
I want to code an Android client and a Windows.exe server application (possibly PHP., I am still trying to decide).
I have no problem with developing the server app, but have not yet done any Android coding. Mostly, though, I am unsure about how to communicate between client and server.
A client aapp will login to the server then at regular intervals send its location (GPS coords) to the server which will store the data in a MySql database,
A second Android app will display a historical trail of where the first user has been using Google maps, plus a little more functionality.
Since I am not serving HTML, I am wondering whether to use HTTP GET / POST or a proprietary protocol over TCP/IP. I would like to encrypt it, so SSL seems in order,
Is there any compelling reason to use one or the other of use HTTP GET / POST or a proprietary protocol over TCP/IP?
Would coding my Android app be easier if I used JSON as my data format (or something else?), irrespective of the protocl used to transfer the data?
Hmmm, since much of the data returned as a response to GET by one of the apps will be data used to draw a Google map with a series of points showing travel, could I do the heavy duty processing on the server & return the HTML (or JS) necessary to display it an dhave the app embedd a browser in its UI to display the map? (the UI will also disply more, but maybe I shoudl just make it browser based HTML & JS, rather thn an actual Jav Android app? As you can see, I am confused)
[Update] I want to code both the clients and the server and to host the MySql database. I would prefer no 3rd party frameworks unless they are excedding simply to use and play very well together with Delphi or PHP.
I may recommend you to use Wcf with poco entity that provide you security as you want and create client in android to consume it.here is simple example of using wcf in android-http://fszlin.dymetis.com/post/2010/05/10/Comsuming-WCF-Services-With-Android.aspx
I would strongly recommend the use of the newest Google Play Services with the Google Cloud Messaging... It takes out of you all that work.
Check out, see if you like ;D
Google Cloud Message: http://developer.android.com/google/gcm/index.html
There is also a great video of this year's Google I/O about the maps improvement on Google Play Services:
https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions/325172829
Are you trying to create App that can be delivered from Google Play Store or a Andriod enable Web application? You Question is confusing in your need. If you are looking to create Andriod Apps then definitely PHP is not going to serve it up. Look for Andriod SDK and create your interface using that, then for Windows Server EXE you can do PHP based API or as suggested by other answers. But for User interface PHP is no. You need to read and understand the different between APP and Web App. or your question is not very clear on topic.
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I have had a PHP application developed. I want to use phonegap.com or a similar approach to develop native applications based on the same MySQL database. In other words, connect the mobile applications with the web one.
It needs to do one or two things differently. Firstly, use the native GPS features to determine where a user is - I'm guessing this can just be done via HTML5?
Secondly, send push notifications whenever the web-application user receives a notification.
All of the information is already there, on the MySQL database, and everything apart from the two features above function properly.
I'm am currently having an API developed for everything on the web-application - making it API-centric. In my head, it will be easy to connect the two versions via the API.
For example, a user signs up on the web application. He is then offered to iphone app for download.
Is it possible to get him to log-in with the same via the iPhone. On the other side, is it possible for him to search the database, via the iphone, and "add a new friend" - making the connection of the two users in the friends table - in that, the friend is also a friend on the web-application?
I've been reading a lot on all of the available options and am still very confused! Any help would be very helpful.
I'm not a phone developer myself, however I've just finished building a native Android App which connects to a website and is able to login, do stuff that is possible to do on the website as well. If the GPS tracking integration is using the native features than it is unlikely to use HTML5 (though I'm not sure how it works).
Basically in order to connect to a remote database/server you need to make HTTP requests from the phone to you server side script.
So just to conclude:
In order to achieve the result you're looking for the work-flow could look like this:
1.Mobile user fills a form ->
2.App does an HTTP request to a server side script ->
3.script does the hard work (e.g. connects to the database) ->
4.script renders a result ->
5.Mobile app displays the result.
I hope this helps.
Im my objective opinion there are three possibilities:
Get started with Objective-C
You will have to learn how to code and you will get the best native experience for your users. This will easily allow you to use the GPS positioning or you can cache content on your phone. A key problem with the internet connection on the phone is that the internet connection can be flaky. So you have to design for this. You took the right approach already: using the direct MySQL C-API to connect directly to the database server would not work that well, because this protocol is not stateless. You have to first login to the server and then you can send your SQL queries.
By using your API which is hopefully stateless, maybe even a RESTful API, then you can take some nice shortcuts for your native iPhone app. You could then use the RestKit library to easily convert your JSON answers from the server into objects, do caching and other nice features.
Write a web app
The second possibility would be to build a nice web app using state-of-the-art HTML5 technologies. The great thing about that is that you then would write an Android app as well as both mobile devices use a webkit browser. Well it is not exactly the case as there are different versions of Android out there with different screen sizes, but in general this assumption holds. Take a look at Google's web app for Google Calendar for example, I think it is a good compromise. You can also get a home screen icon for this and you will have no app approval process and can update anytime. Using HTML5 offline storage gives you some degree of freedom.
Using Phonegap
The option of writing the app in PhoneGap or some other HTML wrapper framework which will generate Objective-C code is a possible one, but in my opinion this is not really a good option. The reason is that you are working on some kind of intermediate layer and if anything goes wrong or you encounter bugs you will have to dive down to objective-c anyways. The other problem is concerning updates of iOS. It can break some dependencies and then you have to wait until your intermediate gets updated to use the new features.
Phonegap would be a good idea to develop this app. Phonegap although supports client side script only - which means you cannot embed php in its code. However you can easily create AJAX calls in your script that get and send data from your already developed php app/api.
Phonegap also supports GPS and data storage options where you can store the data locally and sync later when internet is available.
For reverse sync (server to client), you would have two options.
1. Create a javascript to make frequent ajax calls to check for updates.
2. Use Push Notifications (Here a tutorial for iOS APNs and Phonegap integration) - http://devgirl.org/2012/10/19/tutorial-apple-push-notifications-with-phonegap-part-1/
Using phonegap depends on one's preference. On the positive side, you save on time/cost as same code is used for all platforms. On the negative side, it has a slight lag when changing pages causing it to look like a website, but you can avoid that by using something like jquery mobile to prefetch all pages and then animate them back and forth. This will also help in uploading data in a separate independent thread while the user would be free to roam around the app.
Hope that helps.
Simply put, the best way to go is for you to use a php web service with phone gap.
You can also go through android using PHP and android. This is a very good and simple way to go. Try the tutorial here
You may tray Xamarin (part of .Net) with the free version of Visual Studio Community and then interact with your PHP web-app. You can then compile the native Xamarin app (written in C#) to Android and iOS.
let me introduce my story first. To develop a multiplayer network game in facebook, flash used to be a king but it consumes a lot of resources for client and I feel like it isn't worth for a card game. So I come with an idea that front-end will use Javascript (of course with jQuery) and backend with PHP. But for real-time communication, it isn't possible just with PHP and Javascript. It doesn't make sense to record every movement of players in MySQL and display back to another browsers. So I come with an idea with XMPP Services. XMPP services can even communicate browser to browser and display contents with Strophe and Javascript even without with PHP.
Finally, I've got every tools I need but I have few questions that I can't answer myself.
1) How XMPP server work between PHP and Javascript? I need to get/post user records from MySQL and calculate movements then forward results to intended user. There will be an Authentication system too so that's gonna be taken care by PHP as I'm not wrong.
2) This question is the title of this post.. Is it possible to run XMPP based PHP and Javascript Multiplayer Network Game in FaceBook?
Thanks in advance for all of your time and advices!
The connection would work using PHP sockets, and you could easily use Ajax to send data to PHP to send on to the XMPP server. There are also a number of libraries for communicating with XMPP servers using PHP. As for Facebook, it shouldn't have any effect on your script - if I remember correctly Facebook runs your app in its own sandbox so you shouldn't have to do anything special to get around the Facebook API.