barfly777
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ok - here goes - I'm looking at mobile frameworks environments - to do a simple app for our complex - and after hours of installing native, hybrid and whatever - my pc is now slower (with Gbs of new sh*t installed) and I'm no closer to a solution. Here the need ... ok, I've realizes the old people in our complex is falling like flies - the one tannie took too many meds the other day, lay in her house for 3 days after a fall and nobody knew about it.
So I thought, lets see - I took PHP made a rest entry point that accepts calls - with 3 values a phone number, coordinates & action. I then went back and created a web page to test you can type in the number (which I save), grab the geo data when they click one of 3 buttons - 1 panic, 2 security issue & 3 is a dead man switch - meaning some numbers are monitored for regular updates from the web page - they forget to push the button and the system starts a sequence e.g. starts SMSing & mailing people etc.
Got that working I realized I'll have to APPtify (mmm maybe a nice name for an App? ;-) it - so 1st the telephone number which I thought I could just get from the phone doesn't really work it seems so I have to have it typed in and save to preference storage? Then geolocation seems to vary between every framework, and the the HTTP request and a simple popup with what the system did with your pressed button e.g. got the message thank you, didn't recognize number etc etc.
This is where I'm stalling - it seems that doing this for all 3 platforms iOs, Android & Windows - is a tall order it seems especially the Apple part - so a quick walk up and down it seemed all parties are on Android anyway. No need for publishing to App store since I'll set it up for them one way or another.
The other alternative is to use HTTP request short cut app - it can create icons and call my rest - but seems like a hard and long route to go.
I dont want to make the code in the app the core my rest will do the work & comms - that way I have control over it at all times.
So anyone - who can help an old VB/ASP/PHP/Javascript coder into the right direction fo what IDE/platform to use to achieve the above without involving another terrabyte of downloaded SDKs, studios, IDEs, CLIs etc etc.
Regards
Any comments welcome - even comedic ones - I think I need it at the moment
So I thought, lets see - I took PHP made a rest entry point that accepts calls - with 3 values a phone number, coordinates & action. I then went back and created a web page to test you can type in the number (which I save), grab the geo data when they click one of 3 buttons - 1 panic, 2 security issue & 3 is a dead man switch - meaning some numbers are monitored for regular updates from the web page - they forget to push the button and the system starts a sequence e.g. starts SMSing & mailing people etc.
Got that working I realized I'll have to APPtify (mmm maybe a nice name for an App? ;-) it - so 1st the telephone number which I thought I could just get from the phone doesn't really work it seems so I have to have it typed in and save to preference storage? Then geolocation seems to vary between every framework, and the the HTTP request and a simple popup with what the system did with your pressed button e.g. got the message thank you, didn't recognize number etc etc.
This is where I'm stalling - it seems that doing this for all 3 platforms iOs, Android & Windows - is a tall order it seems especially the Apple part - so a quick walk up and down it seemed all parties are on Android anyway. No need for publishing to App store since I'll set it up for them one way or another.
The other alternative is to use HTTP request short cut app - it can create icons and call my rest - but seems like a hard and long route to go.
I dont want to make the code in the app the core my rest will do the work & comms - that way I have control over it at all times.
So anyone - who can help an old VB/ASP/PHP/Javascript coder into the right direction fo what IDE/platform to use to achieve the above without involving another terrabyte of downloaded SDKs, studios, IDEs, CLIs etc etc.
Regards
Any comments welcome - even comedic ones - I think I need it at the moment
