WebView app of the Thoughts of Worship website, which can be found here: https://thoughtsofworship.weebly.com/ Note This is the second iteration of the app, as I lost the files to the first one (a reason for me putting this one on GitHub)
Option 1
- Use one of the APKs in the Release tab
- Load it onto an android device with at least Android Oreo (8.0)
Option 2
- Download the source code and open the solution in Visual Studios
- If you have all the proper libraries installed (Xamarin) then hook up a device for deployment or use an emulator
- F5 should build it and deploy it to the device
- If there are any issues let me know.
- I'm new to using GitHub for my own repositories, so I'm a little unsure to how well the pushing and cloning works
- It loads pretty slowly (in my opinion), which makes sense since I'm loading several webpages on bootup
- I'll work on better way of doing this
- Links open to the devices browser rather then in the app
- Not too sure as to why yet, but I'll see what I can find
- Better back button support
- An actual settings view
- A developed about page
- A working bug reporting view
- We'll see how far I get with this one. I've never done cloud based stuff, so that learning curve is going to be slow)
- Maybe a refresh button or a refresh gesture
- i.e swiping down hard or while at the top of the webpage will refresh
- An app icon
- Like I said, I lost the files to my original, so I have to remake it.
- Luckily I still have the original installed on my phone, so I've been using that as the template
- Like I said, I lost the files to my original, so I have to remake it.
- Possibly Notifications
- I'd have to figure out how to check if a new blog has been posted
- Going to webparsing instead of webviews
- That'll take a while to figure out (I wonder if Weebly has an API...)
- A boot animation that actually waits till the app is loaded
- I couldn't figure it out on the original, but I've got a few ideas
- Smaller app size
- I have no idea why it's so big
- 53 MBs just for some webviews
- My guess is that all the app icon sizes that all get installed in the Ad-Hoc APK
- That or it has something to do with the Xamarin libraries
- 53 MBs just for some webviews
- I have no idea why it's so big
- Maybe move from Xamarin to C++
- Actually having it built on C++ would be ideal
- Visual Studios 2019
- And the Mobile Development with .NET workload
Xamarin made the learning process a whole lot easier