I am sort of new to app development, so this may sound like a stupid question. The company I am working with is trying to get ride of most of there IT infrastructure, so that they don't need any more servers. I have been asked to develop a program that takes information from a google spreadsheet and then with this information puts it into a web browser. I am Planning on using Phyton and selenium web driver. Will I be able to install selenium if i host the application as a Google app engine?
The Reason I want/need to use selenium web driver is because I need to put the information from google into a legacy system. The only way to put information in the system is to mimic a user putting the information in manual in a web browser.
Thank you,
Kai
I don't understand what you think Selenium will be doing here. It seems a very strange way to want to get information from one Google property into another.
Google spreadsheets have a perfectly good API that allows you to read the data from your app and display it to users.
Edit after question update Well, now I don't see what you need GAE for. That is for hosting and running websites, and you only seem to want to enter data into an existing website. That's not what it does at all.
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I'm in the process of making an app for my assessment at uni using cordova/phonegap and was just wondering if its possible for me to use data from a my unis ecom website for my app without having any back-end access to it, so like images/prices/descriptions...synced to my app?
yes it is certainly possible, because Cordova means working via Javascript and a HTML5 Rendering Engine. It is with some reservations entirely possible to load data from an webserver and use it in an App.
The only thing is to ask, whether it is also a smart-choice. If you want your app not to break when the data from the website gets changed (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_rot )
Also the server can somewhat prevent access of data from contextes outside of the webpage, especially if TSL/HTTPS connection is offered and content is only available after authentication.
Yet anyway its the magic of Javascript to be very good in doing things with web/online resources and displaying HTML5. Cordova and PHonegap is hence imo much better than the very challenging JAVA-Dalvik and IOs native programming that one would have to use else
Likely not,
Google and Apple frowns on using apps as wrappers for websites.
Quote Google Developer Program Policies - Spam and Placement in the Store
Do not post an app where the primary functionality is to:
Drive affiliate traffic to a website or
Provide a webview of a website not owned or administered by you (unless you have permission from the website owner/administrator to do so)
And
Quote Apple iTunes Guidelines - 2.12
Apps that are not very useful, unique, are simply web sites bundled as Apps, or do not provide any lasting entertainment value may be rejected
I have project that is coming along nicely. I can now read and edit my Google spreadsheet using my Google App Engine App. I set up sharing in the spreadsheet giving edit permissions to myapplicaton#appspot.gserviceaccount.com
If everything works as I hope I will someday get customers that will be able to also share their spreadsheets and will be able read and edit their spreadsheets using my application.
I can see in the Google App Engine Logs which spreadsheets are being accessed using my program but I was hoping for a little more.
Is there a way for me to know all of the spreadsheets that have given my application permission to edit them?
Is there a way to refuse edit shares if I find out that one of these spreadsheets is abusing my application's terms of use etc.
Using the drive api you can see files shared with you. But it seems you only care for people abusing your system and those you already detect since they have to go through your appengine frontend.
I feel very out of my depth with this query, but not being able to do it isn't really an option so I am going to have to learn how one way or another.
I have been tasked with building an application / database for a Chauffeur company. I have done similar things before in Microsoft Access for other customers, hence getting this request, but this customer wants to be able to run the app on their Mac, and not install Windows. My only real experience of coding is HTML/CSS and some VBA when using Microsoft Access. For these Access DBs I have created separate front and back end files to allow multi user access and also remote access (the back end file being kept on the company server).
So onto my query (apologies for dragging it out)...
I need to be able to build something that the single user can open and run on his Mac, so he can view, add, change jobs and their details. He also needs to have the same access on his iPad, although purely viewing would suffice.
As regards the web access, basically he wants to be able to go onto his "Booking System" application, go to "New Job" and send a link to his client, where they would click the link in a browser, fill in the details (Name, Contact Number, collection and drop off addresses, collection date and time etc...) and when they submit this form the details be updated on his booking system.
My issue is I do not really know where to start. I just need some pointers as to where to get started. Is it an issue of building a MySQL database back end and then hosting this somewhere and linking different front ends to it etc...
Yes, with multiple clients, the web is your best answer. For the cheapest hosting route, you can find good, inexpensive PHP and MySQL hosting that will provide what you need. You can design the front end with HTML/CSS, use PHP to develop the logic and data access, and use MySQL to host the data.
The Mac and iPad can access the application via the web URL--you will not be building an iOS app, rather the user will access the web site through a web browser. You can use some pretty neat tools like jQuery UI Mobile to create an app-like experience, but if you need to support multiple clients on a small budget, an iOS app and separate web site is not the way to go.
Make sure you have some PHP expertise available or figure this part out. There are tons of great resources on the web to get started. Good luck!
I'm very new to all this, so please bear with me. I just completed this tutorial on RPC in GWT. In the tutorial, you create a stockwatcher application that displays stock information. The application gets data from a server using RPC. I deployed the project to app engine and it works great.
Now I would like a separate, normal java project that runs on my computer and displays stocks that it retrieves from the app engine server using rpc. In the stockwatcher tutorial, there is a client and server package. I refactored the client package into a new project to start. I understand that I need to give it the appropriate url, but I'm not sure how to do that. The StockPriceService has the annotation #RemoteServiceRelativePath("stockPrices") so my first thought was to somehow change that to the correct app engine url. Is there an annotation that allows me to put in the entire url? If someone could point me in the direction of a tutorial that deals with this, I would greatly appreciate it.
THANK YOU!!! :)
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I'm trying to make a client that will run on my computer, another client that will run on my phone, and a simple app engine server that will store some data. After doing the RPC tutorial, using RPCs seemed like a good way for me to send and receive data. I just don't know how to setup the RPC service across multiple projects.
Edit 2
I just saw this so I guess what I want to do isn't possible. I guess my new question is, what's the best way to send and receive data between app engine and a non-gwt project?
Pls see the following links
https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/gettingstarted/
https://developers.google.com/web-toolkit/doc/1.6/tutorial/appengine
An appengine project will run your machine, you can really deploy it, but you need an account.
I'm new with moodle in fact create java application using GWT and deployed it to appengine, really it was about keystroke authentication in which detect the unauthorized users from their typing behavior on keyboard, so I make a text area that takes some data form key and send it to the server side and make some comparisons with data in the app store, i found that it would be Awesome if i add that to module meanwhile this application is my graduation project so when i integrate with moodle it is useful point for me. My question is how can i integrate my application to moodle taking in consideration that i use the appstore .
I suggest you look into something called IMS LTI. Here is a good video introduction to it:
http://vimeo.com/14100773
Before IMS LTI in order to hook into Moodle you needed to write a Moodle plugin. But using IMS LTI you should be able to just enter in some details about your app, like the url and a shared key and using IMS LTI user data and responses should be passed between Moodle and your app. Future versions of the IMS LTI standard will also allow you to pass grading information.