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FiveTouch: a new product for Android from FiveTech

PostPosted: Sat Feb 21, 2015 7:10 am
by Antonio Linares
I want you to know that I am already working on a new product for Android, named FiveTouch.

FiveTouch allows you to develop your application from the tablet or phone itself, or alternatively you can develop it from your PC and then send your app to your tablet/phone.

If you have an Android tablet and want to participate in the testing phase, please let me know it.

If you are in a hurry to use it, and want to buy it already (getting free versions up to version 1.0) please send me an email.

Some users of these forums have already tested it and they have been very impressed with it :-)

Re: FiveTouch: a new product for Android from FiveTech

PostPosted: Sat Feb 21, 2015 7:57 am
by Antonio Linares
FiveTouch runing on an Android phone:

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Re: FiveTouch: a new product for Android from FiveTech

PostPosted: Sat Feb 21, 2015 8:32 am
by Antonio Linares
FiveTouch running on an Android tablet:

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Re: FiveTouch: a new product for Android from FiveTech

PostPosted: Sat Feb 21, 2015 9:34 am
by bpd2000
Great
Interested

Re: FiveTouch: a new product for Android from FiveTech

PostPosted: Sat Feb 21, 2015 9:42 am
by alerchster
Looks great
Interested too

Re: FiveTouch: a new product for Android from FiveTech

PostPosted: Sat Feb 21, 2015 11:09 am
by Enrico Maria Giordano
Antonio,

Antonio Linares wrote:I want you to know that I am already working on a new product for Android, named FiveTouch.

FiveTouch allows you to develop your application from the tablet or phone itself, or alternatively you can develop it from your PC and then send your app to your tablet/phone.

If you have an Android tablet and want to participate in the testing phase, please let me know it.

If you are in a hurry to use it, and want to buy it already (getting free versions up to version 1.0) please send me an email.

Some users of these forums have already tested it and they have been very impressed with it :-)


Very well! What are the tools required to develop from PC? And how to send the app to the device?

EMG

Re: FiveTouch: a new product for Android from FiveTech

PostPosted: Sat Feb 21, 2015 11:31 am
by Antonio Linares
Enrico,

FiveTouch for Android includes a FiveTouch for Windows that behaves exactly the same :-)

So you can easily code your app from FiveTouch for Windows, test it and once you are ready, you send your PRG to the tablet or the phone.

You can email the PRG to your tablet/phone, copy and paste it, or download the PRG file and open it from FiveTouch Android.

The goal of FiveTouch is to highly increase the productivity, avoiding the use of the Android development tools.

To me is the fastest way to develop apps for the Android devices :-)

Re: FiveTouch: a new product for Android from FiveTech

PostPosted: Sat Feb 21, 2015 11:35 am
by Antonio Linares
FiveTouch for Windows:

This tool comes with FiveTouch for Android so you can easily develop on your PC and then run it from FiveTouch Android

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Re: FiveTouch: a new product for Android from FiveTech

PostPosted: Sat Feb 21, 2015 11:46 am
by Enrico Maria Giordano
Antonio,

Antonio Linares wrote:FiveTouch for Android includes a FiveTouch for Windows that behaves exactly the same :-)


So we only need of FiveTouch tool, no Harbour, C compiler, etc.?

Antonio Linares wrote:So you can easily code your app from FiveTouch for Windows, test it and once you are ready, you send your PRG to the tablet or the phone.


So PRG is directly intepreted and/or executed by the device?

Antonio Linares wrote:You can email the PRG to your tablet/phone, copy and paste it, or download the PRG file and open it from FiveTouch Android.


So the PRG is handled like a document?

EMG

Re: FiveTouch: a new product for Android from FiveTech

PostPosted: Sat Feb 21, 2015 12:02 pm
by Antonio Linares
Enrico,

> So we only need of FiveTouch tool, no Harbour, C compiler, etc.?

Right. Just FiveTouch :-)

> So PRG is directly intepreted and/or executed by the device?

yes :-) HRB files may also be executed.

> So the PRG is handled like a document?

Yes. It will be encrypted if desired so the user can not review the code. If your PRG is named as init.prg it will autostart and FiveTouch will not be seen at all :-)

I have also imagined a way to recover from init.prg execution to FiveTouch development mode previous identification.

Re: FiveTouch: a new product for Android from FiveTech

PostPosted: Sat Feb 21, 2015 1:35 pm
by Enrico Maria Giordano
Antonio,

And what about Play Store? Can our apps be downloaded from that?

EMG

Re: FiveTouch: a new product for Android from FiveTech

PostPosted: Sat Feb 21, 2015 2:37 pm
by Rick Lipkin
Antonio

Sounds like a wonderful opportunity .. just curious, how can you tie your development into an app that uses databases or better yet, can use a Sql back-end via IP to a corporate data-store ?

Thanks
Rick Lipkin

Re: FiveTouch: a new product for Android from FiveTech

PostPosted: Sun Feb 22, 2015 7:23 am
by Antonio Linares
Enrico,

When you get FiveTouch.apk and you build your apps using it, those apps are for your customers, not for the apps market.

But I have considered two ways of offering the product:

1. You get FiveTouch.apk and FiveTouch Windows and you start developing using Harbour. You are focused on developing fast solutions for your customers , don't want to mess with Android internals, Google development tools, etc.

2. You get direct training from me or from an expert FiveTouch trainer to learn how to build your own apks exactly in the same way as I have built FiveTouch, so this way you really learn how to develop for the apps market. You will be able to build your apps with the expertise that you got using and learning FiveTouch :-)

I think both ways are very interesting. They will be two different ways though complementaries to get involved with FiveTouch.

Re: FiveTouch: a new product for Android from FiveTech

PostPosted: Sun Feb 22, 2015 7:25 am
by Antonio Linares
Rick,

You have total freedom to access any local or remote database server.

Android provides SQLite, but you can connect to a remote database server, or ADS, or simply use DBFs the way you are used to.

Re: FiveTouch: a new product for Android from FiveTech

PostPosted: Sun Feb 22, 2015 10:19 am
by Antonio Linares
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