Hi,
We are at the beginning of an Android application development which will
measure some patient data and store this data locally.
Eventually the data must also be stored using CommCare.
And now maybe a stupid beginners question:
Is there a reason why we should use Xamarin or IntelliJ for the Android
development (in relation with the CommCare communication) or will both work
fine?
Thanks in advance....
If you start a new project from scratch, the common way now is to use Android
studio which is "just" IntelliJ + Android related plugins and tools.
If you base your own software on the CommCareODK code itself, I suggest you
suggest to the older, Eclipse based Android SDK as Dimagi's build documentation
and files are based on Eclipse + ADT :
What are you trying to achieve ?
Regards,
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Charles Flèche
mHealth Advisor
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The application will be created from scratch and not based on the
CommCareODK.
The user can input some patient data, questions and the app will measure
some data (communication with hardware).
This will be with no internet connection.
When connected to the internet, data must be stored in the CommCare
database. (this is a request for the future)
We already have a lot of experience with C#, so maybe Xamarin can be a good
choice of creating Android apps.
But if IntelliJ or Android studio is a better way to go, we would like to
hear that!
Thanks and best regards,
Egbert
If you have good C# experience then Xamarin may get you up and running
faster. I've never looked at it before so can't give any info about how
good it is or if you'll have trouble communicating with hardware etc. One
potential problem is that you may end up tied to the Xamarin platform and
if you do face any difficulties down the line you may not be able to 'port'
your code to a normal Android dev environment.
On a slightly different topic, since you are thinking about integrating
with CommCare there are two approaches:
Using the second approach you would install both CommCare and your app on
the phone and then CommCare would 'call out' to your app from a form to get
any additional data you require. This option has the advantage of allowing
you to focus on the data measurement and letting CommCare deal with
authentication, submitting data, form design etc. This second approach is
outlined here:
https://help.commcarehq.org/display/commcarepublic/Integrating+External+Applications+with+CommCareODK
The application will be created from scratch and not based on the
CommCareODK.The user can input some patient data, questions and the app will measure
some data (communication with hardware).
This will be with no internet connection.When connected to the internet, data must be stored in the CommCare
database. (this is a request for the future)We already have a lot of experience with C#, so maybe Xamarin can be a
good choice of creating Android apps.
But if IntelliJ or Android studio is a better way to go, we would like to
hear that!Thanks and best regards,
EgbertOp dinsdag 31 maart 2015 09:45:09 UTC+2 schreef Charles Flèche:
On Tuesday 31 March 2015 00:31:42 Egbert Jansen wrote:
Is there a reason why we should use Xamarin or IntelliJ for the Android
development (in relation with the CommCare communication) or will both
workIf you start a new project from scratch, the common way now is to use
Android studio which is "just" IntelliJ + Android related plugins and tools.Download Android Studio & App Tools - Android Developers
If you base your own software on the CommCareODK code itself, I suggest
you suggest to the older, Eclipse based Android SDK as Dimagi's build
documentation and files are based on Eclipse + ADT :ADT 插件（不再受支持） | Android Studio | Android Developers
What are you trying to achieve ?
Regards,
--
Charles Flèche
mHealth Advisor
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Depending on your workflow / project, writing an entire application is maybe not
required. Maybe you could write just the hardware-reading bit as an Intent and call
this Intent from CommCare ? That way you'll save yourself the hassle to write a data
entry / question application as CommCare already does this pretty well ?
Here is the doc for Android Intent integration on the CommCare Wiki:
https://confluence.dimagi.com/display/commcarepublic/Integrating+External+App
lications+with+CommCareODK[1]
Just food for thoughts…
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[1]
https://confluence.dimagi.com/display/commcarepublic/Integrating+External+App
lications+with+CommCareODK
Ah, email collision, Simon… Seems like my message has been lost in the
limbo for a while, sorry about that.
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