Android, along with most mobile OSes, don't excel at printing quite yet. I'm seeing movement toward more printing functions, but I doubt we'll see an all out print manager style functionality any time soon. I guess they might surprise us with it in the next version, but we'll have to wait and find out there.
That being said, do you have a support infrastructure planned with your application? Or are you planning on it being stand-alone on the phone/tablet? I ask that because there are a lot of good ways to get files into certain formats if you have a server planned. Pushing the data to the server and asking it to format and print would produce significantly better results in speed and ease of use. If not, a quick and easy way to get "pretty" formatted output would be a bitmap backed canvas. You could just toss text, lines and images all over and save it to a JPG or PNG. It wouldn't produce the best printing results, but it would be a start. Canvas: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/Canvas.html Bitmap: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/Bitmap.html Bitmap Factory: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/BitmapFactory.html For nicer printed output, you could also look up the PDF spec and implement a slimmed down version of it in your code. Also, SVG may be an option as it is something that more and more browsers are supporting. You could then use a browser on a desktop to view and print them. PDF: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference.html SVG: http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/ Hope that helps. Steven Studio LFP http://www.studio-lfp.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
