I was planning for everything to run on both a phone and tablet. The phone would be used by field workers to do the documentation and the tablet would be used by another to setup schedules, and among a lot of other things also be used to select a report and have it print. The printing would not be such a big deal if I could just give the tablet user the ability to just hit the button and have a report created. That is the only part I don’t know how to do for my app.
Like say the phone user entered all this data about a “patient”, all that data gets put into a database, that database should be able to be accessed from more than one device. For instance have a tablet user select a “specific report” from say a dropdown list then select a “patient” from a dropdown list then hit ok and then in the background have the tablet grab that “specific report” layout and the data from that “patient” and produce a report. It’s hard for me to explain what I want. I just want to make a few report layouts then when a user selects that layout and a “patient” the phone/tablet grabs the data inputs the data in the right spots of the already made layout then produces a file for the user to email/print/view whatever they want. If I can just get pointed in the right direction I’m glad to do all the reading and practice to learn how to do it. On Oct 1, 8:44 am, Studio LFP <studio....@gmail.com> wrote: > 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... > > 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 LFPhttp://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
