I have been a buzztouch member since January and love it. My company's iOS app is now in the app store and is working great. I am now attempting to make the switch to the android version, however, I have limited time to figure out eclipse. I want to post freelance work needed, but I am unaware of the correct method and/or forum to accomplish this. I would appreciate any suggestions. Thank you.

Someone will hop on here with a better idea, but to start I would look up some of the members on here a few have on their profile if they do custom work and best way to contact them!

Hi @Jordan, Check out my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/gonorthwest It has multiple videos on how to set up Eclipse, and how to use Eclipse with your BT v3 project. If you have any questions, feel free to PM me or email me at MrkFleming at gmail dot com. Mark

Mark (@GoNorthWest) is an incredibly helpful chap, follow his guidance and he will set you right. He helped me to make the jump from IOS to Android. I would say have a go at it yourself, it will save you money. Failing that, I would direct you to the plugin page and send messages to the guys who know their stuff on Android. No doubt that some developers will message you reading this post too. Good luck. Farcat

@JordanR - I'm slightly confused by your message. Are you looking for work opportunities where you can develop for other people, or are looking for hire someone to do work for you?

The English teacher in me also scratched my head for a few seconds about the active/passive use of the word Solicit. I think he is looking for Eclipse help, as I was earlier. GoNorthWest is very able. His training vids are better than most. (Did you re-do Eclipse, current?) I do wish there was a Forum that was more dedicated to matching up those of us who want help with those who want to provide help - by topic and specific skill. I have a couple of things on my wish list. Like adding on to BT_screen_map in Obj C.

Dusko is very Android capable. http://www.Buzztouch.com/Dusko -- Niraj

I would say the best way to request paid help is to post on the forum, and ask developers to PM you if they are interested. If you don't get responses, let me know and I can help you find someone.

With your app, I had fun browsing through the Plastics explanations and the various picture galleries! You have a lot of PDFs and have made very effective use of those documents, A warning -- on a Android, the User will need a PDF Helper app to also be on his device. The other option is to embed the muPDF Reader code into your BT Android app. Susan Metoxen and David Book know about that aspect. You might want to add an element of fun by using the Concentration plugin to match up different types of plastics. -- Niraj

Thank you Niraj, Susan, Nick, Warren, Mark and Tatortot.

@Nicks Apps - Here is a link to the rough cut of the updated install video. Absolutely no editing done yet...straight out of Camtasia. Just for you! https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4993711/Eclipse_ADT_Install.mp4 It's 200Mb and still uploading to DropBox, so if you get an error downloading, just give it some time. Rock on! Mark

GoNorthWest once again has made the best training video! The Eclipse for OSX video referenced above, has two important differences from other on-line help pages for installing Eclipse OSX. 1) Picking Google Play 2) Importing Google Play Let me now try to create the Android version of my working iOS App! more...

I think I got Eclipse installed, bigger and better than ever... I downloaded the Android project from my Self Hosted Control Panel... However, the .pdf screen shots and instructions do NOT match Eclipse: In particular, items 2 and 3 below. When I try Import >... Eclipse throws and error and walks away. Please, somebody fix the instructions.pdf. When you choose New > Android Project a dialogue (pop-up-window) will open. This window needs to know three things. See the image on the next page. 1) The name of your new project. Enter a project name. Do not use use any special characters or spaces in the project name you enter. 2) The location of the source-code. Use the “Create Project from Existing Source” option. After choosing this, use the Browse button to navigate to the folder you downloaded and unzipped in step 1. Select the name of your folder in Mac's Finder app or Windows Explorer. Do not select any files inside the folder, select the folder itself. 3) TheBuildTarget.Youshouldseealonglistofbuildtargetsavailableinthe New Android Project window. Google API's 2.2 should be pre-selected. This is sometimes NOT THE CASE. If another platform is selected, change it to Google API's 2.2. This is different than Android 2.2. If you do not see the Google API's 2.2 choice you have not installed all the necessary components in Eclipse and you'll need to do that before continuing.

Hi Nick, Let me throw together a video tonight for you on how to import your project into Eclipse (though I do already have one on YouTube, and it's about 90% valid at the moment). Forget about the PDF instructions. You are doing a BT v3 app, right? What you wrote above makes it look like a BT v2 app. Mark

Self-Hosted powered by Buzztouch™ v3.0.0. Which creates a file called travelmap-Android-BTv2.0.zip. I find that confusing, but I assume it's a typo. (I know in your video you suggest in the SDK Manager > Android 4.0, but I installed a higher number). The ReadMe.txt says (and I assume it is as out-of-date as the .pdf): buzztouch for Android Getting Started - YOU MUST HAVE ECLIPSE TO USE THIS SOFTWARE. The Android Software Developer Kit (SDK) is also necessary. Eclipse and Android work together to compile your program. You should have downloaded a .zip archive containing several files and multiple sub-directories. You'll need these files when you create your Android project using Eclipse. Use the instructions.pdf file included with this download to get started. ########################################################################## IMPORTANT ########################################################################## COMPILE PROJECT USING GOOGLE API's 2.2 Libraries (API Level 8). These libraries are different than Android 2.2 See the instructions.pdf included in this download for more information. Your Eclipse / Android AVD must have the Google Cloud Messaging for Android Library installed. This library is found in the "Extras" dialogue in the Android AVD. ########################################################################## IMPORTANT CHANGE ABOUT IMAGE FILE NAMES ######################################################################### ECLIPSE ONLY ALLOWS LOWER CASE LETTERS IN IMAGE NAMES. This means the images you add to the /res/drawable directory must have lower-case file names. This also means that all the images named in your control panel must also have lower case file names.

That's very strange. BT v3 uses the Android SDK, and no longer uses the Google SDK. Not sure how that got out of whack...but I'll investigate. In the meantime, check out my video, and it should get you going until I can make an updated one tonight. Mark

This time, I got the Android project imported. I think the difference was: In the Import steps, at one point, I might not have clicked on the file name - assuming if I had selected it via the B)rowse button, then I didn't need to click on it - or highlight it - again in the next step. Had lots of errors when I installed current SDK. I deleted current SDK, and downgraded to 4.0, and almost all errors went away. Except for: [2014-06-04 11:43:10 - google-play-services_lib] W/asset (41382): Asset path /Applications/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140321/sdk/platforms/android-18/android.jar is neither a directory nor file (type=1). [2014-06-04 11:43:10 - google-play-services_lib] ERROR: Asset package include '/Applications/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140321/sdk/platforms/android-18/android.jar' not found. [2014-06-04 11:43:10 - travelmap] W/asset (41383): Asset path /Applications/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140321/sdk/platforms/android-19/android.jar is neither a directory nor file (type=1). [2014-06-04 11:43:10 - travelmap] ERROR: Asset package include '/Applications/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140321/sdk/platforms/android-19/android.jar' not found.

When you download your project package, are you using the "Use the Buzztouch Core for iOS v3.0" or "Use the Buzztouch Core for Android v3.0" link? That's the one you should be using. Mark

Self-hosted. Android. The iOS is in another directory path on my computer. Works fine. I'm not seeing where we need to drag in plugins and art (icons) like iOS. When you have time, I can invite you to a screen share of my computer - in order to help you write updated docs for all to use. American or French!

For Android you don't need to drag in anything. Every folder gets imported into Eclipse. If you add something to a folder, just refresh the project. I'll take you up on the screen share when I can find some time! Might be a while. Mark

Hi Nick, Give this video a view. Shows how to import your project into Eclipse: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4993711/Import_Self_Hosted_Into_Eclipse.mp4 Currently uploading, so give it a few minutes. Mark

It will be great to watch. I imported my (Self-hosted) project this morning, with a boat-load of errors. Looks great in iOS and Xcode, full of error in Eclipse, even after frequent Cleanings! If the errors are due to my selecting too new SDKs, I can revert. But I don't want to go too far back - unless it doesn't make any difference.

Almost done uploading (slow hotel connection). Let me know if you have any questions after watching! Mark

Mark -- this is awesome. Looking forward to the official videos! Please make a new post announcing the two videos when you get a chance to breathe in between work and travel. Thank you, Mark! :-) -- Niraj

Will do! Hope to have them edited and posted this weekend. Mark

Exporting the .apk failed - "Conversion to Dalvik format failed with error 1". This time, I did get the Self Hosted Control Panel to show me the option to export v3. The "Properties" step(s) did result in error-free. Could not Run the project. Said no AVD was installed, even though the other day, I did have a couple installed. Those now are greyed-out in Window>AVD Manager. Trying to create New AVDs always resulted in a blue "OK" button at the bottom, but clicking the button never resulted in any action. Following same Export .apk steps as the video, except when I got to the keystore screen, if I tried to use ~user>.android>debug.keystore it wants a password that I have no idea if that is an existing pw I set somewhere, or just pw for this .apk. Either way, it eventually failed saying the password had been tampered with. I tried both that I could think of. I created new keystore in my project working directory, and then got the "Conversion to Dalvik format failed with error 1".

Hi Nick, If you recall from the video, the default password for the debug.keystore is 'android.' It's that for everybody! I've gotten past the Dalvik error you got by exiting and starting up Eclipse again. Sometimes it requires a reboot. I have no idea why. I've had that same issue with creating AVDs. Others in stackoverflow have as well. Not sure what the resolution is. You just need to play around until you find one that works. Mark

OK, I'll try again. The audio is very faint, and I mostly go by your pictures! I have the monitor volume cranked up as high as it goes.

For the AVD problem: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22214241/cant-create-new-avd-no-response

Ah, very sorry about the audio! I didn't listed to it after I created it. Sorry about that!

That was fast! Used the correct pw :) , and exporting the .apk worked! Now, on to testing it on the device. I truly enjoy results from StackOverflow - although sometimes you have to pencil-in the English grammar, and get past some of the dust-ups between incestuous members.

Rock on! If you have a device to test on, that's way better than the emulator, so I wouldn't worry too much about setting up an AVD (unless there's a particular configuration you need to test). Good luck! If you have any further issues, we should probably move them to a new thread, or you can PM me. Mark

I need to get the AVD working. The App errors on the Android physical device. When I get to the Map, it gives me an icon of a phone, with clouds over it, and an "Circle-/" in the middle. I went back to the Self Hosted Control Panel, and all the plugins are there. The menu screens are supposed to be black with gold letters. They are white with gold letters. The background image is not showing, In my config I have: "backgroundImageNameSmallDevice":"bkgds.png", "backgroundImageNameLargeDevice":"bkgdl.png", I'm just thinking I should have a more universal background image statement. All the data is current, so I know it is going to the dataURL to get the current config.txt - regarding the menu colors and the Map.

Maps don't work on the emulator at all, so you won't find any love there. Do you have the maps fully configured, including getting your Google Maps API Key for Android? Mark

OOOps. I will get Google Maps API Key for Android after lunch. I did that 2 years ago, when I made this the first time. And that .apk works on this same device - "Visual Land", $69 from BB. When I got my new Mac in April, I did not Time Machine restore everything, purposefully, because a lot of stuff was really old. And I wanted a clean install of current Apps. Without going back to the Plugin instructions, I did post a comment the other day, that an instruction regarding Map keys had changed.

Yep, the map stuff has changed because Google no longer supports the older API key. But it's fundamentally easier now with BT v3. Mark

It WILL be easier when the readme.txt gets updated (now 1.5 years deprecated), and focuses the Google instructions specific to what we need to do.

Hi Mark - I'm continuing my woes in: https://www.buzztouch.com/forum/thread.php?tid=6BDEC27FFB7092C55E8B5F2&sortColumn=FT.id&sortUpDown=DESC&currentPage=1

Hi Mark I am newbie in creating android apps actually i made a project on buzztouch v3 but at the point where you choose an existing keystore as shown by you in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgurXKgP2AE i couldn't find the debug keystore at the mentioned location.Plz mark i humbly request you to kindly guide me through the problem Thanks

Hi Jack, Welcome to Buzztouch! What operating system are you using? It can be difficult to find the keystore from time to time. Mark

windows 7 64 bit

plz mark plz help as this the last step (as far as i know) hindering me from generating my apk.

So, keep in mind that you're just looking for a debug key. At some point, you'll need to create a release key. So, as you're exporting your apk, you could actually create a new key, and just use that. The only thing to keep in mind is make the expiration date at least 32 years from today. You can create a debug, release, or whatever key you want. And make sure to back them up! Mark

can u tell me the procedure of creating a new key or if there is a video link

Doing this from memory, but if you start the export process again, you'll be asked to either provide a key or create a new one. Hit the radio button for creating a new one, and use a password that you'll remember. Then you'll hit Next, and see a screen for more information like Name, OU, City, State, etc. Don't worry about the Organization and Organizational Unit. But fill in the rest, and submit the expiry date for 32 years or more from today. You'll also need to provide a keystore alias...something like jack_releasekeystore or something. Then hit Next and I think that'll take care of it. If not, I'll throw together some screenshots. Mark

ok but as now i have created the app i wanted to add a layout named as developers and i want to display a jpg pic when one clicks on it.How can i do so i am trying to do it via splash screen but to no vain.