FiveTouch: a new product for Android from FiveTech

[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

[Antonio Linares]

FiveTouch runing on an Android phone:

[Antonio Linares]

FiveTouch running on an Android tablet:

[bpd2000]

Great
Interested

[alerchster]

Looks great
Interested too

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

Antonio,

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

[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

[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

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

Antonio,

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.?

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?

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

[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.

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

Antonio,

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

EMG

[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

[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.

[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.

[Antonio Linares]