I want to open office documents, like Word, Excel and PowerPoint, from my BlackBerry app. I am able to download the files from the server, but I am not sure how to open them.
On BlackBerry devices there is a trial version of DataViz DocsToGo pre-installed. And you can use DocsToGo Word to open Word documents, DocsToGo Excel to open excel documents, etc.
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We have an application that we want to integrate with MS Excel for iPad.
We were able to associate excel files with our app by declaring Document Types in Info.plist. Our app now appears in Open In... of Numbers app and also when you click on excel file attachments in emails.
Now, we want our app to open files from the MS Excel app in iPad.
When we try Share > Send Attachment > Send a Copy,
applications such as Mail, Notes, Firefox, Evernote etc appear in the list but not our app.
How do we make our app appear in this list?
In my application I download doc and excel files and I want user to open them from MS Word, MS Excel application available for iPad. I don't want these files to be opened in web view but wants to open in MS word or excel in the same way like after long press in my Mail app I get option to open document from different application.
I have attached the screenshot of what I want to achieve.
Please let me know the way I can achieve it.
You can make use of the QuickLook Framework Available for iOS. Here is a great tutorial for that
I am working on an Blackberry application in which I have to show some PDF files in my application.
I know we can show the PDF file as a GOOGLE document, I have already done that. But this time my task is to show PDF files inside application.
Do we have any option to show PDF files in our own application by using some SDK's ?
Please suggest me.
I dont think any blackberry sdk support this facility.
There is only one option to view pdf files offline is to download and view using a third party pdf viewer.
Even blackberry dont have given a built in pdf reader to user,when I was looking for the same issue I found that only one company SLG Mobile has made this app(beamreader) and blackberry gave them very special award(dont remember award name now),
so this third party app is free for one month and after that you have to pay nearly 500 Rs as licence fee.
Now for BB10 Adob has created a reader and it comes with device itself.
Here's a crazy question...The client wants a web application to be available on the ipad when not connected to the internet. My first thought was that it would be a great opportunity to use the offline app feature of HTML5, except that the entire web app (including all the media) is 3GB, and apparently all of it must be available. This exceeds the 5MB limit of the app cache. The website does not necessarily have to rely on any dynamic server side code. It can be straight HTML files. Does anyone know if it would be possible to manually copy the entire website onto the ipad and from there easily launch it in a browser? I was not able to do this, but I have to believe there's a way. Any other approaches to this problem that you can think of? Thank you.
I had a similar problem and here's what I found that worked (using an iPad and a PC):
Download (on the PC) the program HTTrack to the PC. This program can create an offline mirror of a website and has all sorts of options for what gets included.
Run HTTrack on the PC and create a folder for your website.
Install (on the iPad) the free App "Documents 5" by Readdle.
Connect Documents 5 to some sort of cloud based storage (I used by Google drive account, but I'm sure Drop Box would work also)
Zip the entire offline website folder mirrored using HTTrack and upload the zip file to cloud storage (Google drive)
Click on the zip file in Documents 5. It should be downloaded to the iPad
Click on the downloaded zip file in Documents 5. It should be automatically extracted.
Now open the extracted folder and click on index.html. This is your website offline.
I don't know if there is a way to move the index link to the home screen...
There are several apps that can be used for storing files on the iPad and viewing them in an embedded browser. I use GoodReader, but this might be overkill for your purpose.
I've been able to view them using FileApp (after transferring via DropBox), but it's far less than ideal.
Use hightail.com, you can link a website as a space, it will actually convert the website to preview image, then can be access on iPad as webpage in browser, no need to copy file to iPad or install any software.
I already have an installation using .alx/.cod files that we use to install our Blackberry application via Desktop Manager, and also an "over the air" install version consisting of a .jad file and .cod files (uncompressed and no larger that 64K as specified by the mime type) that is downloaded from our website.
What format should I upload the application to App World as?
I gather all the files should be in a zip file but apart from that I'm struggling to find much more information on the RIM website
RIM has a document with the exact requirements for a submission bundle for an app for BlackBerry AppWorld:
"Contents of a .zip file for a release"
Look at section 5 b in the App World FAQ.
It mentions among many other things, COD files. The plural is because, you need to submit a COD file for each OS version you are planning to support.