Android App for Avenue to Learn (LINK INSIDE)
10-11-2012 at 10:54 PM
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Android App for Avenue to Learn (LINK INSIDE)
Hey everyone, I made an application for Avenue to Learn for Android. Its free and its seriously nothing special, just a link to the web-page rolled up into a little application. Please feel free to improve on it!
To view course content click the screwdriver and hammer beside the name of your course. To select a course pull the drop down box beside the screwdriver and hammer once you have logged into Avenue.
http://www.4shared.com/android/hN9xf...OMPLETE .html
To install it remember you have to change your settings on your phone to allow outside sources to be installed! Then just download this file from your phone and run the .apk file to install!
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10-12-2012 at 12:05 AM
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With the avenue hackings, and the fact that your app is on 4shared instead of the market place makes me not want to trust this.
Good work though, if you actually made an app
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10-12-2012 at 12:07 AM
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...I don't even know how to open it..
I tried searching for it at the app store, but couldn't find anything...
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10-12-2012 at 12:15 AM
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...I don't even know how to open it..
I tried searching for it at the app store, but couldn't find anything...
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If you can't open an apk, maybe you should get an iphone lol
I dont have one for my phone but i use es file explorer on my tablet, just move the file over onto your phone's hard drive |
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10-12-2012 at 12:18 AM
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It's literally the link to avenue wrapped in a little application. Its essentially a browser with avenue inside of it. I was going to post it to the Play store but its such a poor excuse for an app I didn't feel it was worth it.
To use the app you have to download the apk file from that 4shared and run it on your android to install the application.
I was hoping this would spark some more technically inclined forum members to make a real avenue application! It will be awhile before I have the technical knowledge to create a full fledged application.
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10-12-2012 at 11:38 AM
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screen shots?
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10-12-2012 at 03:56 PM
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@OP,
I know you are trying to help people out and whatnot which is very good, but for the people who are concerned and know how to create .apk files themselves, would you mind uploading the source code on pastebin as a private paste or something? I personally don't install non-market apps usually, and I view all of the permissions required by any app I am interested in installing.
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10-12-2012 at 04:11 PM
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I was hoping this would spark some more technically inclined forum members to make a real avenue application! It will be awhile before I have the technical knowledge to create a full fledged application.
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I could probably do it (as well as a few others on the site), but it would be quite an undertaking. That and I'm not sure you'd be allowed to legally. Avenue 2 Learn (which is desire 2 learn underneath) is a commercial product and the owners may not take kindly to people messing around with the product's API.
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10-14-2012 at 04:45 PM
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@OP,
I know you are trying to help people out and whatnot which is very good, but for the people who are concerned and know how to create .apk files themselves, would you mind uploading the source code on pastebin as a private paste or something? I personally don't install non-market apps usually, and I view all of the permissions required by any app I am interested in installing.
Thanks,
Humza
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Just google how to create a webview, of course, then you'll need to figure out how to make ssl work with webview. Still fairly easy.
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I could probably do it (as well as a few others on the site), but it would be quite an undertaking. That and I'm not sure you'd be allowed to legally. Avenue 2 Learn (which is desire 2 learn underneath) is a commercial product and the owners may not take kindly to people messing around with the product's API.
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Well since the API isn't public, it would be really hard to get all the calls needed.
If you load the page in the background and show a native UI with all the data, I think it would require extensive testing before it's reliable. Seems like a good learning project but not worth the time.
Now if you email D2L about it and they want to help, then it'll be fun.
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10-14-2012 at 04:53 PM
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honestly at this point most smartphones have the capability to load the full fledged sites at high resolutions with no lag.
now if you could use perl/python/FLEX to pull info off avenue and make a TRULY mobile version of A2L, that would be wicked..
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10-14-2012 at 05:15 PM
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Just google how to create a webview, of course, then you'll need to figure out how to make ssl work with webview. Still fairly easy.
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10-14-2012 at 06:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Afzal
Well since the API isn't public, it would be really hard to get all the calls needed.
If you load the page in the background and show a native UI with all the data, I think it would require extensive testing before it's reliable. Seems like a good learning project but not worth the time.
Now if you email D2L about it and they want to help, then it'll be fun.
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You could just use the Google Chrome network monitor/debugger thing to get the API calls. It wouldn't really be that difficult, but ya... reliability would be a pretty big issue.
On the other hand, I've noticed Avenue has RSS feeds for course updates. That might be usable for something :p.
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10-17-2012 at 09:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Ownaginatios
You could just use the Google Chrome network monitor/debugger thing to get the API calls. It wouldn't really be that difficult, but ya... reliability would be a pretty big issue.
On the other hand, I've noticed Avenue has RSS feeds for course updates. That might be usable for something :p.
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Hmm. might be irrelevant but what about aspx api calls?
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