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Hello. I need some help with your instructions that aren’t making a lot of sense.
1) This section: Adding Google Play Services (required) “3. Make sure the Project is checked and click finish.” Make sure what project is checked?
2) Importing: “Now right click the SourceBaker Template project > properties > android > Add and select google_play_services. Click Ok, Click Ok again.”
SourceBaker template? What’s this? I have the sherdle template.
3) Error solving: Right click your project > properties > Libraries – This option doesn’t exist.
I’ve followed your instruction to the letter an only used the files you linked to.
Please help.
Thank you for contacting us. I’d love to clarify the instructions:
1) Only the google-play-services-lib project (not the demo projects)
2) SourceBaker should be WebToApp (or Sherdle).
3) It should be: right click project > project properties > java build path> libraries.
Since we have had various complaints about the documentation and setup of the template we’re currently working hard to format WebToApp to Gradle (Android Studio), which should make the installation a lot faster and easier. After that we will completely rewrite our documentation and provide video tutorials. We hope to publish this update in 2-3 weeks.
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any more questions.
Thank you. Something still isn’t right . . . http://i60.tinypic.com/a2uik8.jpg
Any ideas?
For the google play services library you’re targeting a x86 SDK. Could you go to project properties > android and set the same SDK as you did with web2app?
If the error persists, try Project >Properties > Clean and restart Eclipse.
Thanks. I’ve done that. Just these errors to resolve now . . . http://i61.tinypic.com/98x7h4.jpg
Could you open manifest.xml and create a screenshot of the error in the file? (XMl errors cause the R cannot be resolved errors).
Thank you. I managed to resolve the errors with a little Googling
The only issue I have now is that my YouTube videos don’t show. My page is an SMF forum with embedded YouTube videos. I just get the message “Couldn’t load plug-in”. Is it possible to resolve this?
All plugins are turned on (so flash will work if it’s installed, but it’ll require Android < 4.2), and the application is compatible with HTML5 Video. Make sure it’s not a flash player, silverlight player etc.
Testing on Android 5.0.1 but it’s the same result on 4.4.2. It’s using Flash: <embed type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” >. Works fine in my mobile browsers, but can’t seem to get it to work here.
Shockwave flash has been deprecated and is not available on most Android devices (therefore I would not recommend using it). http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2012/06/flash-player-and-android-update.html
And even though that, we turned on plugins in our code: mWebView.getSettings().setPluginState(WebSettings.PluginState.ON);
Keep in mind that most browsers are not WebView based (gecko, chromium, etc).
I think I’ll need to try a new embedder. Thanks for all your help 
Sorry, I do not understand some things. This application means any web site to be converted into a portable app on android phone? Is it right? Thanks.
The application will show your website in a ‘frame’ so it will appear as a native application. It will look similar to how it looks in your mobile browser, but there will be no address bar etc.
Important This application will not convert a desktop site into a mobile site.
waste money, ... what kind of instructions are that ??, ... the links download software which works completely different as you show in the docs.
I don’t understand anything, I’m lost … Before to give you just 1 star, I’ll wait you to improve the docs.
My sincere apologies. The link in the docs is outdated. You can download the software at the following url: http://downloads.puresoftware.org/files/android/adt-bundle/
If you’re getting lost again, don’t hesitate to contact us. Make sure to provide details on where you’re getting stuck (or what errors you’re getting) so we’ll be able to assist you even faster.
Well, I’m having this issue:
Error:(46) No resource identifier found for attribute ‘adUnitId’ in package Error:(46) No resource identifier found for attribute ‘adSize’ in package
I’ve seen it is not into the main.xml file … what is the value i suppose to include ??
Thanks
This error is typical for a missing Google Play Services library. Couod you send a screenshot of the ‘Android’ tab in the project properties.
Sorry but, where is that ??
Anyway in the Android Tab I’m having things like:
tcp://169.254.199.100:64010 01-24 20:26:30.524 1357-1685/system_process E/BatteryService? Could not open ’/sys/class/power_supply/andy/present’ 01-24 20:26:30.528 208-208/? E/Logzmq? Unable to send log to ZMQ socket: Try again. 01-24 20:26:30.528 208-208/? D/Logzmq? Endpoint: tcp://169.254.199.100:64010 01-24 20:26:31.420 1357-1549/system_process D/SettingsProvider? User 0 external modification to /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db; event=8 01-24 20:26:31.420 1357-1549/system_process D/SettingsProvider? User 0 updating our caches for /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db 01-24 20:26:31.424 208-208/? E/Logzmq? Unable to send log to ZMQ socket: Try again. 01-24 20:26:31.424 208-208/? D/Logzmq? Endpoint: tcp://169.254.199.100:64010 01-24 20:26:31.424 208-208/? E/Logzmq? Unable to send log to ZMQ socket: Try again. 01-24 20:26:31.424 208-208/? D/Logzmq? Endpoint: tcp://169.254.199.100:64010
The Google Play Services library is essential for your template to work please read your documentation carefully, it describes all information about Google Play Services, including downloading, importing and linking.
You mean the outdated documentation ?, great ! 
The documentation has already been updated (there was only one invalid link).
Feel free to let me know if I can help you with anything else.
Hello Wateronet, we have ported our template to Android Studio, which should eliminate all errors for every user. We also rewrote our documentation from scratch and combined it with video tutorials.
We’d love to hear your feedback!
waste 20$. This sucks, the website is everyday off and no have an “how to”, in the documment its showing a different website. Download an “app” folder, but, what supposed I need doing with that? If you sold an item, make sure include an “how to” or “how works” to dispel doubts
I’m sorry to hear you are experiencing trouble. We have updated our website (so that explains why it is different from the screenshot), but the functionality is exactly the same.
There is a link to the docs inside your Panel (displayed on home and after download). You can also click here to view it immediately.
Feel free to let me know if I can help you with anything else.
how i can get a refund?
We’d appreciate it if you can contact us and provide more information on where you’ve experienced problems using the template, and where the product is different from your expectations. We hope that with this information we can improve the product for future users (and perhaps also for you).
And finally I’d like to thank you for contacting us instead of immediately posting a 1 star review (you’d be suprised how many users do this), it’s much appreciated!
We’ve update our Website to be easier to use and we also updated the screenshots of this website in our documents.
In addition to that we completely rewrote our documentation and we have added video tutorials. We also updated our offline and ‘online’ version with better instructions.
We’ve update our Website to be easier to use and we also updated the screenshots of this website in our documents.
In addition to that we completely rewrote our documentation and we have added video tutorials. We also updated our offline and ‘online’ version with better instructions.
many error in package http://prntscr.com/5v1rdn how to fix this?
I’m sorry to hear you are experiencing trouble. Are you using the web generated version? Have you linked the Google Play Services library (instructions can be found in your docs).
My mobile site require users to upload their photos. Does this webview app support upload photos? I heard of that in Kitkat 4.4, openfilechooser don’t work. Please advise.
Currently, I don’t have a solution within our template (I’m working on it though). I’d recommend using a webview alternative like Gecko: https://github.com/mfinkle/geckobrowser
Hi
1- How to define the best tool for my projects? Web2App OR Universal Webview?
2- Will Web2App do same things as Universal Webview?
3- For a city guide app project, which one is the best option? Web2APP or Universal?
4- And for a wordpress feed from local new website, which one is the best option?
5- For this Web2App tool I need to login in your backend to manage my app, or I will have a script to run in my own server?
Thank you.
I forgot to ask, in item 3, for a city guide app, I need feature like clickable phone numbers, when they are clicked it need to open the phone call feature with filled number on it. Will both web2app and universal webview do that feature?
1. Web2App is best if you are displaying a single website or if you’re using the mobile web (e.g. a Jquery mobile based app). Besides navigation, rating, and notifications, you have no need for other native functionalities. If you have a Wordpress blog, a RSS feed, twitter timeline, etc that you want to display in your app (natively), I’d recommend Universal.
2. Not completely, Universal has responsive navigation but Web2App has more useful features if you app is completely web based (and it’s easier to use).
3. If it’s completely web based, I’d recommend web2app.
4. I’d recommend Universal.
5. You can login to our website and generate your custom template, you can also use the offline version (both the same, but the generated version already has a custom package name, url, id’s etc). Both versions do not require a connection to our servers or a specific script on your server (besides the Wordpress api, if you use it).
6. Both will do that (use tel:12345).
For items 3 & 4… So let’s say I want to create a city guide using wordpress. In the wordpress I will have categories and posts under that categories. I plan to put categories (restaurants, hotels, etc) and under posts I plan to put the business name, a photo & details (may maps also). I want to display full wordpress website on app, not rss feeds. So there is possible to have in app a first screen with categories, and when clicked it will display the business names and details (wp posts in this case)? What tool is recommended for doing that? Universal or Web2app?
For item 5, regards web2app: I did not understand well. So I will have the script to run in my server or offline (local pc) which will generate the apps?
If you want to display your ‘full Wordpress website’ in the app, I’d recommend webtoapp (it will be like viewing your website in the browser).
We generate your custom webtoapp template on our servers.
can be added to advertise AirPush??
You can integrate Airpush, but you’ll have to integrate it yourself (it’s not kncluded in our support).
Feel free to let me know if I can help you with anything else.
can integrate other advertising other than google?
You’re free to customize the template and use any advertising network (note that these customizations are not covered by our support).
its a pity that u can show on demo, even in google play store….
We do have an apk demo available, you download from the live preview
Hi, please can you create a .apk demo with my url, for i try before to buy it ? thank
We do not provide customized demo’s. But our template works with the mentioned content providers. Is there anything specific that I could help you with?
Hello, I can’t download the ADT bundle. Can i use the Android Studio ?
Thanks!
I have not tried it with Studio yet, but it should work fine. Alternatively you can download the ADT bundle here: http://downloads.puresoftware.org/files/android/adt-bundle/
Hello, both in Eclipse and In Android Studio i see this error.
http://prntscr.com/5pnrx0Can you help me ?
First you need to add Google Play Services, second you need to wait for the apk to be fully loaded.
I can’t import the Google Play Services.
Hello, I figured out how to solve the problem!
Now, i exported the app successfully.
But after i installed on my phone, when i open the app crashes and close.
You know what could cause this?
I have a Galaxy S5.
Thanks!
Did you use the online or the offline version? If you use the offline version: did you change your package name?
Hello,
The online version. Thanks
Remarkable, could you send me the error log (window > logcat)?
Don’t show any error.
http://prntscr.com/5q202eAfter you connect your phone to your PC and running the app using ‘run as > android application’. Wait for your app to crash and the errors should appear here.
Ok. The error:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/96888232/log.txtIt appears your splash screen image is invalid, this can be for the following reasons:
- It’s to big (size or dimensions).
- It’s an invalid format (use .png)
- The image is broken
Thank you!!
Just one more question. How can i set to open and youtube link in the native youtube app ?
Thanks!
Unfortunately customization is not included in our support. The youtube app can already be opened using the ‘open’ button on a youtube detail page (native).
You sai in the features:
Open external apps (Youtube, Store, Mail, etc.) from Webview. Open apps from your webview, let user open the mail app with your mail-adress, let your user call you with one click. Open a play store product page or a Youtube video in the native app, etc.
How this works ?
Thanks
My bad, I’ve got you mixed up with one of my other templates.
You can use the ‘vid:’ protocol (in a link like you would normally do, followed by the video ID). If you would like to use a regular youtube url, open MainActivity.java and replace ‘vid:’ on line 173 with ‘youtube.com’.
Thankyou! Great app!!
I tried the app in and tablet with android 2.2 and the keyboard don’t appear when i click on a text box.
Unfortunately, our template is not compatible with Android V2.2
Feel free to let me know if I can help you with anything else.
They are compatible with what version ?
Basic support for 2.3 and full support for 4.0 and up.
Hello,
Library error is resolved but now this is the error.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byfs91FWe0OPYlF3Z2h1ejBDd2s/view?usp=sharing
Feel free to delete this error (this should be marked as a warning). Ypu can right click it and select delete or use Del/Backspace.
Ok, Thats great. Now one error is after launching app, (“unfortunately, APPNAME has stopped”).
Did you change you packagename? Are using the offline or the online version? Are you using parse?
Could you try cleaning your project (project/clean), removing the app on your device, restarting Eclipse and try again?
Hello,
Where to change package name. in mainactivity.java “package com.thirdbase;”
in manifest “package=”com.thirdbase”
where to change it.
My project name is ComedyNights
I have changed re/values to ”<string name=”app_name”>ComedyNights</string>”
What to do this for resolve unfortunately ComedyNights has stopped. so many errors.
Thanks
Changing the package name can be very tricky, for that reason I would always recommend to use the (free) web based template generator, which will auto edit your package name.
Hello,
I have linked google play library in to project but still get these errors, please tell me solution.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byfs91FWe0OPelhES1owZnVjRlk/view?usp=sharing
thanks
I would like a few more questions to determine the cause of your errors: May I see how you linked the project? Could you send a screenshot of the ‘library’ tab? Are you targeting Android 4.4 or up?
Open up the styles.xml files (found in values-v11, values-v14 and values-v19) and look for the following expression:
<stylename="AppTheme"parent="android:Theme.Holo.Light.XXXX">
Change it to:
<stylename="AppTheme"parent="android:Theme.Holo.Light.NoActionBar">
The code changes puts out errors, tried changing all of the above instances to my project been error’d out.
Make sure to change it only once every file. If you’re still experiencing trouble, please create a screenshot of the error.
Hello,
I am attaching error,
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4iowoe2jp-1eXFyVlZfLU9TcHM/view?usp=sharing
You don’t seem to have linked Google Play services. This is described in your docs.
Please let me know if I can help you with anything else.
Hello,
I have purchased around 2 months ago, but at present i am unable to produce any apk, please tell me in brief how to install android studio or which part i have to installed, please help. waiting for your answer.
thanks
I’m sorry to hear you are experiencing trouble. Could you specify what you mean with ‘unable to produce an apk’?
Installation instructions can be found inside your panel (documentation).
If you’re upgrading from the old panel (sourcebaker) you need to login here to retrieve your data, after you’ve done this you can create an account at the new panel by registering for a new account.
anyway to remove the splash screen? have no use for it and need it gone.
The splash screen is only shown when the webview is actually loading. Removing the splash screen would result in a blank screen (same as setting a blank image).
The splash screen is only shown when the webview is actually loading. Removing the splash screen would result in a blank screen (same as setting a blank image).
but can it not just be removed and when the app is clicked on it just goes straight to webview, not really wanting the splash screen as have no use for it.
As said earlier, the splash screen is only showed when the web-view is blank/white. You’re free to remove it, but this customization is not included in our support.
Can this work to show recipes from a wordpress blog?
Thanks
I mean import or use the wordpress database without need to insert all posts everytime again.
Web2app can display any webpage, so it’ll look like you view the blog in a browser.
Email sent, thanks for the fast answer.
Hi,
There is no R.java file on gen folder. Could you please send me that file ?
Thanks.
https://www.diigo.com/item/image/rtx7/ot7r?size=oThis file is auto generated by Android. In your case, there is an error in an xml file (colors.xml) which prevents R.java from being generated.