© Copyright 2011 Wolf Paulus Intents & Printing on ANDROID application fundamentals:
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Intents & Printing on
ANDROID application fundamentals:
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agenda
•Cloud Printing
•Local Wifi printing from Android
•Enable Printing in your Android Application
•Writing a cool FingerPaint app that prints your Artwork to photo paper
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Vendor Proprietary Solution
Print Configuration Page, showing printer’s email address Register printer at http://www.hp.com/go/eprintcenter Send email to the printer’s email address to get attachments printed
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Vendor Proprietary Solution
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Vendor Proprietary Solution
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Vendor Proprietary Solution
.... when used on an Android Phone
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Andr
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: http
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com
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Andr
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Southwest Airlin
es - Print Boarding Passes and Security
Documents
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RR
Southwest Airlines Boarding Pass
BOARDING PASS
PAULUS/WOLF
FLIGHT 601
MAY 17
PNR: QWQ3JX
601SAN DIEGO
to SAN JOSE 08:30 AM B
Boarding
Group
Position
Printed at
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Notices and Other Important Information
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Forward to ePrinter’s email address:
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Google’s cloud print solution
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Google’s cloud print solution
Install the Google Chrome Web Browser on a PC/Mac that is on the printer’s LANOpen Chrome’s “Preferences / Under the Hood” pageClick “Sign in to Google Cloud Print Button” on the very bottom of the pageSign-in with your Google / Gmail credentialsAll the Printer’s known to the registering PC/Mac are now available.
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Google’s cloud print solution
.... when used on an Android Phone
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Best of both Worlds:http://www.google.com/landing/cloudprint/hp-enable.html
<script src="//www.google.com/cloudprint/client/cpgadget.js"/>
<script defer="defer"> var gadget = new cloudprint.Gadget(); gadget.setPrintButton( cloudprint.Gadget.createDefaultPrintButton("default_print_button_container")); gadget.setPrintDocument("url", "Cloud Print test page", "http://www.google.com/landing/cloudprint/testpage.pdf");</script>
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http://www.google.com/webelements/#!/cloudprint
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agenda
•Cloud Printing
•Local Wifi printing from Android
•Enable Printing in your Android Application
•Writing a cool FingerPaint app that prints your Artwork to photo paper
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Scan to install
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agenda
•Cloud Printing
•Local Wifi printing from Android
•Enable Printing in your Android Application
•Writing a cool FingerPaint app that prints your Artwork to photo paper
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android Print Intent
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Intent intent = new Intent(“org.androidprinting.intent.action.PRINT”);
intent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_DEFAULT);
intent.setDataAndType(mUri, "application/pdf"); // printable content
startActivityForResult(intent, REQUEST_CODE_PRINT_FILE);
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add Printing to your application
1. Check that Print-Intent can be handledIf not, programmatically download HP iPrint Photo from Google Marketplace
2. Create Print Intent
3. Create Image Uri
4. Call startActivity() or startActivityForResult() w/ created Intent
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0 < getPackageManager().queryIntentActivities(intent, 0).size();
is Intent available
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int REQUEST_CODE = 1001;
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("market://details?id=com.hp.android.print"));
startActivityForResult(intent, REQUEST_CODE);
install apk
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Intent intent= new Intent("org.androidprinting.intent.action.PRINT");
intent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_DEFAULT);
intent.setDataAndType(saveBitmap(mView.mBitmap), "image/*");
startActivity(intent);
printing
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code + demo
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agenda
•Cloud Printing
•Local Wifi printing from Android
•Enable Printing in your Android Application
•Writing a cool FingerPaint app that prints your Artwork to photo paper
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code + demo
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Summary•Cloud Printing .. Google Cloud / HP Cloud / Best of Both Worlds
•Local WiFi printing from Android w/ HP iPrint Photo
•Enable Printing in your Android Application in four easy steps
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