Description

Basic4android is the simplest and most powerful Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool available for the Android platform

Basic4android includes all features needed to develop great, real-world Android applications

Compiled applications are native Android applications, there is no extra run-time or any dependencies

Our community with over 50k developers is waiting to help you get started

General Features

Simple and powerful RAD tool for developing native Android applications

Complete IDE and programming language 100% focused on Android development

Compiles to native bytecode. No runtime libraries are required. APK files are exactly the same as APK files created with Java / Eclipse

Performance is similar to applications written with Java

Object oriented programming language

Share the code with B4J - a development tool for desktop applications New!

No need for XML programming

Rapid debugger - supports quick deployments, hot code swapping and expressions watches New!. No other native Android tool supports these features!

Highly extensible with support for custom Java libraries

WYSIWYG visual editor for Android. The visual editor supports multiple screens and resolutions

Powerful designer scripts feature. Lets you easily create sophisticated layouts

Basic4android UI Cloud service. Test your layouts on a cloud of real phones and tablets

Supports all Android phones and tablets from Android 1.6 and up to Android 4.x

Modern IDE with autocomplete, built-in documentation, internal index and other advanced features

Powerful step-by-step debugger

Large set of documentation

Built-in code obfuscation

Supports all Android core features including:

SQL databases including encrypted databases

GPS

Home screen widgets and live wallpapers

Background services and broadcast listeners

Bluetooth (serial ports)

Phone features: phone calls, sms, contacts, call logs and others

USB host / accessory modes and MTP New!

Web services

Camera

XML, JSON, XLS (MS Excel), MDB (MS Access) New! and CSV formats

Views animations

Multitouch gestures

NFC

Http Server (based on Jetty)

Arduino ADK New!

Video and audio playback / recording

Networking (TCP, Wifi Direct, UDP, FTP, SFTP New!, FTPS New!, SMTP, POP3 and SMB/CIFS)

Push notifications (GCM New! and C2DM)

Text to speech and voice recognition

AdMob ads and other ads platforms

OpenGL, libGDX New!

Graphics and charts

Sensors

Files I/O

Integrate with services such as: Parse, Google services, Twitter, Facebook and others

Google Play In-App Billing service

Objects serialization

Sip / Voip

Device Administration apps

And many more…

Additional Information