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Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook

By : John Horton
Book Image

Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook

By: John Horton

Overview of this book

VirtueMart is a premier eCommerce solution powered by Joomla!In Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook you will learn how to create a full-functioning and attractive eCommerce solution with VirtueMart. You will be shown how to install and configure VirtueMart, how to set-up and run your store day-to-day as well as configure and customize the look and feel of your store. With this book by your side, you will be able to overcome as problems setting up, administrating and customizing your eCommerce store! This book finishes with blueprint projects meaning that getting started with VirtueMart is even easier for the novice and aspiring site builder or developer. If you have always wanted to create a professional-looking store, but are worried about the complexity and difficulty involved, then this book is for you! With numerous recipes, practical tips and solutions Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook will take you through every step required to achieve eCommerce success.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Exporting our app to use it on a real Android device


This quick recipe, like the last one will show us how to create the native Android .apk file which we can install on an Android device or upload to Google Play. We are looking at this now so that you can view it on a real Android device.

Getting ready

How you transfer files to an Android device differs from device to device, so to keep things easy to replicate across multiple different devices I suggest you create a free Dropbox account and install the free Dropbox app on any of the devices you want to run your app on. But any way you can transfer a file to your phone will suffice.

Set up Dropbox by visiting www.dropbox.com on your PC and searching for it and installing it from Google Play on your Android device.

How to do it...

First of all we need to make our phones accept apps that are not from Google Play. Obviously, when your app is published your users will not need to perform step 1 when getting it direct from Google Play.

  1. Each Android...