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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

Wrapping our site in an Android WebView


Now we get to the bit where we actually start making an app. The Android code that we will write is in the Java language. It will work on over 90 percent of Android devices.

What we will do in this recipe is, create a wrapper for our site content. So it will be like making a web browser app but a web browser app that only has our site in it. It will be fully compatible and testable and we will do so at the end of the recipe in the How it works... section.

As you will see, we will also change the browser look and feel to make it more app like than just browser like.

Getting ready

When we create our Android project in just a few moments we will be asked to define a few things to get started. This includes a name for the app. Think of a name that is quite short, so it is not truncated on the screen of an Android phone and one that is obvious what it does.

We also get the opportunity to define the graphics that will be used as the start icon on the Android...