Alpha Software Mobile Development Tools:   Alpha Anywhere    |   Alpha TransForm subscribe to our YouTube Channel  Follow Us on LinkedIn  Follow Us on Twitter  Follow Us on Facebook
Devcon 2020 Goes Virtual! LEARN MORE >

Announcement

Collapse

The Alpha Software Forum Participation Guidelines

The Alpha Software Forum is a free forum created for Alpha Software Developer Community to ask for help, exchange ideas, and share solutions. Alpha Software strives to create an environment where all members of the community can feel safe to participate. In order to ensure the Alpha Software Forum is a place where all feel welcome, forum participants are expected to behave as follows:
  • Be professional in your conduct
  • Be kind to others
  • Be constructive when giving feedback
  • Be open to new ideas and suggestions
  • Stay on topic


Be sure all comments and threads you post are respectful. Posts that contain any of the following content will be considered a violation of your agreement as a member of the Alpha Software Forum Community and will be moderated:
  • Spam.
  • Vulgar language.
  • Quotes from private conversations without permission, including pricing and other sales related discussions.
  • Personal attacks, insults, or subtle put-downs.
  • Harassment, bullying, threatening, mocking, shaming, or deriding anyone.
  • Sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, or otherwise discriminatory jokes and language.
  • Sexually explicit or violent material, links, or language.
  • Pirated, hacked, or copyright-infringing material.
  • Encouraging of others to engage in the above behaviors.


If a thread or post is found to contain any of the content outlined above, a moderator may choose to take one of the following actions:
  • Remove the Post or Thread - the content is removed from the forum.
  • Place the User in Moderation - all posts and new threads must be approved by a moderator before they are posted.
  • Temporarily Ban the User - user is banned from forum for a period of time.
  • Permanently Ban the User - user is permanently banned from the forum.


Moderators may also rename posts and threads if they are too generic or do not property reflect the content.

Moderators may move threads if they have been posted in the incorrect forum.

Threads/Posts questioning specific moderator decisions or actions (such as "why was a user banned?") are not allowed and will be removed.

The owners of Alpha Software Corporation (Forum Owner) reserve the right to remove, edit, move, or close any thread for any reason; or ban any forum member without notice, reason, or explanation.

Community members are encouraged to click the "Report Post" icon in the lower left of a given post if they feel the post is in violation of the rules. This will alert the Moderators to take a look.

Alpha Software Corporation may amend the guidelines from time to time and may also vary the procedures it sets out where appropriate in a particular case. Your agreement to comply with the guidelines will be deemed agreement to any changes to it.



Bonus TIPS for Successful Posting

Try a Search First
It is highly recommended that a Search be done on your topic before posting, as many questions have been answered in prior posts. As with any search engine, the shorter the search term, the more "hits" will be returned, but the more specific the search term is, the greater the relevance of those "hits". Searching for "table" might well return every message on the board while "tablesum" would greatly restrict the number of messages returned.

When you do post
First, make sure you are posting your question in the correct forum. For example, if you post an issue regarding Desktop applications on the Mobile & Browser Applications board , not only will your question not be seen by the appropriate audience, it may also be removed or relocated.

The more detail you provide about your problem or question, the more likely someone is to understand your request and be able to help. A sample database with a minimum of records (and its support files, zipped together) will make it much easier to diagnose issues with your application. Screen shots of error messages are especially helpful.

When explaining how to reproduce your problem, please be as detailed as possible. Describe every step, click-by-click and keypress-by-keypress. Otherwise when others try to duplicate your problem, they may do something slightly different and end up with different results.

A note about attachments
You may only attach one file to each message. Attachment file size is limited to 2MB. If you need to include several files, you may do so by zipping them into a single archive.

If you forgot to attach your files to your post, please do NOT create a new thread. Instead, reply to your original message and attach the file there.

When attaching screen shots, it is best to attach an image file (.BMP, .JPG, .GIF, .PNG, etc.) or a zip file of several images, as opposed to a Word document containing the screen shots. Because Word documents are prone to viruses, many message board users will not open your Word file, therefore limiting their ability to help you.

Similarly, if you are uploading a zipped archive, you should simply create a .ZIP file and not a self-extracting .EXE as many users will not run your EXE file.
See more
See less

Taking Video With Mobile App

Collapse
X
Collapse
 
  • Page of 1
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts
Previous template Next
    #1

    Taking Video With Mobile App

    I want to build a mobile app that allows you to take a video with an iPhone or Android device and have that video upload automatically to a user profile for retrieval. How would I go about doing this? Also, I am still on version 11, what version do I need to upgrade to? I guess I would need to be able to store the videos in S3 on AWS, so I guess I would need the enterprise version? Any help would be appreciated! Thanks.
    Tags: None
    #2
    Re: Taking Video With Mobile App

    Originally posted by swest View Post
    I want to build a mobile app that allows you to take a video with an iPhone or Android device and have that video upload automatically to a user profile for retrieval. How would I go about doing this? Also, I am still on version 11, what version do I need to upgrade to? I guess I would need to be able to store the videos in S3 on AWS, so I guess I would need the enterprise version? Any help would be appreciated! Thanks.
    Hello Steven,

    We have been working on adding audio and video capture to Alpha Anywhere. These features are currently available as part of the mobile optimized forms features currently in beta development. If you want to try out these features, you can join the beta program. You must, however, be a current user of Alpha Anywhere, so accessing these features will require upgrading to Alpha Anywhere. I would suggest contacting the sales department for more information on the specific deployment package you need.

    Visit https://www.alphasoftware.com/tablet/beta/ for more information about the mobile optimized forms beta.
    Sarah Mitchell
    Director of Customer Success | [URL="https://www.alphasoftware.com"]Alpha Software Corporation[/URL]
    [B]Get in the know! [/B] Join us for our Weekly Webinars: [URL="https://www.alphasoftware.com/weekly-transform-tuesday-webinar"]TransForm Tuesday[/URL] and [URL="https://www.alphasoftware.com/weekly-alpha-anywhere-overview-webinar"]Wednesday's Alpha Anywhere Demo and Q&A[/URL]
    Connect with us: [URL="https://www.instagram.com/alpha_software_corp/"]Instagram[/URL] | [URL="https://twitter.com/AlphaSoftware"]Twitter[/URL] | [URL="https://www.facebook.com/AlphaSoftware/"]Facebook[/URL] | [URL="https://www.linkedin.com/company/alpha-software"]LinkedIn[/URL] | [URL="https://www.youtube.com/user/AlphaSoftwareInc"]YouTube[/URL]

    Comment

      #3
      Re: Taking Video With Mobile App

      Thanks for replying, when do you think this will be out of beta and ready for production?

      Comment

        #4
        Re: Taking Video With Mobile App

        I've been using the integrated video capture for phonegap in the beta for a few months now and I would say it is working great. Also, with the current live version, in direct mobile web (no phonegap), the regular file upload action javascript gives the user the option to take a video for upload. I do not know if that option appears and works inside phonegap. I suspect not as phonegap restricts file and device (camera) access. I'm using the Beta video capture. Since you mentioned S3, I do believe there is a small bug and you may have to republish the storage connection string in the publishing profile not just in project properties. This may have been fixed.

        Comment

          #5
          Re: Taking Video With Mobile App

          Thanks Eric, which version of Alpha Anywhere are you using, it seems that you need enterprise version if you store with S3?

          Comment

            #6
            Re: Taking Video With Mobile App

            I am using the version just before the last update. I believe this is the last one before they switched to different levels of license.

            Comment

              #7
              Re: Taking Video With Mobile App

              How are you storing your videos? Just in the file system on local servers? Was thinking about storing the videos in S3 since my app in running on AWS.

              Comment

                #8
                Re: Taking Video With Mobile App

                Using S3, which is awesome. Once I figured out the slight bug of needing to republish storage string in publishing profile, it was very easy.

                Comment

                  #9
                  Re: Taking Video With Mobile App

                  Where is the video tutorial on how to do video capture using a mobile camera?

                  Comment

                    #10
                    Re: Taking Video With Mobile App

                    Have to agree, since video was introduced, using the most recent pre-release - you can do all the things in your original thread.
                    Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
                    Albert Einstein, (attributed)
                    US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

                    Comment

                      #11
                      Re: Taking Video With Mobile App

                      So you don't know where the video tutorial is that describes how to do video capture?

                      Comment

                        #12
                        Re: Taking Video With Mobile App

                        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5xTOrpQWBA

                        I found this, hope it helps.
                        NWCOPRO: Nuisance Wildlife Control Software My Application: http://www.nwcopro.com "Without forgetting, we would have no memory at all...now what was I saying?"

                        Comment

                          #13
                          Re: Taking Video With Mobile App

                          Originally posted by swest View Post
                          Where is the video tutorial on how to do video capture using a mobile camera?
                          Hello Steven,

                          You may also be interested in this article: Video Recording in Mobile Applications
                          Sarah Mitchell
                          Director of Customer Success | [URL="https://www.alphasoftware.com"]Alpha Software Corporation[/URL]
                          [B]Get in the know! [/B] Join us for our Weekly Webinars: [URL="https://www.alphasoftware.com/weekly-transform-tuesday-webinar"]TransForm Tuesday[/URL] and [URL="https://www.alphasoftware.com/weekly-alpha-anywhere-overview-webinar"]Wednesday's Alpha Anywhere Demo and Q&A[/URL]
                          Connect with us: [URL="https://www.instagram.com/alpha_software_corp/"]Instagram[/URL] | [URL="https://twitter.com/AlphaSoftware"]Twitter[/URL] | [URL="https://www.facebook.com/AlphaSoftware/"]Facebook[/URL] | [URL="https://www.linkedin.com/company/alpha-software"]LinkedIn[/URL] | [URL="https://www.youtube.com/user/AlphaSoftwareInc"]YouTube[/URL]

                          Comment

                          Previous template Next
                          Working...
                          X