Anyone here have experience with Android Dev(or I guess Java, too)?

Well, I'm doing a project for Android for school, essentially a little program that will let you scan an item's barcode, then add that item to your collection. My issue is that I dont know how to get the items info.

For example, I can scan a barcode and have it take me to google, or the barcode database, but how would I get the actual product info? Like the strings for the title, dev, and possibly image from the website? Does anyone know how you do this? I have no idea :'( Or would anyone know how to do a similar activity(drawing specific data) in just normal Java?

I would construct a database, but it would have to constantly update, so thats why I'm looking for ways to take the data from a site.

 

Not really sure how to do this in Java since I only actively code in C, but from looking around I would probably be using cURL to parser the page. There seems to be a cURL port for Java so maybe that would help.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/javacurl/

 

Awesome, thanks! I'll check it out.

 

I need to do some Android development too; specifically mixing Java and C++, anyone know much about this? Or can recommend a good Android development forum?

Thanks,

 

I kinda know how to mix Java and C/C++ on PC, but not on Android. (What is Android anyways, an architecture, chipset, or operating system, I honestly never found out )

 

It's possible to develop Android C++ apps using the official native SDK (NDK):
http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html
(mixing c++ and java is supported too)

@Android development forums:

The official Google channels for android dev questions are Stackoverflow and Google Groups

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android
http://groups.google.com/group/android-ndk

http://www.anddev.org/ looks quite active too.

 

Android is Google's mobile OS. Kinda like iPhone OS from Apple....*kinda*