Basic4Android 9.0 Retail
Basic4Android 9.0 Retail
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
Some of less obvious new features:
- Press on Ctrl + Click to jump to an identifier (sub, variables, etc.).
- Themes - Ctrl + T
- Sophisticated conditional compilation: #If, #Else If, #Else and support for OR and AND. Also supported in the manifest editor and designer scripts.
- Dockable layout. Including support for multiple open editors.
- Find all references - F7.
- Quick search - Ctrl + F.
- Goto sub / module - Ctrl + E.
- Smarter autocomplete.
- Hover over variables and expressions in debug mode.
- Structure matching.
- Automatic warnings and errors highlighting.
- Support for multiple visual designer windows
- Better support for selection and editing of multiple controls.
- Views tree supports drag and drop to allow changing the z-order.
- Integrated abstract designer with support for zooming.
- Memory leak related to layout animations was fixed.
- StartServiceAtExact keyword.
- Press on Ctrl + Click to jump to an identifier (sub, variables, etc.).
- Themes - Ctrl + T
- Sophisticated conditional compilation: #If, #Else If, #Else and support for OR and AND. Also supported in the manifest editor and designer scripts.
- Dockable layout. Including support for multiple open editors.
- Find all references - F7.
- Quick search - Ctrl + F.
- Goto sub / module - Ctrl + E.
- Smarter autocomplete.
- Hover over variables and expressions in debug mode.
- Structure matching.
- Automatic warnings and errors highlighting.
- Support for multiple visual designer windows
- Better support for selection and editing of multiple controls.
- Views tree supports drag and drop to allow changing the z-order.
- Integrated abstract designer with support for zooming.
- Memory leak related to layout animations was fixed.
- StartServiceAtExact keyword.
v9.00
Compilation performance (about 2 times faster for first compilation and up to 4 times faster on following compilations).
Bookmarks and breakpoints are listed in the modules tree:
Auto backup improvements:
Project is saved before backup, based on the auto save option.
Project name added to the backup file.
The project folder is configurable (AutoBackupFolder in the ini file).
Warning for unused parameters in private, non-event, subs.
Additional library folder can be configured with a B4X folder for cross platform libraries: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/b4x-additional-libraries-folder.103165/
#Event declarations appear in the autocomplete list.
Fix for a long standing issue that caused scope changes of global variables to not always be detected.
Workaround for Android issue (https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/113122354) that caused services to fail to start in some edge cases. This is based on the automatic foreground mode feature.
Copy to clipboard option in the permissions dialog.
Missing maven resources can be added to the internal or additional libraries folders.
com.google.auto.value-auto-value-annotations added as an internal library. This is a missing maven resource that required by Firebase libraries.
B4XCollections, B4XFormatter, B4XTable, XML2Map and XUI Views are internal libraries.
Foreground services permission is added automatically. Required when setting targetSdkVersion to 28.
CreateResourceFromFile(Macro, Core.NetworkClearText) - Required when setting targetSdkVersion to 28 when communicating with non-SSL servers.
Application.Icon works with adaptive icons.
FirebaseAdMob v1.54 - Fixes an issue related to targetSdkVersion 28. ReceveAd event is raised when the activity resumes (if it fired while the activity was paused).
Files are listed in the removal dialog.
OkHttpUtils2 v2.81 - Includes a call to Service.StopAutomaticForeground (related to the workaround discussed above).
Other bug fixes and minor improvements.
Compilation performance (about 2 times faster for first compilation and up to 4 times faster on following compilations).
Bookmarks and breakpoints are listed in the modules tree:
Auto backup improvements:
Project is saved before backup, based on the auto save option.
Project name added to the backup file.
The project folder is configurable (AutoBackupFolder in the ini file).
Warning for unused parameters in private, non-event, subs.
Additional library folder can be configured with a B4X folder for cross platform libraries: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/b4x-additional-libraries-folder.103165/
#Event declarations appear in the autocomplete list.
Fix for a long standing issue that caused scope changes of global variables to not always be detected.
Workaround for Android issue (https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/113122354) that caused services to fail to start in some edge cases. This is based on the automatic foreground mode feature.
Copy to clipboard option in the permissions dialog.
Missing maven resources can be added to the internal or additional libraries folders.
com.google.auto.value-auto-value-annotations added as an internal library. This is a missing maven resource that required by Firebase libraries.
B4XCollections, B4XFormatter, B4XTable, XML2Map and XUI Views are internal libraries.
Foreground services permission is added automatically. Required when setting targetSdkVersion to 28.
CreateResourceFromFile(Macro, Core.NetworkClearText) - Required when setting targetSdkVersion to 28 when communicating with non-SSL servers.
Application.Icon works with adaptive icons.
FirebaseAdMob v1.54 - Fixes an issue related to targetSdkVersion 28. ReceveAd event is raised when the activity resumes (if it fired while the activity was paused).
Files are listed in the removal dialog.
OkHttpUtils2 v2.81 - Includes a call to Service.StopAutomaticForeground (related to the workaround discussed above).
Other bug fixes and minor improvements.
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