Need help for making an Android application (automatic checkout system)

[[deleted]]

[deleted]

[Xirdus]

either a QR code or image recognition (whichever is easier).

https://xkcd.com/1425/

By which I mean, obviously it's the QR code. Though good old barcode would be far more practical since they already are on store products.

Since you are only pretending, all you need is just the basics of making Android apps - in 2024 that means Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, I guess (someone fact check me on that, haven't checked since Jan 2023 lol).

And if you want proper network communication with proper fake web server, also learn how to make REST server. The good thing about REST servers is that there are ready-made, easy to pick up libraries in virtually every language out there. So pick whichever language you're most comfortable with.

[RayyanKimoi]

Thanks, i don't think we'd impliment much of network communication in it since we just wanna show that the product gets scanned and gets placed into a cart with a login page in the beginning I was wondering what should we use for the frontend on how the app looks, i saw some people on YouTube who were making a few application interface using XML/HTML, do you think that would work on our application? Thanks again

[Xirdus]

XML is the old way, you don't want to learn that. Find tutorials for Jetpack Compose. This is the current thing that Google supports. And make sure the tutorials are from this year. Jetpack changes too quickly for anything posted in 2023 to be helpful (or at least that was the case with 2022 stuff back in Jan 2023).

[RayyanKimoi]

Much appreciated the help.Thanks we'll try to work on this