basically I am building a drug information app and it would be much easier for me if I can write every thing in a word document as follows:
Drug 1name
drug1 info
drug2 name
drug 2 info
and then have the app show line 1 (drug name) in a Label, then line 2(Drug1 info) in Label 2, then as the user clicks next label 1 shows (n=n+2line) meaning shows the 3rd line where Drug 2 name is and label 2 shows drug2 info
Send sample pictures of your word document…
And on clicking next do you want to create new label or want to update label1 and label2?
what about storing your data in a Google Spreadsheet and read the data from there?
there are a lot of ressources available for this…
Taifun
I haven’t worked on the file yet. but this is an example I made now to illustrate my point. Notice i made it into a tablet because I noticed that some drugs may require more than 1 line (at first I thought I can work around that by writing in 1px font but if there is a way to specifically pick data on C1 C2 and show them one by one as the user clicks next that would be a great help and a time saver.
I am just trying to help my classmate memories the different drug names.
for your second question I would like to update the label text into the new text
that Look more advanced that I can currently handle. I will read the links your provided thoroughly and then write back to you.
Just a question will I be able to have the app work offline if I did this?
your app then will need an option to download the data and store it locally, this could be TinyDB or SQlite
Taifun
Just a legal reminder, that google .perhaps requests a health education proof document or something
I got that. I am preparing for NAPLEX exam and I want to build an app to help me and my fellow colleagues.
can you offer any guidance on how to go about doing this in an efficient way. I mean I can write each label text one by one, but the would take ages. certainly there is a way to write everything in a spreadsheet and have the app call on the right cell or line as requested.
as a start you might want to export your spreadsheet into a file in csv format and import that file into the assets of your app
then read the file using the file component and convert the data into a list of lists
you will need 2 labels and a button “Next”
after clicking the button, the next row (which is a sublist) from the table (i.e. the list of lists) will be read and the first item of the sublist will be displayed in label1 and the second item in label 2
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