I am looking for a barebones app that will let your create a shopping list of what item, quantity, and a way to mark it. I also want an app that I can export and import into. I downloaded one called shopping list plus and it works great and will export the list but it won't import.
I've found the app Grocery Iq is a great shopping assistant (Search Grocery IQ in the market), it allows you to scan barcodes, type in manually, set different stores for different things, email out the list. It ties into coupons(dot)com very nicely to show you if there is a coupon available in your area but I've not seen the import function that you're looking for, but possibly the barcode scan could replace the need for import?
There was a topic like this not to long ago.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=676825
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One major bug bear I have with android is that it does not allow you to save your current GPS position to one of your existing contacts. I just can not believe android would leave out such an important feature.
Now has ICS fixed this serious flaw?
I don't think it's a critical feature or "serious flaw" and it definitely isn't a bug ;-)
You could try to find an app which does that or even write it by yourself - it would be quite easy.
How about doing it the normal way, and put their blooming addresses into their contact page like normal people lol GPS location indeed!! Iphone nonsense again I bet much like ear muffs that double as earphones! Useless and pointless lol.
Unless i've missed the point, which I doubt lol.
biffsmash said:
How about doing it the normal way, and put their blooming addresses into their contact page like normal people lol GPS location indeed!! Iphone nonsense again I bet much like ear muffs that double as earphones! Useless and pointless lol.
Unless i've missed the point, which I doubt lol.
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I was just gonna say, postal address shows up in navigation too... Something iPhone doesn't have lol
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Guys maybe I didnt explain my situation very well. Well here goes.
Sure I could save the postal address into my contacts, however I travel allot with my job to people who live in the countryside.
Usually the postal address does not direct me straight to their homes. This is where I would take the time to add their exact gps position to my contacts. This means that when I visit them again I can find them easily.
There are no apps built for android that allow this to happen. I have tried every single gps app there is. I infact challenge someone to find me one that will allow me to save my current gps position to an existing contact.
I am sure other people who travel allot between customers who may be remote would want the same feature.
You could always add their address as a Favourite in the navigation program you use. Then you just use that as the destination.
Once added as a favourite you can go on google maps and add it to a custom map, and use it as a layer, I have one for personal stuff and one for work. you can then tap these places and navigate there?
diablous said:
Once added as a favourite you can go on google maps and add it to a custom map, and use it as a layer, I have one for personal stuff and one for work. you can then tap these places and navigate there?
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I dont use google maps though. Plus I have 100s of contacts, and sometimes its just easier going to my contacts, searching for someone and then navigating. Where as with the stared places I would have to scroll through 100s of them to find the right contact. Add the fact I cant ring from that star or text the person.
Why don't you ask in the Galaxy Nexus Q thread where people are actually using ICS? Just a thought
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Guys maybe I didnt explain my situation very well. Well here goes.
Sure I could save the postal address into my contacts, however I travel allot with my job to people who live in the countryside.
Usually the postal address does not direct me straight to their homes. This is where I would take the time to add their exact gps position to my contacts. This means that when I visit them again I can find them easily.
There are no apps built for android that allow this to happen. I have tried every single gps app there is. I infact challenge someone to find me one that will allow me to save my current gps position to an existing contact.
I am sure other people who travel allot between customers who may be remote would want the same feature.
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You can save a specific location in Google Maps to My Places. Then you can add the location as Contact in My Contacts. You can save it with the name of person you want or as different person and associate with Contact you want. But, when you will do this it will save the nearest postal address instead of the gps location. So, to save the exact gps location you will select the location you want in My Places, choose More, Share this place and choose Messaging or Email. It will show you an text with Postal Address and web link. This link is the exact location of place in Google Maps. You can copy it and add it to a Contact as website. Then when you will select this website for your Contact it will show it on Google Maps and you can use Maps or Navigation to reach it.
Sorry if my english is not so good but I'm sure you understand what I mean.
I know that isn't a easy workaround but at least you can save the exact gps location for a Contact and this is the only way till someone will make an application for this (I bet is very easy, the gps location is translated into an web link and you only have to assign this web link to an account).
Im sorry but reading that is just making me confused lol :S
I think no one can write this because its not built into android, im sure windows 7 phone users have such a simple feature included. Why not android...
Man YOU are a major bug, what a strange request.
Go buy a WP7 device then.
An entire page of people just told you how to do it.
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I dont use google maps though. Plus I have 100s of contacts, and sometimes its just easier going to my contacts, searching for someone and then navigating. Where as with the stared places I would have to scroll through 100s of them to find the right contact. Add the fact I cant ring from that star or text the person.
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You can search your layers for names or addresses, you can also include phone numbers aswell. oddly enough mate i have hundreds of contacts too, so the point is mute. as I scroll through the list, like a phone book to find the person i need. and if i can't be bothered i just search and it finds the person.
while i know a BMW i had would save addresses via your current GPS, which i was handy this works just as well. Plus using the My maps feature, i've outlined the london congestion charge zone, my clients places, my suppliers, my co-workers home address etc. I've got account numbers, phone numbers, emails, pictures of the buildings i'm visiting, with my maps it's endless and tbh I'm pretty sure it covers your issue.. Also with my maps you can sit at a desktop and put your contacts on the maps, so you don't even need to be at the address to do it...
I've never come across a device that lets you do this in an "official" manner, the best you could hope for would be to copy their Google Maps location URL into the notes for that contact.
I can't imagine it being a feature that many people would have any use for, certainly not over the more common feature of a basic street address.
It's certainly not the major lack-of-critical-feature that you're making it out to be.
@knightnz, but it does exist it's just the maps app is used not the contacts book.
here is my latest map plotting new accounts i've opened. if you do this you'll be sorted. I appreciate sometime i wish i could drop a pin where i'm standing from my phone to my maps, but if i put a favourite star down, when i go to my maps i can turn it into a drop pin. so it's all good.
in theory this chap could favourite his clients then go to my maps and turn them into drop pins. simple.
Guys I DO NOT USE GOOGLE MAPS FOR NAVIGATION.
Maps can 'Share' location information via an Android intent, but it seems the contacts application doesn't consume it (though it is just sent as a plaintext intent so it shouldn't be too hard to make Contacts support this). I'm not sure that there is a standard way of sharing location information via intents (which is unfortunate, there should be), so clean integration is unlikely to be possible. Though it should be possible to modify the contacts directly from the GPS app via the Contacts API. Or modify the contacts app so that you can add 'current position' as a location.
This basically means no app can use the feature to save gps position to current contacts.
Sygic allows you to assign a "position" to a contact from either a search of it's location database or from a point on a map. However, that assigned position seems to stay associated with the contact only in Sygic. It doesn't get written into Contacts for other programs to use (or to get synced up to Google).
Again I repeat I do not use google maps, and other apps would possibly implement this feature but they cant because android doesnt allow it.
Omg, I've allready explained how to do this and you didn't even bother to test it step-by-step. Your claim is a non-sense because you dont' have a GPS position field for a contact in your Contacts application and I bet its the same in iOs and Windows mobile. That's why you can't save it, because you don't have a field for it. If you just want to save the gps position as a Note for a contact there are dozens of apps who does that.
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I've never come across a device that lets you do this in an "official" manner, the best you could hope for would be to copy their Google Maps location URL into the notes for that contact.
I can't imagine it being a feature that many people would have any use for, certainly not over the more common feature of a basic street address.
It's certainly not the major lack-of-critical-feature that you're making it out to be.
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Cut the OP some slack, I found this a very useful feature when I used Garmin on my old Nokia N95, and it spoils you once you're accustomed to just doing it. What's critical to everyone varies.
As someone who can have the same types of problems with rural locations, it never ceases how many people seem to assume the world ends at the edge of a city.
As for what I learned to do and this is pretty fast I use the "GPS status & toolbox" app from the market and a few seconds after it opens it has a lock then I just hit menu > share > "copy to clipboard"
Go into my contacts and paste it into the address of whichever contact and delete everything except the plain latitude and longitude.
Actually I am creating an android App. In which app user buy products online.
After successfully placing order. I need to generate bill and show it user which he may store it on mobile.
I have no clue how i am gonna do that.
few aprroches in my mind as of now.
1. Get cart data from the app to server-> make bill in pdf or suitable formaton server-> send it to app's inbox as well as to email.
2. Get cart data from the app to server -> then whenever user request send data to app to dynamically generate bill from received data.
App flow :
User--> browse products -> add products in cart -> place order-> after successful ordering generate the bill and mail or show it aps inbox
If any one has alternative solution or want to suggest ifferent flow please feel free to share
Sandeep_Jagtap said:
Actually I am creating an android App. In which app user buy products online.
After successfully placing order. I need to generate bill and show it user which he may store it on mobile.
I have no clue how i am gonna do that.
few aprroches in my mind as of now.
1. Get cart data from the app to server-> make bill in pdf or suitable formaton server-> send it to app's inbox as well as to email.
2. Get cart data from the app to server -> then whenever user request send data to app to dynamically generate bill from received data.
App flow :
User--> browse products -> add products in cart -> place order-> after successful ordering generate the bill and mail or show it aps inbox
If any one has alternative solution or want to suggest ifferent flow please feel free to share
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I have decided to go with Approch Number 1
Generate invoice.pdf with php on server and open in web view of pdf in app and optionaly ask for mail or download invoice.
Your approach seems good! What I would do apart from it is, save the cart item in database associated with the user. You may use your own username/password pair to place the order or use AccountManager class to use the user's registered gmail id on the phone as login. Or even better, provide them option to use any one of them. That way, user can request duplicate invoice anytime they want from cart history.
Hint: After placing order, always catch the cart to local DB so that it can be viewed offline. Also, use php to connect to db of remote server and perform operations. Never connect to db directly from the app because you have more chances of compromising your remote DB with this method
P.S: I just noticed that your app "Nomadic Food" Is not licensed. Please consider including a license so that the source belongs to you forever. Its always good to license opensource projects. I personally prefer GNU GPL license. But you can choose whatever suits you better. this this might help you select the license.
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P.S: I just noticed that your app "Nomadic Food" Is not licensed. Please consider including a license so that the source belongs to you forever. Its always good to license opensource projects. I personally prefer GNU GPL license. But you can choose whatever suits you better. this this might help you select the license.
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Definitely do this.
Hi,
I am wondering what possible ways would be for loading a simple website into my app. My first thought is using a WebView, but I would like a dynamic app, while webview takes some time when loading between pages and links.
Is a common solution to load the html resources locally, from let say the assets folder? Than I could use AsyncTask to keep the files up to date and whenever the app starts it would load and work much quickly.
Or should I use HTTP Requests and parse the external Html document?
What would be the most situable solution for this kind of app?
Thanks,
Ved
vedtam said:
Hi,
I am wondering what possible ways would be for loading a simple website into my app. My first thought is using a WebView, but I would like a dynamic app, while webview takes some time when loading between pages and links.
Is a common solution to load the html resources locally, from let say the assets folder? Than I could use AsyncTask to keep the files up to date and whenever the app starts it would load and work much quickly.
Or should I use HTTP Requests and parse the external Html document?
What would be the most situable solution for this kind of app?
Thanks,
Ved
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I think it's probably a decision best made by yourself. You have not said what type of data ? Cause really you should be wanting the minimal amount required. My app uses lots of data from my server for things like themes, but these come direct from SQL Database
deanwray said:
I think it's probably a decision best made by yourself. You have not said what type of data ? Cause really you should be wanting the minimal amount required. My app uses lots of data from my server for things like themes, but these come direct from SQL Database
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Hi deanwray,
Thanks for your reply. I made some more researching and I have realised that my best bet is SQL, as you said.
Do you request data in your app directly from the online mySql database generally? I have read about a technique on downloading the data from the online database and converting it to SQLite (which is the local database on android) inside the application. This would be really cool, would really boost performance.
ved.
vedtam said:
Hi deanwray,
Thanks for your reply. I made some more researching and I have realised that my best bet is SQL, as you said.
Do you request data in your app directly from the online mySql database generally? I have read about a technique on downloading the data from the online database and converting it to SQLite (which is the local database on android) inside the application. This would be really cool, would really boost performance.
ved.
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well my app uses a hosted database for
Online Theme Data (thumbnails store in just web space)
Settings Overrides (settings that I may have to force on the app)
Announcements ( Messages that trigger dialogs, adverts, html boxes)
Purchase info
other stuff that I forget
Any database that I access online I cache data local in cache sqlite database
So lets say the most complex things is the purchase list... a rough flow is as follows :
Get idents from online purchasable list
get descriptions and titles from idents
store local database
Simultaneous query of google IAP data from play to get locale info and pricing (along with IAP ident)
Store that in same local db
Display to user at, initial data, updated data and price additions
The database online is accessed via php (not a fan of that but hey ho, not really a programmer so there ya go) and given to the app as encoded JSON
I'm currently considering an ORM system like greenDAO or something like that...but not looked too much into it currently.
The themes database is quite good as it hold descriptions of views, shading, dimensions etc, these too are never displayed to the user from the server, but are cached local, cause failure of internet and failure of sync should not prevent any vital parts of what appears to be an offline app from working (e.g. my Smart SMS app)
Hope that helps, I could pass you the php although tis quite simple, there are security issues to look out for though
deanwray said:
well my app uses a hosted database for
Online Theme Data (thumbnails store in just web space)
Settings Overrides (settings that I may have to force on the app)
Announcements ( Messages that trigger dialogs, adverts, html boxes)
Purchase info
other stuff that I forget
Any database that I access online I cache data local in cache sqlite database
So lets say the most complex things is the purchase list... a rough flow is as follows :
Get idents from online purchasable list
get descriptions and titles from idents
store local database
Simultaneous query of google IAP data from play to get locale info and pricing (along with IAP ident)
Store that in same local db
Display to user at, initial data, updated data and price additions
The database online is accessed via php (not a fan of that but hey ho, not really a programmer so there ya go) and given to the app as encoded JSON
I'm currently considering an ORM system like greenDAO or something like that...but not looked too much into it currently.
The themes database is quite good as it hold descriptions of views, shading, dimensions etc, these too are never displayed to the user from the server, but are cached local, cause failure of internet and failure of sync should not prevent any vital parts of what appears to be an offline app from working (e.g. my Smart SMS app)
Hope that helps, I could pass you the php although tis quite simple, there are security issues to look out for though
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Thanks for the details! It was really useful to see your workflow, I was not sure about the direction I should choose for my app development, but now is much clearer.
Thanks!
ved
Hy deanwray,
I could use a litle help, regarding the methods you have adopted for synchronising your online database with your apps local database.
I have reached a point where my database is ready, I am parsing (via JSON) data from a local xml file, and inserting it into my SQLite database. Everything works ok, but I need to get the data from my online mySql server into my app on a regular basis.
I have found threads wich mentiones the Android sync adapter, and others where people use the HTTPClient to pass data to/from the server. To be hones I am a bit confused, I would really glad if you could light me up on what would be the best approach, or what works for you the best
Thanks!!
vedtam said:
Hy deanwray,
I could use a litle help, regarding the methods you have adopted for synchronising your online database with your apps local database.
I have reached a point where my database is ready, I am parsing (via JSON) data from a local xml file, and inserting it into my SQLite database. Everything works ok, but I need to get the data from my online mySql server into my app on a regular basis.
I have found threads wich mentiones the Android sync adapter, and others where people use the HTTPClient to pass data to/from the server. To be hones I am a bit confused, I would really glad if you could light me up on what would be the best approach, or what works for you the best
Thanks!!
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If you want do operate online database server then generally php is used.there is a tutorial on androidhive check it . you will get the answer
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vedtam said:
Hy deanwray,
I could use a litle help, regarding the methods you have adopted for synchronising your online database with your apps local database.
I have reached a point where my database is ready, I am parsing (via JSON) data from a local xml file, and inserting it into my SQLite database. Everything works ok, but I need to get the data from my online mySql server into my app on a regular basis.
I have found threads wich mentiones the Android sync adapter, and others where people use the HTTPClient to pass data to/from the server. To be hones I am a bit confused, I would really glad if you could light me up on what would be the best approach, or what works for you the best
Thanks!!
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if you need a real time chat hit me up on hangouts https://plus.google.com/+DeanWray/
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Thanks.
Here is a massive media list (874 journalists and 593 media outlets) I built on Anewstip for productivity app developers: http://anewstip.com/lists/journalists/556fc1cbd77ea65bddd5e92c/
If you are interested, please leave your email and I'll send you the exported list with detailed contact information including email address. You can also create a free account on Anewstip and subscribe to the list, so you can get updates to the list as I'm adding new ones.
What's Anewstip
Simply speaking, Anewstip is a media contact database and social monitoring tool. Its database contains close to 1 million media contacts with detailed contact information including email and phone number for most of them. One of its search feature allows you to find out media contacts by searching through their real-time and historical tweets since 2006). The assumption is that if a journalist has tweeted a topic, like your brand or competitor, he/she might be more likely to respond to your messages/ news tip.
How I curated this list
Step 1: List keywords
I first listed all the key words. Since I want to find out journalists and media outlets that might be interested in covering productivity apps, I simply chose some of the top productivity app names as keywords. My assumption is that if a media Tweeted one of those keywords, it may be more interested in responding to my pitches. I used the following keywords:
Evernote Android
Dropbox Android
"Do Button" IFTTT
Swapps
"Changelog Droid"
Pushbullet
AirDroid
JuiceSSH
SuperSU
CleanMaster
Step 2: Search
Once I listed all the keywords, I searched them on Anewstip. Here is the search of ""Do Button" IFTTT": http://anewstip.com/search/tweets/?q="Do Button" IFTTT&search_by=journalists_outlets
Step 3: Add to media list
I can add journalists to a media list one by one or in bulk. To add all contacts, I just need to check the "Select all on page" option at the top, and then click "Add to media list" button next to it.
How to use the list
I'd strongly recommend against simply sending your press release to them in bulk. Instead, please reach out to them one by one, in a personally fashion, as you are writing to a friend.
Here are a few tips from the Pros:
13 Ways to Keep Your Pitch From Getting Deleted
http://blog.journalistics.com/2010/13-ways-to-keep-your-pitches-from-getting-deleted/
Media Pitch Like a Pro: What Journalists Want
http://www.laneterralever.com/media-pitch-like-pro-journalists-want/
The Dos and Don'ts of Pitching Journalists on Social Media
http://mashable.com/2013/09/16/pitch-journalist-social-media/
Wow! I can see myself using this. Thank you for sharing!
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