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Got accepted to app inventor.. any ideas for a project?
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Tcf bank app, ps3 keyboard, wifi cracking(lol would come in handy when I'm not home), and game informer let you know release dates for games if that's not out yet. That's all I can think of for now I'll let you know if I think of anything else....oh yea is it pssible to port tap tap revenge to android?
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have you completed the demos/tutorials yet Mr Gates?
SMS Librarian.
A texting archival service. Allowing you backup and restore sms. Allows filtering by dates and contacts. restore some of your sms or only sms by certain contacts or certain ones in a date range or all in a date range.
allows exporting sms to pdf or rtf or html
with time stamping ( for court for a restraining order for example)
and you can keep archiving either by wifi or 3g or bluetooth or you could have it by plugging your phone into usb or whatever.
This is something android lacks in any decent from.
Working on the demos and tutorials now. It's pretty neat.
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rejectedkid said:
Working on the demos and tutorials now. It's pretty neat.
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Once you finish those tutorials you will realize how limited you are in the type of apps you can create with appinventor.
Keep in mind appinventor was not meant to make full fledged apps but give novices an easier time understanding how to create simple apps and what goes on when needing to initiate calls during specific conditions/events.
I played with appinventor and still use it when I am bored, but as far as making actual apps, I do it in ms visual studio.
futuristicstyles said:
ps3 keyboard, wifi cracking
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10freakinChar
I got accepted over a month ago and it is a pretty cool setup. But until we can use multiple windows and rotation isn't broken then it is just a novelty.
But truthfully it is very cool, to program without knowing Java.
i could use an app that will give me bluetooth hid support on sense stock rooted rom, so we could use hid and not spp bluetooth keyboards on our devices.
cm6 roms supports this. but i want to stay close to stock
there is a company that claims they have an app for this but it doesnt work.
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Once you finish those tutorials you will realize how limited you are in the type of apps you can create with appinventor.
Keep in mind appinventor was not meant to make full fledged apps but give novices an easier time understanding how to create simple apps and what goes on when needing to initiate calls during specific conditions/events.
I played with appinventor and still use it when I am bored, but as far as making actual apps, I do it in ms visual studio.
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Is there a good book/tutorial etc for getting into android programming? I'm familiar with ms visual studio, so working in there will at least lessen the learning curve somewhat,
Hi all, first post so go easy on me not sure i'm in the right forum, had my dhd for about two weeks now and can't fault the phone, but tried to get internet banking on it and can't seem to get it to download, I followed all of the instructions on the lloydstsb website and I get as far as downloading a file (downloadclient.jad) but when I try to open it the phone asks me to complete action using either DB editor or file editor, if I then open it with either I just get a load of text? i'm stuck, any help would be great.
P.s the program is monitise
Thanks hOOter343.............
Just go through the site as you normally would.
Change your browser to non-mobile view in the settings.
Just make sure your on https and not on a public wifi network.
I didn't bother with the app, lose your phone and your buggered.
Thanks flacid monkey, will do that it seems safer.
hOOter343...
hooter343 said:
Thanks flacid monkey, will do that it seems safer.
hOOter343...
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FYI, a .jad is an exacutable java application, if you want to run it on your device you will need a JRE like jbed
can someone plee post the lloyds apk or pm with it
Strange mine installed fine?
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Please can someone upload the apk for lloyds tsb mobile banking as i am outside the UK.
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They have stopped the app. They are only providing mobile website now.
What is the name of the app that allows you to change the model number/name of the A7...I thought I saw it named here before but I can't find it.
ripper23 said:
What is the name of the app that allows you to change the model number/name of the A7...I thought I saw it named here before but I can't find it.
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Are you referring to modifying your build.prop ?
I don't know of an app that does it.
No...it was an actual app that you could download from the market.
Magic something? I thought it was listed or mentioned in Dex's Mod thread...but it's so long that it takes time to read thru it all
Edit: i think it was Market Enabler...Thanks for jogging my mind.
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No...it was an actual app that you could download from the market.
Magic something? I thought it was listed or mentioned in Dex's Mod thread...but it's so long that it takes time to read thru it all
Edit: i think it was Market Enabler...Thanks for jogging my mind.
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Market Enabler fakes a cellular provider.
Guess that makes sense since from market on my pc A7 says T-mobile before it, if that was changed could it allow for more apps?
thatd be the build prop. maybe if either the model or key signature information matched the device the gapps came from that could allow for more apps availability in the market.
i noticed i could not see skyfire or another app that slips my mind. i just downloaded them on my xperia phone, copied them from my /data/app folder to my sdcard using explorer and put them on a usb thumb drive to install on the tablet using the preladed oi filemanager. i do have a bandaid solution until the correct build prop settings are found. i'll post another thread for that later.
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Guess that makes sense since from market on my pc A7 says T-mobile before it, if that was changed could it allow for more apps?
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do note without,
- compass
- multitouch
will also mean that you loose even mroe apps on market with enabler.
you need a patched Market app (check xda for it) to enable all the apps, its widely used on old androids with single touch.
Am working on a news reader app and the should synchronize with with the webserver such that whenever the desktop site is updated the also picks the update. What is the best approach to this? Thanks for the help.
If the webserver can output XML, JSON or even an RSS feed, you could grab it from the server , parse it and display it in your app.
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An RSS feed is probably the easiest and quickest way to implement.
The best practice would probably be to expose a JSON/RPC API which your app can call when it's started and depending, for example, on a version code parameter of the JSON object, will retrieve the rest of the information or not if the version code is the same as last time (ie: saved in SharedPreferences)
Cool. Thanks for the input. You just explained what I have in mind but I have no idea on what the code would look like. Any help with that? Thanks
blissville said:
Cool. Thanks for the input. You just explained what I have in mind but I have no idea on what the code would look like. Any help with that? Thanks
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Are you also the developer of the website you want to synchronize with or do you want to collect news from any arbitrary site?
Am collecting news from an arbitrary site
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blissville said:
Am collecting news from an arbitrary site
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Then i think the best and most common way is catching your data via RSS.
But you should check if your targeted news site allows the usage of their content in third party apps.
You can retrieve the RSS files with simple http requests. It contains XML with the news your want to provide and additionally meta data like the publishing dates.
For example the XDA RSS file:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/external.php?type=RSS2
You can also parse information in your own server, gathering information there and providing info to the app. This way at least you don't consume brandwith of the sites you are gathering information from.
After attending a talk about how to market our applications in better ways I just published a library I developed to ask users to users a rating on the Play Store.
It is extremely simple. It keeps track of the first time the application has been used and a counter of the number of times the application has been launched.
You can configure when you want to ask the user to rate your application both in term of number of launches and days from the installation.
When the conditions are met, the library creates a dialog with a button to open the Play Store page of the application, a button to postpone the alert and a button to dismiss it and never get asked again.
You can get the library from GitHub.
Feedbacks and recommendation about how I could improve it are very welcome.
mariosangiorgio said:
After attending a talk about how to market our applications in better ways I just published a library I developed to ask users to users a rating on the Play Store.
It is extremely simple. It keeps track of the first time the application has been used and a counter of the number of times the application has been launched.
You can configure when you want to ask the user to rate your application both in term of number of launches and days from the installation.
When the conditions are met, the library creates a dialog with a button to open the Play Store page of the application, a button to postpone the alert and a button to dismiss it and never get asked again.
You can get the library from GitHub.
Feedbacks and recommendation about how I could improve it are very welcome.
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I will try it, thanks a lot.
Cyclingforfun said:
I will try it, thanks a lot.
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Great. Let me know what you think about the library.
I hope you won't have any issue but in case you have problems let me know and we will try to sort them out.
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Hi,
Here the German Translation: dropbox.com/s/jeoqbshoigft840/values-de.zip
- Jan
Screenshot?
bigjan said:
Hi,
Here the German Translation: dropbox.com/s/jeoqbshoigft840/values-de.zip
- Jan
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Thank you! I'm traveling without my computer and I cannot push your translation to the repository immediately. If you like you can fork the project on github and create a pull request, otherwise I'll integrate your translation as soon as I get back home
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Looks great! Got a little confused trying to set up in Eclipse, any suggestions? Thanks for your work!
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pangolin.rollin said:
Looks great! Got a little confused trying to set up in Eclipse, any suggestions? Thanks for your work!
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Step 1ownload the libraries.
Step 2:-Then copy the .lib file to the android libraries folder in the project tree for the app you are designing.
Step 3:- Happy coding!
There doesnt seem to be a libs folder. I imported the Javas and followed the directions but don't know how to configure the gradle modules cause I'm using eclipse not studio.
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Hello, while this is a good idea to ask for a rating, don't harass the user with it, and don't ask it too soon, leave the user some time to poke around
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There doesnt seem to be a libs folder. I imported the Javas and followed the directions but don't know how to configure the gradle modules cause I'm using eclipse not studio.
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I am going to make a compiled version of the library next week as soon as I get back home
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Magissia said:
Hello, while this is a good idea to ask for a rating, don't harass the user with it, and don't ask it too soon, leave the user some time to poke around
Regards
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Thanks for pointing it out. It is extremely important and the parameters regulating when the application should ask for a rating should be set with care.
I decided to try to make it the less annoying possible by showing the message only once (if not explicitly deferred by the user) when both the conditions on the number of launches and on the time from the first launch are met.
Do you have any idea about how I could make the message even less annoying?
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Thanks for pointing it out. It is extremely important and the parameters regulating when the application should ask for a rating should be set with care.
I decided to try to make it the less annoying possible by showing the message only once (if not explicitly deferred by the user) when both the conditions on the number of launches and on the time from the first launch are met.
Do you have any idea about how I could make the message even less annoying?
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I guess a good way would be to be to add a little shiny icon, if the user is curious (s)he will tap on this little icon, and that's the moment to display the pop up kindly asking for the review. This nice little icon taking little space somewhere on the screen would appear after a period of use to leave some time to poke around.
It will have the advantage of playing with end user's curiosity, and not aggressively show a pop-up, since the user will trigger it from it's own action.
Application's developer will be able to use something that fit the current interface or game as icon, not throwing the immersion to trash in a brutal way.
Backup plan in case the user isn't curious would be to still show the pop-up the hard way after some more time.
Some usage example could be adding the icon to the levels list in a game, or adding the icon somewhere in the toolbar for a file manager, text editor. Placing it next to a connect button for a social/messaging application.
Regards
Magissia said:
I guess a good way would be to be to add a little shiny icon, if the user is curious (s)he will tap on this little icon, and that's the moment to display the pop up kindly asking for the review. This nice little icon taking little space somewhere on the screen would appear after a period of use to leave some time to poke around.
It will have the advantage of playing with end user's curiosity, and not aggressively show a pop-up, since the user will trigger it from it's own action.
Application's developer will be able to use something that fit the current interface or game as icon, not throwing the immersion to trash in a brutal way.
Backup plan in case the user isn't curious would be to still show the pop-up the hard way after some more time.
Some usage example could be adding the icon to the levels list in a game, or adding the icon somewhere in the toolbar for a file manager, text editor. Placing it next to a connect button for a social/messaging application.
Regards
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Thanks for your comments. I'm going to support custom ways to show the alert to the user. The library will still contain the alert message but developers will be able to show whatever they want (possibly something less invasive) when the conditions are met
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What is that you are doing to make sure the dialog will never be displayed twice ?
SagiLo said:
What is that you are doing to make sure the dialog will never be displayed twice ?
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The library stores its data in a file and when the dialog is marked as processed it sets a flag which disables further notifications.
Actually a user may see the dialog twice on different devices. We could avoid that with the synchronisation of the data file but I don't know if ot is worth the effort
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mariosangiorgio said:
The library stores its data in a file and when the dialog is marked as processed it sets a flag which disables further notifications.
Actually a user may see the dialog twice on different devices. We could avoid that with the synchronisation of the data file but I don't know if ot is worth the effort
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In a file means its not shared preferences right?
So if the user clears the app data, the file content will live ?
SagiLo said:
In a file means its not shared preferences right?
So if the user clears the app data, the file content will live ?
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Unfortunately I used shared preferences
I was not thinking at the scenario where the user first uninstalls and then reinstalls an application
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Unfortunately I used shared preferences
I was not thinking at the scenario where the user first uninstalls and then reinstalls an application
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Ok... we can try creating some sub mechanism for that,
I.E. checking a file in external sdcard (requires pernission).
Or getting data from the internet whether the user has already rated or not.
Hello, using Internet or a file somewhere can be a good idea if the application itself already use on of those permissions, but it's not legit for an app to ask for Internet or file access just for this, security wise, we should only give the strict minimum permissions the application need to work.
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