NimbusBase, an open iCloud for Android - IDEs, Libraries, & Programming Tools

Hi, I'm William and I coded NimbusBase Android, a storage solution that backs up all the sqlite data on a user's own Google Drive/Dropbox/Box. It's kind of like an open iCloud for Android.
We just released an beta and are looking for adventurous developers who wants to back up their user data on this solution.
Here is our developer page, take a look and tell us what you think. You can also email me at [email protected] if you have any questions.
Thanks!

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[Q] Android PC Contact Management

Hello (please excuse my English),
I am a vb.net developer with an android phone. I like to write a windows application that will manage the phone's contacts with no sync (the application will read and write the contacts directly on the phone via usb).
I like to make this because I really need a convenient way to manage my >480 contacts with groups, links between them, photos etc.
But I don't know what is the best method to connect to the phone. I have download various open-source projects that use abd.exe but I can not figure it out there is not documentation about this.
Anyway are there any suggestions on this or maybe any how to?
Thank You
No help from me, but lots of encouragement though ... I hate my messy contact list, especially because of multiple gmail accounts... Searched like hell, spend quite some time on failing apps... So good luck with programming!
Thank you for your encouragement. I finally ended that the best solution is to write an android client application that will offer contact records to the pc application. I installed all the android development tools and I am ready to go. This is gona take some time because it will be my first android application so stay tuned...
Ok I have done some progress on the device side, but I really need some help. These are my questions:
1. In the Android Emulator there is no contacts groups. Any idea why or how can I add them?
2. I need some android code guidelines on how to communicate via wi-fi and usb. I am trying to implement some kind of tcp/ip protocol for communicate with the pc application and I need this to be available with the usb cable also (if that is possible)
Thank you all...
MyPhoneExplorer you will love it
I love it allready I am using MyPhoneExplorer since my first SE phone. But it does not supports contacts groups which is very critical for me. This was one of the reasons that I decided to create my own contact manager for android...
Ok, some status update:
I finished my research about tcp connectivity on android and I downloaded all the neading sources and documentation. So I am ready to go with the device side development.
But I really need the contacts groups on the emulator. I 'm stuck here!!!
Come on guys don't leave me alone...
Thank you all
Trying to solve it myself...
First I thought that Contacts application in my phone (Samsung Galaxy 3) was a samsung application, so I downloaded the phones source-code but no Contacts application in there.
Now I found in source.android.com the contacts application for eclair and I downloaded it. It seems (from the source code) that it is the same application which is in my device's firmware.
I create a project in eclipse from this source and right now I am downloading Google APIs to make it run on the emulator. If it runs on the emulator I will start development for the device...
chrishohl said:
I love it allready I am using MyPhoneExplorer since my first SE phone. But it does not supports contacts groups which is very critical for me. This was one of the reasons that I decided to create my own contact manager for android...
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omg i realy thought, it was posible, whit MyPhoneExplorer, my mistake.
great to hear about your little progress
what's up Chris ?
Some news ?
Status Update:
I finaly managed to get contacts groups in the emulator (via 3rd party app) but I still can not export contacts with group information from my device. Anyway this is not very important.
The important thing is that I started developing in android and the results are pretty well.
Right now the device application which I call "MyUnit Android Server" is a multi threaded tcp socket application that communicates with the pc via the usb cable.
I have managed to get through the basic problems with tcp, threads and sockets in android (and java) and it works very stable.
So now it is time to implement some kind of a protocoll for the communication between the device and the computer (any ideas about that are welcome). I have allready implement two functions. One retrieves the group count and the other the groups list. I think that this is very huge progress because this is my first app in java (and android of course).
Maybe in some days (about 10 - 15 because my son's birthday 4yo are in monday so the whole weekend goes to him ) I will be ready to release an alpha test version...
Thats great news, congrat whit your son, I know whats that like.
I would love to beta test, and help out

[Q] Booking system app for Android

Hey guys
I'm an entrepreneur from Brisbane, Australia. I'm looking into introducing a new product and am wondering if you guys would be able to help me clarify a few questions. I have to add I have no idea what so ever about programming languages or whats possible or not. I just going to post my vision of the application I will need and hope some of you guys can tell me what of that will be possible, what not and how much effort / money it would take to realise.
Firstly of all and most importantly I need the the Phone application to work with several other systems which would be at the moment : - Iphone, Windows Mobile, Blackberry Android, a Website interface, Windows Vista / 7 and Mac OS. I need this to work in two ways. One for the user to sync their data on different apps and secondly for the admin to receive and send data from the main system (that would be working on Windows or Mac)
On first interface the user would have to log in with a username and password, high security would be welcome, after the log in the general interface should be offering the user a booking request form with the ability to use a saved lists of items which have been previously use / prepared but also a interface for add one or editing
It also should offer a open bookings lists and the ability to edit this lists. This should also be able to be synced to the other systems. A third interface showing a history and updates should be also available.
If possible it should offer different accounts and groups where admins can edit the bookings of other users. If this is possible it also should offer a control for the admins which shows bookings and history of other group users.
I would like this obviously to be a professional looking app which offers a good service and is secure and bug free. If anyone has an idea if this is realisable or what parts of it would be difficult or have to be changed please do me the favour and comment.
Thank you for your help in advance.
JPM
Hello,
If you're looking for developers for your project, please contact [email protected]
Example of similar (ok, a bit different but technical approach is the same) web app and mobile clients for several smartphone platforms is in my signature.

Project Mirror: Library to synchronize data on Windows Phone.

Hello fellow members!
First and foremost, here's the link to the project: http://github.com/akshay2000/ProjectMirror
In past, I have experienced the problem where I wanted to create an app and needed to synchronize data between multiple devices. Look at my to-do app for example. It is always pain to write and meddle with the synchronization logic individually. Why should developer be bothered about these things instead of being focused on his app? Datastore API tried to solve this problem. Unfortunately, the Dropbox people sort of denied the support for Windows Phone. So, I created a similar thing for Windows Phone using Windows Azure. I want this to reach as many developers as possible. Please, suggest this thread to be published as news item.
I have created a library to synchronize data between Windows Phone and Windows Azure. This library provides an API to synchronize data and is quite similar to the Datastore API provided by the Dropbox people. Developers can simply ask the API to store an item. The item will automatically be cached locally and synchronized to the cloud. Also, the data created and modified on the other devices can be synchronized back to the local storage.
The project uses SQL Server CE for storing data locally and Windows Azure Mobile Services for storing data in the cloud. The developer has full control over what goes where. Also, the authentication mechanisms provided by the WAMS are completely supported by this API.
The whole project is published at GitHub along with example. Here's the URL: http://bit.ly/ProjectMirror
Please, take a look and help me find and kill the bugs.

How to get other developers Email addresses?

I want to write a Email to APP developers to introduce my product, how could I get lot of Email address of developers especially Android developers?
I have tried to get some Email address from Googleplay but it is not as useful as I thought.
A friend tell me that ,"You can get a help from linked in. Try to find out profiles of Android app developers in linked in. Also you can use Facebook, twitter and Google+. More on, you can find professional profiles on job finding websites like monster, indeed etc."
Thanks for his suggestion but what I really want to get is a lot of Email addresses at once rather than I search their information in social network one by one.
Is there some tools or products can help me?
Use this forum?
Sent from my Z10 using Tapatalk
Yes, Social Media is the powerful tool to get the contacts and linkedin is the best and professional. Join in Android groups and become the member and get in touch with other members to promote your app.
You can get developers email just grab it directly from GooglePlay with simple parser
Adxmi said:
I want to write a Email to APP developers to introduce my product, how could I get lot of Email address of developers especially Android developers?
I have tried to get some Email address from Googleplay but it is not as useful as I thought.
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There is a chrome extension for that. I don't know the name
Parsing a list of email address isn't a good idea. When was the last time you received a spam message you liked?
I agree with @Whatinside. Any spam email that hits my inbox are immediately reported as such and deleted.
I think creating a "webbinar" or a landing page, where you make something special, and simply ask for their email.
Social Media is the best way to connect people. LinkedIn is the one of the best social media platform. You can join the groups of relevant field and from their you can get their email-ids. Similarly you can get email-ids from facebook, twitter, google+.

[IDEA] iMessage Bridge (iDroidChat)

Hey guys, just wondering if any skilled devs could think about this
What is iMessage?: iMessage is a great product that Apple uses to bring to and keep people on the iOS platform. But what if we could bridge it to android?
Situation: Many people have old iPhones (or can buy cheap on Swappa) I have a jailbroken iPhone 5. I also have an LG Nexus 5X. What if we could bridge the two and bring iMessage to Android?
Is it possible?: A while ago, some "enterprising developer" found a way to let android users communicate with iMessage. But all of the traffic was being pushed through a server in China. It was shady as shady gets. An APK teardown revealed some unwanted code abilities. But the point is that someone did it and that it is possible. Here at XDA, we can open source the code. We can create a clean, safe version for daily use. Just a little more DIY action.
The Idea: Use an iPhone/iOS Device as the host for iMessage. (The Android will handle SMS, but the iPhone will have no SIM and only send/receive iMessage messages) (P.S: Keep phone number attached to iMessage) The iOS device will most likely need jailbreak to execute the actions as it is far more locked down than Android. So the iOS device will likely sit on a charger, connected to wifi 24/7, acting as the messenger between your device and iMessage. Think of it as a translator.
You will also have an Android device with the appropriate software to connect to the iOS device over the web and send/receive your iMessage texts over the internet. The android app will either be the primary messaging app or a background app. Maybe it will even need root. I don't know. But if it's the main messaging app, it would be a fork of the default messaging app in Android and have the mods needed to connect to the iOS device running iDroidChat. If it's a background app, it will work with any messenger app and will simply act as another source of messages. Like a second SMS server/SIM. It may need root for this functionality.
The Bridge - A connection made over the internet between the iOS device and the Android device. The 2 apps will be encrypted with manual username and password entries. Both of which are entered into each app. The iOS device will host the connection (secured, of course) and the Android device will connect to it using the app. Once the iOS server is running, it will display it's IP, Username, and Password. Just enter these 3 strings on the android app to connect to the iOS server.
Future Plans:
1) An HTML implementation where you can type the iOS device IP into a web browser and it will have a UI for iMessage.
2) Pushbullet integration for mixed SMS and iMessage.
Execution: I'm going to say it up front. I don't know much about coding. That's why I am actively learning Java. But for this project to be possible, I need the XDA community. I will not accept any cash or profits whatsoever from this. I simply want to support the community.
My Role: I will keep the project in shape and help out devs as much as I can. Let's do this. Project Manager. yay.
Check out amphora Messenger on Twitter. So far it seems possible however developer is extremely busy currently. Pie message is also a working solution however needs a dedicated Mac computer, I phones are not possible

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