I would like my app to backup the user data that they create on my app to google drive account of user.
I have looked at few ways to do it, but I would like to know what is the best way?
I did use android:fullBackupContent="true" but I don't see any data saved on google drive.
Thanks in advance.
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I have searched for weeks but I couldn't find any useful information about how to manage files while deleting in android.and want to develop an app to manage deleted files and APKs.can anyone tell me how I can achieve this?
Use SQLite to read and write data,
The limit of a SQLite database is something like 2TB. Your Android device will not have that much storage space.
You can get the SQLite tutorial, here it is explained quite well.
In my app I have seen that users don't really bother to update the app so I want to encourage them through a dialog requesting them to update the app. The best way possible was to tell them about all the benefits of updating the app but I don't know how to retrieve this information from the Google Playstore.
Any help would be deeply appreciated!
It is best to use the Firebase Notification Center.Please follow the following Official documentation to implement in your app..
Firebase Messaging
There isn't an API to do this in Play at the moment. The way most app developers do this is have their own server where they have information about versions which they require to upgrade, and also can put notifications.
If you haven't done much server side work, maybe check out Firebase from Google. It integrates with the Google Play console, and it should be very quick to get something like this running.
I am learning to build an android app for the first time...this is an educational project.
I don't have a database, and I'm not using a cloud server. The latter is slightly outside of the project scope, and I was advised that I was better using XML to store data, rather than SQLite.
My app should enable users to select images from their image gallery at runtime, these are then resized, and stored in the app (visually - it will look like a pin board of thumbnails). I was going to store them in the resources folder, but have just realised from reading other posts, that this isn't accessible at runtime.
Can anyone point me in the direction of what my options are when I'm not using a cloud server.
Is XML feasible? If so, how do I go about storing images in XML at runtime?
Can I make use of the SD card?
Or is SQLite the only option?
Is there any info where I can read about the limitations and benefits of each of these?
Any advice would be so much appreciated!!
Realm is better for you. Look at the below links you will get Idea to use realm in your project
https://realm.io/news/realm-for-android/
http://www.androidhive.info/2016/05/android-working-with-realm-database-replacing-sqlite-core-data/
Total beginner here.... :(
I am using Eclipse with ADT and Google App Engine plug in.
I have built my "awesome" android app, but now I want to save some of the data the app produces onto a cloud service so I can share it between my users.
So I am trying to do this with google services. I have incorporated in my project both Cloud Storage API and Google Cloud Datastore API, both using the GDT plug in, but that's as far as I can get :((((
I know I am asking a lot, but I don't even know if it is a lot, it might be a few lines of code, at least that's what I think.
So now I need a way, through some Google API to connect to a database that "belongs" to me, and store 5 numbers there from each of my users, and share other user's numbers with each other...
Can someone take me by the hand and tell me what I need to import and what not...?
I have spend hours reading all documentation about these APIs I could find and I ended up going in circles :( either trying commands that cannot be resolved, like DataStoreService(), or simply not even finding where do I put my info to get to "my" database....
Thank you all.
I'm pretty new to android so apologies if I'm missing an obvious solution, I'm developing an android app that would be used to record various data including photographs and hopefully the intention would be for this collected data to be uploaded to a desktop application where certain desktop specific jobs could be carried out.
Due to the fact I intend to save photographs within the app in the SQLite database as a bytearray which recorded information would be I think that it would be too data intensive to send to a server, plus I wouldn't want the desktop app to necessarily be on a server, it should be standalone. I'd prefer to use the USB connection and allow a USB upload of the data from the app sqlite db direct to the database on the pc, probably sql server. What would be the best way to approach this? Could the android ADB be used to acheive this?
Any help or suggestions on this would be much appreciated.
Regards
I believe that your sqllite database (as well as photos contained there) will be stored on the SD card of the device. You have to options here, first, when your desktop applications find the folder on the device SD card (should be mounted on the filesystem after connecting the device to your PC), second is to use bluetooth and initialize the transfer from the device to your desktop application.
You could try having them on the same network and having them interact that way. I know applications such as RemoteDroid do this, but I have no experience doing so myself. There is also the fact that there is the data saved on the sd card / by putting your device in Storage mode and you could just point your desktop to the device drive and assume a designated folder your app uses exists.
Adding on to the answers here, you could save your photos as files in your sd card and transfer it to your pc from there.
Here is a dev guide on storing files.
Another way is to transfer over WiFi. Ice cream sandwich seems to have a WiFi Direct api that allows us to perform P2P transfers over WiFi. I have not used it yet but have a look at this
Solution 1
I would probably use rsync between my desktop and android. This way you can export data from your sqlite to a flat file and import it to your local database on your desktop. This way you can also put your schema into a file.
RSync is a very stable protocol to exchange files.
Solution 2
You can also use Amazon S3 for this purpose. The file name can contain the version number for ensuring that you have the latest file.