Been doing basic Android development for awhile now. Ready to implement some ideas previously I was to unsure to touch on.
If this question has already been asked please feel free to direct me there as I can not find a thread.
Lets say based on user interaction some data is collected and entered to either a text or XML file. How can I enable this user to send this data thats been collected to another Android user using the same app? Are there any APIs out there capable of transferring data between users?
In a simple example, Facebook Messaging. One message is created by a user and sent to another user. How can I get on the right path to this?
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I am developing an app in android studio and I would appreciate some help with it.
The idea is to make the app get data from some type of online server/database/whatever would be the best option. Then after retrieving data from there it would use it to display the data in app and user would be able to interact with data retrieved (aka ordering a product), then the app would send some type of signal that the product has been ordered online and at the end you would be able to see the order from your computer, which will somehow connect to the same online system.
Is there any way to do that and if so I would appreciate some help.
I have a question that I would appreciate any on to answer.
my question is:
Is there any way to update some data like adding some videos, sales, values...etc in a recycle view after publishing the app in a google play without updating the app it self in the play store?
I actually don't have a clue on how to do this..
if there's any samples or websites on answering this question please share it with us.
thanks in advance
I can see a possibility but it's dirty, you can have one endpoint (/recycler), this endpoint can send you different type of data (movies, book and such), your application calls this endpoint and upon the result you parse it into one of your class that will populate your recyclerview.
I don't think you'll find any samples about it as it's not what people tends to do.
Well, if the data you want to update is writen in you code, I believe you can't update this without update the app itself.
It seems like you need a space on you app where you want to update it easily.
You should provide a backend to your app and consume the API to get all the info you need (with this, you will not need update the app itself on the store)
If you, like me, have no skills at backend development, give a chance to firebase:
https://firebase.google.com/
It will make easy to create a backend to your app. You'll need to update your app only once ( to make it work with firebase). After this, all you'll need to do is update you firebase, the app will get all new info from there
I want to make an app that takes info/data from other apps that are already installed on my phone ( Android ). By example: Let's say I want to make an app that shows how many messages I sent to each person with my phone. Then I would like to get my app linked with the message app on my phone and count how many times I sent someone a message , get that data, and put it on my app.
When I search for this problem, one 'solution' I found was working with intents, but it's NOT that, by far as I know, you can use intents to share data between apps you created yourself. I want to be able to get data from apps that I did not make. HOW? Thanks already
You can't, otherwise it would be a security issue, think about a bank app... In Android all the apps are fisically separated into different directories.
You can access data only from apps that expose methods, like Intent.
I want to have an InApp store implemented in my app, but after a lot of research I haven't found how I can code it or how it will work overall. My guess is, that I hide some areas of my App and only will reveal them after someone paid in my store? I am glad for every piece of information abut how to code an InApp store.
You are in the right way. You can create a login screen and if user login and pay you can show him the download button (to download some app). You can upload every app (*.apk) in your server and the user will be able to download it.
I need a Facebook application that kind of sit in the 'background' of user operations. Once the app is installed by the user, it will keep on sending the user's status updates, new friend connections etc to another web app of mine. It will keep on getting info no matter whether the app page is open or not.
My question is -- is this possible? So far, I've played around a simple iFrame app written with the Java API. It seems that it can only perform data collections whenever the page is hit.
EDIT: Privacy is definitely a valid concern here. But the application will definitely prompt for permission even if FB API is not built in to do so.
You can ask the user for the offline_access extended permission by using the fb:prompt-permission FBML tag: <fb:prompt-permission perms="offline_access">Can I have access to your data all the time?</fb:prompt-permission>, store the user's session key in your database and then query the Facebook API as needed. (You may need other extended permissions if there's other data you want to access that isn't a standard API call.)
Note that this isn't against the terms of service, but you won't be allowed to store any of the data you receive for more than 24 hours.
Tho I wont suggest it, but if you create an "app" which has an associated user account, which you then ask the user of the facebook app to add as a friend, then you can achieve what you want in the question.
e.g., lets say your app was iFacebook - then you create a regular user account called iFacebook Friend, and ask users of your iFacebook app to add iFacebook Friend to their friends(*) list. Then you can scrape data off your app users via the regular facebook account 'iFacebook Friend'.
However, doing so is probably going to violate some usage policies of facebook, and can likely to get you banned, or reported as a privacy violating app. However, if what your app does is useful enough, some people will happily let privacy go...
(*) you can entice them into doing this by giving incentives, such as bonus points, extra exclusive 'stuff' that only those who have added the friend would get.
Nope. Facebook doesn't want apps having too much user data in general, and certainly doesn't want them accessing it when the user is not actively interacting with the application.
Heck, infinite session keys aren't even supported anymore. Those still around have all been grandfathered in.