How does this happen? When creating a new tweet, there is no option to shorten the URL when u paste the link in the box.
Yes, I have already selected my prefered shortning service in the options.
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I have a different yet related question - when I post a picture, it uploads it to twitpic and then uses tinyurl to post it. Isn't that a little redundent? Is there a way to just keep twitpic?
It does it automatically. You have to make sure its the entire url starting with the http
And so on. Kinda lame I know.
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Hi.
I was wondering how hard it would be to create a simple application that would connect to a server or website checking for updates. I plan on loading font .apk's on the server or website, and would like a application to periodically check for updates or manually check for updates, be able to preview the font, and then download the .apk if wanted. How hard would it be to create such an application?
Thanks.
Jzero88
jzero88 said:
Hi.
I was wondering how hard it would be to create a simple application that would connect to a server or website checking for updates. I plan on loading font .apk's on the server or website, and would like a application to periodically check for updates or manually check for updates, be able to preview the font, and then download the .apk if wanted. How hard would it be to create such an application?
Thanks.
Jzero88
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Well, this depends on how you approach it, but I think the easiest way to do this would be to create a feed using XML. So if you were doing your font updater, you would load a file like this:
<FontDetails>
<Font name = "Font1" example = "http://www.myfontsite.com/FontExamples/Font1.png" location = ""http://www.myfontsite.com/Fonts/Font1.apk"\>
<Font name = "Font2" example = "http://www.myfontsite.com/FontExamples/Font2.png" location = "http://www.myfontsite.com/Fonts/Font2.apk"\>
</FontDetails>
The problem with this is that you will have to maintain this XML file, making sure its always up-to-date(Easily manageable with some simple scripts).
If you aren't willing to do this, you could go down the road that is wrongly mislabeled as "The Easy Way" and hard-code the locations of all your APK's and all of your example images, but I would only do this if you were planning on dumping all the APK's and images in the same place(For example, if all your APK's were here: http://www.myfontsite.com/Fonts/). You would request the directory information from the server and parse that into your list of font APK's and correspond them with their example images(probably by naming them the same; i.e. Font1.apk and Font1.png).
If you decide to use the first option, you could do a bunch of cool things with the organization, like break things into categories and apply taggings and it would only require one request to the server per update. If you go with the second method, organization is guaranteed to be a mess if you try anything large scale, and adds a layer of complexity if you try to break things into folders and categories. This would require a ping per folder you have to check, which can have a high complexity factor if you have a lot of folders.
I just want to point out that even though this is directly related to development, this is a type of question that belongs in the General section(Questions ALWAYS belong in General). I'm sure a Mod will come around, scold you, then move the thread.
Anyway, I do hope this helps,
Good luck,
Tyler
Edit: Having a bit of problems getting the XML looking correct. Sorry if it looks ugly :S
Even easier would be to manage the updater as an RSS feed. Then it becomes quite trivial, as there are several examples of RSS readers online already.
Great! Thanks for the reply!
Yeah, the XML approach I think would be the better option as well, just because we could use this thread to hold everything I currently do no have any hosting at this time. Would you be up to making such a application? It seems you have the know abouts to so.... I would be the one to maintain everything and update it. I would monitor this thread and when new ones pop up, I wouldn't mind adding it to in the XML.
Also, how would the RSS feed work?
Thanks
jzero88 said:
Great! Thanks for the reply!
Yeah, the XML approach I think would be the better option as well, just because we could use this thread to hold everything I currently do no have any hosting at this time. Would you be up to making such a application? It seems you have the know abouts to so.... I would be the one to maintain everything and update it. I would monitor this thread and when new ones pop up, I wouldn't mind adding it to in the XML.
Also, how would the RSS feed work?
Thanks
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Wish I could...I've got about 50 projects already on the back-burner and no time to finish them Tell ya what though...I've finished a mini project a couple weeks ago with some buddies at school for my friends website. Its an Open-Source RSS reader that was made to read in the latest articles of his site. With some slight tweaking, I'm sure you(or some other dev) could mod it to work in your favor...Here's the github address:
http://github.com/pencilo/Absolute-Android-RSS.git
I don't think this is the latest code, but all the working elements you need are in here.
I have a Sharepoint site so I can create collaboration sites super duper easy.
I'm not sure if we have an app list yet....but here's one.
http://sp.texultant.apps4rent.info/MoSo/NC/Lists/App List/AllItems.aspx
It's wide open, anybody can anonymously add and edit posts....so be nice....If it gets abused I'll have to lock it down and require logins....you don't want that hassle do you?
This is a great idea! Much more practical than having threads and relying on the OP to keep them updated.
I tried uploading the Dropbox APK, but I was asked for a username/password. Submitting blank credentials didn't work, nor did clicking "Cancel".
Am I doing something wrong?
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This is a great idea! Much more practical than having threads and relying on the OP to keep them updated.
I tried uploading the Dropbox APK, but I was asked for a username/password. Submitting blank credentials didn't work, nor did clicking "Cancel".
Am I doing something wrong?
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There isn't a place to host apps....just to comment on what works....you can post a link to a network location wjere it exists.....but no hosting on the site.
Sorry
Talk about hassle, I can't even get the upload attachment to work in forums. The choose file button does not even work on this site. On another forum I get upload error.
I thought Google would at least make it easy to share picture publicly on the web, but i don't see anywhere the URL location of the pictures are at, nor is it easy to grab them from the browser interface. (i.e. 'copy image location' like found in Firefox on Mac/Windows browser)
If anyone could share their success stories, and ways that manage to easily share pictures on their tablet to the web it would be helpful.
easy. just use opera mobile. that's what I always use. like lets say you make a post here. then you want to upload a pic as an attachment. just scroll lil ways down n press manage attachments. then you will go to another screen with blank fields that above them say upload file from computer. Press the "choose" tab next to blank field. once you do a mini file explorer type thing will appear up top. you look through it and click on the one you want. it'll close and take you back to upload your file screen. Now you press upload. it'll upload your pic or file. then scroll down and press close window. it'll take you back to your page where making the post. just finish and press send reply. BAM, now you posted and attached s pic or whatever to it thru the prime. I do it all the time.
I attached a screenshot below of the upload your file screen just in case for reference and a pic of what you should see after you press choose in opera mobile.
This is just one of the many great things about Android. On my Ipad I had to jailbrake. then go to cydia to download a uploader mod for safari and a downloader mod. Stock Ipad n safari don't let you do this simple task that Android does out the box. my Ipad now jailbroken can do all the stuff android does but I had to hack it alot to be possible.
Can somebody modify the application google googles and instead of searching the web to search to the photos I had to a mobile folder.
For example in a folder in my mobile I have 1000 photos with some items , so when I take a photo to search for a similar photo in this local folder and not to the google’s database
I think that the comparison between the pictures is not done by your phone, but by the google servers. The goggles app just sends the picture to the servers, so what you want can't be easily done...
Yes propably you are right,
Do you know where can I upload the photos so the Google goggles will be able to find it
I see what you want to do, but this would be very difficult. You need your pictures uploaded somewhere, it is not important where, but then google has to index them and this takes time. Also, you need some other pages linking to yours, because this is how Google's pagerank algorithm works (this is a simplification, of course).
And in my experience, except for flat things, like pictures or books, Google Goggles response is not very good.
Probably your best option is to set up a computer with some image recognition software, and then start a web server on that computer where you can upload your pictures and get your response. You could use something like neuroph (http://neuroph.sourceforge.net/image_recognition.html) .
As you can imagine, this is not something that can be done in a day.
Maybe someone else can give you more ideas.
Good luck.
thanks for the information, finally is more difficult than my first thought
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I'm a heavy user of deviantART, including the mobile site on my android phone. The only thing that I miss is the ability to receive notifications on my phone when I get new deviations and messages in my inbox. deviantART haven't released any API yet, but I just thought of something that just might work, at least in theory. I'm not a developer, and I don't pretend to be, so please correct me if I'm wrong about anything.
The idea is quite simple in theory. The app loads the mobile page in the background and checks my inbox for new messages and gives a notification if any has arrived, possibly even the kind of message (deviation, journal, comment, reply, activity or note). When the notification is tapped, you would be sent to the corresponding section of the site in your standard browser.
I took the liberty of looking through the code on the mobile site and found some lines that tells me that it might just work. I couldn't find a way to post it here though, even though I used the
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tag. I got a message that told me that I'm not allowed to post outside links.
I realize that this would have an impact on the battery life, but if you set it to look around once an hour, it would still be about the same, if not less number of times that I manually open the site on my phone every day.
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Have you taken a look at the deviantART api? I'm unable to post the link to the api page but if you go to the deviantART page on your pc and scroll down to very bottom of the page there is link called Developers.
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