[Q] Optimizing application - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi all,
I am developing an android app. I would like to know are there any tips/ways to optimize the app before posting it on Google play. Is it necessary for me to do this or the Android OS will take care of these? So far I've used simple tools like zip align, layout opt, 9 patch etc..
Also are there any tools I can test my app using automation like monkey testing.
thanks in advance
Murali

QA of Any Android Apps
Hi, you can test your application before uploading your app on Google Play follow below link i think you will get best information how to test and upload your apps.
Thanks,
developer.android.com/google/play/billing/billing_testing.html

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Anyone tried "you wave" android pc emulator??

Hey,
Just wondering if anyone else has tried it? I downloaded installed it today & it looks really impressive with lots of future potential it lets you load & run apk files and simulates the android UI on your desktop! It compared itself to the developers SDK tool but faster and user friendly. I can't post links but I'd be thankful if anyone else that finds it interesting to post a link
I can't see it mentioned in any threads yet? If this is the wrong place to post... please feel free to move it
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Mentioned on a German blogging site
I saw a blog on a German site mentioning this emulator. Below is the text translated using Google Translate.
Android Apps emulator for the PC (without SDK)
20. September 2010 - 15:18 | Mobile | terry
Meanwhile, there are a lot of apps for mobile devices, whether for iPhone or Android. In the case of Android devices and apps, there is the lovely advantage of it as apk simply sent anywhere, can be loaded and saved - and everyone could then install on their device.
But what if you have no products.These types, but would like to demonstrate Apps on a machine, and without the SDK? introduces you, you have built a cool app want to show that, but your Android can not connect to the projector, or you send out sales people who want to show the app, but no SDK on your machine?
Well, there is a great tool called YouWave. Easy to install on their computers and go apk Embed
It does come accross quite intriguingly... It would be interesting to know if anyone has tried it properly and what they make of it, I'm more interested in mods to my phone so development tools don't spark much excitement for me.... the potential here looks inspiring though
Thanks tina333 for your interest in YouWave. We are a startup, with a mission to serve Android community. In addition to what you have described, our latest software release supports state saving, wirelessly installing applications to rooted phone, etc. Many users, including app users, gamers and developers, are already using our product daily. Hopefully you have tried these features.
We are located in Silicon Valley, California. If you have other questions, drop us a line or post questions here or on our forum. We would be glad to answer them.
-YouWave
Disclaimer: We just like to answer a user's question here, with no interests in posting ads. If this post is not appropriate, please simply remove it.
Is it possible to load our data files from our phone to continue with saved progress in games, etc.?
Currently, it is not possible to sync data file from your phone to the apps running on YouWave. Such features are definitely under our consideration.
BTW, AndroidCentral today runs an article about us.
-YouWave
Whatsapp not working on Youwave?
Hi,
I have the trial version of Youwave. I downloaded Whatsapp but the program won't install: when I run the .apk file it says "application not installed".
Any suggestions?
If
anybody needs a serial key for youwave let me know my email is [email protected]
Yes YouWave is amazing Android Emulator software but not as good as Bluestacks, recently I downloaded YouWave program it's handy but still not best.
techmero said:
Yes YouWave is amazing Android Emulator software but not as good as Bluestacks, recently I downloaded YouWave program it's handy but still not best.
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Hey I was also using youwave but after installing win 8.1 it gives me an error saying os not ready..
Can u help me with that.
Very nicw
It is really a super website !
I tried youwave but it is not as good as bluestacks
I tried youwave android emulators it also has lot of features to use and play android apps and games. But bluestacks [/U][/URL] is best when it comes to android emulators..

My first smartphone app : Cub3

Hello,
I would like to share with you my first app for Android and iOS: it is a simple and small game where you have move a cube using the accelerometer of the smartphone. I make this game to learn game development.
The are graphics are simple and i tried to make a stressful ambiance with the sounds.
It is called Cub3 and available on appstore and playstore.
You can find downloading links on my facebook page.
I hope you will have fun

[Q] switching from android to mx4 need your help

hi guys,
i got my mx4 thursday and i ve been using it for few days, and there is some good things and bad things
because i had android for years, i am used to google services, and i have to admin i ve been surprised to not see any app for google services, i thought there were standard in mobile world
browsing mobile version looks so outdated in this world of apps. take a picture/ share/ gmail (oh not possible)
so in fact it s google mobile version, any reasons for that? i d like to know why it is this way, if real apps are in preparation (i can test if needed)
part of that, really like the interface, very nice, light and fresh, if you have tips for be able to use google services, to have photo sync on g+ and a real solution for have share services to drive, gmail, g+ would be great
any good calendar app to recommand ?
best regards
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nocomp said:
hi guys,
i got my mx4 thursday and i ve been using it for few days, and there is some good things and bad things
because i had android for years, i am used to google services, and i have to admin i ve been surprised to not see any app for google services, i thought there were standard in mobile world
browsing mobile version looks so outdated in this world of apps. take a picture/ share/ gmail (oh not possible)
so in fact it s google mobile version, any reasons for that? i d like to know why it is this way, if real apps are in preparation (i can test if needed)
part of that, really like the interface, very nice, light and fresh, if you have tips for be able to use google services, to have photo sync on g+ and a real solution for have share services to drive, gmail, g+ would be great
any good calendar app to recommand ?
best regards
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Of course you cannot compare Ubuntu with Android
Ubuntu is on early stage of development
and also Google Play Service is Only for Android Devices (However some android not supprt it like Amazon Phones)
If you want Stable Apps for your Ubuntu phone search and look for Developer name that include canonical or Ubuntu Core App
There is Calendar App By Ubuntu Core App Developers
:good:
yeah i fully understand that no prob but i ve seen image of ubuntu touch goin on for long time now, i thought these basics were more achieved.
no prob, i am patient, i am more interested in the terminal function anyway, i d like to get native classic linux app like nmap and other working
There is actually a Google calendar sync.
Sent from my awesome Ubuntu Touch device using the Forum Browser app

Poke Go ++ For Android (Request)

Is it possible if you guys can make a port of poke go ++ for ios to android... it's an app avaliable in a repo for cydia here's the link for the video and the repo is on the description....would love to see this app on android thanks in advance
This is confirmed still working instead of using a different api it uses pokemon go's apical and checks traffic being received and allows seeing pokemon in the app
It would be amazing to have that Poke Go ++ working on Android... Seriously, hope someone could bring the app for us (the Android users).

General Download Any Apk Off The Playstore Without installing Google, AMAZON, or Any other APP Store

EDIT-- This post is super old (but still works).
Another method (maybe better for your use case?) is the Aurora store. Please see the COMMENTS SECTION.
How To Download any app on the playstore, Without installing GMS, GAPPS, AMAZON, Or any other App Store
EVOZI:
https://apps.evozi.com/apk-downloader/
GOOGLE PLAY STORE:
Android Apps on Google Play
Enjoy millions of the latest Android apps, games, music, movies, TV, books, magazines & more. Anytime, anywhere, across your devices.
play.google.com
Simply paste the playstore link to evozi, of the app you want to download!
This is not warez, you Can Not Download Paid apps.
This site just caches and backs up all our favorite apps.
Rarely, if you're looking for something too obscure, it will not be able to locate it.
Have Fun
Google Play Store lets you download and install Android apps on an Android-powered phone or tablet or emulator if GMS Core already are installed thereon.
Sometimes evozi will say something about "you're being rate limited" and it won't work. I think this is bc they are getting too much traffic. I use Evozi in this example, as it is the cleanest (adless) experience, but do bare in mind you can always use other Mirrors~! sites like APKpure.com are mostly safe
any idea how does https://apps.evozi.com/apk-downloader/ work as am trying to automate some work and i dont want to depend on apk-downloader or any other mirror
@synackers sorry I just now had the time to research what I wanted to share. There's a "store" that has access to the playstore repositories, that is open source, and gives the user the freedom to choose to enable google features or not. This works on windows phones too and I would guess WSA too?
It is called the "aurora store" it's website is here:
auroraoss.com
This is still new to me so I can not explain it personally but the knowledge is available
This article explains a little about it and shows pictures
Maybe they have a github repo somewhere you can obtain the code you need to dl things
Hope it helps!
Hi Jeneh , to be honest am not interested in any open source apk mirroring available in internet
am seeking to understand how auroraoss or evozi actually works behind the screen ... how do they give you apk to be downloadable is also fetched from other mirror or do they have google developer and google offer any api to play store ..etc
more deep technical details is of my interest . i do appreciate your feedback
@synackers The Aurora Store is different from evozi or other sites like evozi, in that it actually accesses the repositories, ie the link to the android app in question.
For instance: to download the app "Termux" a call is made to get the app from com.termux and it goes on to install and build from there, the latest software.
When using evozi or apk mirror, they save actual hard copies of the apps to their servers to share to users, which could be any older version of the app.
Evozi regularly redownloads the more popular apps from the play store and they take requests. However there is No version choice available. The downloaded apks hash signatures will match the playstore app sigs for that app version.
Sites like apk mirror and others tend to keep all the older app versions and provide a choice which version to download. This is my only use case for these as they are more risky and you should vet the sigs on them.
Here is aurora's gitlab https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore
This link has all the code to be able to go through and find exactly what you need.
Some info on the code
"Aurora Store was originally based on Sergei Yeriomin's Yalp store. Aurora Store v4.0 is a rewrite of version 3 in Kotlin"
The developer of the store has made a page here on xda that maybe they would be willing to give better insight to a specific question you have in the installation process to provide the technicals.
Outside of Aurora, it may be beneficial to learn about PackageInstaller to be able to manually install and or uninstall apps with code. Or Package Manager, if you open that spoiler and select the "PM" option you can see all the code for using it.
Hi Jenneh ,
much appreciate your response and cooperation |
https://www.codevoila.com/post/77/how-to-install-or-uninstall-an-android-apk-file-programmatically this is definitely valuable and its crystal clear for me on how aurora works.. i had a glance at the code in github .
now my challenge or use case which i want to achieve is as following ;
1. need to take APK directly from play store ( i dont mind if google offer paid API which am not aware or seen )
this should be automated off android physical phone / or emulator
working in other project ^^ and stuck in this point
what i have noticed indeed evozi take package from playstore cause i checked an APK which recently was published and not available in any other mirror site
Aruroa still need mobile phone or emulator to work
Thanks again and appreciate your cooperation
With regards to thread's title "Download Any Apk Off The Playstore Without installing Google, AMAZON, or Any other APP Store" take note that you of course need an app store to get APKs from.​
Never make use of Aptoide: it's Large, Decentralized, Dangerous.
Aptoide is one of the most sophisticated app sources. The store works with a distributed network of different store providers and combines them on a unified platform. However, this poses significant security risks.
Truely not what am seeking , any mirror is not an enterprise grade options cause security risk is high so if there is any way to download directly apk from play store without the need for emulator or device would be much appreciated
The app store with least security risks is Google Play Store.
Apps from outside of the Google Play Store are also scan using Google Play protect on the device, it is a security risk to install apps outside of the Play Store but as long as you trust the app developer you should be fine.
well, what is the case if i need to automate a way for MDM solutions
IDK.
Probably MDM isn't not applicable if the managed devices differ in Android version and ARM architecture.

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