I'm looking for a Note taking app similar to like a white board or something that my wife and I can install on our phones, but here is the catch. It has to notifiy us when it has been updated. Originally I was going to use drop box for this with a shared text doc but for some reason the dropbox app doesn't let me know the file has changed which means I have to check it from time to time to see if it has been updated.
Google docs should do exactly what you need.
It does except it doesn't notifiy me when the file has changed.
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I've searched around and couldn't find anything that does what I'm going to describe.... I think it would be usefull and if any programmer who can do it I would pay for a copy...
Is there a program or other method to put multiple display items on one line and have it scroll or flash between them... for example I bought a program called Hudson Phone dashboard... it flashes between displaying the various items I wanted status info on like minutes, used sms sent, last call..etc ...
I was wondering if you could have a line on the today screen that toggles between say messages... live messenger... e-mail... battery... memory.. or anything else I'd like to put in there... you know those items that you want to see but really don't want it to take up a line per item... this would save a ton of Today screen real estate.. and items would be selected like HTC PLUS! does...
Is this possible???
i think ive seen a today plugin that did all that and showed stock points too, it only took about 1 line on today screen and would run through all the stuff you mentioned...toobad i cant remember the name of the app
yeah and its called battery status. use the advanced version and it has basically endless capabilities.
thanks I'll look for it
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.
Hi all,
The New Yorker magazine has a Galaxy Tab edition of their app and I was wondering if there's ANY way to get this app for an Android phone. Surely there must be an .apk somewhere?
Any help would be awesome. Thanks!
I'd been looking for the APK, too. I found it last night and installed it on my ViewSonic G Tab (w/Vegan Gingerbread) and after a bunch of application errors, finally got it to work. I loaded the onto my Droid 3, but haven't gotten it to work.
It is a laborious processes with multiple downloads and registrations.
Go to www'nextissue'com/instruction'html# (replace ' with . - I'm not permitted to post outside links yet) At the bottom of the instruction page is a "Try downloading again" link that will start the download of the Next Issue (NI) apk.
Once you get the Next Issue app installed, you'll have to create an NI account.
With that installed go to the NI Store inside the app and click on The New Yorker (TNY) sample issue. In the new window, select the "Digital Upgrade" button.
You'll then have to enter your subscription information from your TNY mailing label. Once that is verified by NI, you'll be prompted to download the TNY/NI app.
After the TNY/NI app is installed you may have to input your NI login information again.
Then, the TNY issue has to be downloaded on to your device via the TNY/NI app.
When the download is done, you should be able to enjoy TNY on your phone/tablet.
Hope that helps.
Ok, so essentially, I'll still need a digital subscription. I wish there was a way to know it would work with my mytouch4g before paying for a whole year subscription.
there are sample issues to download and preview, though you may have to enter credit card info for the sample -- says you won't be charged if you cancel w/in 30 days.
try to download the apps, of you get that far and everything is working, then the magazines will probably work.
It seems like some print/mail subscriptions include the free digital subscription and others are additional $. I have print subscriptions for New Yorker, People and Esquire. After I entered my subscription numbers, only Esquire asked for payment info.
The New Yorker is working well on my tablet. The site says it's "optimized" for the Samsung Galaxy and Moto Xoom. People had a video that wouldn't play inside one of the articles so it may be that some features won't work on "non-optimized" devices.
Well, what I'm hoping for is to be able to pay to read it on my mytouch 4g and on my CM7 Nook color.
Does anyone have the apk for this? I tried to install TNY on my xoom using the NI Store and couldn't find the app listed. Their support folks then told me that it has only been released for the lower resolution devices so far.
I have an Asus Transformer running ICS and a Samsung Galaxy SIII with (one of) the latest leaks (DLI5).
On both devices I have installed the same Exchange account which connects to my Zarafa server.
On both devices my mail is working and also Agenda.
But on my Asus I can see all folders that are configured inside my INBOX, but on my Samsung I can only see the standard ones (inbox, concepts, outbox & sent items).
Is this something that will change or something I can change with a mod?
I'm also on dli5 and the standard app is working fine for me.
Go into your mail, press inbox on top - in the drop down menu - you go down to the last item called all folders
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I have about 20 folders that are shown then on my Asus, but they don't appear when I follow the procedure you wrote and I already knew.
How many custom folders are shown on your Samsung?
I can of course install a third party application like Moxier, but there has to be a way to get my Samsung to do what it should.
I wish I knew which part exactly is to blame for this behavior.
BTW Asus has also a total different look and feel for its mail application, but this might be because it's a tablet.
I have 10 or so folders in my outlook account and they are all present on my Samsung
- my work uses a MS exchange server
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Thanks for the info.
This has been bothering me for a long time. Because I'm not using a genuine exchange server, but this Linux replacement I didn't post anything before.
Because it's working as it should on my Asus I did make this post.
I'm now running the latest Samsung leak, which is a 4.2.1 android version. It's fixed now....
Finally I can see all the subfolders of my inbox. If I have an opportunity to test an old build I will check if it's not my Zarafa (or rather Zpush) that had a fix for this...
Anyhow.... it's working finally!!
Cheers
I've looked high and low. I know they're out there because stock tw phones have it, even the pitiful iPhone has it.
I am looking for a useful email app for my note 2 running an aosp rom. I've tried going back to a tw rom but can't stand it.
What specifically I'm looking for is an email app that when you open an email with dates, times, years, days, etc., that those items be highlighted so that you can touch them, and have a menu come up for what you want to do. Such as, "create new event" "go to this date on your calendar" etc.
Even sammy comes up short because let's say you have an email that says football practice Wednesday the 25th of Sept at 5pm, at western stadium in Georgetown University. If you click on that date it goes automatically to the date, but you have to then go back and forth btw email and calendar to fill in the where, when, what etc.
This is a little easier using multi window on my note 2 and maybe with the note 3 there will be the ability to drag and drop from the top multi window to the bottom.
But for now I'm amazed no one has developed an app to do this easier. With our busy lives, I'd be willing to pay big $ relatively on the play store for that kind of app.
Please help if you've seen something like this or would like to develop one. I'm not much help but I'd love to try!
Thanks!
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