Is there any chance to bypass Fb messenger by getting reminders/event/alarm information being set on a group chat. I am planning to create an algorithm or an app that automatically saves a reminders/event/alarm so that later your phone will alarm even in offline. Thank you in advance.
Well your question is quite broad.
By the way, if you're searching some way to get facebook events, alarms and reminders I suggest you to take a look to their Graph API.
You can see here to get started with the Android SDK.
You can query Facebook for all the information you need through the API, and then do your thing.
Disclaimer: I have no experience with this API, this is why I couldn't get you more help.
I just pointed you what I thought you are needing.
I hope that this is what you're looking for!
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so a question which has been confusing me. I have created a simple API server using ruby on rails and able to read the data through my android program i created. SO I wanted to create a user register/login , however then it struck me i would probably need a token authentication so that not everyone can come and delete my entire database right ? However, now im confused , do i need to have 2 authentication before using the API then ? One for social media such as facebook, twitter , g+ , and one for the API itself ? I know it sounds silly, why would i need two authentication? But i thought i best ask look around first for my answer. Also since i heard facebook authentications token usually expire every 90 days.. does that mean i have to relogin the user every 90 days ? Would be good if someone can point me to the right direction
Have you hear about Firebase? They have quite a lot of examples on how to handle authentication with their services. They can handle your backend easily for you.
Best thing about Firebase is that it is free for low usage apps and the pricing is quite reasonable for a small team.
Here are some useful links.
https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth/
https://firebase.google.com/products/
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Currently we use a 3rd part tool (HockeyApp) for monitoring crash reports on an android app. They have an API that i can use to query for crash reports. I want to be able to have an automated crash report system where if certain conditions are met, i get an email (or maybe a phone call). For example, say i get 9001 crashes within an hour, i would like to receive an alert.
Is there a tool for doing this already? (crash monitoring for android, using hockeyapp is highly preferred)
I looked into rolling out my own Ruby on Rails app for doing this, using ActionMailer apis. has anyone had any experience with this and recommend it? Or what would be a better approach? (If i have to roll out my own tool, dev time is of the essence)
What kind of tools do your/other companies use for this kind of situation (crash alerting/pager duty)?
You can continue to use HockeyApp and set a webhook when a new crash was created. This webhook can point to your own backend or to a service like Zapier, which can then trigger a PagerDuty, email or all kinds of notifications.
You can look at crashlytics. They notify by email and send daily stats on email. For detailed stats you can visit your account. But this service is only for crashreporting.
I am trying to build an application which requires the information from microsoft outlook scheduling assistant.
Okay, this is a huge question! Simple answer, no, there is no easy way to just plug it in, but that doesn't mean it isn't possible. Let's assume you're using the exchange server, you can create a request that returns you the availability info of a list of contacts over a period. This returns an array of integers detailing the status of that person during each hour/half hour of the period you sent.
You can then make a table layout with views depicting their availability with different colors. This is not an easy task. I recently had to do it for my company's email client and it took about 3 days of pretty hardwork to get a good looking UI with all the information you need.
For information on the protocols you send to get the availability info, check out the documentation here. If you need any help doing this, please feel free to comment here. Unfortunately, I can't share the code I wrote, since I wrote it while working for IBM
I am developing an app in which, in a particular activity there are some articles on which users are supposed to discuss, i.e. post their comments.
So, if anybody comments on a particular article, that comment should be visible to all the users on their cell,who are subscribed to that article.
Now, I am not able to figure out how to carry out this.
I have referred to the developer's site http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/index.html and some SO's questions also but still no ans.
Please help..
You'll need to store that kind of information in a server somewhere, and access it from the app for each user. Since this is a broad question, it's hard to give you advice specifically on what technologies to use and where to host your server solution. There are many ways you can accomplish this. I would create a web service to store your data about posts and comments in a database of your choice using one of the many web service hosting providers out there:
Amazon Web Services
Heroku
Google App Engine
Here's a post I found describing simple backends for a mobile app: Backends for a mobile app
After reading that, I realized that there are some solutions that you can pay for that will take most of the work out of creating a backend for you. I've heard that Parse is great, but I've never used it myself: Parse.
I am trying to create an android application which allows users to receive updates from a particular server/website.
For example, whenever I have a piece of information I want to share, like an update or notice, I will post it on this website. Whenever, there are updates posted by me, I want the phone to receive a notification about it as well and add the information into the app.
Just like the gmail app on android. Update immediately when there is a mail and not have a timer to check at every interval.
Does anyone know how can I go about it? I am new to programming, it will be good if your answers in steps for me to follow. Thanks in advance.
EDIT:
The android application will have a login page which is define the type of the user. Only the updates and information regarding the type of the user will be pushed.
However users of this application, may not login with a google account.
You could use C2DM - Cloud 2 Device Messaging. It's relatively new tech though so not a lot of resources about it.
Here's a good tutorial on it: http://www.vogella.de/articles/AndroidCloudToDeviceMessaging/article.html
Edit: PS: and it's in beta too so might work best as a proof of concept more than an actual product.