Android - prompt users to update app? - android

Does Google provide a JSON API for their Play Store of some sort that would allow me to do something like compare version numbers? I've looked around and the only solution people are proposing is to scrape the store website and some of those answers are very old. Are there any libraries available?
I know apple has a way of doing this via url: http://itunes.apple.com/lookup?bundleId=com.example.app

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Images in Firebase Storage, how to get them to Google Drive Team Drive

I've built an app using Ionic that takes pictures and uploads them to Firebase Storage. What I'd like to do next is to make it so that the directory structure and images are accessible from a Google Team Drive.
What would be a good way to go about this? I don't have any code examples because I'm inexperienced with this and I don't really know where to start.
Would I write code to put in Firebase functions that would upload the images every X hours to a Google Accounts' Team Drive? Since Firebase Storage is just using Google Cloud anyways is there an API I could use? Does Firebase have this capacity already and I just don't know about it?
The Team Drive is under G Suite for my company so I could get a Google account made just for this purpose.
I'm new to Stack Overflow, sorry if this post breaks any rules.
https://github.com/firebase/functions-samples/tree/master/google-sheet-sync
This is the only example on the internet that I could find that addressed this issue.
It is a working (With a few tweaks as of Novemeber 2017) example of OAuth and Google's API for uploading information from the Database to a Google Sheets document via an onWrite() event trigger.
I managed to get this working, and in combination with the Google API docs and a lot of rummaging have sort of managed to get Google Drive connected.
The key points are:
-Follow the Firebase Functions examples
-Examine the google-sheets-sync example
-Firebase Functions takes node.js javascript
Posting this answer because it sounds simple but this was a hell of a lot of digging for me to find this all.

Any way to list all apps in the google play store in parsable format?

Similar to this post regarding the Apple iTunes App store, would there be any way to find all the apps on the Google Play store?
Are there any APIs available or a simple page like the apple one with lots of hyperlinks? Or an RSS Feed?
Any portal I can find into the google play store seems very interactive, and not really a complete list, but lots of 'top' lists of apps/games.
I ended up using a paid service called 42Matters.
They provide an API that you can call for a subscription fee.

User interface and selective sync in google drive / google spreadsheet

Hi I am new to android development and planning to develop a spreadsheet application, which should allow the user to
1) Create and edit a spreadsheet file in local device
2) Have file level control to allow/disallow syncing with google drive. Google credentials could be asked only if the user is interested in syncing.
My questions are:
1) Does google Drive/ Google spreadsheet provide any APIs for user interfaces? What will be the best way to implement the user interface?
2) Is selective syncing possible using google drive / google spreadsheet API?
The two spreadsheet api are: google-apps-script and google-spreadsheet-api ...
Google apps script has good docs and is of good quality, but I suspect google-spreadsheet-api
will be a better fit for android development, but depends on your needs.
The google CellDemo.java demo gives a good overview of the spreadsheet api. https://code.google.com/p/gdata-java-client/source/browse/trunk/java/sample/spreadsheet/cell/CellDemo.java
There is also ethercalc - it is a web based spreadsheet, good quality, all open source.
Yes you can. Google providing API for this. Kindly check this google developers link for more information. I hope you are familiar with designing of spreadsheet like layout and all in your app. If that thing is achieved, you can do it this also by putting small effort.

Connecting application to a google store

Now I have my application which reads magazines, books and articles. Now I want to be able to connect to the store from my app and get this items.
How do I do this?
I am pretty certain people may have already posted this but I just can't seem to write the correct phrase in google to get me to the link.
You can only accomplish embeddeding using the Google Books API using the Embedded Viewer API
Say: to allow the user to download the book from Google Books in whatever format which could then be stored and read out of your app would surely go against a Policy even if you found a way to do it for free books (I'm guessing). But embedding them seems like fair game.

Android-Market, a Facebook-like API to export the comments?

It is a way to export in XML the comments leaved by the users on the Android Market?
On Facebook the Graph API enables to pull comments:
"Comments can now be searched and exported so developers and website owners can highlight the most interesting comments, perform analysis on the comment stream, reward top commenters, search through existing comments, and use comments to improve SEO on their site. For example, a news site could highlight the most popular comments or display an info-graphic comparing the number of “pro” vs. “con” discussions created on a political topic." Source : http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/490
On Facebook, comments for every URL can be accessed via the Graph API:
https://graph.facebook.com/comments/?ids={YOUR_URL}
FYI. Same question posted on the android-market website: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?tid=68aba0273ccb35ca&hl=en
Google does not provide a public API to the Android Market. Your best bet is to try the unoffical API available here. Use at our own risk, might break at any time, etc.

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