Ways to develop a review system in Android - android

I am developing an android application that searches for various places. The app needs to have a review system where users write reviews about the places they've visited as well as view the reviews submitted by other users. It'd also be necessary to only show a few reviews in the activity and load more once button,say is pressed.I dont know where to start. Any help'd be appreciated.

Try to start with a project ;) You see its a classic client-server app so you gonna need a server with own server-API or REST API. That's for uploading/downloading reviews. For all other just try to do something then you'll be more certain with your questions

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How to integrate wordpress in my Android app

I want to build an application in which user can Log in with his Wordpress account, then he can also create, edit, see different posts present in his account. I have gone through so many links but still unable to understand how can I do this.
Finally I got a name called "XML-RPC API". But I am not aware of anything regarding the same. My app flow should be like that :-
Step1 - User should be able to login to his wordpress account.
Step2 - User can Create a new Post.
Step3 - User will be able to see all of the posts previously created and also can edit it.
I am struggling with the same, any help would be appreciable.
Thanks
Well if you have heard of XML-RPC for the first time, belive me you dont want to go that way :P. Unless you have lot of spare time and someone who is pretty good with API's.
I dont know if you have heard about it, but there are many services that offer you to create your own android and ios app. There is even a free plugin for it
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wiziapp-create-your-own-native-iphone-app/
And then there is an app from wordpress it self, its just for your own use you cant customize it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wordpress.android&hl=en
And some others
http://apppresser.com/
http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/create-publish-your-own-android-or-ios-wordpress-app/

Is there any way to determine whether the same individual who have visited your website also downloaded and installed your phone app?

Currently, I'm looking to see if there is a way to sync the information we've obtained through an online site with the information we use on a phone application.
All I need to know is that the user that visited our site is the same user that is using our phone application, No stats and preferably no one needs to enter a thing.
You won't get that from Apple, because of their history with privacy concerns, but you could do something like generate an identifying number in your app, that your web site asks for, that would tie the two together. Of course, you'd have to make allowances if your app is deleted from the device, then re-installed, to either make sure you're generating the same number, or other such solution as befits your requirements.
The first thing that would come to my mind is Google Analytics, available for different platforms and services (i.e. Youtube, etc). You would have to go through Google Analytics API to figure out a way on how to track a particular customer visit across several location/platforms.
See Hello Analytics example of Google Analytics API
See Data Feed API
Ok, so far I've answered my own question for androids. Apparently you can pass a referrer param through google play which actually allows your app to receive the parameter and they even have an app that test this functionality.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.stevemiller.android.referrertest
now I have yet to test this, nor is it a possible solution for iOS.

Programmatic way to collect comments for Android App

I released and Android app, and I want to be able to collect comments in some sort of programmatic fashon. I've looked around the the web and can't seem to find any Google API or any 3rd party service. Does anyone have any suggestions or know something I don't?
I was thinking about writing some sort of HTML scraper to just extract them from the developer console, but I wanted to get some feedback before I start that little adventure.
Thanks
You can use the unofficial Android Market API (It is still called like that).
It scrapes the content from the play store, so you can do all kind of things with it:
E.g. get the description, app logo, comments etc.

PayPal Donations on Android Apps

I am currently developing an application where I want to be able to have an option to allow the user to donate money for the app. Is there a particular way about doing this for android. I have tried looking at google but it mainly shows about paypal donation buttons for websites
I think it should be possible.
There's a similar discussion on Google Groups which basically says that donations are allowed as long as you don't offer additional functionality for that money.
Meaning no functionality is enabled after the donation is made.
Like #alocaly said, you're unable to recieve donations through a system different from android market payment or ads inside the application.
However, it is still possible to have your application on the Internet by free and with a donation button. The difference is that you cannot post it on the Android Market, so you'll have to do some extra work:
Upload to a webserver, so it can be downloaded to your phone.
Create a website (or post your application to another "illegal" market), so people can find your application.
Use some sort of advertising to let people know your application (Twitter retweets, community ads, GoogleAds, SEO, whatever)
Manage some kind of update system. Since you don't rely anymore on the Android Market, you don't have an automatic updating method (Android Market updates applications when you post a new version of it), so you should have a small class that checks a website looking for a new version (it's not that hard) and downloads a new version when there's one available.
Make work the Paypal button like #Tim said
However, you are able to do something that I've see out there: create a free version of your application and post it on the Android Market, and post another version of the same application called "Same program name (Donation)", costing some money. When someone wants to donate you, they'll only have to buy this version.
I hope it helps
I don't know what importance it has, but I think that the chart / terms of services we sign as android developers don't allow the usage of this kind of monetization.
As this is a subject that is changing a lot in Android world, with the soon to come API to pay in apps, I'm not sure it still has any importance, but you should still be aware of that.
Maybe you should take a look at this post, which explains how to integrate Paypal payments into an Android App witout leaving the App itself: How to integrate paypal donate in android app?

Read data about an application from the android market

I've noticed lately that some app recommender programs seem to get data off the android market. I'm wondering how I could retrieve information, such as screen shots, description, developer, number of downloads, rating, etc...
I've done many searches and I haven't found any solutions. It would be nice to be able to use that info to be able to see a rating for an app inside an app chooser, for example. Or perhaps be able to track changes and rating over time and version history, etc...
Is there an API to access that information? Is there a way to parse the data from a website? Or is there a complicated hack involved? Any information is appreciated...
There is an API currently hosted on Google Code. I've made use of it in one of my own apps and I think it works quite well. You are able to access everything that is visible in the market including comments and screenshots.
http://code.google.com/p/android-market-api/
Is there an API to access that
information?
Not a publicly supported one offered by Google, sorry.

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