Is there a way to search through a dropbox account to find a file with your own app using their API.
For example I want to find all *.jpg in my drop box account from my app. or all files containing the word 'smile' in the title. etc.
I have been searching but either its not provided or i'm not searching with the right terms.
Have you tried the full core REST API? I found this in their documentation: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core/docs#search.
It looks like you can search the way you want using that API. I have never used the dropbox API, but figured I'd help if I can. Hope it helps!
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How do I get the most used or popular tags from the Instagram API? I searched the API but I couldn't find how to do so. I have seen many Android Apps and websites that do that. However, the closest endpoint I found to get the most popular tags is this one https://api.instagram.com/v1/tags/search?q=snowy&access_token=ACCESS-TOKEN.
I can't comment yet, so......You can use GET /tags/tag-name/media/recent to find the most recently posted media with that tag, and larger returns would lead you to the most used. Yes, that is time consuming, but if you've done some research beforehand you should have a narrowed down list of tags. And there is a new Instagram Graph API that looks like it is designed for business information, details at this link: https://developers.facebook.com/products/instagram/. I have not used it, but perhaps it will give you some additional guidance. If you'd like more information and tutorials on the Instagram API, you can check out this wiki link.
My question is in the context of an Android app providing users with a way to add Places to the Google Places database. Regarding this page:
https://developers.google.com/places/supported_types
After extensive searching, I've been unable to find a way to retrieve these types from the API in a manner suitable for presentation to the user. Does anyone know a way to accomplish this, or is there a built-in dialog I can call (similar to the Place Picker)?
Thank you in advance.
I see this is old so you've likely worked around your issue by now. For the benefit of others, here's a work around since Google seems to have left us dangling on this one.
First, I've created a small data file having all of Google's constants (as of this posting date) associated with friendly names. The two values are separated by commas.
Here's a link to the file:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_33r2IAzcMibndhT2RicWdLUXc
This file can be formatted in JSON if you wish, or read as is. Use it as a source for an AutoCompleteTextView DataAdapter, so the users can easily select a place type. I haven't written the code yet. My needs are different than yours so my code won't meet your needs, but it should be pretty easy to implement an AutoCompleteTextView with this data.
Hey !
I have an Android app where the user can search on a specific subject, let's take the word "Cats" for example. When the user submits the search I want to find an image similar or on the subjects the searched for. A search engine for images more or less. I want something "easy" to deal with, so I thought about integrating the Google Search API into my app. Let the user search Google, and take the first image that comes up.
However, I haven't found any example and I just need a push in the right direction. If you could give me an example API for my needs, that'd be great.
Apparently the Google Search API never was fully deprecated it's still up and running. It provides JSON data and is easily parsed with Android.
If anyone else needs an image API here's a test search: https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/images?v=1.0&q=searchquery&rsz=8&start=1&imgsz=small|medium
And the JSON reference: https://developers.google.com/image-search/v1/jsondevguide
I'm building an application that takes the departure and destination address from the user. The company purchased Capture+ from PostCode anyWhere to be used on our website, I now need to build it on Android.
I'm trying to build a layout that would have something like this demo
http://www.postcodeanywhere.co.uk/address-capture-software/try-it-now/
I tried to look for an Android API for that, but didn't find a Java API http://www.postcodeanywhere.co.uk/support/sample-code.aspx
This link shows how to get started with Capture+ , but again only javascript and some html form
https://www.postcodeanywhere.co.uk/address-capture-software/guide/default.aspx?reg=1
I've tried reading about the search dialog http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/search/search-dialog.html
But i'm not sure if it's the right thing, I'm really lost, can anyone help me please ?
I'm on the technical support team here at Postcode Anywhere. With the Capture+ function at the moment it can only be done with the JavaScript snippet provided in the integration process.
We do however have JAVA code samples for all our API calls which you can use to implement the more traditional 'Click to Find' method. All the APIs can be found here:
http://www.postcodeanywhere.co.uk/address-validation/api/
For the UK the APIs that you require are the 'Find' and the 'Retrieve By ID'.
No problem, good to hear you got it working.
The service is intended to be used in this two part method (Find and retrieve). The retrieve by ID is the call where the charge is made. There are restriction on how many 'Finds' that can be used when no 'Retrieves' are made.
If you want to drop me an email of your requirements I can have a look into the best way of doing it?
My email is tomm#postcodeanywhere.com
Cheers
Google provides a variety of 'cards' for Google Now (http://www.google.com/landing/now/). Is it possible to create your own cards? The system looks pretty modular, but I haven't found any documentation or instructions to do so. (I believe you need to supply the content of the card, and some way of signaling when it is supposed to be shown. There is probably just some interface that you have to implement.)
If there is no documented solution, a hackish/undocumented way would be ok, too. I'm mostly curious how it works.
Edit: Specifically, does somebody have knowledge about the internals of Google Now, e.g. by decompiling the .apk? What I've seen suggests it is pretty modular, and it should be fairly easy to drop another class into the .apk, or to maybe inject code using Cydia Substrate. I know that there is (as of Nov. 2013) no official way to add new cards.
There is currently no way to do that. Google makes its own cards and custom application cannot register any cards. But I hope it will be possible in future.
Actually Google announced last week that developers can now develop custom Google Now cards:
http://www.google.com/landing/now/integrations.html
However, a developer guide seems not available yet.
Edit:
On the end of the page they point out that:
We'll let you know when we are able to onboard more partners
There is a work-around that will soon allow you to place cards in Google Now's stream at a particular time or a particular location: Use Google Keep (https://drive.google.com/keep/)
You can create a new card at Google Keep with a time based or location based reminder, depending on which the relevant card will show up in Google Now.
Since Google Keep is now in Drive, the API is expected to be available soon (keep a lookout for it at http://discovery-check.appspot.com/ )
There is not way to do this by your own at the moment. If you really want to do it you can fill in this form: https://services.google.com/fb/forms/nowintegrations/. You can ask Google if they want to cooperate to create a Google Now card.
Note quite an answer, as it is still not possible to create Google Now cards, but you can now hook into the Google Now search function (basically Android's Siri) and provide custom search results. For example you can say "show me the lyrics to..." and it opens a lyrics app.
Here is a link to the project which is based on the Xposed framework.
Just guessing from my impression of the Google Search apk (which includes all the Google Now functionality and even the home screen on KitKat), it should be possible to use a similar technique to inject cards into the app - however since the app is huge and very complicated, it will be a lot of work. I'd keep my eyes open on the xda-developers forums, wouldn't be surprized if someone there solves this in the future.
It appears that there is developer documentation on how to push google now info via email, eg. flight details, restaurant reservations etc.
https://developers.google.com/schemas/now/cards
I have yet to dig into this, but may update this answer if I discover anything significant.