I have some apps that I know go out to the web and pull down some pages to be displayed within the application in some type of wrapper (working in Android). I was wondering if there was a way to be able to fetch a list of those web pages, like the application's "web history".
If I could get this in a list somewhere in code that would be awesome, or otherwise just some way to view this. I suppose on the application level it would be different for every app, but if there is someway to fetch this from another app or some type of code that would be awesome!
To sum up, basically I want app A to know what pages app B (an application that I do not own) has fetched and displayed previously.
bascially I want app A to know what pages app B (an application that I do not own) has fetched and displayed previously
Fortunately, this is not directly possible, for obvious privacy and security reasons.
If App B allows you to configure a proxy server for it, then you can do so, using some proxy server that you manage that can record this info. You can even write an HTTP proxy server to fill this role.
Rooted device users can use Wireshark and equivalent to monitor all network traffic.
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I have a new project at hand where I need to make two android applications
1)Main Controller application (be installed in one device say its name be X)
2)Sub Child application (be installed in devices that need to be controlled by X )
So I want to get an idea/picture about how one android device like (2) can be managed fully(i.e. blocking applications or making them accessible for some interval / block calls / track location of user ) from another device like (1). So far I searched Google ,asked my seniors about the same but none was able to help me out.Found many scattered info (like need enterprise app to do this i.e use android management API or Device admin ) but not being able to get any clear idea about the work flow.
Thus now this the last place I can think of for helping me out with this work flow.
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Update: Based on what #Fred said i.e. to use android management API (also based on the answers that he posted here) could we somehow have own custom web server and manage the interactions that EMM console does with all the child apps through our own API's(the same API's which we would call from the parent app.) ???
In other words instead of controlling form the EMM console, I would like to control those child application from another parent android application.
By FCM or Socket programming you can easily communicate with other app. Suppose 2nd app receive a call then 2nd app call a api of server about the information, then server knock 1st app by fcm or socket, then 1st app make a decision and submit the decision to server by API, And finally server submit the decision to 2nd app by FCM or socket.
You can check out the Flyve MDM which is an open source mobile device management solution including both agent app and web panel for management.
I'm looking for a way to store settings on a React Native app (both iOS and Android), so that the user can't just open a file editor and edit the settings (mostly referring to Android here).
It's ok if they view it, just not edit it.
I also don't want to send it via the API every time for certain reasons (in other words, I can't just hit a JSON endpoint to fetch the data fresh every time so that it doesn't need to be stored).
I've heard of using something like a 'key store' but I've heard it's not implemented on Android?
PS: Ultimate 'security' is not the goal, its so that I can store certain settings about their account without fetching it every time. If someone really wants to decompile the app or sniff out all kinds of things about it, thats fine, but it will thwart 99.999% of attempts which is all I care about.
I have to write the pair of software: an website and an Android application.
The thing is: client installs the application (with all the permissions it needs). It can work in background on start-up (but don't have if it's not necessary).
Then, client visit the website. When he make certain action (click on link to some file), my application (installed previously) have to perform some operation (download the file and make something with it).
In other words, I want to send some information from my website to my application on Android.
How to achieve it in Android?
The problem is, I don't want any additional confirmation dialogs or actions from client to be required (like e.g. download file to disk, find it, run the program on it, click "accept" etc. etc.).
Of course, the installation of application will be typical, with all the confirmations.
So far I was thinking about such scenario:
Application is running in background and checks if client has performed an action on my website (taking the result of http request from www.../somethingNew?user=user as an information about user actions). If so, application download the content (e.g. www.../?user=user will return the content clicked by user).
The main disadvantage: it requires that application asks website frequently.
All you need is pushnotifications. Please read about push notifications in android. If any changes in your website it will alert the user and then u can perform some operations based on it.
I am studying the feasibility of developing a mobile application for Android, for traders, where the client-side installs on a smartphone (A) and of course, through Google Play, and server-side installs itself in another smartphone (B) that installs via the Play also.
B through the merchant takes pictures of your items and upload adding a description (this article) for the application server side, in ways that the user A, which has the side application client can enjoy the products.
In short:
Capturing data to the server must be made through an Android phone that can take pictures of products and upload to the system and adding text to describe the product.
Consultation of products will be made by a mobile phone with Android as well.
Is it possible to do this? If not, I would appreciate to give me suggestions on how to do this. But I wanted to try not to make using computers (PC / Mac) or web app to load the data to the application. I want a system purely mobile. Maybe will use the computers to store the BD system only.
When you say the server side is a phone app, you imply that the phone is always on, the app is always running, and you need no central storage whatsoever.
You also lose any ability to keep analytics for your service, which is a crucial part of any startup.
If you want your app to have the server available even 80% of the time, and you want to keep a central database of what's going on, you must have some server you can control.
There are a lot of very cheap and manageable cloud solutions, so you don't need to buy an actual server.
You know there are internet providers that require log in though a website. Most common examples are the coffee shops, or airport points, or hotels.
It's ok for your laptop because you can use a browser and you are done, but what if you wanted to use your android apps in your phone? how you set the auth data to them?
does anybody knows an app which will allow me to do that? e.g. set the needed auth to let the rest of the apps run without a problem.. I'm thinking of a proxy but not sure if it is what i need here..
thanks!
The way those authentication points work is that most traffic through the access point are dropped until the user opens their browser. The browser's HTTP request is ignored and the gateway page is displayed instead, and once the user accepts the terms of service, or pays, or whatever, the packet filter is disabled for your device.
This means that an app that's authenticated to the hotspot can run any kind of application over the network without the application being aware of the hotspot's specific security model. However, it does mean that you'd need to put a browser in your app and use some fairly fuzzy logic to determine when to show it.
Most of the time, the user will know when he or she is using this type of provider and will know to login through the android browser first.