I'm developing a Android app that functions like the popular Logo Quiz in the Google Play Store, however, I have not come across any tutorials on how to make the check mechanics.
I know it involves a database to determine whether the answer is correct or not but I do not know how to put it to use, any tutorials are welcome :)
Also I have everything else in the app set up apart from this but (The main bit -.-)
To make an app like Logo Quiz you need to have some kind of relationship between logos name and it's picture. The first and the basic thing that I can think of it is just use sqlite database to store your logo name and image name. After that you can just check if it's correct after the user input.
At least that's the easiest way that I know.
However, it's just an idea so maybe there is better way to do this.
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You may have seen this in games/apps that on the first screen you get some "news" like "expansion now available" or "check out the other new game". The way i would implement it is by using a server/website with a php script that the app queries and it then gets a JSON with the news. However i am not a "php guy" and i understand that with a big app and lots of news this could create quite the traffic and thus cost (in a very extreme scenario).
So i wondered if i could use (or abuse) some feature of the store itself.
Another scenario would be that (worst case) after patching a new bug is introduced and i want users to know that a fix will be available shortly. Most users these days won't go to a website etc to find out if someone is working on this, they close the app or even deinstall and give it a bad rating. If they could read about a fix on the very first screen it might mitigate this.
I am aware that all this is not exactly best practice but i still want to know about it.
I just want to start by saying I am doing this for a friend as a general information app and I am receiving no money for doing this. He would like an app to help inform his clients of different treatments as well as adding in daily memos etc. I can create an app no problem and have only created apps for general use and for my University assignments (I will also add that this is not a university project but just more to improve my own abilities). I am hoping someone may have a suggestion for how I can allow my friend to update the apps information easily. For example, I will be creating a general app that will display information (contact information, advice, guidelines, exercises etc) most of which will need updated every so often. He has also said he would like to add a daily update (almost like a daily tip or piece of advice). What I would really like help with, is for guidance on how I can have my friend maintain the app after I have done the project. I want an easy way for him to add/remove/edit memos or information. I haven't come across anything like this so I don't know if it is possible or if it is possible but complex etc. I hope I have explained the scenario well enough. Only looking guidelines of things I can research and do on my own, I just don't know where to start looking.
I am a total beginner with programming and I have a little experience with mostly python, php and html.
I need to realize a very simple app for my smartphone that allows me to track a simple YES or NO every month for every customer.
It's strange but I need it to be like this.
So, asking for (e.g.) the March report the app would show me all user names and a simple YES or NO describing if that username paid me or not.
I can do this easily with an xls file but I want to realize it for fun and learning.
My question is: can I achieve a similar result (I need an Insert page where I insert customers, a modify page and a report page) simply using AppInventor?
Is TinyDB enough for this?
I could skip all this and realize a very simple webapp in php with mysql but I really dream about doing something "mine" and see it run on android.
I'd like to be able to realize it in a very simple and fast way: if AppInventor is not enough is there another solution "for dummies"?
My question is: can I achieve a similar result (I need an Insert page
where I insert customers, a modify page and a report page) simply
using AppInventor? Is TinyDB enough for this?
yes, that's easily possible, to start with App Inventor, do the tutorials to get to know how everything works
also helpful in your case is to learn, how lists work in App Inventor, more info see here
there is also a very helpful App Inventor forum in case you get stuck
I'm developing an android app and am not sure if something like this exists or how to even approach it. I would appreciate any advice.
In this app I would like to have a screen that displays only local news for a certain zip code. I would of course type in the zip code but after I do this once it would take it from there.
What is the best way to do this?
I've read a bit about RSS feeds. Is this the way to go? Is there a particular RSS feel that will let me type in a zip code...and if so, how do I display this content inside a page of my app?
Maybe there is a website that specifically does this for android apps and I just need to set a url to this web page to consume the information?
Sorry if I'm not very informed about this. This is my first app and I would really appreciate knowing how best to approach this problem.
Thanks
Google News gives "information near you". It uses geolocation to know where you are and shows the news that happen in your area, maybe you can use that.
You can also use the RSS they provide for a certain area, for example, California:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&gl=us&as_occt=any&as_qdr=a&as_nloc=california&authuser=0&q=location:california&um=1&ie=UTF-8&output=rss
I'm looking at developing an app that could benefit from having a image recognition system. I've seen this sort of thing in iPhone and Android apps. Take a picture of a book and the app takes you to Amazon where you can find that book. I'm not looking for general image recognition, but more the ability to pick a single image out of a library of about 10k images.
Any ideas of what services are available for this sort of thing?
Google Goggles does something similar to Amazon Remembers. It uses OCR if text can be identified and they want to use it with the similar image search from Google Images. I think they generate some kind of hash for an image with the feature that if the images are similar the images are similar to.
My best guess would be try to start with the character recognition and do a text search for the title of your card. This means your user has to make a very clear image maybe even in a specific position. But for a first application this would be great already. As somebody playing magic I would buy the tool for trading and cataloging my cards.
Actually, while short of getting an actual Amazon employee to tell you there is no way to confirm this, I am fairly certain that the Amazon Remembers feature you refer to is actually the work of crowd sourcing- using lots of people combing through data to make it appear like a computer is doing it. I think they may actually be using there own Mechanical Turk system.
Edit: Also, I found this SO question that might interest you. It is specifically for playing cards, but some of the answers (such as the machine learning example) can be modified to be more helpful for what you want to do with magic cards.