Apple provides an RSS feed for their marketplace. Is there something similar for Android?
I mean something similar to http://itunes.apple.com/us/rss
I don't believe there is such a thing available for Android Market.
If you really need it, I suppose you could use pages like the following and parse the content:
https://market.android.com/details?id=apps_topselling_paid
Far from a brilliant solution, but I think it's probably one of the best available at the moment.
I was looking for this as well and found this link: http://androinica.com/2009/07/tips-follow-the-android-market-with-an-rss-reader-for-beginners/. Apparently you can do this using Androlib and Cyrket. The link contains details on how to do it.
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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.
I have googled the heck out of this but I could not find any pointers. So any help would be great.
I am trying to implement a link preview for my users in a feed stream like Facebook on an Android native app as below!!
I am looking for solutions which require least amount of data usage by the user and hence reducing loading time so that this ca be accomplished cleanly.
Do I have to store the image, title and description data on my own server??
Please HELP!
I think I have found a solution in a blog. It stores the image thumbnails in the cache. However I am worried about the memory leaks.
http://www.androidhive.info/2012/07/android-loading-image-from-url-http/
Please check this out and tell me how we can tackle memory leaks.
You could use a third-party service like ThumbnailApp, which I wrote about here for a similar question, except you would need to use the HTTP API and not the JavaScript SDK. There are also other services like ShrinkTheWeb but I'm not sure they give you the title / description.
Recently I am working on Android app development, and also I did iOS app before. I am not good at Android so far, so sometimes I found the app is kind lagging, thought stackoverflow.com is very nice place to share and found the bug, but I would like to ask if there are some websites that I can share all codes and details about the app, and there are also some programmers there they can read and point it out what's wrong with my app? I don't know if this question is legal here, just think it's good to have one and learn more..
You can post code and get it reviewed at https://codereview.stackexchange.com/
The best solution would probably be to push your projects to a site like Github where there's a great infrastructure in place to allow people to collaborate with you.
Asking people to do so is a different issue, but probably best achieved through posts on XDA-developers and equivalent forums.
There are plenty of places where you can post your entire source code. Here are two that I have used:
Google Code: allows you to post your code publicly with details about downloading. You can use this and google forumns to get reviewed and help. SVN access is easy to configure. Can add others to projects.
SourceForge: allows you to post code publicly and privately. SVN is easy once again. Allows you to add others users to the project with read/write/edit permissions.
Those two may not be the best places for getting reviewed and help easily, but they are wonderful for hosting and source control!
Also, these do have forumns where you can point others to your projects and ask questions!
First, I don't know where to ask this question. Well this is programming QA site. So obviously its a wrong place. But I hope people here can answer it. And if there is a site for it, about Android random questions, please provide an url.
I see people on different forums(including SO) talking about they are using iAds for Android, but none of them say how ? I mean iAds by Apple, do they even allow Android users to use their Ads ? I searched all over google but found nothing about it. Are these guys just messing around or what ?
here is one example :
http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/33530/how-to-increase-ad-revenue (Answer by user20715)
iAds only supports for iOS not android.iAds alternative Admob which supports iOS,Android,Windows Mobile OS!
Here is More Detail About Admob
Welcome..!
iAd is Not available on android
iAd only supports for IOS not Android.
Choose a good AdNetwrok that gives you better eCPM. There is lot of AdNetwork available but in my suggestion AdMob is not good for Android.
Ok so I am starting off with android development and I have found a bunch of useful tutorials so I am set there. What I am looking for is a resource that provides homework style problems to do and has the answers downloadable so I can check my solution against the "official" solution.
So for example instead of the notepad tutorial it would be: "Build an application that you can create, edit, delete notes, ...etc.". Ideally the "official" solution would have some explanation as to why they built it the way they did. (so a tutorial at the tail end)
Anyone know of any resources that provide their tutorials in this format?
Thanks.
Okay, here's one: build me an app that allows the user to make, modify, and store notes. The 'official' answer is the Notepad app in the 9th level of the api. (Note that this is different from the notepad tutorial).
The point is that asking questions is easy, the harder part is actually making a program that does the job. And #Roflecoptr is right, at this level it can be implemented very differently. But if you want that mindset, you can write your own 'homework' easily. Just think up a few things you want that are simple, build it, does it do what you want well? Then you pass.
Despite for very trivial problems I dont think this is possible, because there are way to much possible implementation possibilites so that you can't compare your solution to the "official" solution.
But why do you need something like that? If you want to learn to program on Android, you can just follow some tutorials you've already found and then modify them, adapt them to your needs. When you get more used to the development of Android apps you can just get some ideas on tutorials/android development sites and then implement your own solution. There is plenty of help available here on SO and on other development sites, which will help you if you really get stuck.
You could always go to the Android Samples page, and without looking at their implementations, do your own and compare. The samples page is here:
http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/index.html