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Are there services out there that let the user search or browse an Android app market by specifying the app's permissions (e.g. android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO), features (e.g. android.hardware.microphone), launched or filtered intents (e.g. android.speech.action.RECOGNIZE_SPEECH)?
I am interested in locating 3rd party apps that could complement my app in the Android environment so that I could recommend such apps to my users, ideally programmatically. What I've used so far is Google Code Search queries such as http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=RECOGNIZE_SPEECH, but these cover only open source apps. Is there a better way?
Update: note that Google Code Search has meanwhile been shut down. Sad. It was a really useful service.
No you can't do this.
The only way I see is to build your own crawler with
http://code.google.com/p/android-market-api/
If you're interested, I've developed an app, StripSearch, to filter search listings by the permissions used. The app works by excluding results that don't meet the permission requirements specified by a given search filter (a filter can exclude, require, or ignore specific permissions). Several filters are included by default, but you can create your own as well.
Get StripSearch here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hasslefixes.stripsearch
If you want to see a demo explaining its usage, you can watch a video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mynw3rbky5A
StripSearch is free, does not include ads or spyware, and only uses the following permissions:
android.permission.INTERNET (obviously needed to search the store)
com.google.android.providers.gsf.permission.READ_GSERVICES (needed to obtain the Google Play Android ID tied to your phone and account)
Giv it a try!
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I have developed Android application (Application somewhat social media type and this is the first application I have developed) and in that there is a feature to upload images by users.
So my question is if any user uploaded any copyrighted or offensive image then who is responsible for it? User or owner of the application developer (in this case me)?
Is there any 3rd party tools needed to scan or verify the images?
Short Answer: Write "Disclaimer"
If you are developing web application which users can upload photos and share them in anywhere they want, you can take those photos' copyrights with yourself or make your users to take that responsibility.
This is where you have to write "Disclaimer" for your application before you give the users access to use your system let them accept your term and conditions and disclaimer so they should be informed that they have responsibility on what they upload.
Also you can have a reporting option where the victim can report the incident so you can review that and delete the particular content from your site.
Is there any 3rd party tools needed to scan or verify the images?
Yes, there are many but how are you going to ensure that the image has copyrights ?
Better, you should be able to catch any of your users on this case.
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The goal is to get user's payment card data in iOS/Android apps, but not by just having them enter it. I'd like them to be able to use a platform-wide context which already keeps the payment card details. Much like the Payment Request API on the web.
I looked at ApplePay and Google Pay but they don't seem to directly provide the payment cards details.
Is there an alternative?
Google Pay and Apple wallet would be closest to the linked payments request api on the web. But keep in mind that even those wouldn't give you the card data directly.
Google Pay only works with specific 'Google Pay Processors' which handle the actual transaction (See list of processors here), so you never get the actual credit card data and cannot perform the payment processing yourself.
I assume Apple has the same restrictions.
Another issue you might have is that they are not globally supported.
Have you thought about using paypal maybe? Found a cordova plugin here.
You have good options for both iOS and Android.
For iOS look to Apple Pay -> https://developer.apple.com/apple-pay/
For Android look to Google Pay -> https://developers.google.com/pay/api/android/
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I'm developing an Android translation app and I've been searching a translation API with the capacity of language packages download to use the app offline but I'm not able to find something similar.
I've found two open source API, MyMemory and Apertium but I don't know how can I use them offline.
Any ideas? Thank you
Apertium is completely free and open source, including the language data, and it should be possible to run all the language pairs offline on a phone. In practice, some of the "newer" language pairs might require a bit of work since they have dependencies on C++ programs that haven't been ported to Android yet (cg-proc from the vislcg3 package and hfst-proc from the HFST package).
Still, quite a lot of the work has been done already, and there's an "example" app you can build on – http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Apertium_Android explains it:
The goal of the 'official' Apertium Android app is to provide example code on how to integrate Apertium offline translation into an Android app.
It requires internet permission to enable users to download language pairs (and developers to showcase their work from a phone).
You can of course make it not even require Internet permission by bundling the language pairs into the app.
(If you need some of the other language pairs and are interested in making cg-proc/hfst-proc work on Android, you should probably get in touch with the relevant maintainers.)
Translating is a very complex problem. There are no good offline translation engines that would work well on a Android phone.
MyMemory is just a translation memory, e.g. it stores millions of existing translation, but this will not help much with your app.
Apertium is also an online service.
There are great translation apps from Microsoft and Google. I would try to build something different.
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Is there an API/service that can provide an up to date snapshot of all Android apps on google play marketplace?
thank you
There is no official Google Play API that provides data like this. If you want to index Google Play, you will have to crawl it manually.
If you want to open up lists in your app, then you can use the URLs given here.
Check with the Google Play Terms of Service first:
3.3 You agree not to access (or attempt to access) Google Play by any means other than through the interface that is provided by Google, unless you have been specifically allowed to do so in a separate agreement with Google. You specifically agree not to access (or attempt to access) Google Play through any automated means (including use of scripts, crawlers, or similar technologies) and shall ensure that you comply with the instructions set out in any robots.txt file present on the Google Play website.
However This is an unofficial open source API for the android market.
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I saw Flurry and Google-Analytics are good choices, what tool is more powerful and why?
I have used UXCam which become very useful for me. It has all the feature that should be in mobile analytical and UX optimization tools.
It has many features such as:
Screen video recording
User interaction data such as heatmap, timeline
Camera video recording
Feedback and bug reporting
Integration steps are also very easy and short. You have to add some permissions and services in manifest and add
UXCam.startApplication(this);
on starting activity of your app. Docs are available here.
It depends whatever you want from an analytic. Check this page and maybe you can decide which one is the best for you. Flurry-vs-Mixpanel-vs-Google-Mobile-Analytics-who-wins-Why
I am currently trying Countly http://count.ly/ and it looks very promising.
If you are not looking for experimentation you can try Google Analytics and Flurry which are more tried and tested.
Using google analytics for android has too many advantages. In case you have a service which is available on internet ,android and iPhone, you can see the consolidated data of all these on a single page. Also, the API is very simple and use of custom variables can be done to track the events in the application. Check out their official page at
http://code.google.com/mobile/analytics/docs/android/
I am using https://try.crashlytics.com/ and really its amazing..
just Checkout listed trusted partner who integrated the same..