Hello and thanks in advance for the help
I have a series of Android apps that I am using. Whenever I recommend these apps to someone, I have to go over each one individually.
I wanted to know if it was possible to create a single application that will:
Download all of the individual apps all at once and install them
Create an app icon that when launched creates a submenu with all of the related apps and a help file to walk the user through each one.
Is this possible? If so, how difficult is it to do?
Thanks again for your help
Dave
For the download and installation, it's not difficult. You'll just have to get the market URL of all the apps you want to include, and then use a custom Intent to download and install them (something using ACTION_VIEW should do the trick
For the second part, you could create your launcher, and then have a screen with some buttons and an help screen. It shouldn't be too hard to do.
"background batch app install" is not possible on a basic (not rooted) device.
But you can easily create a "launcher app" listing all the app you want to share and, using "Intents" and "PackageManager", letting the user open it if it's already installed of downloaded the app if it's not.
Related
Problem:
So, what I need is that I want to have different download links for my android app which will ultimately redirect to playstore.
And for my app; downloaded from each different link I want some different functionality on the basis of a parameter passed from the link.
What can be done?
I have heard about DeepLinking. I want to know whether it is even possible to achieve what I am thinking? If yes then how?
I found www.branch.io. Works like a charm.
I'm new to this forum..
I want to create a Android app (say mother app), which can be installed to the Android devices on the home menu. This app should contains one or more apps inside (say child app)..
The mother app should have online login verification and on the successful login this app should show all the child app...
The concept is just like creating a app such as newsstand of iPhone.
Is it possible to create such app for Android using Adobe Air
When any child app is installed from the marketplace then It must be shown inside mother app instead of home menu
To make it clear:
I want to create a app which store my other apps when it is downloaded from anywhere, instead of placing my apps here and there on the device.
I suggest that you try out Android tutorial first and proceed further. It will surely help you out. You can check this Stackoverflow question for information about using Adobe Air in your application. I can help you with this information only. :D
I need to share some text and image from my android app to Pinterest, how could it be possible?
Pinterest's API is closed off, they don't document it, or give any explanation or way to register applications to be able to use it.
Basically, they don't want anyone but them making apps that interact with their site, while it's possible (you could, for instance, run a web browser in the background and have it open pages and such just as a user on the website would) it's not really 'meant' to be done, so it won't be easy :/
I'm looking to develop an application to show the information of all the other apps installed on the phone and how much time they are used.
what I want to know is,
Is it possible to do such kind of app on Android?
Android will run the apps in background even if there is no user interaction with it, Can we get the time only user interacted with the app?
Please help me with this..
Thanks in Advance.
Harry
The SpareParts app can do it. Luckily, SpareParts is a part of the Android OS and is Open Source.
Try to get some hints in the code.
Source code is avalaible here: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/SpareParts/
Clone the source with git clone https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/SpareParts to your computer.
I would like to do two things within my Android app :
Check if the Google Finance app is installed on the device. Should be pretty straighforward, isn't it ?
If yes, launch an intent to Open up Google Finance, displaying a graph on a particular Stock. So I also need to pass the stock ticker to Google Finance in some way... but is this even possible ?
Any other alternative I could use to display Stock Charts (let's say a 5 days intraday chart) on any stock ?
Thanks for your help.
I am not aware of there being any publicly-documented packages or Intents to achieve your aim, let alone an Intent that would meet your specific open-a-graph-on-a-stock request.
Since I am assuming you are looking for something that is free, I would look into launching the Browser (or perhaps using the WebView widget) on some existing Web-based finance site.
Unfortunately, very few intents with parameters are published and documented.
OpenIntents tries to collect some of them http://www.openintents.org/
Another way of finding available intents is to look at the AndroidManifest.xml of the deployed application (usually only compressed, not encrypted). Of course, this method discovers intents that may not be public and will change over time.
Recently came across ManifestExplorer https://www.isecpartners.com/manifest_explorer.html which I have built into an .apk at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4379928/android/ManifestExplorer.apk
It allows you to see the AndroidManifest.xml of all installed applications.
The manfiest of com.google.android.apps.finance doesn't include any relevant intents.
However, it is interesting that it contains a data scheme for http://finance.google.com so that if you use the browser to navigate to this page it asks if you want to open it in the finance app instead.
Best way would probably be to follow the advice from CommonsWare