Questions Thread - May 19, 2016 |
- Questions Thread - May 19, 2016
- Google I/O 2016 Day 2 Thread
- The Infinite Loop of Misery that is Play Store Suspensions
- What are some not so obvious things a new Android Developer should learn?
- What are 5 things you wish you had know before developing your first app?
- Why does AppCompat exist?
- The absolute minimum Android developers need to know about UX — Part 3 of 5
- Is anyone else running into this immensely frustrating bug where DAC is served in Vietnamese?
- Details on how those million Android apps will be running the latest version of Android on ChromeOS
- Android N Preview 3 Issues?
- Mononoki - a font for programming and code review
- Dark Sky Weather App Arrives On Android, Dev Q&A Included
- Bring Your Android App to Chromebooks
- App suspensions; an alternative
- PropertyName missing from com.google.firebase:firebase-database:9.0.0. Am I the only one?
- Is anyone thinking of migrating from their Parse back-end to Firebase?
- Android Studio 2.2 Preview - New UI Designer & Constraint Layout
- So how do fellow developers feel about background service restrictions?
- How to send an SMS from Android
- FloppyVideoView, a combination of TextureVideoView and ImageView's scaleType
- Bring Your Android App to Chromebooks
- Has there been any talk from Google about reeling in some of the control they give device manufacturers WRT the SDK?
- Firebase announcement is one of the most helpful for us developers. But Parse shutting down, kills whole excitement.
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| The Infinite Loop of Misery that is Play Store Suspensions Posted: 19 May 2016 10:15 AM PDT Short Version: Had an app suspended because Google thought my title was infringing a brand name while it was just a Noun. Explaining the difference(the word is not English), led nowhere and the suspension still stands. Long Version: I had a nearly three year old app called Seithigal, I created a new app recently that would unify my other news apps and upon release I updated Seithigal to display a message on startup to indicate it is being archived and gave an option to the users to visit the play store to install the new app. I updated the title in the play store to indicate it is being archived, and added the information in description(I don't have a screenshot of it because it is suspended but it was just a few lines saying why it is being archived and a link to my new app) only to wake up the next day with the dreaded suspension email waiting for me. As usual, there was no reason cited just that it violates impersonation policy, which just robs any chance of making a meaningful argument in the one chance you get to make your case. I tried to explain all the changes I made, from title to description and explained that this app is being archived and given there is a thousand character limit that is pretty much all I could guess of their intentions to explain it to them. I got a reply next day. I just couldn't believe their reason, it was so surreal to the point if they hadn't told me that I would have never guessed it. The name that they thought was infringing the copyright of this news channel(based on a three line Wikipedia article rather than the channel's homepage or something) is a Noun. Seithigal just means News, it's not an obscure word either, It is the word for News. I tried my best to explain this with my reply hoping this was just a misunderstanding and everything would be cleared up soon. Just a few minutes after sending that e-mail I found what I thought was definitive proof that would clear this thing up once and for all, I sent that as well. I got a bewildering reply back that basically amounted to nothing, but they did indicate this is the only problem they have, and when I pressed on, I just got a case is closed and need your feedback email. I replied again as suggested in the e-mail and waited over the weekend and for four business days and there has been no other communication from the side of Google. I cannot describe just how frustrating this whole thing has been, Apart from the anemic support system, the fact that it was suspended and not rejected in the first place is crazy especially since every suspension counts against your standing(which is opaque), and getting your account terminated pretty much means the end of things. I understand the need to monitor copyright infringements, and I even understand that there are sometimes false positives like my case, but a rejection with a chance to explain or even correct their mistake(if any) would be a far better option than the current nightmare and the play store desperately needs a proper grievance readdressal mechanism with escalation options. Links in my e-mail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seithigal https://translate.google.co.in/#ta/en/seithigal http://streema.com/tv/Kalaignar_Seithigal [link] [comments]  |
| What are some not so obvious things a new Android Developer should learn? Posted: 19 May 2016 09:40 PM PDT In my journey of learning Android I have been shocked to see how many things are common knowledge/use to the average programmer but are not specified in pretty much any tutorials like:
Actually almost everything I've learned on networking is through accidental discovery browsing post's on SO. And to someone who is not in school, it can be frustrating as you literally have 0 knowledge of these things that are basically a necessity. Sure learning RetroFit or RxAndroid may not be that difficult to learn, but they're impossible to learn if you don't know they exist. What are some basic things someone making an app should know that wouldn't be covered in tutorials? [link] [comments]  |
| What are 5 things you wish you had know before developing your first app? Posted: 19 May 2016 08:42 AM PDT Just started making my first app to test what i have learnt in the past 2 weeks i have been developing. Im not going to release it unless its better than i expect, but this is sort of a test for me. Its a pretty long process so far and im sure there are ways i can speed it up that will be very simple but i will learn later. However i was wondering what are 5 things app developers wish they had known before releasing their first app? I can be useful resources, pieces of advice, tools, inspiration, the harsh truth about what it will be like or anything related. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 19 May 2016 06:16 PM PDT More specifically:
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| The absolute minimum Android developers need to know about UX — Part 3 of 5 Posted: 19 May 2016 07:10 AM PDT |
| Is anyone else running into this immensely frustrating bug where DAC is served in Vietnamese? Posted: 19 May 2016 08:31 AM PDT |
| Details on how those million Android apps will be running the latest version of Android on ChromeOS Posted: 19 May 2016 08:29 PM PDT |
| Posted: 19 May 2016 10:12 PM PDT I recently upgraded to the N Preview 3, and noticed that almost every app had improved in terms of performance except for my own. Ever since the update, my app's MediaPlayer keeps killing itself after initialising, with an error 100 code. Has anyone else noticed any strange goings-on with the new build? Or am I alone? [link] [comments]  |
| Mononoki - a font for programming and code review Posted: 19 May 2016 06:10 AM PDT |
| Dark Sky Weather App Arrives On Android, Dev Q&A Included Posted: 19 May 2016 09:40 PM PDT |
| Bring Your Android App to Chromebooks Posted: 19 May 2016 11:54 AM PDT |
| App suspensions; an alternative Posted: 19 May 2016 07:32 PM PDT Google needs to reserve the right to suspend apps. Developers need some way to make changes safe in the knowledge that they're not ruining their life. Google, give people a way to submit proposed changes for approval. Validate the changes and post the outcome directly to developers with the reason for rejection if appropriate. That's all it would take to turn the current system into something that doesn't utterly destroy the livelihood of some developers who misjudge or mistakenly break the terms of the use. Google, you'll earn a lot of goodwill from a lot of disenfranchised developers who have paid you for the privilege of developing and listing their apps. Let's just be pragmatic about the relationship we have as providers here and work together. It's a terrible customer experience to have your app and account blacklisted for life because of one mistake or misunderstanding. It's not like there's no workable solution. [link] [comments]  |
| PropertyName missing from com.google.firebase:firebase-database:9.0.0. Am I the only one? Posted: 19 May 2016 10:38 AM PDT The following annotation: https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/android/com/google/firebase/database/PropertyName seems to be missing from the sdk com.google.firebase:firebase-database:9.0.0. Am I the only one facing this issue? [link] [comments]  |
| Is anyone thinking of migrating from their Parse back-end to Firebase? Posted: 19 May 2016 06:48 AM PDT I am hesitant to do so since Parse made me cautious about back end as a service, but I'm curious what others think. [link] [comments]  |
| Android Studio 2.2 Preview - New UI Designer & Constraint Layout Posted: 19 May 2016 10:18 PM PDT |
| So how do fellow developers feel about background service restrictions? Posted: 19 May 2016 05:53 AM PDT In the Android battery and memory talk at the Google IO, they mentioned that sometime after N, they will start restricting background services. If I understood correctly, after change, there will be only two ways to run code in the background:
/r/Android is cheering and I agree that some apps do abuse background services and need policing, but I'm skeptical of this ban everything approach. What does everybody here think? I know there is thread about this on /r/Android, but I wanted to get some opinions from fellow developers. Is it reasonable to expect for Google to add some way for user to explicitly allow background operations of specific app without cluttering notification tray? [link] [comments]  |
| How to send an SMS from Android Posted: 19 May 2016 01:21 PM PDT |
| FloppyVideoView, a combination of TextureVideoView and ImageView's scaleType Posted: 19 May 2016 10:34 AM PDT So I created a simple VideoView widget with the power of TextureView and the flexibility of ImageView's scaleType, called it FloppyVideoView. It's of course open source here: https://github.com/eneim/FloppyVideoView Version 1.0.0 is almost transparent to VideoView and texturevideoview. But I have plan to upgrade it to be more powerful in the future. Any comment or issue are welcome. [link] [comments]  |
| Bring Your Android App to Chromebooks Posted: 19 May 2016 12:42 PM PDT |
| Posted: 19 May 2016 10:56 AM PDT I just released a major update to my app and almost instantly I'm getting bug reports from almost exclusively Samsung users with major issues that I never caught during my testing on Nexus devices and emulators. The fact that we can't even trust the SDK API itself to have a common implementation is so frustrating. I'm sick of having to branch my code to accommodate manufacturers (let's be honest, mostly Samsungs) bullshit. Has there been any word on what, if anything, Google is doing about this? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 19 May 2016 02:01 PM PDT I have developed a couple of hobby projects and demos around firebase and parse, this time was around November last year, and these services were right on the spot for hobby developments which can be expanded to a serious business. Yesterday, the announcement of Firebase made me excited about them. I can see Customer segments being core feature for many business in near future, on top of which notifications, invites, dynamic links and configs can really be the right tools for business to survive. And with normal google techs, having iOS sdks available will help small teams like us to jump in as quickly as we want to. Last years GCM 3.0 with topic management was received with equal enthusiasm in both mobile teams and web guys at my job. I see this years Firebase sdks will be equally useful for everyone. But as I have discussed this things today, within my company and within local community, who are familiar with this type of development. I was faced with these concerns-questions regarding to firebase.
As a rebuttal
For me SQL to NoSQL is pretty controversial, and leaving that point aside, what are the other points you can add to keep this discussion on, So we can clear more doubts and can have more people willing to try firebase? [link] [comments]  |
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