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Hi - Long time reader, first time poster. I've been using Android since its days of inception, and following a specific feature that has been an left out since 1.0 was released #1128; I also encourage you to star the issue/feature if its important enough for you. The stock Email app pre 2.0 was a joke at the least, although 2.0 made it far more robust, this specific feature is no where near resolution. I wanted to know if others in the forum have found a solution (another app, modified Email app, etc) instead?
If not, then I'm willing to take a stab at the Email app code and see if I can add this feature myself. Before I go that route, any suggestions are welcome.
*bump* Are there really no suggestions on this guys? I tried K9, and it doesn't offer the ability to move emails between folders either
I was wondering if there was a open source base app that I could use to make my own app?
What I want out of an app is just for it to pull in the feeds from my blog and alow me to read them from there.
If not, how hard is this to make?
I am going to be starting a new site soon and I just think it would be really cool to have an Android app to go with it.
chaos67731 said:
I was wondering if there was a open source base app that I could use to make my own app?
What I want out of an app is just for it to pull in the feeds from my blog and alow me to read them from there.
If not, how hard is this to make?
I am going to be starting a new site soon and I just think it would be really cool to have an Android app to go with it.
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Try this... I'd give this a low-moderate level of difficulty.
Android simple RSS reader tutorial
And Google themselves just released their own Google Reader app so just add your feeds to Google Reader and use their app. Google Reader has a nice feature to scroll up/down through the feed articles using the volume rocker. It just doesn't have a widget yet. I'd like to see a Google Reader widget/shortcut for this app that would update every so often showing at least the number of unread articles. Anyway, it's Google and it's FREE!
I will look at the google reader but I was thinking more along the lines of Engadget so it is only my feeds being pulled in.
But I would be more than happy with a phandroid new style.
Hi,
I published a BETA of my new ebook reader, Bookviser. If you want to test it, please email me your Live ID associated with your Windows Phone 7 device, I will add you to the beta testers list and send you the Marketplace download link. My email is [email protected]
Bookviser can read EPUB, FB2 and TXT files. You can download books using incorporated Feedbook search or upload books from your computer.
Thank you.
Alex
Ebook readers without OPDS support are nonsense today. Also, you don't support hyphenation (especially for Russian), don't you?
New ebook reader app may have some sense, if you (at least!) implement all functionality of Jim Chapman's "Freda" ebook reader...
sensboston said:
Ebook readers without OPDS support are nonsense today. Also, you don't support hyphenation (especially for Russian), don't you?
New ebook reader app may have some sense, if you (at least!) implement all functionality of Jim Chapman's "Freda" ebook reader...
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Thank you for your comment . Honestly I did not think about OPDS support, but will add it for sure.
As to hyphenation, it was planned and will be added in new versions as well. This is only the beginning. I just decided to publish a version with basic features first and then add new one by one.
If there is dropbox support, that's enough for me.
UI looks way better than freda.
Also, single book pinning to start screen is a must.
Just used the app for some time. UI is smooth and beautiful. Page transition is smooth too.
Sent from my SGH-i917 using XDA Windows Phone 7 App
What about navigation and font sizes ?
help
I am trying to use bookviser and even downloaded the sync tool, there is no confirmation it is uploaded, can't view online library. And it appears to be available to download on my device but then it errors out am I doing something wrong, epub is about 170mb
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What about navigation and font sizes ?
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The font sizes are going from 25 to 40, but I will add smaller sizes by the time of release.
What do you mean by navigation?
Loving this app, just what I needed.
The "goto page" is great, nice interface, smooth page flip. Once you get the skydrive support working (or do folders/management of Bookviser account storage) this thing will be top shelf!
Looking good! Serious alternative to Freda and Raccoon. But please add DropBox support! All my books are there.
I think there's a bug somewhere. When I try to open a book in epub, downloaded from net, 1.74 mb of space, the app crashes. And also, a dropbox support would be great. In rest, if dropbox will be added, I will uninstall FREDA and never even try other ebook reader. Cross my heart. Cheers and great work
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... I will uninstall FREDA and never even try other ebook reader. Cross my heart. ...
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Well I hope you'd at least take a look at the new Freda update (2.5) and send me feedback about how you'd like it to be improved
still needs settings for line spacing to be usable
Hi,
Tiny Tiny RSS is a PHP web application that gives you similar functionality than Google maps. Tiny Tiny RSS Reader is it's official Android reader that talks directly to the server using it's API. The app is made by 'Andrew Dolgov' and hosted in GitHub. This is the app I use to read all my RSSs.
As I use it every day to read the news I wanted to spend some time trying to make it work better with the Nook Touch. So, I grabbed the sources this morning and the changes that I made so far are:
Changed API level to support Android 2.1 (Nook Touch)
Theme is light by default (black on white)
Various font sizes were changed to be bigger
Removed animations (that anyway didn't look nice in the Nook)
Added 'Page up' and 'Page down' buttons on article view (as scrolling is always a mess in the Nook)
Right now is a lot more usable, I'll do a few other changes if people over here are interested. Frankly, requiring a server (or a friends one that allows multiple users) I don't think many people will be using this but I just wanted to share this.
I also have another pending modifications for Aard Dictionary, an app that allows to have the entire Wikipedia offline (without images). That is, for me, a must. There are some problems with navigation and paging that I want to fix to be a lot mor usable on the Nook.
I would also like to take this opportunity to thank all the developers/hackers on the forum for enabling the Nook Touch to do much more than it was intended to.
Cheers!
EDIT: Added a few screenshots
Thank you for your effort, even though it's not suitable to me it's great to see more tailored apps for the Nook Touch.
I am still on the look out for the perfect offline (full content) rss reader for the Nook.
Tell me if you find it
Tiny Tiny RSS Reader also has very nice offline support (retrieving even images) but, of course, you'll need the server side somewhere...
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Thank you for your effort, even though it's not suitable to me it's great to see more tailored apps for the Nook Touch.
I am still on the look out for the perfect offline (full content) rss reader for the Nook.
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For now I am using ifttt.com to point my google reader feeds to Instapaper and read them on InstaFetch..
I tried to change some things for Nook compatibility in the current version (a trial-free repository of the app can be found here: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=tt-rss&fdid=org.fox.ttrss), but I keep getting errors I know nothing about, even when I made no changes.
This begs for an update, would be so great!
Did you fork the github repo? If so could yo share? I think we could probably move it to heroku and for a few users it would stay within the free limits.
After some trial and error I've installed TinyTiny on my raspberry pi locally, it would be great if I could get it to grab full rss but so far it seems to not want to cooperate.
Cheers
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Hi Guys,
I wasn't paying attention here, I thought nobody needed/used TTRSSR app on the Nook.
I'll find the source code and move it to github. The fork I did was for a not-very-new version of the reader because it started requiring a bigger API level than the current Nook supports. I don't think is worth backporting all the new UI/features to the Nook considering there will be a lot of effort involved. However if I publish the code maybe I can get some other developers to hop in and see what happens.
I found the google analytics SDK very easy to integrate with some of my android apps, however the problem I have is with the web dashboard. It's not straightforward to use, and mobile analytics seems to be the poor cousin of the web analytics version. Even finding data on something as simple as user timings (which was very easy to code into the app) is difficult. I know it must be capturing a tonne of useful data but visualising it and actually getting some useful insights from it is another story...
Are there any good (ideally free) alternatives out there, where it's actually easy to interpret the data?
Cheers, Matt
kiwiandroiddev said:
I found the google analytics SDK very easy to integrate with some of my android apps, however the problem I have is with the web dashboard. It's not straightforward to use, and mobile analytics seems to be the poor cousin of the web analytics version. Even finding data on something as simple as user timings (which was very easy to code into the app) is difficult. I know it must be capturing a tonne of useful data but visualising it and actually getting some useful insights from it is another story...
Are there any good (ideally free) alternatives out there, where it's actually easy to interpret the data?
Cheers, Matt
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There are some alternatives visualizations of the same data. Did you check out some apps for the same:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.e6bapps.ganalytics
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.co.madhur.ganalyticsdashclock
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.co.madhur.dashclock
You should really put a disclaimer: "I am the developer of this app". Your dashclock extension looks nice and simple though.
Those overview statistics like screen views and downloads are fine and a nice morale boost, but what I'm really interested in is actionable data that points to specific things in the app that need improvement.
E.g. If 80% of users leaving a certain screen after a few seconds it might point to the screen being confusing. Things like that.
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There are some alternatives visualizations of the same data. Did you check out some apps for the same:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.e6bapps.ganalytics
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.co.madhur.ganalyticsdashclock
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.co.madhur.dashclock
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Thanks for the suggestion, but there is not a function that can analyze the source of the downloading as Google PC analyze. Could you recommend another one?
Fyerwong said:
Thanks for the suggestion, but there is not a function that can analyze the source of the downloading as Google PC analyze. Could you recommend another one?
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If you are looking for website similar to Google Analytics you can try Flurry I don't know if you can use it on your smartphone as a Mobile App but for sure it's good alternative for google analytics!
Alternative to Google analytics
Flurry is a good option
Thank you for this, I think I'll try flurry because the analytics the google play console provides are just not enough.
just learned that Flurry has a very useful customer behavior analytics. I think we should also try this aside from Google Analytics.
Found a new analytics site that Appannie has implemented into their system, seems to be asia based, worth adding, just did with mine
https://dev.mobvista.com/user/showreg/?u=TVRVMU9RPT0=
What features do you think are missing from Google Analytics?
I know some tool for tracking your user the name
Admob Analytics:
The biggest ad provider for mobile devices, currently has an analytics platform for the mobile web in beta
App Clix
it offers developers an analytics product, not an analytics service. With App Clix, developers runs analytics through their own server environment, cutting out the ability for the middle man to review the analytics data without authorization
Bango
Bango provides identification for every user accessing the app, providing information like the user's carrier and connection speeds. You can also use Bango to drive mobile app campaigns and implement tracking for other application features
Pinch Media & Flurry Analytics
They provide a free specialized service for analytics in mobile apps. They allow you to tap into user info with the approval of the user, giving you location, age, time, session lengths and more.
Try Leanplum - they're affordable (monitoring up to 500 daily active users is for free), packed with analytics and A/B testing functionality, and their help section is amazing! Alternatively, I've also used Mixpanel, but it's more focused on doing A/B tests than on good ol' analytics.
Parse is cool platform
Check out mobile analytics toolkit - devtodev.
Relatively new to the market, has a really nice and responsive support, and own education center.
There's always Mixpanel.
Free for small amounts of data, but gets expensive at larger amounts. It's events concept is much better than GA, but the SDK can be a bit buggy.
Also, the new Facebook Analytics platform. Totally free, and has a similar events system to Mixpanel.
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Thank you for this, I think I'll try flurry because the analytics the google play console provides are just not enough.
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I think you are just not using the power of Analytics right. With a combination of custom events and custom dashboards you can track and visualize everything. I doubt that any other product can provide you anything that you couldn't easily setup in Analytics.
There is also fabric.
https://get.fabric.io/
It's totaly free, incredibly easy to include in your app and it's paired with crashlytics that is one of the best crash report solution.
The results it give are not extensive : you have daily and monthly users, new daily users, number of sessions and sessions lengths: a good resume.
Gauss Widget for Google Analytics
kiwiandroiddev said:
I found the google analytics SDK very easy to integrate with some of my android apps, however the problem I have is with the web dashboard. It's not straightforward to use, and mobile analytics seems to be the poor cousin of the web analytics version. Even finding data on something as simple as user timings (which was very easy to code into the app) is difficult. I know it must be capturing a tonne of useful data but visualising it and actually getting some useful insights from it is another story...
Are there any good (ideally free) alternatives out there, where it's actually easy to interpret the data?
Cheers, Matt
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You should use Gauss Analytics Widget on your Android desktop. Find it on Google Play