Hey,
So I'm too cheap to pay the $5 registration fee, I'm wondering that now I've got root on the Chromecast if there's a way around it to launch custom applications from a URL directly or run a separate app database server locally that I can control? Has there been any previous work in this area?
Cheers,
My offer to help any aspiring developer get an app published still stands... It'll obviously require a little input from you, but nothing more revealing than URLs for your sender and receiver, which are bound to be accessible to the internet anyway.
But if you'd rather work with complete independence perhaps you could catch a url a receiver app uses and then overwrite your Chromecast's hosts file to redirect it to your own, personal, sweeter.
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primetechv2 said:
My offer to help any aspiring developer get an app published still stands... It'll obviously require a little input from you, but nothing more revealing than URLs for your sender and receiver, which are bound to be accessible to the internet anyway.
But if you'd rather work with complete independence perhaps you could catch a url a receiver app uses and then overwrite your Chromecast's hosts file to redirect it to your own, personal, sweeter.
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I think what he is saying in essence is it doesn't matter who does the registering the issue is it will never get approved because the app is targeting rooted devices....
Perhaps Team Eureka can help him out by adding his app to the custom Whitelist.
Asphyx said:
I think what he is saying in essence is it doesn't matter who does the registering the issue is it will never get approved because the app is targeting rooted devices....
Perhaps Team Eureka can help him out by adding his app to the custom Whitelist.
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I think my original translation worked best, OP has root and is wondering if the Google whitelist can be circumvented. I re read it to be sure,but OP can make the final call.
Is there a custom whitelist? How does one do that? I'd hate to imagine trying to rewrite Google validation servers from scratch. But at least now you can create unpublished, hidden apps, so Google won't need to censor them for questionable stuff that would otherwise appear in that weird App Store they have going.
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I think my original translation worked best, OP has root and is wondering if the Google whitelist can be circumvented. I re read it to be sure,but OP can make the final call.
Is there a custom whitelist? How does one do that? I'd hate to imagine trying to rewrite Google validation servers from scratch. But at least now you can create unpublished, hidden apps, so Google won't need to censor them for questionable stuff that would otherwise appear in that weird App Store they have going.
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For the Team-Eureka whitelist, we will publish any app developers want published (at no charge obviously). The only issue is that only rooted devices will be able to use the application. For more information, PM me directly.
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If you haven't heard all ready Verizon is tracking down root users and limiting there data or fully suspending it so watch out. But we have to fight back against them by hiding Verizon from seeing that we are proudly rooted and some people have said the would sue Verizon. Please do whatever you can to fight against this.
Also motorola and htc are going to start doing the same.
How are they "supposedly" tracking down root users?
Why would they have any desire to do that?
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spc_hicks09 said:
How are they "supposedly" tracking down root users?
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they are developing software to do so
playpolo4life said:
Why would they have any desire to do that?
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because they want people to pay for there 3g hotspot instead of people using wifi tether and if they catch people I think they earn money somehow. I am trying to research into that.
In order for them to do this it would take too much time and money. They would use more money trying to catch rooters than they would save by catching rooters. It's simply not going to happen. If they're going to make "software" to do this, how would it work? What software could they possibly send out to find out if someone is rooted? Yes Android is trying to make their software a little less "open," however, no one is trying to "track down root users." It would be too complicated and would violate their own "open source" policies. If this is even remotely true, what is your reference for posting this? What is your source?
On mydroidworld
Maybe need to address Google about that..
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On mydroidworld
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Well if you're talking about this post:
http://www.mydroidworld.com/forums/content/974-google-s-android-unopen-source-project.html
It says nothing about "tracking down root users" or anything about tethering.
Would be nice if you could post the url to the article. Your post is misleading, I'm not sure if it's because information is missing from your post, or because this is just your opinion and you're wrongly stating it as fact. At any rate, I've read the above post and it says nothing about using software to track down root users (which is ridiculous) or anything about making people pay to tether. Having free tether apps and paid tether apps on Android is a very big selling point for them which constantly gives them better sales figures than evil Apple.
Thread is full of FAIL
I think we're done here.
So, anyone afraid of dropbox now, lol.
http://jdsawyer.net/2011/07/02/put-it-in-the-cloud-are-you-nuts/
For the average user they can't cause any harm for storing music files or videos to have access to them elsewhere. So no reason for me to stop using it.
I sense lawsuits from somebody.
To add some facts to that: Dropbox already modified these changes, clearifying that those are legal terms they need to technically operate their service.
Read the lower part of this post: thinq.co.uk/2011/7/3/dropbox-terms-service-target-your-stuff/
A Dropbox spokesman:
Some of you have written us with very understandable concerns about the legal-sounding parts. In particular, our new TOS talks about the licenses we need to run Dropbox. We want to be 100% clear that you own what you put in your Dropbox. We don’t own your stuff. And the license you give us is really limited. It only allows us to provide the service to you. Nothing else
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However, users should be alarmed.
Yeah, came across this at bleeding cool. Com, from a Greg Rucka twitter (comic book writer), thought there would be some interest here. The main point someone was putting forth is that we are not the customers with dropbox/Facebook etc, we are the Product/Merchandise ...
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Shady! I haven't trusted (or used) Facebook for many months now. If you investigate their history it's more than a little sketchy. They don't want your information ... 'just because'.
It's really not that shady; it's just a bunch of legal jargon stemming from outdated laws they have to put into the agreement to protect themselves when storing millions of people's personal file's. Nothing will come of this, because there's no way a lawsuit will be able to get anything out of them
MySpace is the site with all the "weirdo's"..I haven't been there since college..2004 lol
WarrGrinn said:
So, anyone afraid of dropbox now, lol.
CRAPP!!!!!!!!! was thinking about using drop box for game apps and other backups.. on the account that i flash roms constantly... but damm wat do i do now? anyone still say its safe to just back up game data on this? or any other app that would do that? thnx in advance..
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rafiqzadah said:
WarrGrinn said:
So, anyone afraid of dropbox now, lol.
CRAPP!!!!!!!!! was thinking about using drop box for game apps and other backups.. on the account that i flash roms constantly... but damm wat do i do now? anyone still say its safe to just back up game data on this? or any other app that would do that? thnx in advance..
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I know its kinda backward, but depending on the size of stuff just email it to yourself. With the size of hotmail and gmail these days a few gigs worth of attachments might just be ok. And if there 'stories', ie your a writer IIRC you've just copyrighted your work by mailing it to yourself (someone might want to clairify or correct that statement, just a thought bouncing around in my poor brain, lol).
Edit, just found this:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/ubuntu-one-files/com.ubuntuone.android.files
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This is just amazing to me. I have a wifi only xoom and have been having issues with Paypal. Basically, I get a "system error". After doing some research, it looks like they added some code that requires 3g.
Older versions work just fine, so I contacted Paypal about it.
After the normal "uninstall and reinstall" BS, I contacted them again.
They then replied with a link to a zip file containing the latest version of their software... not the APK, but the actual directories and jar files.
This included a note to "just modify the Manifest file" and add this code (which they listed).
Helpfully, they added me to their developers network.
I never said I was a developer or even knew how to code!!!
Hehe. I hope this doesn't catch on. I would hate to go to a mechanic to fix my car and just have him hand me a wrench and tell me to replace some part for him.
Haha, hooray for PayPal. First I was going to suggest checking if the zip wasn't actually the apk renamed.
If they want you to modify the manifest did they give you the source? Cause its binary encoded in the apk.
Maybe link us the files they sent? (For sh**s and giggles).
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This is what they said
The latest version of our MPL addresses this issue. It can be located here: [ https://www.x.com/servlet/JiveServl.../PayPal_MPL_1-5_Android-Developer-Package.zip ]
In order to allow access via WIFI (As opposed to carrier access) simply add the following permission to your Android Manifest file: <uses-permission android:name="android.permission. ACCESS_WIFI_STATE"/>
This should solve your issues with the tablet device.
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WTF are they giving this info and responsability to consumers is my question lol
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oh deary me
Well, I got a response from them and I like it less.
Basically it was, sorry we thought you were a developer (then why did THEY sign me up as a developer?) and, oh yeah, by the way, Paypal does not support tablets.
Seriously.
At this point we are not officially supporting the PayPal app on tablet devices.
The Mobile team is looking into your issue though. I will let you know if they come back with any recommendations for your tablet device.
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So, anyone want to create a version for us WiFi'ers?
I thought we could use a page to track what content providers are available, announced, or rumored for the chromecast, and what have been rumored or announced. So please share and contribute to this spreadsheet! I think I got everything in that has been revealed so far, but please check my work and add more if you know of them.
Chromecast Content Providers
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FYI:
It appears that this spreadsheet is no longer accessible to the general public. Is it not being used? If not, perhaps it should be removed from the index post.
rekh127 said:
I thought we could use a page to track what content providers are available, announced, or rumored for the chromecast, and what have been rumored or announced. So please share and contribute to this spreadsheet! I think I got everything in that has been revealed so far, but please check my work and add more if you know of them.
Chromecast Content Providers
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FYI:
It appears that this spreadsheet is no longer accessible to the general public. Is it not being used? If not, perhaps it should be removed from the index post.
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Thats probably why I've been spammed with requests to join today. It is still being used. Can you access it now? It looks alright on my end, I wonder if someone else was messing with the permissions. I restricted the ability to change the visibility to just me now.
Yep. I can access it again.
Thanks!
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Thats probably why I've been spammed with requests to join today. It is still being used. Can you access it now? It looks alright on my end, I wonder if someone else was messing with the permissions. I restricted the ability to change the visibility to just me now.
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Had to remove public editing to stop spammers and vandals. If anyones willing to be an editor to keep it up to date and watch out for problems let me know and I'll add you.
May I suggest you add a column to differentiate if it's an official or unofficial feature?
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May I suggest you add a column to differentiate if it's an official or unofficial feature?
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I don't know what you mean. I have a tab that shows currently supported and one that shows ones that are coming.
Sorry, I didn't notice the 2nd tab! It makes the work you've done much more useful. Thanks!
I guess I meant that there is slim chance that some of the upcoming apps may never be allowed to release on Google Play, such as the MyCast app by Koush (Dropbox to Chromecast) or Chromecast integration in BubbleUPnP. We may then have to download them from non-official sites.
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Sorry, I didn't notice the 2nd tab! It makes the work you've done much more useful. Thanks!
I guess I meant that there is slim chance that some of the upcoming apps may never be allowed to release on Google Play, such as the MyCast app by Koush (Dropbox to Chromecast) or Chromecast integration in BubbleUPnP. We may then have to download them from non-official sites.
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Ah yes. Thats a possibility I'll have to watch out for.
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I thought we could use a page to track what content providers are available, announced, or rumored for the chromecast, and what have been rumored or announced. So please share and contribute to this spreadsheet! I think I got everything in that has been revealed so far, but please check my work and add more if you know of them.
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I cant seem to add to the sheet anymore so ill post it here.
Playon is working on adding chromecast features into their mobile app. see here: https://twitter.com/playontv/status/365509467116285954
herculese1 said:
I cant seem to add to the sheet anymore so ill post it here.
Playon is working on adding chromecast features into their mobile app. see here: https://twitter.com/playontv/status/365509467116285954
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I had to lock it down because of spammers/vandals if you PM or email me your email address I'll add you to the editor list.
I'd really like to see a XAP archive made available. I have a personal archive of some apps that I've bought. The idea is to mitigate situations where an app is no longer available on the marketplace (for whatever reason - temporary misidentification by MS certifier techs, trademark dispute, developers not renewing their store accounts, etc) even though you purchased it and have a license for it.
One potential problem (and why I'm not posting my own collection here) is that it would enable installation of paid apps by people who didn't buy a license - piracy.
Regardless, is there some sort of archive to mitigate the above situation? Is there any effective way to do it without enabling pirating apps while respecting the rights of people who bought licenses?
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I'd really like to see a XAP archive made available. I have a personal archive of some apps that I've bought. The idea is to mitigate situations where an app is no longer available on the marketplace (for whatever reason - temporary misidentification by MS certifier techs, trademark dispute, developers not renewing their store accounts, etc) even though you purchased it and have a license for it.
One potential problem (and why I'm not posting my own collection here) is that it would enable installation of paid apps by people who didn't buy a license - piracy.
Regardless, is there some sort of archive to mitigate the above situation? Is there any effective way to do it without enabling pirating apps while respecting the rights of people who bought licenses?
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remove WMAppPRHeader.xml from the xap Archive ( xap is just a .zip Archive that is renamed to .xap)
ceesheim said:
remove WMAppManifest.xml from the xap Archive ( xap is just a .zip Archive that is renamed to .xap)
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Only works if you have access to the unencrypted XAP.
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Only works if you have access to the unencrypted XAP.
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It always works.
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matgras said:
It always works.
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So how do you open a XAP downloaded from the store?
You can not.
Xap downloaded from the store are protected by DRM.
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You can not.
Xap downloaded from the store are protected by DRM.
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Are you talking to me? That was my whole point.
Also, removing the app manifest makes the app completely not installable, which may prevent piracy but also renders the archived XAP file pretty useless...
To the OP, I don't know of any real way to do what you're asking, short of just making a personal collection and not sharing it.
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Also, removing the app manifest makes the app completely not installable, which may prevent piracy but also renders the archived XAP file pretty useless...
To the OP, I don't know of any real way to do what you're asking, short of just making a personal collection and not sharing it.
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lol typo
I ofcourse mean :WMAppPRHeader.xml
You cant open the downloaded XAP, cause of the crypto
When you do, you wil see the following error
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You cant open the downloaded XAP, cause of the crypto
When you do, you wil see the following error
[IM G]http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm179/groetjes-uit-groningen/Naamloos-2.png[/IMG]
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exactly
I would like to know to..
But, how to recompile if I have acess to DLL's? Is to hard?
It's probably possible to re-build the archive and all of the required metadata, but I see no particularly legitimate reason to do so...
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It always works.
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Hey..if you still using tapatalk then can you packed it for me and send in "pm" if you have ..because I need it and it isn't available on store ..thanks in advance.?
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Hey..if you still using tapatalk then can you packed it for me and send in "pm" if you have ..because I need it and it isn't available on store ..thanks in advance.
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it has been almost 4 years since I've made that post, but i'll have a look