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Android database options?

I have a project that I'm trying to do which is a database, and really I need it to be available as an app on phones, but with the ability to upload/download records from a shared database online.
I.e. local shell where data records can be entered, and either just stored/retrieved locally, or uploaded to the online database for others with the same app to access and vice versa.
I've looked at Memento and HandBase and in terms of the local database side of things they look good because they can be customised easily (for a database no-nothing like me), but I have no idea about whether they can do the online bit or how I would do that.
Are there any services which would offer online storage/sharing (ideally free to at least test!) of the data from apps like these? And if these particular app examples won't do the online bit is there one that anyone knows of that would do what I want?
I'm no good at databases but find apps at this level easy enough to use. So it'd need to be reasonably idiotproof. Probably am asking too much here, but thought it's worth asking in case there is something that suits my needs without needing to be a database boffin.
As the icing on the cake, it would be great if it could also be used on desktops as well. Does such a thing exist that does all this and can be set up by a simpleton?
Thanks for any useful suggestions in advance.

Actually, the more I read about Memento, the more it looks like it can pretty much do all of this, fairly easily via google docs and/or their own servers.
From the look of it also, if I wanted a database that required payment for access I'd just take a paypal payment for instance, and then grant the user access via adding their email address to the list of permitted users? Think that's how it works but if anyone uses Memento and can confirm this sort of thing that'd be cool.

[APP] MindPush

Connect Quickly & Anonymously with MindPush–The New Location-Driven Social Media App
Website: http://www.mindpushers.com/
Android Market: https://market.android.com/details?id=and.mind.coon&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImFuZC5taW5kLmNvb24iXQ..
About MindPush
MindPush, the latest innovation from JimmyGood Technology, creators of the leading online text message management portal CiiAll, is like nothing else on the market. As products such as Facebook and LinkedIn increasingly focus on contact between people who know each other, we realize that you want something more. With MindPush, you can:
- Connect with other MindPush users in your location, anonymously
- Share information as easily as sending a text, while limiting what others can see
- Interact with “like”, comments and other collaborative features
- Get the information you need about the places you like best, instantly
- Give users at your company or school the chance to communicate more effectively
- Learn more about your location via brief, digestible messages
How it works and what we need from YOU!
MindPush is a location based application – so you can see messages that have been posted within 1/2 mile of your current location at any given time. Users are able to leave anonymous messages, so other users can view and interact with them once they are in the same location. This interaction can happen in real-time, but users can also see past messages in their location up to 30 days. If another user is active within the 1/2 mile range, they will be shown on the user icon and Proximity map. This is to encourage users to post new messages and interact with not only their given material environment, but the people in that environment as well.
We need YOU to start leaving your anonymous messages and feedback everywhere you go! Imagine a future where you can go into any restaurant, bar, clothing store, sports venue, coffee shop, etc. and instantly get useful information from your peers using MindPush. Also imagine the power from being able to anonymously leave your feedback everywhere you go for other users to benefit from. MindPush can and will change the way we interact with our immediate surroundings…and with each other! Start leaving messages and connecting with the world around you today!
About JimmyGood Technology
JimmyGood Technology was founded in 2007 by three Kansas City entrepreneurs with a focus on changing the world via cutting-edge technology. JimmyGood has interests in social aggregation, social networking, location-based services, and an emphasis on bringing consumers and businesses closer using innovation. JimmyGood Technology was founded on making the complex simple and a belief that turning good ideas into reality can change the world.

Feedback?
Has anyone tried this out yet? I would love to receive some feedback from the XDA community!
Thanks!

I tried it.. Good idea. Drains battery though im im gonna keep it and use it to see what its like. Does it only work in my area or can i use it to communicate with people outside of my city/state?

As of right now - you can only view messages and other users that are within 150 feet of your current location (we have/are considering making the range wider though...depends on initial download numbers and feedback). The messages will change depending on where you are located and what other users have posted in the area.
As for the battery drain - we realized that having your GPS location set while the app is running - and having the app call our servers to update the location of other users and various messages could be an issue for some as far as battery goes. Once you've logged into the app, press the menu button to access the battery drain slider. From there you can set the time interval for how often the app will call the server for updates which should help improve battery drain based on your preferences.
Thanks for the feedback and support! Please let me know if you have any other questions or suggestions. I really want this to be an app for the people and am more than willing to listen to how people are using the app and what could make it better! The iOS version was completed today and will be submitted to Apple for approval. Once that is done, you will be able to communicate cross platform and the numbers of users in each area should improve as the user base grows.

Update coming soon
We will be releasing an update soon to widen the range to 1/2 mile. Users will be able to view other messages up to 1/2 mile and see how many users are within 1/2 mile as well. This should really increase interaction between users and provide more information about cool things going on in your area! Let me know what you think.
Thanks

IPhone Update
IPhone update released today!http://itunes.apple.com/app/mindpush/id493920061?mt=8

[APP 2.2+] [ Tool ] Who is Tracking - which app tracking you

Who is Tracking '
Paid app link :https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appz.trackingpaid
The application will detect any malicious APPS or BLOATWARE trying to track your location and user information (Bluetooth, WiFi, Bank Accounts, Messages, GPS, Social Networks information, 2G & 3G, etc.).
Application - Features :
'Who is Tracking' will detect any malicious apps or bloatware trying to track your location using GPS, or tracking user data from incoming / outgoing call lists, messages, Wi-Fi network information, 2G/3G data, Gmail, Facebook and similar apps. (Few features works only paid). Using this applicaiton you can find-out any one HACKING or TRACKING your phone.
WiFi, GPS,2G,3G,4G,GPS,NFC & SERVER TRACKER: After running the detection test, you will receive a real time sound alert if any traces of tracking is found. In-case anyone is trying to track you, the sound will come automatically (Real time sound works only paid).
App Server Tracker : Track apps server location (Which country server the app is using) Gmail Server location, FB, Twitter, etc...
Sus App list : List Danger apps
App Permission Blocker - Block certain application permission..
Sound Alert : After running the detection test, you will receive a real time sound alert if any traces of tracking is found. In-case anyone is trying to track you, the sound will come automatically (Real time sound works only paid).
System Information : Know about your device system information (Processor, CPU Core , SD card, Memory).
Android OS : Manufacture info, Model No, Product Release, Version, Device Info, Open GL, Kernel info, etc.
App Permission : List of permission required by the apps.
User Installed App : List of applications installed by user.
System App : List of System apps.
'Who is Tracking 'provides a list of all apps which are accessing GPS, Wi-Fi, 2G/3G, Gmail and other apps, and also the reason why the apps need this info (Few features works only paid).
Allow Mock Allocation : Enable this feature to send mock GPS data if any app is trying to access GPS info for longer duration or multiple times.
[ Example : Yelp has permissions to access GPS data to triangulate on your current location to provide you with restaurants around you. But it accesses the data only once on initialization, but malicious tracking apps will keep accessing the GPS data to track your movements and location at all times in the background. ]
Select - Delete History : Deletes complete history information from your device (Few features works only on paid version).
Why 'Who is Tracking ' was created
There are communities in hacker forums and blogs whereby they push to develop and publish apps which can track your data and retrieve the extracted information (Ex. your contact information, email IDs, phone numbers, saved bank account details or any other important information).
Android, to a certain extent, can restrict such apps from being published in PlayStoreTM , but hackers bypass these by using techniques like reflection, API mirroring, etc.
Even though all the custom ROM developers take immense care in providing ultimate user data protection, still hackers copy the OS, modify the APIs to provide access to personal data and hidden / internal APIs. By this, they will be able to monitor, record and access the data created by you while sharing with various apps on your Android device.
We used a couple new features of ANDROID to stop hackers to track the information.
http://selinuxproject.org/page/SEAndroid
http://source.android.com/compatibility/
http://efytimes.com/e1/fullnews.asp?...date=6/10/2013
http://securitywatch.pcmag.com/mobil...ld-for-android
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/eye...droid-2013-03/
Any issue, feel free mail me.. we will release paid version very soon with complete features..
Please Don't forget to hit THANKS BUTTON.

seems useful. it's always frightining to know what android can do with your data. how it can very easily compromise your privacy. but,apps like these should be installed by default in base os. users have right to know what's happening to their data and where it is going. Thanks fir your effort. also, a quick question? if some apps have so much power to buypass security protocols and hack ur data,then what about custom roms? aren't they capable of doing that? can a developer tweek things and add scripts that very easily transfer almost all data my phone collects? like most people here on xda, i use a lot of custom roms for my devices and this is one of the questions i always wonder.
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lavinigam said:
seems useful. it's always frightining to know what android can do with your data. how it can very easily compromise your privacy. but,apps like these should be installed by default in base os. users have right to know what's happening to their data and where it is going. Thanks fir your effort. also, a quick question?
if some apps have so much power to buypass security protocols and hack ur data,then what about custom roms?
What is the meaning of custom rom, developed by the general user etc.... There are default behavior in android which no one will change.. its a flow... so once app can work for any device with any rom.. simple logic....
aren't they capable of doing that? can a developer tweek things and add scripts that very easily transfer almost all data my phone collects?
If the custom rom dev thing he can do that... its your wish to choose to use or not.... but 99.9% they will not.. its all about brand name.. no one here to spoil or hack data... we are here to save users.. as much as we can...
like most people here on xda, i use a lot of custom roms for my devices and this is one of the questions i always wonder.
Hope you understand my answer...
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Good alternatives to Google Analytics for Android?

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.

madhur_ahuja said:
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.

codiaq said:
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

[VIDEO PRODUCERS NEEDED!] What Is Your Perfect Teleprompter?

As a filmmaker, I shoot several different types of videos. One thing I have been trying to do is find a cost efficient teleprompter. With so many inexpensive tablets on the market, using an Android app seems like the most logical solution to this problem. I have tried several apps so far but none of them seem to fit my needs 100%.
I am not a developer, I am a filmmaker. I do however, have spoke to a developer interested in helping me solve my problem by creating a app from the ground up that is design exactly how I want it to be with the functionality that it needs. Before embarking on this task I would like to get some feedback from other video professionals and app developers alike on things ranging from currently available apps, things that are wrong with currently available apps & features that would be included in The Perfect Teleprompter App.
I expect that there will be a lot of responses that say there are options currently available and that the need for yet another teleprompter app does not exist. That being said, unless I find an app that has an interface that I like, the functionality that I need and the peripherals to make it even better, I will probably continue to pursue this project. THE PURPOSE OF THIS THREAD is to allow other filmmakers to provide their input and thoughts about what the perfect teleprompter app would be.
Features I currently have in mind (This list will change as I receive feedback. ):
Clean, Usable Interface
Dropbox and Google Drive Access
In App Editing
Speed Control during prompting
Text Size Options
Light & Dark themes
Movable Location Arrow (An arrow on the side of the screen that allows you to move it vertically to show the target location of the line being read.)
Bluetooth connection so your phone could be used as a remote.
Wired remote option
Mirror Mode
Scroll to any part of the script and start it rolling from that location
Free, fully functional version (No Ads)
Custom app branding (change splash screen to display your companies logo)
I want this thread to be a way for all of us to collaborate and make an app that we all enjoy using. It is a big project for me to take on and because of that, I feel it would be silly to keep it all to myself. Please post any suggestions, questions, idea or concerns. My goal for this project is to finally provide a teleprompter that does exactly what we need it to do as a producers. Thank you for the help and feedback and hopefully together we can get this app launched for everyone to use.
Thank you so much,
zpeverman