By doing it on the phone, I can update some of your market stats at the
same time using the your phone settings, and because I don't have an
unlimited number of phones or Google accounts it will make sure my
account doesn't get banned for making too many queries. For instance, I
keep track of the market index position on all apps, but in order for it
to be (relatively) accurate I need to pull any market updates for the
category your app is in before I calculate it.
BUT... the major reason for doing it on the phone, is that I have some
other features I'm working on that would work much better on a phone,
and a phone app will be required eventually (don't want to mention them
right now because they are several weeks away from being testable). I
just don't want to end up with two different apps to maintain.
Sincerely,
Brad Gies
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On 05/11/2010 5:52 AM, deg wrote:
That sounds like a real possibility.
(I'm curious, though: What's the advantage of writing it on the phone,
instead of
as a desktop Java app? Are the SDKs more available on the phone, or is
it just a
matter of your being more familiar with the dev env?)
David
On Nov 3, 6:32 pm, Brad Gies<[email protected]> wrote:
David,
I came up with an interesting thought about this last night (yeah...
about 2 in the morning... :), and that is that I could program an
Android app to pull the data from the market. That way you could store
the login credentials on your own phone. The app could have a daily
notification to download the page, parse the data and send it to my
webserver (without the login info), and then either display it on a
webpage when you wanted to see it/download it, or optionally just email
you a spreadsheet after it gets it.
I think that would solve all the privacy issues because any Android dev
could watch the outgoing data with Wireshark or any packet sniffer to
know what it's sending.
Let me know if that would interest you... and I'll give it some more
thought this morning... (after I get a gallon or two of coffee in me).
Sincerely,
Brad Gies
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