Sounds good. Please drop me a note when you have this ready or are looking for beta- testers. Time allowing, I might even be able to help with some of the implementation, if you are interested in sharing the code.
Feel free to contact me directly by email; I don't always watch this newsgroup too carefully. David On Nov 5, 10:40 pm, Brad Gies <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Bistro Bot - Bistro Blurbhttp://bgies.com > http://nocrappyapps.comhttp://bistroblurb.com > http://forcethetruth.comhttp://ihottonight.com > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Everything in moderation, including abstinence (paraphrased) > > Every person is born with a brain... Those who use it well are the successful > happy ones - Brad Gies > > Adversity can make or break you... It's your choice... Choose wisely - Brad > Gies > > Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can > change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has - Margaret Mead > > 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 > >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> Bistro Bot - Bistro Blurbhttp://bgies.com > >> http://nocrappyapps.comhttp://bistroblurb.com > >> http://forcethetruth.comhttp://ihottonight.com > >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> Everything in moderation, including abstinence (paraphrased) > > >> Every person is born with a brain... Those who use it well are the > >> successful happy ones - Brad Gies > > >> Adversity can make or break you... It's your choice... Choose wisely - > >> Brad Gies > > >> Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can > >> change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has - Margaret > >> Mead -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
