I screwed up big time that resulted in my app ratings and download decrease significantly. Don't repeat my mistakes! Android Dev |
- I screwed up big time that resulted in my app ratings and download decrease significantly. Don't repeat my mistakes!
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- Note taking while learning Android
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| Posted: 29 Jan 2019 01:49 AM PST Hi r/androiddev, Here's my story of how I screwed up, that resulted in my app ratings and downloads decrease significantly. Hope this post becomes a learning lesson for those who are looking for shortcuts to make there development easier. Just be careful! What's happened? My app was getting a decent traffic. So, I taught, lets LOCALIZE THE APP FOR TOP COUNTRIES and see how it will impact the downloads and retention. I was in a rush as I only get a weekends and couple of hours daily to work on the app. So, I decided lets take the shortcut. Without giving it any taught, I decided to use automatic translation of my strings.xml file. I used an online tool to do so and generated a new strings.xml file for the language chosen. Then I added it to the project and uploaded the app to production without testing the language changes. Boy, I was so wrong to do that. After that, I was continuously getting 1 star review, so I check out Crashlytics Dashboard, I see my app crash free rate dropping from 98%(Yeah not great, but the app uses Camera 2 API and is a bit complex) to 85%. What went wrong? Realizing my mistake, I laughed all day on how stupid and obvious it was. It was total ignorance and rush from my side that caused it. Remember that automatic translation tool that I used. IT DIDN'T TAKE CARE OF THE PLACEHOLDER STRINGS. So basically, where ever i used text that involved %s or %d place holder, the automatic translation didn't understand it and replace it with wrong notations in the translated strings. This resulted in crash at every screen that used placeholder text. How to make sure this doesn't happen to you? Here are few thing that you can do to prevent this from happening: -Best way is to manually translated it yourself or ask your user to do that for you, its just couple of lines -Hire a professional to do the translation(obviously if you have budget for that) -Just make them Not Translatable by adding translatable="false" to the text that use placeholders(If its okay for you that some text are not translated) -Test the app in different languages, if you have time(It will help you find problems before release the app to public) I screwed up BIG TIME, and I am not sure if I can come back from this, but will keep my hopes up. I quit my job recently(am serving notice period) and wanted to go all in. But, now I fucked up so bad that I guess need to get a new job soon. You can checkout the app here: Link to app If you have any screw ups like me, please do share them, so that others can benefit from them. Hope this helps someone! [link] [comments]  | ||
| Google releases source code of Santa Tracker for Android 2018 Posted: 29 Jan 2019 10:14 AM PST
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| Google+ APIs and OAuth requests are being shutdown on March 7, 2019 Posted: 29 Jan 2019 10:54 AM PST
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| A new tool for VQA on Android – Wojciech Dziemianczyk – Medium Posted: 29 Jan 2019 01:26 PM PST
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| Posted: 29 Jan 2019 03:05 PM PST Could you put code inside the overwritten [link] [comments]  | ||
| What's your review of Android Studio 3.3? Are there any major issues? Posted: 29 Jan 2019 09:03 AM PST | ||
| Keystore was tampered with, or password was incorrect Posted: 29 Jan 2019 03:23 PM PST Just spent an hour trying to fix this, thought I was going insane, because keytool reported that everything is fine. Apparently the issue is with gradle 3.3.0 plugin. tl;dr If you can't build an app bundle on 3.3 studio, just downgrade gradle plugin to 3.2.1 [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 29 Jan 2019 02:43 PM PST I am building an app which will contain a large number of photos (200+) and about 100 descriptions of text. I need to be able to fetch and retrieve the photos and text and display them in my app however my client wants the app to be able to run offline without having to connect to the internet. I'm assuming I will have to embed the images and text data into my app itself. But I'm still new to this and was wondering what are my approaches to this and what kind of Backend I will need. The Images are in a form of png, and the text can be given in any form (pdf, docx, csv, it doesn't matter as I can always convert it). Sorry if I am not being to specific, I'm still new and trying to figure out how to implement the data into my app. Thank you so much! [link] [comments]  | ||
| Google Play in app subscription questions. Posted: 29 Jan 2019 07:55 AM PST I am tasked with building an app for a large existing dating website. It offers monthly subscriptions and 1 time payments for longer periods. They can't afford 30% fee and be profitable. Since it's a subscription for content that can be "consumed outside of the app" on the website can we get the lower fees? If so, how do we set that up? Someone told us we could use our merchant account with in app google payments? Guessing this is BS? Can we raise the prices just in the app? Can we offer multiple payment methods in the app (google and our gateway)? Can we just offer our gateway? We have been told conflicting information and no one from google will actually answer. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Whats the difference? Kotlin / Android API > 25 Posted: 29 Jan 2019 07:45 AM PST New to android development, and I am trying to programmatically make a TextView disappear if a condition is not met. I am wondering what he difference between the below two examples are (as both seem to work, this is inside onCreate(..) for that activity): vs Thanks. [link] [comments]  | ||
| How to create a test class using Mockk which requires a context Posted: 29 Jan 2019 12:52 PM PST I'm trying to create a test classing using the Mockk library. The class I'm testing has an adapter which uses Glide to load images. When I run my test I receive the error:
which is being thrown from
Do I have to mockk the context from within my test, and if so how do I do this? [link] [comments]  | ||
| Any way to code on android tablet? Posted: 29 Jan 2019 12:22 PM PST Hi, So, I have an android tablet and I don't have a laptop, I work at an IT department at office and I got some free time there which I want to use to code. Anyway, I want to know if there any good IDEA for java on android. I am using IntelliJ on windows with my desktop, if there is any way to install it on Android it would be great. And if not, is there any good IDE for android you can reccomend? [link] [comments]  | ||
| How do I delete my Google Play Console? Posted: 29 Jan 2019 04:49 AM PST I have made those requests/submission 2 weeks ago about getting my Play Console account deleted, but it still there and there are no delete buttons. So have anyone been able to delete their console account? [link] [comments]  | ||
| Application Installation Failed: (Instant Run.) Posted: 29 Jan 2019 12:05 PM PST Hi everyone, I am trying to port my PC installation over to Mac. I thought everything was going well after putting my AndroidStudio folder in my Users/"User" folder on my Mac. Everything has been going smoothly until now: When trying to run Instant Run I get an error that says "Application Installation Failed" showing a file path I was using on my PC installation. Does anyone know what I have to do to get these paths fixed so I can get this project going smoothly? I sure would appreciate it. Thanks, Lester [link] [comments]  | ||
| Note taking while learning Android Posted: 28 Jan 2019 10:48 PM PST I am coming from mechanical engineering 10+ years and switching careers into Android development ... all for remote work opportunity. Mechanical engineers are trained to take very careful, meticulous, elegant notes by hand to learn a given concept, and refer back to them many times to solidify the ideas. This approach simply does not work when learning a programming language like Android / Java / XML. Would a veteran out there help me understand the most effective and efficient method to take notes while working concurrently through example apps? Muchas gracias. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 29 Jan 2019 05:15 AM PST Does anyone know of a Bluetooth sensor that can measure distance between the sensor and objects in front or the sides that have an android sdk? I am having trouble finding one online. Thanks. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Is it ethical to leave a review on own app? Posted: 29 Jan 2019 12:42 PM PST I couldn't see why my app would get any downloads unless I get the ball rolling a bit, by leaving 1 positive, accurate, 4-5 star review with another one of my Google accounts. It's obviously unethical and shady if I do this with 2 or more accounts, but would 1 review be against terms and conditions, unethical, or risky? If it is, I won't do it. [link] [comments]  | ||
| How to check if service is registered before trying to unbind it? Posted: 28 Jan 2019 11:53 PM PST I'm getting Service not registered error when I try to unbind the service. That happens when I clear the phone memory and try to destroy the service from the notification panel by tapping the STOP button which calls `stopSelf()`. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Can you earn 300k as an android developer and what it takes to get there? �� Posted: 29 Jan 2019 07:06 AM PST I've been reading some posts from data scientists who were able to get jobs at FANGs( Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google ) and make 300k or more a year. and they didn't have much experience.1 to 2 years. I was wondering can you get a job as an android developer and make the same amount? or is it only common for data scientists? **The guy who wrote the post is young,had 3 years of experience as a data scientist. now earns 300k with airbnb. so it is possible. but i don't know if it's possible in mobile dev?** [link] [comments]  | ||
| Using Firebase's ML Kit Text Recognition for a custom font Posted: 29 Jan 2019 02:37 AM PST Hi, I hope this is this right sub for this kind of question, and if it isn't, please let me know where I should post this, thx. The purpose of my app is basically checking if a block of text from an image - matches a specific block of text hard coded in the app, nothing too complicated, since the block of text is always the same. (For example, say my app is checking if every text in an image I take matches "Hello World") I tried using Firebase's ML Kit Text Recognition to recognize the text, but the problem is, the text I'm using is written in Hebrew, in kinda of a non-standard font, which makes the recognition fail a lot of the words (for example,"ű" will become a "ii"). My question is, is it possible to "train" it to recognize this custom font? Thanks! [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 28 Jan 2019 09:07 PM PST Hi guys so I've encountered an issue on Android 5.1 Apparently there's a chance of it also happening on other Android Versions. There's a thread of this in stackoverflow (link above). Has anyone else experienced this? If you have can you share what methods you've done to avoid this from happening? I'm currently planning on removing all WebViews and replace them with ChromeCustomTab but there are some views where I necessarily use a WebView to render data. Especially on text formatting, with included images. [link] [comments]  |
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