App Feedback Thread - September 28, 2019 Android Dev

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• App Feedback Thread - September 28, 2019
• Real App removed from play store and fake apps stays
• Top Post is a Serial Offender of Policies
• Can you guess the only person in the top 10 rankings for Java on Github?
• I wanted to try Kotlin Native so I made an app to create strings.xml files for spreadsheet users
• SMS Parsing in Android Pie (Android Development)
• First time Android App Wannabe Dev seeks advice... React or Flutter?
• Anyone knows how to implement pinch zoom for a painting layout??? Any suggestions?
• Visibility of a button
• Newbie, 2 questions!
• Handling pending payments with billing library
• If your account is banned by google does that mean you can't port make android apps to the playstore even with an alt account?
• Starter kit for your Android Interview
• Multiple, concreate aproaches of defining clean architecture layers in the Android project
• How to create your own intent-chooser UI ?
• I want to get into Android development
• [question] Logging service with logs buffer and only manual sending?
• Suggestions on Responsive layouts
• [Paywall] Multiple ways of defining Clean Architecture layers
• Android Illeterate
• Are all app crashes and anrs sent automatically or users need to click send in order for them to appear on play console?

App Feedback Thread - September 28, 2019 Posted: 28 Sep 2019 05:28 AM PDT This thread is for getting feedback on your own apps. Developers: must provide feedback for others must include Play Store, GitHub, or BitBucket link must make top level comment must make effort to respond to questions and feedback from commenters may be open or closed source Commenters: must give constructive feedback in replies to top level comments must not include links to other apps To cut down on spam, accounts who are too young or do not have enough karma to post will be removed. Please make an effort to contribute to the community before asking for feedback. As always, the mod team is only a small group of people, and we rely on the readers to help us maintain this subreddit. Please report any rule breakers. Thank you. - Da Mods submitted by /u/AutoModerator [link] [comments]

Real App removed from play store and fake apps stays Posted: 28 Sep 2019 01:33 AM PDT Hello I'm developer of Android App "Sticker Babai - Telugu Stickers, WAStickerApps" with app id: app.whatsappstickers.telugu, which has around 1.5M downloads and 0.5M active users and trending in top 150 (in India in entertainment category). Our app was taken down due to false claim of authorization and copyright. On 29th of August : We had warned the developer account ( [indianresultsapp@gmail.com](mailto:indianresultsapp@gmail.com) ) regarding the stealing of our stickers from our App and requested to remove our original work. Google has suspended his developer account before and he came up with new developer account this time.Backup of his old developer account: https://apkplz.net/developer/vr-labs-pvt-ltd On 31st of August : We have received email from Google that our App was removed from play store regarding the Alleged copyright infringement received from email id: [indianresultsapp@gmail.com](mailto:indianresultsapp@gmail.com) (same email as in our warning email). The email states that we were using Mr. X stickers (stickers with Mr X image on it) without authorization from him and the complaint was filed on his behalf from email id: [indianresultsapp@gmail.com](mailto:indianresultsapp@gmail.com) On 9th of September: Soon after we received the mail from Google, we have contacted Mr. X and got the No objection letter. He has also stated that he has not provided any permission to developer account (email id: [indianresultsapp@gmail.com](mailto:indianresultsapp@gmail.com)) to act on their behalf. Therefore, our legal counsel has filed a counter appeal regarding the same to Google. On 18th of September: We have received mail "Google has decided not to take action".As we have enough evidence, we thought google would forward our request to the complainant to bring to court action. On 23rd of September: I have appealed for the second time and the response from the Google is same as before. It's really disappointing that there are around 10+ of apps in play store who use our stickers and earn money but we were removed from play store. We really worked hard for last 11 months to achieve this user base and also left my job. I can submit all the original PSD files and also no objection letter from the Mr X. It would really helpful if you suggest me the next step to get my app back. ​ Some evidences: Evidence that complainant has stolen stickers from our App:Complainant App link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ir.telugustickerspackComplainant App preview images: https://i.redd.it/aajs3itqnap31.png https://i.redd.it/mkneew5tnap31.png Link to some of original PSD files which we have created: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1AFBMcGAMfWP_N-h-2F9GLaiyiNDUaIvR?usp=sharingOther than our stickers, he has also stolen sticker from famous hike sticker chat App. The complainant is a biggest spammer in Play Store. The same user's developer account has been suspended before by google and he came up with new email this time. (Evidence: The same app in old developer account redirects users to new app)Old profile: https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=vr-labs-pvt-ltdBackup from web (Old profile): https://apkplz.net/developer/vr-labs-pvt-ltdHis current android developer profile: https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=%F0%9F%8C%9FIndian+Results+%26+Exams We promote genuine content and we are also associated with some movie production houses in south India. Please find some of the social media posts from Indian celebrities about our App.https://twitter.com/Charmmeofficial/status/1142683919940083712https://twitter.com/Viacom18Studios/status/1153205929367654406https://twitter.com/Rakulpreet/status/1151462861278892032https://www.facebook.com/charmmeofficial/posts/2051382728300488?__tn__=-Rhttps://twitter.com/AnnapurnaStdios/status/1156557656154230784 Our App was consistently trending in Top 150 in Entertaiment Category in India https://i.redd.it/q5m83nztpap31.png Fake apps who has stolen our stickers. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.creativephotofydtech.babaisticker https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ninecaliberry.telugustickerfor.whatup https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wastickerapps.teluguwastickers.telugustickers https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=stickersforchat.wastickerapps.telugustickers https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ir.telugustickerspack https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.istickers.telugufivehundred https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wastickerapps.telugustickersforwhatsapp https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=revanth7795.github.io https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.istickers.telugustickersforwa submitted by /u/ursjohnny [link] [comments]

Top Post is a Serial Offender of Policies Posted: 28 Sep 2019 01:21 PM PDT TLDR: Top Post - https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/dadfen/real_app_removed_from_play_store_and_fake_apps/ The app is in violation of copyright and Spam policies and so are all the other apps mentioned. The developer has a different account and have same content and same violations there too. Copyright Violations: If you look at screenshots, its obvious there are serious copyright violations. Example: https://i.redd.it/aajs3itqnap31.png These are all movie actors in local language mentioned (Telugu). There is no way a small time developer in India licensed from these actors. 99% of whatsapp sticker apps on playstore are in violation of copyright laws. Do you know why whatsapp sticker apps get so many downloads (mostly in India)? Because they simply don't care about copyright and have movie stickers and actors stickers. The PSD developer claimed owned (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1AFBMcGAMfWP_N-h-2F9GLaiyiNDUaIvR?usp=sharing) has Movie actors. Just because you created a PSD file with stolen images doesn't mean, you own the rights. Spam Policy: Here is the internet Archive of the app (Developer never gave the app link): https://web.archive.org/web/20190430095010/https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.whatsappstickers.telugu Note that the app description has every movie actor name in the local language. This against Meta data and spam policies of Play Store. Also see the copyright mention in description. That is now how copyrights work. You can't claim people sent you copyright material to you in email. Additional Violation: The developers website now redirects to this new app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hashifytech.stickers This is with a new Publisher account but same content? The app is also in violation of same copy right issues and and spam/metadata policies. submitted by /u/androidclean [link] [comments]

Can you guess the only person in the top 10 rankings for Java on Github? Posted: 27 Sep 2019 06:46 PM PDT submitted by /u/gamelaunchplatform [link] [comments]

I wanted to try Kotlin Native so I made an app to create strings.xml files for spreadsheet users Posted: 28 Sep 2019 08:53 AM PDT submitted by /u/andr0d [link] [comments]

SMS Parsing in Android Pie (Android Development) Posted: 28 Sep 2019 04:28 PM PDT Hi guys, is there any way to parse incoming sms in Android Pie? Receiver with the "android.provider.Telephony.SMS_RECEIVED" intent-filter does not work anymore. A small Java/kotlin example would be perfect! ​ Thank you! submitted by /u/commandos1985 [link] [comments]

First time Android App Wannabe Dev seeks advice... React or Flutter? Posted: 28 Sep 2019 02:17 PM PDT Hi, I want to create an Android app and need some advice. I want the App to be on the Google Play Store so people can find it. I'm thinking of using React Native for the front end, with back end accessed using JSON end points to a RESTFUL API with authentication based on user registration. Back end could be Python with MongoDB, or maybe Laravel with an ORM interface to MariaDB. Alternatively, I guess I .could learn Dart and Flutter. Any thoughts? I want the app to be able to play audio or video streamed from the back end. Where should I use Docker -- is that solely for the back end? Can I still use PWA techniques? Where should I start? I'm fluent in Jscript, Perl and PHP, but lack experience with modern design patterns, And don't want to learn Java. Does Anyone have some reference architectures? Sorry for unusual capitalisation. I aM slightly handicapped and am using voice Translator. submitted by /u/ahbleza [link] [comments]

Anyone knows how to implement pinch zoom for a painting layout??? Any suggestions? Posted: 28 Sep 2019 02:06 PM PDT submitted by /u/SaadMusallam [link] [comments]

Visibility of a button Posted: 28 Sep 2019 02:03 PM PDT Hi, Recently I did some animations when I change the visibility of something with the basic function : _____.animate.alpha(0.0f).setDuration(250); It works for an image view but not for a button. Anyone knows why ? Thanks you. submitted by /u/Snoocto [link] [comments]

Newbie, 2 questions! Posted: 28 Sep 2019 01:55 PM PDT Hi, I would appreciate very much if anyone can help me with this, the first week publishing an app has been rough! My app is alive for a week, but when I search for the app name in Google play, I don't get any result displaying my app. How long time takes a new app to appear in search? Thanks so much! submitted by /u/icolorama [link] [comments]

Handling pending payments with billing library Posted: 28 Sep 2019 11:31 AM PDT How should I handle pending payments with google play billing library? I've published an app with a free trial period and when it expires the user have to buy the full version. When the payment is in pending status an alert dialog is shown blocking the access and explaining that the payment must be completed to continue. I noticed a lot of users start the payment and after like 30 mins cancel it while it's still pending. Should I allow them to access the application even when the payment is still pending? submitted by /u/materight [link] [comments]

If your account is banned by google does that mean you can't port make android apps to the playstore even with an alt account? Posted: 28 Sep 2019 08:32 AM PDT Port* not port make submitted by /u/PchelpOnly [link] [comments]

Starter kit for your Android Interview Posted: 28 Sep 2019 03:59 AM PDT submitted by /u/abhilashDas [link] [comments]

Multiple, concreate aproaches of defining clean architecture layers in the Android project Posted: 28 Sep 2019 03:38 AM PDT ​ https://proandroiddev.com/multiple-ways-of-defining-clean-architecture-layers-bbb70afa5d4a submitted by /u/Panel_pl [link] [comments]

How to create your own intent-chooser UI ? Posted: 28 Sep 2019 06:55 AM PDT Seeing that on Q the new intent chooser (usually used for sharing) became much worse, I was wondering if there is a better alternative to it. Out of the issues of what I see on Q, here are what most annoy me: Sure it's fast, but it doesn't show direct share items as before Most items at the top are only of SMS, even if I barely use SMS, and even if I don't contact those people that it offers me. There is a lot of talk about it, and even a workaround that didn't really work for me in the long run (here). No pinning. For developers, I could have customized the items to show (here), including the order, using EXTRA_INITIAL_INTENTS , but even this was restricted a lot, and offers to show up to just 2 items or so (here). All of these ruin experience for me, as both user and developer who want the best to my users. Is there perhaps any good library that mimics it but has none of its disadvantages? Google already has its own solution for the issues it created on some of its apps (Google Maps and Google News), but the UX it has for it is just terrible, requiring Contacts permission just for SMS, having horizontal list of a single row, being behind the navigation bar, etc... So I don't want that. I think a nicer solution should be available. One that will even be nice to have for all Android versions. I guess it's impossible to get the direct share items, but maybe instead we could show normal items at the top, and we could at least have a prioritization system based on what the user has chosen in the past, and whether items are pinned or not. My guess is that we need a bottom sheet being used, with a RecyclerView that shows the items, but somehow scrolls nicely when you scroll to the bottom, so that it takes most of the screen, while having the title becoming like a toolbar's title. submitted by /u/AD-LB [link] [comments]

I want to get into Android development Posted: 28 Sep 2019 06:41 AM PDT What should I learn first? Java or Kotlin, I heard that some XML experience would be beneficial. And last what are some good courses or youtube channels I should watch. submitted by /u/grecu00 [link] [comments]

[question] Logging service with logs buffer and only manual sending? Posted: 28 Sep 2019 05:21 AM PDT I am looking for, what I believe, is a pretty basic functionality, and among tens of logging or crash reporting services I cannot find one that would cover two of my needs: Logs collected among multiple app sessions and sent together Logs sent only on crash or manually (to cloud service preferably) That's all! And I have spent whole day checking number of services like Crashlytics, Bugfender, Rollbar, Loggly, Mint Spunk, Sematext and more, just to find out none of them provides this! Either: logs are sent constantly or every specified amount of time logs are sent one by one (instead of a record of what happened step by step, I get multiple single logs) logs are stored only since last start of the app Why those functionalities are so hard to find? Maybe I am approaching the problem in a wrong way... Generally what I want to cover in my app, an alarm clock, are the cases where problem is not leading to a crash occurred, and its cause tracks back to previous app's sessions - for example situation, when alarm scheduled on Friday doesn't start on Monday. And I don't need constant logging of what happens in the app, just want to be able to allow user to send log manually after problem occurs (I might have no way of detecting whether planned alarm didn't start on time). I don't even need cloud service - after logs are collected, they might be sent to e-mail address. I had formerly used my own class using SQLite to store logs and sent them to e-mail address, but I hoped there are more elegant solution, potentially including automatic crash reporting. Does anyone know about services covering those two basic needs? I am slowly loosing all the hope for finding one submitted by /u/Kogerro [link] [comments]

Suggestions on Responsive layouts Posted: 28 Sep 2019 03:37 AM PDT Hey! Am a beginner android dev. I've made couple of apps but couldn't completely grasp on how to make those responsive to all screen densities and screen sizes. Looked upon various tuts still couldn't understand it. Anyone? submitted by /u/HarishVS12 [link] [comments]

[Paywall] Multiple ways of defining Clean Architecture layers Posted: 27 Sep 2019 06:23 PM PDT submitted by /u/anticafe [link] [comments]

Android Illeterate Posted: 28 Sep 2019 11:19 AM PDT submitted by /u/Drewid88 [link] [comments]

Are all app crashes and anrs sent automatically or users need to click send in order for them to appear on play console? Posted: 28 Sep 2019 01:03 AM PDT I published a risky update, changed design style and some functions, added new stuff, bassicly a rework, and i expected chaos, bugs, crashes anrs but i am not getting any, well nothing unusual. So that made me wonder if crashes are automatically collected by play store or not? submitted by /u/SabroanX [link] [comments]

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