App Feedback Thread - December 14, 2019 Android Dev |
- App Feedback Thread - December 14, 2019
- Can we have a UI showcase thread?
- Google killed my dev account because of repetitive content
- This is my revenue for the past 3 months using only Admob interstitial ads only
- Android System WebView update deletes localstorage and websql
- How does the Play store and Chrome cause launchers to create a shortcut upon install of APK files?
- If a dev stops updating their app, and Scoped Storage changes make saved files non-persistent (now saved in sandbox), who pays for users refunding all previous purchases - what do Google "rules" say ?
- Best program to create games for Android?
- Bugs in Android Studio 3.5.2
- Looking for dual screen Android emulators. Any ideas?
- Can I link to my Amazon storefront from my Android app distributed through Google Play?
- Need to setup several PCs with Android Studio for 6-8th graders, what is the minimum spec that I could get away with? (Breaking Rule 7, but hope the intention out weights the rule breaking)
- IAP dependency got updated - how do I migrate?
- How to download a website and have the ui thread wait for the download?
- Why is my app in the playstore still on "Coming Soon" ??
- Best Android Emulator for developing
- Is there a library that does this?
- Android TV app for streaming
- Audience Network Quality Check is in progress, what after?
- How to force Admob to load interstitial ads in landscape only?
- Non-programming job for mid/senior level dev?
- Want to schedule FCM Push Notifications without Cron or Cloud Pub/Sub? Here is implementation.
- How to use Robolectric to test a web page being opened from a button click?
- open source helpdesk app?
| App Feedback Thread - December 14, 2019 Posted: 14 Dec 2019 04:28 AM PST This thread is for getting feedback on your own apps. Developers:
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| Can we have a UI showcase thread? Posted: 14 Dec 2019 11:54 AM PST So over in r/webdev they have a showcase thread every week which got me wondering if we could have something like that too. I have noticed a few threads here asking about how to replicate some custom UI stuff (views, complex animations) from some design mockups and since some devs might be weak in these areas (me!), it would be a nice way to learn how to do them properly. I understand most people might not get the time so maybe we do it only once a month or so. What do you think? [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Google killed my dev account because of repetitive content Posted: 14 Dec 2019 07:45 AM PST Can anybody help me with advice and/or by reading my piece on Medium? My Google Play developer account was terminated because of the repetitive content policy. Some years ago I developed an app so kids can have a bar code scanner cash register when they are playing shop: Little Zebra Shopper (zebra because of the bar codes). I made a paid version as well as a free one with iaps. Later I made some special editions of the app together with a guy who sells little pretend groceries. All was swell and happy until a couple of weeks ago Google decided the apps were in violation of the repetitive content rule. Because of the nature of repetition, I immediately also was in breach of the multiple strikes rule, which got me banned. u/sylsau, who has survived a Google Play ban recommended me to make an article on Medium and a post here. Thanks! Does anyone have extra advice? [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| This is my revenue for the past 3 months using only Admob interstitial ads only Posted: 14 Dec 2019 09:45 AM PST App #1:
App #2:
Revenue and impressions:
- Currently now (in December) I'm having nearly the same impressions as in the previous month (november) but with a lower Impression RPM: $1.57. So the revenues probably will be less than in the past month. - The active installs are from Google Play, the other stats are from fabric/firebase and it's being calculated by the average of the total sum in the past 30 days. - The traffic (aprox. 98%) are coming from eastern/central european countries. - The interstitial ads are being set between game levels. - No meditation are being used (and I really don't know what is it) - No marketing/ads was invested. These are just pure organic installs. - The apps are on the Google Play store for more than 1 year, but I've started monetizing the apps in the past 6 months (interstitial ads only. I hate banner ads, it's occupying 10% of the screen). I'm posting this in hope that other people will share their app's info/stats. And I would like to know what experience did you have using admob. I've read somewhere that other people are using different ad providers (admob, vungle and others...) but I really don't understand, why? What's the next step? What should I do from here? [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Android System WebView update deletes localstorage and websql Posted: 14 Dec 2019 07:46 AM PST Hi all! Just to inform you. If you have an app that uses webview and you use localstorage or websql, chances are high the your app currently lose all stored appdata. Mostly this is when you as a cordova app, which uses per default this webview. My app currently get review bombed with 1-star ratings because all users lose currently all stored data. The cause is the latest Android System Webview update, which has been released with chrome 79 and is currently rolling out. As far as i know, we as a app developer cannot fix this issue on our side, without using another storage method than localstorage or websql. Seems to be a big issue with countless apps and users affected. For me this horrible. My app can never restore the currently lost repution and many users uninstall the app right now. Bug report related to this: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1033655&q=component%3AMobile%3EWebView&colspec=ID%20Pri%20M%20Stars%20ReleaseBlock%20Component%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20OS%20Modified [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| How does the Play store and Chrome cause launchers to create a shortcut upon install of APK files? Posted: 14 Dec 2019 02:05 PM PST I've noticed that this occurs only if we install from those apps, but not if we install from other third party app. How do they do it? Play Store isn't open sourced, but maybe it's on the source code of Chrome? [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 13 Dec 2019 10:41 PM PST There is a reason Android used to have a compact with devs - "old apps will continue to work on new Android versions". However a change from Google is now putting already earned revenues of developers at risk. Some executive unfamiliar with how things mesh together has decided they are going to scrap that - and thus we started to get the categorization of Call/SMS as now requiring the new CALL_LOG permissions group (appeared to the world during the 2018-2019 holiday season). And we are now witnessing the eclipsing of storage - so formerly persistent storage becomes non-persistent or saved in sandbox folder. Since I have already pointed out that Google's use of the forced targetSdkVersion requirement is also another such break - which essentially forces developers to support their apps forever (slave labor ?) - esp given that Google's policy on removing apps is not clear (I have earlier commented on how unpublished apps have been banned - despite a claim to the contrary by a Googler). This naturally leads us to the question - what happens if a developer stops updating their app ? Even if app is not banned by Google, just the Storage change with Scoped Storage will make apps behave differently in the future (persistently saved files will be saved in app-specific sandbox). Who will cover for the refunds that will be generated by disgruntled users ? If Google had stuck with it's earlier compact, this issue would not have arisen (probably why they had constructed that compact in the first place). But some newer generation of executives have seen that compact as frivolous perhaps. But it raises the issue - should developers be penalized by users asking for refunds for past purchases because apps stop working as before ? Since this is a unilateral step by Google - without consulting developers - or informing future purchasers of android products - some of the downsides of this decision should be borne by Google. Google makes such decisions with abandon precisely because they have mistakenly seen it as a Google prerogative - with no apparent cost to Google. But when you start to factor the risk of refunds, it paints a different picture. [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best program to create games for Android? Posted: 14 Dec 2019 02:54 PM PST Ive used the libgdx library with Android studio but i didnt like it, heard about unity too. Any sugestions? [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 14 Dec 2019 02:34 PM PST Did anyone experiences sth similar to that: use android studio, everything seems to be working fine then after being in editor of layout and hitting ctrl+alt+L (autoformat code) IDE suddenly is frozen. I have to manually kill the process to be able to launch another instance of IDE, then the best part: any changes done to project are literally gone. Like not that I want to, but I am able to reproduce it 100% of the times when I accidently hit autoformat code when editing some layouts. Very strange, if someone else had the same problem please share your thoughts and maybe some hack to solve it ;) [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Looking for dual screen Android emulators. Any ideas? Posted: 14 Dec 2019 01:26 PM PST Hi folks, I'm looking for dual-screen Android emulator images. To be clear, I'm not looking for foltables, I'm looking for images that emulate the display setup of a upcoming Surface Duo, LG G8X, etc. pp. IMHO Google does only list foldables. See Docs. Thanks for you help! [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Can I link to my Amazon storefront from my Android app distributed through Google Play? Posted: 14 Dec 2019 12:33 PM PST I have an app on Google Play. I want to include a link to my Amazon storefront, so that users can buy things there. Mainly physical products but maybe some digital ones too. Does this fall foul of any Google policies about payments having to be through Google Play so that they can get their cut? I can't find the relevant Google policy to read. [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 14 Dec 2019 11:06 AM PST Sorry mods, I read Rule 7, looked at the Wiki and survey but didn't get an answer that was satisfactory. Would appreciate some consideration, thanks. I'm a coach for a robotics program for 6th-8th grade girls. I taught them Java on raspberry pi 4 using BlueJ. The experience was painfully slow. I want them to move to Android Studio for the next year, as this is one of the approved ways to program the robot. Moving from 1 laptop to several PCs, and I wanted to know what is the minimum spec that would reasonably run AS and would not give me a heart attack when the bill comes in. I'm paying for this out of pocket. Help would be greatly appreciated. What would you consider the minimum (cheapest) PC that I could get away with to run AS? Thanks edit: no emulation required, the code is compiled to an app and loaded onto the phone. Phone is disconnected from laptop and put on the robot. [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IAP dependency got updated - how do I migrate? Posted: 14 Dec 2019 10:20 AM PST I've noticed it got updated recently from 1.2.2 to 2.1.0 : https://developer.android.com/google/play/billing/billing_library_overview Anyone know of an easy way to migrate? I don't see it mentioned there... Why did Google change the way we use it? Any advantages over the previous version? [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| How to download a website and have the ui thread wait for the download? Posted: 14 Dec 2019 09:34 AM PST So have a recyclerview that is is going to exist out of data that i scraped from a site. So i have a working AsyncTask derived class that downloads a webpage to a Document (Jsoup type object). Now i want that document to be parsed and have the data i scrape to be inserted in an ArrayList. Is there a way to make the UIthread wait on a running AsyncTask? (Im on android-studio) [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Why is my app in the playstore still on "Coming Soon" ?? Posted: 14 Dec 2019 05:27 AM PST Hey there, this is my first app, so I'm inexperienced. I'm about to publish my app, so in the Play Console I made a production track and uploades my aab file. My problem now is that if a google account isn't a BETA tester you can't download the app, there is also no sign that google is still checking the app. If I go to my app overview it shows my app is published. Here is the link to the playstore page if this might help. Thank you for your help :) [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Android Emulator for developing Posted: 14 Dec 2019 03:56 AM PST Hi, I'm currently using Android Studios own Emulators and tbh, they are laggy and slow. Do you have some other recommendations? Thanks! [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Is there a library that does this? Posted: 14 Dec 2019 07:42 AM PST I'm sick of writing references to UI components like edit texts, buttons, etc. Is there any framework that just like autocreate from xml the ui objects? [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 14 Dec 2019 01:19 AM PST Hi all, I wanna develop an android tv app that streams some videos or images stored in the cloud, but i'm not sure what's the best solutions. For the cloud-side, i'm pretty confident to use amazon aws s3 storage, but for the client-side I dont know if its better to go full-native with an android app that makes http calls (to retrieve videos and images) and then display the medias. Or with the alternative of an android app with WebView, so I dont need to publish android app updates. What would you suggest? [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Audience Network Quality Check is in progress, what after? Posted: 14 Dec 2019 01:05 AM PST My question is will it affect the revenue after Quality check is passed? Because it says 51 days left to finish. What was your experience? Another unrelated question, did your revenue from Admob drop drastically starting September? My CTR went from 1.5%-2% to only 0.4% and eCPM dropped like crazy, from $2.5-$3 to only $0.4-$0.5, I then switched to MoPub for mediation, and completely switched off Admob. What do you think must be the reason? [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| How to force Admob to load interstitial ads in landscape only? Posted: 14 Dec 2019 12:50 AM PST It's kinda frustrating and it's a bad UX when the app is in landscape only (restricted from manifest), then baaam... the interstitial ad is loaded in portrait. The user has to rotate his phone into portrait and see the ad and click it if it's interested. [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Non-programming job for mid/senior level dev? Posted: 14 Dec 2019 12:45 AM PST Let's say I was a mid-senior level Android dev with a decent resume. Let's also say that I enjoy talking to people and people seem to like me. Let's say I didn't want to code anymore and I wasn't interested in managing people. What are some job titles to look into? Tech sales and business analyst come to mind. I enjoy discussing and architecting projects, and teasing out requirements. Are there any other titles I should research? Thanks in advance! [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Want to schedule FCM Push Notifications without Cron or Cloud Pub/Sub? Here is implementation. Posted: 13 Dec 2019 08:11 PM PST
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| How to use Robolectric to test a web page being opened from a button click? Posted: 13 Dec 2019 04:30 PM PST I wrote the following bit of code to open a url on the phone's browser on a button click I am trying to write a Robolectric test which will pass only if the desired web page is open, but am not sure how to do this. Is this possible? [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 13 Dec 2019 09:42 PM PST I'm looking to test an app idea and looking for an open-source app that simply a user will create an account, then create a new ticket, then I answer it, then the user can comment on my comment then I comment on their comment haha and so on. A user is able to create many tickets and each ticket will have a different number. The app idea is simply I answer my students' questions thought an app. Any open-source code I can modify and use for this task? I don't code but I will find someone who can help to modify it. I will have around 20 new tickets every day by users. [link] [comments]  |
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