Android :: How To Fetch App Data (name / Version Etc) From Android Market?
May 3, 2010
As we know, the apps in the apple app store has a unique itunes link, and we can fetch app data about the app from app store through the link.I am wondering how can i achieve this in the android market, just like the website http://www.androlib.com/ did?As long as I know, each app in the android market has a ID, which just like "com.gabrouze.magic", and the QR Code can be viewed in "http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=qr&chs=135x135&chl=market://search?q=pname:com.gabrouze.magic".
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Aug 20, 2009
As far as I can tell, there is no API (official or unofficial) to access information about Apps on the Android Market (info such as Title, Icon, Description, Downloads, Comments, etc..)
However, there are a few websites that have managed to compile this information anyway.
My question is: How is this being done?
A couple of guesses.
Manually (not likely, due to volume) Implemented the protocol used by the official app (by decompiling or observing packets) Running some kind of debugger with the official app to extract the live data Using some kind of automation + screen shots + text recognition (seems complicated) Modifying the (open) source to write a log file
I'm just curious how this was done because I sure can't figure it out.
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Sep 10, 2009
I have a doubt in XML parsing. I'm parsing a XML file. That XML file contains more than 14000 lines. I'm fetching 15 tag in that xml file. It is taking more than 7 times to fetch. Because 14000 lines * 15 tag. That much time it is taking. Any idea for this to reduce time. Or give some other coding to fetch xml data easily. No I'm using RSS Reader to fetch data as like in Java.
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Jan 27, 2010
Ok so I've had enough of this Facebook app...it keeps saying it cannot fetch data because the connection resets. Even when I go on mobile facebook through the browser, it doesn't load. What's wrong with my Facebook app
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Nov 24, 2009
how to fetch data from database like mysql/sqlite
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Nov 24, 2009
How to fetch data from database like mysql / sqlite.can any one help me in this,i have tried the examples gave in the NOTEPAD sample.its not working(it dont shows any errors.) can any one guide me in this ...
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Aug 23, 2010
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here is my code to fetch data from database. according to me it works properly but at the very first time it will generate the exception java.lang.NullPointerException. after that it will runs very correctly. Will you help me what modification i will do to resolve this.
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Nov 17, 2010
I have been in problem of the Activity life-cycle. All though i read lots of docs on it put on getting clear picture on it. I have Activity A. In that activity I have menu options. If we click any option it opens the respective activity like if i click on 2nd button it opens Activity B Now again Activity B has same options into it. When user clicks on 1st button then i need to go back to activity A. So using this. Intent intent = new Intent().setClass(context, Articles.class); startActivity(intent); So always it starts new instance of activity and fetch data from DB. I want something like Activity A can be resumed back as it was.
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Jul 16, 2010
I was working on implementing a more advanced list view then the standard one they teach you in basic tutorials, and I did find a great tutorial explaining how to create your own Adapter and such not. http://www.softwarepassion.com/android-series-custom-listview-items-a...
I do have a working version of the tutorial and I am currently in the process of changing the list to suit my needs, but there are a few issues I am stumped on. If your run the tutorial code it creates a little progress dialog saying that it is retrieving data. In my application it is going to be fetching data from the internet and storing it in an ArrayList of custom objects. However if I where to rotate the screen the progress dialog pops up again, I have no clue on how to set it up so that when it rotates that it doesn't recreate everything and re-fetch the data and process it again.
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Sep 15, 2010
I am developping (for my company) an app included on a project that will have 2 versions:
- 1st simple version to download using a OTA server, clients accesss to an URL to download.
- 2nd version more complex to be published on the Market.
The question here is that the process to publish on the Android Market is under bureaucratic internal process and it takes a long time, so the idea do reduce the time to market is to provide an OTA version.
There is any possibility for users that download application via OTA to upgrade the application for version published later on the Market? (Both Application will be signed with the same key).
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Oct 22, 2010
The strange thing is, the only way for me to get this update is to re-flash the phone with the RUU WWE 2.10.405.2 file, but as soon as i do a factory reset the market will no longer update to the new version, strange to say the least.Could everyone please list the country, firmware and market version, this may help to find a reason for this strangeness.
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Oct 23, 2010
following on a recent topic posted here is my question- how can I find out which version of Android Market am I running? If I go to Market and press "menu" button on the phone none of the options answers to my question.
My second question is- where is the "Update all" button in the Market. I can not see it anywhere.I am running Froyo 2.2, Orange branded Desire, stock ROM.
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May 29, 2009
I just uploaded a new version of my application to the Android Market and then I choose to upload an update it doesn't update the version number of the app. It is only doing this as of Cupcake.
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Jun 30, 2010
I want to implement the versioning feature for my application manually. For that I intend to compare the application version currently installed on the device and the application version present on android market. I can get the installed application's version using PackageManager , but how to find out the version of the application on the android market programatically ?
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Nov 9, 2009
Two days ago, we uploaded a new version of the full version of our app (SpecTrek) to the market. Improvements include support for QVGA and WVGA screens.
We changed nothing in the "Developer Console" (Language: en_US, "All locations" selected).
Now we have received the first complaint of a Droid user who cannot find the full version on the market. The light version (that has not been upgraded yet) can be found ok. The good news is that the light version seems to work on the Droid, something we couldn't really test (except for some simulator runs on 2.0).
So presumably we did something stupid in the upgraded version. I can only assume it must be something in the manifest, as it seems unreasonably to assume the market software looks at anything else in the apk.
The only change in the manifest (besides versionCode/versionName) is the following:
CODE:.....................
There is also a "uses-sdk" entry, but that didn't change: <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="3" />
Is there anyone with a Droid that can verify the full version is not available to them (searching for 'SpecTrek' should find both the light and full versions)?
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Feb 26, 2010
I just installed the new version of AdFree from the market and they finally got rid of the annoying bug that made it a pain to update (for those that don't know it blocks most ads in rooted android phones). Just a heads up to my fellow adventurers in Rootland...
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Sep 30, 2010
The new version of facebook app in the market place is missing options ? I was having lunch today with a buddy and we were looking over my Desire and his Iphone and was looking at the facebook app. He gets chat and a option called Places? I wonder why we do not get that in our app they should be the same or ours should just be better .
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Jun 5, 2010
I have a free app in the market and use the data directory of the app to store some files. Now I think about offering a paid (donate) version of the app, so that people who want to pay a few pennys will be able to do so. But AFAIK the new (paid) app needs a new name, so I won't be able to use the stored data of the free version. That means, that existing users would have to re-enter a lot of personal settings - which probably would be a no-no for a lot of users. So my question: Is there a smart way to have a free and a paid version in the market, where the later installed payed version can use the data of the free version? I thought about using the SD-card for data storage, but there might be devices without any SD-card...
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Nov 3, 2010
I'm writing a game for Android. When the user completes a level, they can restart from the next level if they lose (i.e. I need to store an integer to remember which level they got to). If the app is interrupted during play, I save the world state to disk (this is complex state storing a map and game entities).I'd like to keep my options open in the future for changing my game code and the way the world state is saved/stored. However, I must consider the scenario when a user has an old version of the world state on their phone because they were in the middle of a game, they upgrade the app and now the app cannot load the world state. Having to write code to migrate the old version of the data to the new version of the data would be a pain if there's some way I can avoid this. It would be nice if I could somehow ask the user to finish their current game in progress before updating. Can this be done? Are there any other options?
I don't intend to do this often. I'd like to iteratively develop my game while getting some early feedback, but this is difficult if I must fix how the world state is saved and restored now.I hope this doesn't seem a silly question, but on a PC or a console it's perfectly OK to have games that you cannot save during a game or you can only save between levels. I'm just finding Android a bit of a pain here as you must have a save game strategy for all games.
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Jul 1, 2009
Gphone Manager Free Version to be Released in the Android Market
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Feb 17, 2010
I'm trying to prevent the situation where an updated version of my app restores using a bundle written from a previous version of my app. In other words:
1) app v1 stops and calls onSaveInstanceState
2) app v1 saves the bundle
3) user goes to marketplace and updates the app to v2
4) user starts the v2 version of the app
5) v2 version calls onCreate passing the bundle with v1 data
Is that even possible? Do I need to worry about it?
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Sep 9, 2010
Can I query the Android Market for the latest version of my application in code? I would like to show an update notification for the user when a new version is available. Related questions:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2468449/process-in-updating-my-app-in-the-market
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3057771/is-there-a-way-to-automatically-update-application-on-android
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2175945/android-market-application-updates
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Jun 10, 2010
I want to have a free version and a premium version of the same application. When people buy the application, I want them to be able to "upgrade" without losing their data, i.e. the premium version should install over the free version.I want to use the same code base and just switch a setting to build the premium version.
Andoid Market does not let me convert a free app to a paid app, so the trivial option is not available.I am curious if someone has tried this successfully. How does Android Market identify an application - will it think that the premium version is a different app and just install it in parallel?
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Jan 12, 2010
I want to release an app on the market. It uses nothing new from the 2.0 release like bluetooth for instance and it works well in every emulator using version 1.6 to 2.1.My question is upon version of the sdk should I distribute my application to make it compatible with all devices running 1.6, 2.0 or 2.1?I only have a physical device running 1.6 to test it, but as I say, it uses nothing fancy and works well on emulators using API levels 4, 5, 6 or 7.
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Aug 20, 2010
I need the newest version of the market apk, mine has been saying "server error" for a while so I deleted it and now I cant get it back.
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Oct 9, 2010
Anyone out there have a new version of the Market? V.2007?I'm a bit confused as my hubby is seeing a completely new market and I am not. I am still at version 1713. Anyone? This happened sometime today for him. We are both rooted. He is using Meatkernal and I am using Radioactive Froyo 8.1.22/ Meatkernal
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Jan 21, 2010
I was wondering if the market checks if the application can be installed on the device. For example, if I have an Android 1.6 and if I try to install an application with :"<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="7" />" on its manifest. What will happend ?
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Sep 6, 2010
My set CPU won't update to the new version on market I had a different app do this and I had to uninstall it and reinstall it to fix it. I'm hesitant to do that for this app cause its a paid app and I don't want to pay twice to reinstall it. Any ideas to fix this would be great.
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Jul 29, 2010
I have some xml files, and I keep them in raw folder. Now, the problem is that I have to use them with variable name according to my application condition. But I don't know how to fetch them. The main thing is that I am not getting that how to give the path of my xml file in application.
For example:
My file application.xml is stored in the raw folder and I have to access it with a variable name.
String xmlName= application.xml;
How can I fetch my xml through xmlName variable?
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Nov 21, 2009
Is it possible to fetch Owner Mobile number. I have got the operator name but not able to fetch the Mobile Number.
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