Android Dev - App Feedback Thread - November 16, 2019 |
- App Feedback Thread - November 16, 2019
- Navigation with Dynamic Feature Modules
- Glad to see someone's cashing in on the opportunity! And not gonna lie, Google brought it upon themselves.
- Google issue tracker responses for Notification access has left me in a fix.
- How to upload apks to appeal?
- AdMob Invalid Traffic Concerns (Ad Serving Limited)
- AsyncTask is Deprecated, Now What?
- Open Source App's to Penetration Test
- SPORK - An ORM for SharedPreferences
- What is the most awesome thing you have implemented on android? Tell us about it :)
- How to get list of storage devices?
- ELI5 File Provider
- What do you think of my app? It's an anonymous, location-based, tag-based discussion board with file sharing capabilities
- What will be the good traits of Senior Android developer profile?
- Marketplace apps removed and dev account terminated
- Emulator 29.2.9 and AMD Hypervisor 1.2 to Canary
- Why hasn't Google proposed typescript + V8/chrome/PWA as an official language for developing android apps?
- CRUD android app get data from a bluetooth handheld scanner device scanning barcode or QR code?
- Developer on Google Play is using graphics of my app's previous version and Google did not remove despite copyright infringement, what to do?
- Will the recent states' antitrust probe examine the conditions that prevail regarding "associated account bans" and the use of lifetime bans from the only marketplace as a coercive exercise for android developers ?
- XNNPACK: High-performance floating-point inference for mobile
| App Feedback Thread - November 16, 2019 Posted: 16 Nov 2019 04:28 AM PST This thread is for getting feedback on your own apps. Developers:
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| Navigation with Dynamic Feature Modules Posted: 15 Nov 2019 11:33 PM PST
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| Google issue tracker responses for Notification access has left me in a fix. Posted: 16 Nov 2019 06:43 AM PST | ||
| Posted: 16 Nov 2019 12:53 AM PST I have an app which is being flagged as a harmful app. I haven't yet uploaded it on Play Store. I would want to file an appeal. I am trying it here: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/2992033?hl=en&dark=0 I have uploaded the apk on Github and am providing a direct raw download link. The file isn't private. But I am getting this email from them:
I have also tried on Google Drive, but that doesn't work as well. Does anyone know where to properly upload the apk? [link] [comments] | ||
| AdMob Invalid Traffic Concerns (Ad Serving Limited) Posted: 16 Nov 2019 07:37 AM PST About a month ago, on the 19th Oct, my AdMob account had limited ad serving enforced on it due to invalid traffic concerns. What I Know: I may have accidentally run my test app with the real ad IDs a few times, but I have never clicked or opened any ads during such times and would immediately rebuild it with test IDs. I read that this should be fine as long as the ads aren't opened. Other than that, I have actually told the people I know who downloaded my app not to click ads on purpose, that it would be detected as false and wouldn't help me anyway. I have also submitted my app to TheGreatApps.com for promotional reasons (I have done this before without issue), but have since removed it from this 'marketplace' due to the warning in Policy Center advising to 'avoid partnering with untrusted or low-quality parties' - better safe than sorry. Banner ads were placed at the bottom of the screen in each of my apps and actually directly adjacent to a button when this problem occurred (which I know is a big no-no), so I had since changed them to be at the top in order to prevent false clicks and further comply with Google's policies. My Question: It says the limit will be updated after further review - I assumed they would update it by the time a month passes, and there are still three days left, but I'm not sure if anything will actually happen by then. Has anyone else faced this issue? What would be the best action to take? Submit an appeal or just wait a little longer? How long does Google usually take to review and update things like this? Any advice would be greatly appreciated, preventative and curative alike, thank you. PS: I apologize if this is the wrong place to ask about my problem. Please refer me to a more suitable space if necessary. [link] [comments] | ||
| AsyncTask is Deprecated, Now What? Posted: 15 Nov 2019 09:36 AM PST
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| Open Source App's to Penetration Test Posted: 15 Nov 2019 08:20 PM PST Hello, I am a University student in Canada who is nearing the end of my degree and looking to work on some projects / side tasks to boost my resume. I am in a co-op program (for those who don't know, it means alternating between school and work every 4 months) so I have about a year of professional Android development under my belt plus another year or so of Android development in various school projects. I also have an additional 4 month of experience doing penetration testing / ethical hacking of web applications which I really enjoyed. With that said, I wanted to start practicing penetration testing on Android, but I lack any good examples of open source apps I can find that I could use to practice penetration testing on Android. So I have come to this sub-reddit for help. I am looking for anyone who knows of or directly maintains an "active" open source Android application that would be interested in having me penetration testing their app for fun/free experience. Before I begin, we can discuss any ground rules around my testing and I will keep you regularly up to date on anything I find. This would obviously be totally free, all I ask for is the ability to discuss the vulnerabilities I may find (after they are fixed) with potential employers / colleagues. If you are interested in having me pen. test your app or an app you know, please comment on this post and/or DM me. Thanks! [link] [comments] | ||
| SPORK - An ORM for SharedPreferences Posted: 15 Nov 2019 11:45 PM PST Working on a large sized project (which is a 9 years old app) has shown me quite a few issues that crop up with handling SharedPreferences. Especially, old preferences laying around in your user's files and making your app startup slow because the entire xml is loaded into memory. To solve that, and to make SharedPreferences handling faster, I have whipped up a library with a very Retrofit-inspired mechanism to handle prefs. Please take a look - https://github.com/championswimmer/SPORK Would love to have any feedback, potential issues, or suggestions on things that can be improved. [link] [comments] | ||
| What is the most awesome thing you have implemented on android? Tell us about it :) Posted: 15 Nov 2019 09:43 AM PST I feel like we should really show off more in this sub. All the other subs like react, flutter, unity, gamedev, webdev etc. do it. What's something that you've built that you're really proud of? Could be a custom view, your architecture setup, some cool hack you figured out, a really sleek looking screen or flow - anything! Tell us all about it, include screenshots if you can :) [link] [comments] | ||
| How to get list of storage devices? Posted: 16 Nov 2019 02:12 AM PST Been trying to do this for sometime. What I found was tricks like reading /proc/mount, getExternalfilesdir() which is deprecated in Android 10 & getStorageVolumes() in storage manager which is exactly what I want but I'm not sure if it's available on older versions I need this for a file manager [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 15 Nov 2019 01:57 PM PST Can somebody please ELI5 the point behind File Provider and exactly what it does? I understand how to use it, but I'm more interested in the reasoning behind it and what it actually does when it generates a content URI? Most SO/Docs are more focused on how-to, not why or what [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 15 Nov 2019 11:22 PM PST https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.grothedev.frogpon https://github.com/grothedev/fp_flutter Made with flutter. I am open to ideas for improvement. Let me know of any bugs you find, and feel free to ask any questions. I think that this app has a lot of potential. Also I am looking for a graphic designer to make a better logo since I'm not very good at that. [link] [comments] | ||
| What will be the good traits of Senior Android developer profile? Posted: 15 Nov 2019 08:42 AM PST | ||
| Marketplace apps removed and dev account terminated Posted: 15 Nov 2019 06:45 AM PST Hi all, We have been developing on google play for well over 3 years now. our account has been in good standing and we have managed to adhere to policies and have updated to the new policies as they come out. Over a week ago google's "bot" screened through our play store apps and picked out our marketplace apps. Mind you we have over 35 apps and well over millions of downloads, with tens of thousands of positive reviews. As for the app Description, these are all marketplace apps. marketplace apps have human generated content, so, in order to have them approved and maintained we have to have checks and balances in place to protect the users. We disallow "harmful and bad" words, review posts and ban users as we see fit. the users also have the ability to report abusive accounts, posts and users in our apps. Now for some reason last week, in the middle of the night, the bot scanned 4 of our apps and decided it was inappropriate with sexual generated content. On the craigslist app (com.mtph.clmobile) they gave us no information or example. On the buy sell now app (xyz.buysellnow.app) they sent an example. They highlighted the price, the word video, and the heading "video's any scenario you pick" . No pictures involved no bad words . nothing. further more, the add was removed and the user banned as soon as the app was suspended. the other two apps, oodle and classifiedads.com, had no reference at all. As you know the four of these being "suspended" could trigger an automatic termination of the account. Now mind you we have other business we run on our developer account with contracts and so on. In an instance, google shut down the entire android side of our business. and trigger admob to stop etc. Now with out this revenue, we can't pay employees. So as the owner, i am stuck at a bit of a crossroad. If i don't get this fixed soon, we will have to make changes to our business structure. Now, something else interesting, we spend maybe 10k or more a month in advertising on google playstore and adsense. You would think google would look at that and work with the developers. Nope, no return email nothing. And even better, since we had to stop, i get adsense reps asking why we stopped advertising with them. Unbelievable. I submitted the appeals for the app, and received the generic 72hr email. so i waited, that was over a week ago. no remedy, or feedback from anyone. I was hoping to get something back by now. My next coarse of actual would be to go the legal route, but no one really wants to do that. I keep reading online about theses same and similar stories and wonder how google can do this. They ask for us to use their platform, so we do, and if we make things work we will always be on eggshells for their instant removals. I am looking for some help or guidance on how to move this up the chain and get it resolved. i appreciate any help or suggestions. I also want to mention, that it seems to be taking much longer than the 72 hrs to approve or look at anything. Here is a link as well to where our play account use to reside: https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=MTPH+Software&hl=en [link] [comments] | ||
| Emulator 29.2.9 and AMD Hypervisor 1.2 to Canary Posted: 15 Nov 2019 02:36 PM PST | ||
| Posted: 15 Nov 2019 08:35 AM PST It seems like it would be a perfect combination. They already use V8 with chrome. Chrome is already distributed on the phones. PWAs already work well on the web. That technology isn't going anywhere. The big blocker would be to port all the APIs and UI framework over but maybe they could use something like React native. It seems like it could be a big win. It would mean you could easily port a web app over to Android without any of the fuss and still have it function like a native app. [link] [comments] | ||
| CRUD android app get data from a bluetooth handheld scanner device scanning barcode or QR code? Posted: 15 Nov 2019 03:59 PM PST Hello, I have an idea to make an Android app for inventory warehouse workers. This is an Android mobile application to create, receive, update, and delete data on the Microsoft SQL database. Workers scan barcode/QR code with their Bluetooth handheld scanner. The android app will process the data from the scanner then upload it to the SQL Server database. The questions I want to ask are:
Thank you for reading my post, looking forward to your answers. A Silver reward for the best answer. [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 15 Nov 2019 03:10 PM PST I wrote to google about copyright infringement about graphics of my app. I had a previous logo for my app that another person is using in their own uploaded app. I sent all this to Google also a news post of company indicating where we had the logo change and also listing on another store where there is old version of app with the old logo. Google said they will not be doing take down and for us to contact person directly. Is this normal? The publisher's whole page is mish-mash of compiled random apps with stolen graphics...google doesn't care? How do I go about this? Is there legal template of takedown letter I can send this person? What if they don't react? I don't even know their location. It is a minor thing and they aren't probably making any money off it since their app page looks trash, but it is still annoying. What would you suggest to do? Email I got: *"Thanks for reaching out to us. At this time, Google has decided not to take action. We encourage you to resolve any disputes directly with the individual who posted the content. If you cannot reach an agreement and choose to pursue legal action against the individual who posted the content, and that action results in a judicial determination that the material is illegal or should be removed, please send us the court order seeking removal. If you would like to request identifying information about an anonymous poster, please contact google-legal-support@google.com (if you are in the U.S.) or internationalcivil@google.com (if you are outside of the U.S.) for more information on how to serve us with valid legal process."* [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 15 Nov 2019 02:41 PM PST Recently the states in the US expanded the antitrust investigation of Google beyond search and into the Android side of their business:
I wonder if this can be expanded to include Google's failure to develop android as an independent platform (free from their ad/search arm), to avoid leveraging Google's other skills in profiling developers to make associations real or imagined between developers. In addition the trend on android to limit apps use of local persistent storage (scoped storage imposition in Android 10), an action that will coerce a whole class of users to rely on Google's cloud. This reduction of capability for consumers also comes with a cost for developers (to forcibly change code) whose benefits solely accrue to Google with enhanced cloud storage prospects, without compensation to developers for that effort. The instrument of coercion is the app ban for non-compliance. And the inevitable cascade of app bans which secure a permanent lifetime ban on the developer account as "pariah extraordinaire". This ability of Google to choose arbitrarily-derived excessively harsh punishments with no collective bargaining by developers in the process, means that Google retains power to ratchet up punishment to slave labor levels - when devs are not compensated for coercive labor that solely benefits Google cloud storage prospects. Often these changes do not enhance the platform experience, and removes legitimate competition - as with removal of offline SMS backup apps during the Call/SMS fiasco, which removes one more offline challenge to Google's cloud offerings. Further, Google uses the practice of miscommunicating the extent of trouble that the developer is already in - how close they already are to a permanent account ban - to keep developer in the dark* about their prospects. This is an exercise in sensory deprivation which is akin to torture. The punishment of account ban is a lifetime banishment of an android developer from the whole android universe. Google then reinforces this ban with their ad/search ability to profile users and to percolate it from person to person (a company account can get banned for one of their developers associating with a previously banned friend). This allows Google to make real and imagined connections between developers. Punishments percolate from person to person like some totalitarian regime's ban on free association. This is the notorious "associated accounts ban" which needs to be investigated deeply - and some executive heads need to roll for such practices. The effectiveness of all Google diktat regarding app bans and account bans is made ever more effective in it's terror-inducing ways on developers by the complete absence of an appeal system. [link] [comments] | ||
| XNNPACK: High-performance floating-point inference for mobile Posted: 15 Nov 2019 12:30 PM PST https://github.com/google/XNNPACK Recently found out about this. It works well and is easy to integrate (unlike Arm ComputeLibrary). [link] [comments] |
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