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Android Town

Ok, Android Town is now an obsolete name and application on the market. It was renamed to Peeples. Peeples is a seperate app on the market so you would need to download that one. It uses the same DB as Android Town so all your information is saved.
Peeples is a social community application which is location based. It enables users to see other users of the application on the map and strike up a conversation with them. Privacy options are also available.
So far the application has over 11k users.
Peeples has the added options of:
- uploading profile pictures and avatar through the application
- sending files from SD card with messages as attachments (5Mb limit for now)
Try it out and let me know what you think.
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Running it on a G1 running CM 4.2.15.1.
Noticed a few things.
1) Registration via App Only (not a big deal, just no indication on the site as such)
2) Registration within the app resulted in "passwords do not match" ANY time I left a password field even when they did match
3) Map reacts slowly when being moved or zoomed in/out
As there's no one yet in my area run ning this, I haven't tested many of the other features. I'll report as I experience more.

Thanks for giving it a try. Hopefully some more US citizens register so you'll be able to interact with them. 5000 kms (around 3100 miles) is the biggest radius so far. Most of the users are in Europe at the moment.
Thanks for the heads up on the registration part. I will definitely try to improve it.
I was also thinking about adding content from social networks if users have any (FB, Twitter, FLickr...). What do you think about that?
And thanks again for testing

Have yet to install the newer release for testing, but looking forward to it.
The concept of linking other social media is a fine idea, provided that there are switches set in place to allow for selected/unselected status. I know plenty of users who would want to publish information for their Facebook, but may want to avoid doing so on other networks.
Either way, yeah, further integration with social media is a fine idea.

ill install and test tmmrw probably

seems pretty cool ill make sure to throw it on my EVO as soon as it freakin comes out

Added to my G1. Will let you know what happens.

Cheers. I sent you a msg in the app as well. Can you test how the send message screen looks on lower resolution please?

Testing it out now , but not many *users* in norway.
I'm the only one

Application is still in its's early days. If you choose a larger radius you will see more users (around 45 accross the world right now)

Application has just been published to the market as well, under the Social category of applications.

How about making a public chat channel that every one is in , when we connect . And late maybe switch it so it will be local / country only.
All depending on how many users this app gets

That's actually a very good idea. I'll be sure to do that as soon as possible...shouldn't be that hard (at least for a single one for starters)

Good nice app!

Already tweeted this. I'll Buzz it as well.

Private Messages look fine on the G1. No issue there.
I'll be comparing my experience to my friend's on the Nexus. Hopefully provide you some better feedback concerning how this works with the G1's older hardware.
Edit: First things we noticed, "Passwords do not match!" error is still present when registering via the app, even if the passwords do match. This issue has been replicated on the G1 and the Nexus 1.
Other noted issues:
Attempt to "Add as friend" on the G1 results in a toast of "Error". No other information contained in error.
Sending a picture on the G1 took about 1 min 45 seconds from time of shot to "Picture sent!" toast showed up.
I'll see what I can do to provide better information (such as screenshots, etc)
Let me know what else you could use.

Just a thought, an option to register via the desktop(internet) as well.
i couldn't figure out how to register until I found it as an option in settings when the app was open.
Doh.
It's lonely in the south of england......

Working on the mentioned bugs as we speak. Will probably release an upgrade today that might fix a few things.
@squirreleater: the internet register option is definitely needed. I agree.

anyone from germany?
feature request: please include option to add user with the username directly so that people from here can invite eachother other than searching on the map

install
Wont install on my Hero ??

ttrss-reader, Android client for Tiny Tiny RSS (php)

Hi folks,
i am proud to announce the Release of v0.5.11 of ttrss-reader, the android-client for Tiny Tiny RSS:
TTRSS-Reader for Android
Tiny Tiny RSS
TT-RSS is a php/javascript-based reader with a google-reader-like interface, running on your own server with mysql/postgresql and php. It supports multiple user-accounts, feed-categories, labels, sharing of articles and automatic updates every x minutes.
ttrss-reader for Android
Ttrss-reader for Android was started at code.google.com by J.Devauchelle but as i couldn't reach him for several weeks i forked the project: (see note above for URL)
I implemented some usability features and then started implementing local caching since before EVERY single piece of data was requested from the server, slowing down the browsing a lot.
Now i think the program is in a quite usable state, although the local-caching doesn't work so well. The server-side provides API-methods to retrieve data as JSON-Objects but they are focused on transferring a low amount of data in every request (eg. only one article with content is sent at a time, not all new articles which would be much easier).
So if anyone want to keep his feeds away from google and do stuff on his own, in my opinion this is the way to do it. And please excuse my english. ^^
I would appreciate any ideas what could be improved or bugreports and i'd feel honoured if some of you would like to try this app or even join developement.
Some Screenshots:
Greetings,
nils

Hi,
Just to say that I like this app but my ttrss instance seems too big for this app. Android ask me to kill the app everytimes it makes a refresh of the data.
for information : my ttrss run on a PC and is hosted at home. It has +12000 articles
Keep up

Definitely trying this soon
My carrier should have the new Android phone I want in this week. I will definitely try this and get back to you!

Getting error message? I installed this, and put in my tt-rss location, username, and password. It gives me this error message:
"error":"API_DISABLED"

@celticchrys: That means you have to login to the webinterface and enable the API in your user-preferences. Dont know why but the API-access is a per-user-setting in Tiny Tiny RSS so every user has to enable it for himself.
Greetings,
nils

@lordnils: Thanks, I'll give that a try.
***EDIT***
It force closed on me a couple of times, did fetch my articles once, and now says it cannot. I also got a very long error, many screens long, that begins with :
Oupd...
I was unable to conenct to your Tiny Tiny TSS instance, please check your connection and/or connection settings.
Error details:
A JSONObject text must begin with '{' at character 1 of <html>
The above is then followed by basically the entire code for my login page.
Any ideas?
Thanks.

Hm, something seems to be wrong with the URL for API-Access. You should make sure you entered the URL in the settings exactly like the URL you use to access the webinterface of Tiny Tiny RSS.
If the problem still exists it would be helpful if you provided me with the output of ADB (or aLogcat from the market if you dont want to mess with the USB-connection and the Android-SDK). It would be the easiest way to resolve the problem if you opened an issue on <url for the google-code page of our project where you can start an issue> so other people involved could try to fix the problem, too.
Greetings,
nils
ps: sry for not posting urls, i dont think it is a good practice to encourage people to spam somewhere so they can post links. so i just dont do it and wait for the protection to dissappear. :/

sent pm
lordnils, I've sent you a PM with the requested log.
Thanks!

I just released the TTRSS-Reader on the market:
Download: http://www.appbrain.com/app/org.ttrssreader?install
QR-Code:
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nils

Hey lordnils,
I'm having the same problem as celticchrys. I am using the exact url that I login to via a browser, API is enabled, but still get the documented error within the program.
Any ideas what I might look at?

First of all, which versions are you using (Tiny Tiny RSS and TTRSS-Reader)?
Then: Can you acquire the output of logcat (aLogcat from the market or "adb logcat" if you got the SDK installed)?
If you are using old versions (older then Tiny Tiny RSS v.1.4.3.1 and TTRSS-Reader v0.7.3) please update first and try again. There are some issues with older Versions of the API which could cause this problem.
Greetings,
nils

I've just checked, and I'm running TTRSS 1.4.2 on my server, and I have the latest Market version on my phone.
Perhaps this is the problem! I'll look into updating my TTRSS server install, and get back to you.

Thank you! This is great! I didn't want to move all my feeds to google so this is perfect!

[APP] Cloud to SMS beta

Cloud to SMS allows you to send messages from your browser, through your phone using the Android notification system (C2DM). The purpose of the app is to allow users (You!) to send SMS messages using their phones existing carrier account without having to touch their phone.
Requires Froyo (Android 2.2) or higher.
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Beta of "free" version released to marketplace.
Allows you to send up to 7 messages a day, premium version beta coming in a few days with a release in about 2 weeks.
Grab the beta of the Chrome extension here: http://www.cloudtosms.com/files/cloudtosms-chrome-extension.crx
Feedback welcome

In case anyone is interested, this app is now in Beta and I will be releasing it to market soon.
Send and receive SMS messages from the website
All messages secured by SSL both ways
I will be making a Chrome plugin very soon so you don't need to browse to the website to send/receive.
http://www.cloudtosms.com/?page_id=15

This app has a ton of potential. Can't wait for that Chrome extension!

I could see this having a ton of uses. One being it could grab an entire group of contacts from your Gmail account (or export them from what ever place you prefer to store your contacts and import them directly to the online app -though kind of a concern issue for obvious security reasons). Then you could send bulk Txt's much easier than directly on the phone. It could even schedule them, etc. I frequently have to send out mass texts to different groups and it could save me a lot of time every week if it had those functions.
Feel free to PM me for brainstorming!

Thanks for the feedback.
Will definitely add "Groups" in a future version of the webapp.
I don't store any contacts on the server, its all handled by javascript on the client side (e.g. by your computers browser). If there are other contact sources that work like the Google Contacts API (e.g. allow un-cached display of contacts) I could attempt to add support.
Scheduling is an interesting idea and something to consider in future versions.
One thing to keep in mind is Google limit the amount of messages sent through C2DM, so bulk messages would only work to a certain point.

wonderful app, tons of potential. works perfectly on my spica running cm6.1 rc1. thanks rolf!

Very cool concept. I'll try it out shortly.

First release of the chrome extension is good to go. I haven't tested it on any PC's aside from my own so it might not work, please advise if you try it out:
http://www.cloudtosms.com/?page_id=15

nice man, keep it up

This is an awesome app!!! Runs fast and smooth on my Desire with Teppics pre-rooted stock rom.
Two things:
I would like to able to prevent the notification sound when sending messages. I thought I could turn it off in Settings but either I cannot understand the meaning of "Use notification sound" or the feature doesn't work ;-)
Also an option to prevent the status bar notification icon and notification entry would be nice.
Otherwise awesome!
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Oh! One more thing: The web page (https://cloudtosms.appspot.com/) seems to hang when fetching contacts (I have about 250 contacts)...
And of course Google Apps support would also be nice so that I don't have to manually export/import my contacts between two accounts.
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./kroogar

AWESOME!
This is what I have been waiting for forever!
Chrome extension is awesome, would love a firefox one, too.
Even better would be a standalone app.
Also push ALL notifications from phone back to the cloud.
You would be truly amazing.

Cannot load page
This morning (as of right now) I cannot load the page https://cloudtosms.appspot.com in either Chrome or Firefox. It seems there is a piece of JavaScript that will not load. The page hangs until the browser complains. It's preventing me from logging in :-(
I'm using Chrome 9.0.570.0 and Firefox 3.6.12.
[edit]
Actually managed to get to the log in page by pressing the Sign in link as soon as the page starts loading. After log in the page still hangs trying to fetch my contacts...
[/edit]

I think this might be the pubnub servers being slow. I might cache their Javascript to fix this problem. Can you confirm if the problem is still occuring?
EDIT: this should be fixed now

the feedbak for this app is really good, but I still don't get what is this for. Maybe a short explanation would be a good idea.
Thanks!

cheskote said:
the feedbak for this app is really good, but I still don't get what is this for. Maybe a short explanation would be a good idea.
Thanks!
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Edited OP with description and a diagram

roflharrison said:
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Awesome, now I'm really interested
Thanks!

Problem still occurs
roflharrison said:
Can you confirm if the problem is still occuring?
EDIT: this should be fixed now
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Hmm... now nine hours after my attempt this morning I have conquered the snow and reached home - unfortunately just to realize the problem still occurs :-( In Chrome I'm already signed in and it just sits there fetching contacts. In Firefox I'm not signed in and problem is the same as described earlier.
I have not at any point been able to see my contacts on the web page. They do seem to be loaded just fine in the Chrome extension though...

Maybe you like a another icon? Today i created one... maybe you like it..
Let me know what you think about it

Hrm... Darn Javascript.
If you press ctrl+shift+j in Chrome or Forefox it will show the Javascript error console, does this show you any errors?
Does it work if you browse incognito?
If you want to email me kroogar to get instant responses please feel free (my username at gmail.com)
Sinas: it is a much cleaner icon, I will try it in the build and see how it looks

Installed and working with minimal fuss. Very impressed (currently using sms2pc)
However, despite refreshing the chrome tab only 361 of my 500+ contacts appear. Same happens through the webpage. Happy to help test larger contact lists if it helps
Super job so far.

[Q] Any Good comic reader coming for WP7?

I got the graphic.ly app running on my HTC Trophy right now but it isn't any good. Is slow,doesn't have good content, is expensive and not easy to use.
I also have read about "Clarity Comics Reader" but it is like a ghost, no mentions on their site, no news about, and just some videos on youtube but without any kind of serious info about it release.
I Wish to have (Like on my HTC HD2) an app like "comic reader mobi". It was really great, right now that's my first wish on my wish list for wp7.
I got my own content in CBR, ZIP and RAR containers, and I really want to read them again on my WP7.
Anyone knows about a incominc release of a Great comic reader app?

I am also interested...i really would like to buy an HD7...but it seems like there isn't any good application yet! I'm also reading dozens of pages everyday with comic reader mobi on my htc touch hd...comic reader mobi on hd7 would look just awesome with that big screen...
let's stay in touch.

"comic reader mobi".
I love my hd7 and wp7. The one thing to make it super amazing would be "comic reader mobi". I would kill for that app on my hd7, right now I use my sim back and forth with my hd2. I am only keeping my hd2 for comic reader mobi. I am a radioshack manager and had a guy offer me $300 for my custom hd2. I could not let it go with out leting comic reader mobi go, and thats just a no-go for me.
Lots of love "comic reader mobi" Matsudo

Johny1969 said:
I got the graphic.ly app running on my HTC Trophy right now but it isn't any good. Is slow,doesn't have good content, is expensive and not easy to use.
I also have read about "Clarity Comics Reader" but it is like a ghost, no mentions on their site, no news about, and just some videos on youtube but without any kind of serious info about it release.
I Wish to have (Like on my HTC HD2) an app like "comic reader mobi". It was really great, right now that's my first wish on my wish list for wp7.
I got my own content in CBR, ZIP and RAR containers, and I really want to read them again on my WP7.
Anyone knows about a incominc release of a Great comic reader app?
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Just a quick note to this, unless something has changed, I wouldn't recommend the Graphic.ly reader, or anything from that company, as they've come out and said they won't support their app... Which honestly, I'd send them to hell had I been using it...

I'm not a comic PC reader by any means but, would the kindle app help in this aspect ?

LindyReader works for this. You upload your comics (cbr/cbz format) to your dropbox (free 2 GB) account and LindyReader grabs them from there and opens them. Works great.

Thanks for the info. Just got LindyReader and set everything up. Works like a charm. Never had an excuse to use DropBox. Now that I signed up for it, I'll have to see what other apps I can use it for.

freda, a free ebook reader is working on dropbox support as well.

Another one on the way
I've been trying to keep quiet about this, but there is another one coming (hopefully in the next week).
It's called "The Amazing! Pocket Comics Viewer." I can tell you it works pretty similar to LindyReader with the 1 additional feature that it will support Digital Comics in the form of PDFs (actually it does support PDFs if you could see my beta right now.. I'm actually sending it out to my beta testers today).
My original version did pass the marketplace testing, but I found a bug that needed addressed before submission. Hopefully I will be submitting the new version this weekend and it will be available next week (if all goes well).
DevTheo

DevTheo said:
I've been trying to keep quiet about this, but there is another one coming (hopefully in the next week).
It's called "The Amazing! Pocket Comics Viewer." I can tell you it works pretty similar to LindyReader with the 1 additional feature that it will support Digital Comics in the form of PDFs (actually it does support PDFs if you could see my beta right now.. I'm actually sending it out to my beta testers today).
My original version did pass the marketplace testing, but I found a bug that needed addressed before submission. Hopefully I will be submitting the new version this weekend and it will be available next week (if all goes well).
DevTheo
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Be sure to keep users on here posted.

LindyReader Free WP7 Comic Book Reader Review

the comic readers that i've used best by far are lindy and amazing comic reader... but its just annoying and a bit stupid that your already beside your computer/laptop and you have to upload your comics to dropbox, skydrive or other online storage then download them again to your phone... waste of time and bandwidth...
i'm currently using MiL... it has actually accomplished this feature that you can transfer your comics using your data cable however it lacks .CBR/RAR and .CBZ file formats... so what i do is i have to rename the extensions to ZIP first before i can transfer... still a hassle but hopefully the developer can do an update for it...

It's Comic Time!
Yes,
I've been using Comic Time and it's awesome. It detect panels and render each frame in full screen mode.
Link to market: http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=c150ba2a-b8ec-493f-a754-37b0433e0ed5
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Regards.

[app]Maxthon Mobile Browser - v1.1.4 - thanks XDAers for all the great suggestions!!!

First of all, I'd like to thank all the people in here who have tried out our previous version and given us suggestions. The suggestions/comments are extremely useful and valuable. I believe if our app will NOT achieve any success if we do not pay very very close attention to our users.
These are the people who we particularly want to thank are: sageDieu, BryanChung, djjenso0n, spookamiester, Magnumutz, lexluthor, RobBull69, edisso10018, ultimind, toyface, fivefour, spork27, bedwa, mrpanic7,AR15VET, williec40, slayerns, Omnichron, MobileWon, slayerns, jofun, hazard666, Tuffgong4, aquatarkus, Zb134. You guys are SUPER helpful and passionate about improving our app. (sorry if we miss anyone)
This new version has the following updates:
-added User Agent (thanks to the great suggestion by many of you)
-added support for RTSP streaming media
-added language support for Russia
-added local navigation links for Russia, Brazil (more to come)
-fixed bookmarks syncing bug
-improved and fine-tuned bookmarks syncing performance/speed
-fixed English texts display issues in RSS reader
-fixed the date format in RSS reader
this is our Android Market link: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mx.browser
Our previous version thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949555
Again, we look forward to hearing any suggestions/comments from you guys..

attaching the apk file for convenience..

Will give this a go.

Ahh will try it again =D

Can you make a scroller in <DIV> tag appear. I tried many Browsers on Android but found it never appear, It's like the div is not supported by Google

thx seems good so far cant wait to try the bookmark syncing

@shokuhawan, what do you mean by the <DIV> tag appear? could you please elaborate a little more?

Sweet! Thanks.

maxthon said:
@shokuhawan, what do you mean by the <DIV> tag appear? could you please elaborate a little more?
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YOu can visit this link on android phone
http://home.blogtruyen.com/2009/10/vo-than-bo-mau-tuyet-ep.html
On PC it should be like this, with Scrollbar.
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"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
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But Android Browser, there is no sign of it, you can't scroll it to see the rest

@shokuhawan, got it.... we'll keep that in mind...

maxthon said:
@shokuhawan, got it.... we'll keep that in mind...
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Sorry for my bad English .
Hope there was an option that allow users play only 1 Flash content on heavy Flash Page like firefox add-on: flashblock, it's dissable all flash content and when you want to see it, just click on it.

working great so far. wish u can change the color of that highlight that comes up when u move your finger along the screen.

@moisesdc650, if we get enough requests, we'll be able to change the color...I just want to be honest with you... =) In the meanwhile, would you tell me what color you like? ^_^

can you just remove ALL the chinese affiliated links like 3g.qq.com, baidu etc from the address bar?
it clutters and looks very unprofessional.
btw, why would the browser need to have permission to take pictures?

@mystifiyer, thanks for your feedback, the suggested Chinese links will be removed no later than the next release, which is scheduled to be early March. I am working hard to see if we can remove them early and publish another version before next release.
The picture taking feature is one of our very unique features, which allows you to take a picture and save it as your browser avatar, and sync it to your desktop browser. Some users dont find it useful, while many of them like it. Sorry for the confusion, and I hope you can understand our rationale behind it. =)

I'm falling in love with this browse

@ruhmu, thanks....=)

You guys just earned yourself the spot as my default browser. Glad I could help you. Just curious if you could possibly try to improve startup times? It isn't a big deal and it is hard to measure because of the way that android manages tasks but it seems to be a little slow on the initial startup.
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Bug Report!
I was browsing a news site and had opened a few tabs (I think 5 were open) and one of them was a review on an app, so I opened Market to try it out. I searched it and hit install, and then switched over to Maxthon to finish reading while it downloaded. Instead of having my tabs open like I left it, it showed the black screen as if I had killed it and it was restarting (I guess the system must've killed it) but then it started into my RSS feeds list and is stuck there now. If I hit the back button on my phone or in the app it goes back to the market instead of going back into the browser.
/edit: I opened it with the icon instead of the task switcher and it opened to my tabs like I had them. So it only gets locked in the RSS reader screen if I try to switch tasks.
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Maxthon: You mentioned that Maxthon installs into sdcard if it's 2.2 or higher? But I supposed not.
From the above screenshot, you see that Maxthon is still in my phone memory taking up 3.92MB. A check in my Applications setting also show Maxthon is in phone memory.
If an app is in sdcard, it should look like this...
Notice Miren Browser uses 2.14MB, but that's in my sdcard, so I'm fine.
Maybe you can look into moving Maxthon data into sdcard too?