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[GUIDE]How To Search Only Android Play Store Titles And Cut Out The Noise

I do so much searching in the Play Store on a daily basis that every little trick that helps surface relevant results faster and filter out things I don't want is worth its weight in gold. Sometimes, you're searching for XYZ, which you know should be in the title, but instead get a ton of results back with XYZ in the description. This is especially frustrating when a new app or game gets released, and Google hasn't figured out it's popular yet. In that case, it's more than likely that searching for the name of the app will show it somewhere near the last results page.
As it turns out, the Play Store supports the intitle: query operator, which is part of my regular Google-fu search arsenal. I don't think it used to work before, so I haven't tried it for a while, until today. It now works beautifully.
If you have multiple search terms and you know the right order, you should surround them with quotes, like so:
intitle:"foo bar"
If you know a few keywords but not necessarily the order, just include several intitle operators or use the allintitle operator, like so:
intitle:foo intitle:bar
or
allintitle:foo bar
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Let's have a look.
intitle:"hulu":
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
And now without intitle. hulu:
Most of the time, the regular search without intitle will bring the results you're looking for at the top, so I don't expect everyone to suddenly start searching using intitle left and right. However, remember this tip when the time is right. I promise you, it'll come.. :good:
Credits to @Archon810 for his post from Android Police.:good:
Sorry for not mentioning the credits earlier, i was just sharing info here. Meant no offence.

Is there a way to exclude a particular word, i.e. the word "GO" while you search for "themes"

rederik75 said:
Is there a way to exclude a particular word, i.e. the word "GO" while you search for "themes"
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+1, that would help a lot... Maybe also to exclude "Dolphin"

rederik75 said:
Is there a way to exclude a particular word, i.e. the word "GO" while you search for "themes"
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agirardello said:
+1, that would help a lot... Maybe also to exclude "Dolphin"
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Not pretty much sure how to exclude a word from the search..
But u can try n be more specific.. use the exact word.. like the theme and for which app.. like allintitle:"handcent theme"..
may be this would help filtering out useless search result..:good:

rederik75 said:
Is there a way to exclude a particular word, i.e. the word "GO" while you search for "themes"
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Minus word works just like it does on Google search. For example if I type in "launcher" I get Go Launcher and addon programs/themes along with some other launchers. If I type in "launcher -go" I get apex launcher, etc, nothing with go launcher in sight.

also as it is in google if you put ~ you will get synonyms (~alert will return you alert, alarms, etc)

So you decided to just rip off my post (http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/1...roid-play-store-titles-and-cut-out-the-noise/), OP? How nice of you.

[APP][2.2+][Free] Starfield Live Wallpaper

Hi,
for the last couple of months I've been spending my weekends developing a retro-style starfield-themed wallpaper. Now it's finished and I'd appreciate if you could take a few minutes to check it out. It is free, does not contain ads of any kind and it does not require any permissions.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.parango.starfield
Google Play:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

Here you go
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...51bGwsMSwyLDEsImRlLnBhcmFuZ28uc3RhcmZpZWxkIl0.

Much obliged

No probs.
BTW, this awesome. Do you plan to do a simple starfield, though, instead of cubes?

Kryten2k35 said:
No probs.
BTW, this awesome. Do you plan to do a simple starfield, though, instead of cubes?
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No, I tried that during development and it wasn't very spectacular. But if the interest is big enough (decent amount of dowloads) I would like to add other 3D shapes like stars, spheres, pyramids etc, maybe an option to load your own custom 3D objects.

space_cadet said:
No, I tried that during development and it wasn't very spectacular. But if the interest is big enough (decent amount of dowloads) I would like to add other 3D shapes like stars, spheres, pyramids etc, maybe an option to load your own custom 3D objects.
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Try to do something based on the Flying Windows screensaver or something similar, it will look cool too!

space_cadet said:
No, I tried that during development and it wasn't very spectacular. But if the interest is big enough (decent amount of dowloads) I would like to add other 3D shapes like stars, spheres, pyramids etc, maybe an option to load your own custom 3D objects.
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I'd definitely like the old school star field from win95
Do you mind if I include this in my ROM? Credits given etc etc
Sent from my Nexus 10 using xda premium

I really like the retro look! I like to theme my phone sometimes to different things.. changing wallpapers and fonts and such. This is a great one for an old school but futuristic look!

Kryten2k35 said:
I'd definitely like the old school star field from win95
Do you mind if I include this in my ROM? Credits given etc etc
Sent from my Nexus 10 using xda premium
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Not at all, go ahead.

Matsilagi said:
Try to do something based on the Flying Windows screensaver or something similar, it will look cool too!
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Matsilagi said:
I'd definitely like the old school star field from win95
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You guys sure like your Windows 95 Well, if the app is downloaded by a reasonable amount of people and I know I am not doing the work in vain, I will do a poll or so to let the communitiy decide what the next feature should be.

Sorry to bump this again, but I'm noticing that quite a few spanish-speaking people are downloading the application. I'd be really happy if a native spanish-speaker could take the time to translate the preferences menu. The whole text is about one screen page. I attached the strings.xml file below, so you can have a look. I will mention you by name or by alias in the google app store, if you like.
P.S.: You don't have to translate words like "Starfield Live Wallpaper", of course
Edit: other languages are welcome too!

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[APP][Testing] Area Calc

Hello guys!
I'm pretty new to this forum, and I'm also new to developing apps. I'm only 13. I've been learning Java, and I've been learning Android development.
I've been messing around with layouts and supporting multiple screen sizes as I have no clue how to support different screen densities and sizes but I'm learning how, currently I have to create all the layouts for all screen sizes.
It is a complete app, even though it's pretty useless to some but helpful to others, I've developed and published this simple app to get an understanding on the concepts and ideas of programming in Android.
This app just calculates the area of a shape, soon I'll probably be adding calculating the volume, etc. But developing this app has helped me learn how to gather user input, deal with it and then output the modified information.
I'm kindly asking you to download my app and check it out, I would've put this in the beta testing area but I'm really just asking you guys to check if the app works fine on a range of devices. I currently don't own a variety of different Android devices so I can't test the app out, and the emulator isn't always reliable, nor is relative layout.
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So if you guys could please test the app out and give some feedback (possibly on usage, functionality and layout/formatting) that would be great!
http://bit.ly/1e6tSyP
or
click here!
Thank you everyone! I know this app probably won't even help you, but if you guys could please give some feedback I'd appreciate it a lot!
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

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You're doing good - I like the look and it works perfectly on my HTC One (1080x1920). Both the layout and functionality are great.
Keep it up - you might have a development career ahead of you

Thanks.
Archer said:
You're doing good - I like the look and it works perfectly on my HTC One (1080x1920). Both the layout and functionality are great.
Keep it up - you might have a development career ahead of you
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Wow, thank you so much. It means a lot to me, the app is probably useless for you, but I guess it's aimed at a younger target audience.
There are a few additions I need to make to improve the answers given when you try to calculate the area (scientific notations -> double -> result).
It's a big deal to me, especially because of your high status. You've made my day, .
Enjoy the app if it's any use to you.
Thanks a lot .

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I like it. The color scheme could be better, but it's a great app. Thanks for keeping it educational.
Sent from my Huawei-U8665 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

Jessical said:
I like it. The color scheme could be better, but it's a great app. Thanks for keeping it educational.
Sent from my Huawei-U8665 using Tapatalk 4 Beta
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Thanks
I thought it was pretty attractive, a variety of bright colours look awesome. I mean it's going to be used for children.
Of course you won't use the app, but I'm still learning how to develop apps so thanks for downloading.

Hi! Nice app you've got here. It looks pretty nice on my Sony Acro S. The main screen looks a little different, so I've attached a screenshot. It's not messed up, just a little different.
Great start!

katerinette said:
Hi! Nica app you've got here. It looks pretty nice on my Sony Acro S. The main screen looks a little different, so I've attached a screenshot. It's not messed up, just a little different.
View attachment 2166448
Great start!
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Hiya
Thanks a lot for testing it and giving feedback, someone else noticed this and I'll be fixing, it's not too messed up.
I'm guessing the layout also looks a little weird inside each activity.

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techhelpfox appearing in many searches

this doesnt exactly have to do with mobile devices , but im sick of techhelpspot results appearing in most of my google searches that would otherwyse send XDA results, the only thing that site does is steal the info here in the forums, and then giving you a link to xda (and other tech sites)
i cant see a way to block it , so i wanted to make sure its not something in my pc hijacked or anything else.
example using google.com (us) example search: galaxy s3 clock aokp
here is an example image with results:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
another one: atrix hd swype apk
any idea why is this happening or if its only me?
i hate to go there just to click on a link that will bring me here, i think that site is new, xda results used to come on top before.
*MODS if not correct forum section please move or delete. thank you

Happens to me too.. hate it. It's just spam search engine designed to steal ad revenue :/

TechHelpFox said:
We manually curate thousands of questions, answers, how-to tutorials, manuals, and more. We put all the relevant content in one convenient place in order to give you all of the resources you need to solve any technology problem you encounter. No more wading through dozens of sites to get the answers you need!
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It's basically a search engine but designed for finding similar questions. Kind of useful, but also a bit annoying.

When you do a Google search, just include
site:forum.xda-developers.com
At the start and it will only search within the XDA forums.

SimonTS said:
When you do a Google search, just include
site:forum.xda-developers.com
At the start and it will only search within the XDA forums.
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"just" sounds like an understatement lol thats a lot to type specially from a phone,
maybe there is a way to do the opposite? like site not like: techblahblah ?
thank you .

This has become a major annoyance for me too. Please report it at https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreportform?hl=en everyone.

You can type "-techhelpfox" but that website is really breaking my balls.

YellowNote said:
You can type "-techhelpfox" but that website is really breaking my balls.
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yeah, its really annoying, i hope google sends them to the bottom of the results

Reported
KurianOfBorg said:
This has become a major annoyance for me too. Please report it at https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreportform?hl=en everyone.
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XDA wasn't even on the first page, yet all the information on techstupid was from XDA...
After submission, Google suggested this add-on https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-webspam-report-by/efinmbicabejjhjafeidhfbojhnfiepj , which I have to say I will use relentlessly, and I recommend you do the same. It allows you to navigate to the webspam site, then click a button and have the form auto-filled for you.
Maybe even better though, is this add-on, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist-by-goo/nolijncfnkgaikbjbdaogikpmpbdcdef which allows you to click "Block xxxxx.com" from the search results. I think I'll report a few hundred techstupid pages and then click the blocker.
Hope this helps someone else!

Reported to Google! Hate this site so much, waste my time on every search. Hope this stupid techhelpfox.com site to die soon.

[APP][2.2+] Pickup. What to say to a girl

Going out with a girl, but don't know what to say to her other than "What's up?"
Google Play -> Pickup. What to say to a girl
This app was developed to help you find fun topics to discuss with women! It is also a collection of interesting facts about many things.
The interface is easy to understand, which helps learn new stuff easily. "Pickup master: what to say to a girl" is useful not only for beginners and experienced seducers, but also to those, wishing to expand their horizons and find out more about the world.
The app contains over 100 topics for different places and contexts. All of them were prepared by practicing pickup coaches.
Program features automatic updates on TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS at 00.00.
P.S. To avoid conflicts, delete the old version of the app before installing new one
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

So how do i use it in practice? Say to her: "You know, average cypress tree has blablabla million leaves?" I need some explanation.

RnD Mobile said:
Going out with a girl, but don't know what to say to her other than "What's up?"
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Are u serious??? Lol
Sent from my C6902

Does it work?

power-wafel said:
Does it work?
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Why dont u give it a try mate..

power-wafel said:
Does it work?
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Yes, it's really work ))

Happy New Year !!!

Illabean said:
So how do i use it in practice? Say to her: "You know, average cypress tree has blablabla million leaves?" I need some explanation.
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You should use the info in the app during conversation. For example, when talking about trees you can say that "average cypress tree has blablabla million leaves" as a way to make the talk more interesting and show off your knowledge Have fun using it!

Umm... I have been rendered speechless for the first time in my life mates... use of this app has left me filled with queer type of knowledge which I am happy to donate to anyone even if its remotely possible. previously i used to think that girls were just normal human beings who liked normal guys with normal pickup lines like 'what's up' etc, but the use of this app has left me in severe doubt about the female side of humanity. moreover, i have not found a single girl to try any such lines on. my regular school friends(girls) would ridicule me if they even got a gist of the knowledge my mind has now been imparted with.

alicarbovader said:
Umm... I have been rendered speechless for the first time in my life mates... use of this app has left me filled with queer type of knowledge which I am happy to donate to anyone even if its remotely possible. previously i used to think that girls were just normal human beings who liked normal guys with normal pickup lines like 'what's up' etc, but the use of this app has left me in severe doubt about the female side of humanity. moreover, i have not found a single girl to try any such lines on. my regular school friends(girls) would ridicule me if they even got a gist of the knowledge my mind has now been imparted with.
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no words here either. a "WAT" could be appropriate

LeJolly said:
no words here either. a "WAT" could be appropriate
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here

Here's another title for the app: Drop Off - How To Get Rid Of People.
Don't sit and read on your phone when you're out with a girl; unless you want to get rid of her. And if you need a god damn encyclopedia to talk to a human being, you're probably not compatible either way.