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[Q] A consumers prayer about good App design

Designers, programmers, managers,
Lets say You have an App in which after you have completed a demographic search you are to pick at least 3 Cities that begin with the letters "Mel" from anywhere in the world. The search report display output contains 1,000 cities in no particular order.
Question: How long would it take flipping from page to page on your phone or tablet to locate those 3 Cities that match your criteria?
If you could take the time loss multiplied by the number of similar apps multiplied by minutes wasted multiplied by total number of people using apps like these then you're going to be talking about major league waste of time and effort.
Question: Allow those same cities to be sorted in Ascending order. How long will it take now? You get the picture.
Such an extreme example is to illustrate a somewhat bothersome trend in recent application design. That after a team or individual has gone through all of the time and trouble of creating their masterpiece of an application that they abandon the final phase which involves presentation of their output/display data from in an unruly, unsorted mess thereby doing their clients, customers, fans and themselves a major disservice.
The productivity hit from wasted time can be major.
Designers, programmers, managers please remember that computers are meant to bring order and harmony into our lives not disarray and hardship. Adding suitable sorting controls and filters can help do that in a major way and lends itself under the category of best practices.
The people who use your apps on a day to day basis will be ever grateful for your thoughtfulness.
Your comment appreciated.
T.

Interesting observation/comment.......... a bit convoluted ........
In simpler terms, make an app, make sure you understand how the end user needs it to be laid out vs how you the designer thinks it should be laid out. Remember the end user Always needs to rule this argument if success is the goal

oka1 said:
Interesting observation/comment.......... a bit convoluted ........
In simpler terms, make an app, make sure you understand how the end user needs it to be laid out vs how you the designer thinks it should be laid out. Remember the end user Always needs to rule this argument if success is the goal
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That's just good app design on any platform... know your user; understand how the user interacts and what the user needs.

Sorry for all of the convolution. I just seized on the pet peeve of the moment and went with it. Sometimes I forget that the very act of software development can be a black art all in itself and the wizards who perform all of the designs are but mere mortals

How to become a good android developer?

Developing a good android application is not an easy task (neither impossible ) especially if you have small or no team. It requires many skills and talents, such as coding, designing sense, music sense, marketing skills and list goes on. You have to keep an eye on everywhere since lack of any aspect can result in poor response form users (which is the last thing an android developer want).
Recently I have developed an android game (Fruiteria) in my spare time and launched it recently on Google play store (see link at the end of this post). It took me about 74 days to build it from scratch. It was a challenging task but I learned a lot from my experience. I would like to share my experience with you today!
Let's discuss what are the things one should never avoid while developing application :
1. Concept and implementation of application
As I said above, there are many aspects to application development. But no matter what you do, You will not be successful by selling poor quality application. So, first thing everyone should think about is a good concept. Your concept can depend on your goals such as business advertising, social work, marketing or simply making money! Also, having a good concept on paper is one thing but it's implementation need patience and constant efforts. If you have a nice concept and willingness to put efforts into it, then consider you are already at the half way!
2. Grow your concept with time
Second point I would like to mention is try not to be stubborn!! If you think that you have the best concept in the world, but the world thinks the other way, then you are in big trouble. After all you are building the application for people. Take suggestions from users and your friends to change and grow application concept. Believe me, it works like magic!
3. Research
Before building your application, try to do some research on what is the market for your application, who are the competitors in market and why they are successful (or unsuccessful), who are your target audience and what do they exactly want. Working on such things will give you a better idea on what needs to be done exactly.
4. Marketing
This one is tricky! If you are an individual, or a small company with almost no capital, then it is hard to put much money in marketing. Especially when there are already giant companies present as your competitors. But that is not the end! Think about creative ways to make your application popular. For example Give it to your friends to use, and tell them to spread it. If you are in college, then sponsor a small event in exchange of application publicity which will not require much money. Make discount coupons and distribute them. In essence, do every little bit of thing that you can. You might not see the effect on first sight, but over time it will accumulate on large scale.
5. Keep in touch
Last thing I want to share is don't leave your application after launching! Keep updating it regularly by adding exciting new features and fixing bugs if any. Respond to user comments and reviews. It gives personal touch and they will start thinking that you care about them. It will definitely increase the user retention and hence the growth of your application..!
I personally have been implementing these principles in my application since the idea came to my mind. Finally I succeeded in development of a good android game (or at least I think so!). But as I said earlier, my success depends on how you respond to it! I am sharing the link for game in case if you are interested in checking out my game. Please let me know how you find it by reviewing it on Google play store!
All the best for your android endeavours. My best wishes are with you!!
Fruiteria link : (I am unable to post outside link on this thread) Please go to google play store and type 'Fruiteria'

IntelliAV - Machine Learning AV for Android

I stumbled on IntelliAV while browsing the net. It has a very interesting feature - using machine learning to identify malware.
Here's the research paper on it --> https://www.researchgate.net/public...g_Intelligent_Anti-Malware_on_Android_Devices
And it's website and download page --> http://www.intelliav.com
What do you think? I wonder how does it stack up against other well known anti-malware?

I wish I had time to go through the paper. My estimation would be that it stands quite poorly. Mostly because it is brand new, still in development, and not sure what machine learning algorithms its trying to use and how much processing power their servers have. Honestly, I am very skeptical towards anything that uses "machine learning" as the main point of advertising. If it were good enough, most major anti-virus vendors would have already used it. We are still ways off efficiency and functionality compared to heuristics and signature detecting.

Josh Ross said:
I wish I had time to go through the paper. My estimation would be that it stands quite poorly. Mostly because it is brand new, still in development, and not sure what machine learning algorithms its trying to use and how much processing power their servers have. Honestly, I am very skeptical towards anything that uses "machine learning" as the main point of advertising. If it were good enough, most major anti-virus vendors would have already used it. We are still ways off efficiency and functionality compared to heuristics and signature detecting.
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Thank you for your comments about our tool.
I believe it is better to read the paper and evaluate the app before commenting negatively about it without knowing the details. The detail of the system is available in the paper like classification algorithm, types of features, tuning the model, etc.. Just applying machine learning blindly is not a novelty, but employing it wisely will help to have an influential detection system. This is exactly what we wanted to show in this app to motivate other major AVs to implement. Another point is that we do not perform detection in the cloud. Indeed, we don't have money to buy a server. The classification is performed on the device. This is another point that we wanted to show.
As an overall comment, this app is free and without Ads and we do not earn millions of dollars from it. So I think if we want to criticize sth., we should consider positive points of a new approach as well rather than destroying it while we do not have any information about it.
Thank you very much!

ManSoSec said:
Thank you for your comments about our tool.
I believe it is better to read the paper and evaluate the app before commenting negatively about it without knowing the details. The detail of the system is available in the paper like classification algorithm, types of features, tuning the model, etc.. Just applying machine learning blindly is not a novelty, but employing it wisely will help to have an influential detection system. This is exactly what we wanted to show in this app to motivate other major AVs to implement. Another point is that we do not perform detection in the cloud. Indeed, we don't have money to buy a server. The classification is performed on the device. This is another point that we wanted to show.
As an overall comment, this app is free and without Ads and we do not earn millions of dollars from it. So I think if we want to criticize sth., we should consider positive points of a new approach as well rather than destroying it while we do not have any information about it.
Thank you very much!
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Seems legit honestly, good work, I liked your response here as well, as most malware & AV have used Diagnostic reporting & cloud databasing for so long it's pretty hard not to just consider that a form of machine learning in itself, but again I really like the work!

Oh, I wasn't commenting negatively with a strict opinion against it. I just provided my light inside on the topic without any foul intentions. And this is actually a fault of my own ignorance, I have done a lot more research on this subject, as I was concerned of my error, and it turns out Machine Learning IS extensively used in AV and other fields it's just not as broad and more covert. And I do not deny, that eventually this is going to be a strong point, right now the costs are relatively high for broad global use.

The slides of our talk about IntelliAV at ARES conference is available. I am not able to post the direct link here, but please just search IntelliAV in the slideshare .net website to find it.
Thank you!

ManSoSec said:
The slides of our talk about IntelliAV at ARES conference is available. I am not able to post the direct link here, but please just search IntelliAV in the slideshare .net website to find it.
Thank you!
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Here is link for those interested.
https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/m...ices?qid=3f5dcbd9-d72f-4e07-a6b9-56ab28981674
Looks good so far. I do think you need to add a false positive button also that users can report suspected false positives (or maybe have an advanced users setting that will show this). Possibly also an ignore button if an app is always showing as false positive.
Eg
I'm sure the following app is a false positive
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fjsoft.myphoneexplorer.client

IronRoo said:
Here is link for those interested.
Looks good so far. I do think you need to and a false positive button also that users can report suspected false positives (or maybe have an advanced users setting that will show this). Possibly also an ignore button if an app is always showing as false positive.
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I'm sure the following app is a false positive
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Thank you very much for sharing the link and your comment on false positive. We are working on this issue to make an updated model, as well as putting an ignore button to avoid annoying the users in the case of false positives.
Thank you again!

Looking for a Techie/Geek in Goa

Job Title
Project Coordinator - TI R&D
Location
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About the department
The Technology Infrastructure department is responsible for our entire network and IT Hardware. As a part of this team, you will optimize member experience when using our services and drive a culture of continuous innovation to improve our services and infrastructure. We are scaling rapidly and you will ensure that we have the technology driven means to do so.
About the position
1. Are you a person who is often lost in the world of tech and finds himself luxuriating in it?
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If you answered a yes to even one of the questions, you <3 technology and you are looking in the right direction. So, continue reading.
As a Project Coordinator, we are essentially looking for a person who is a tech-geek and possess strong execution skills. You will own end-to-end technology innovations at 91springboard. It requires the you to be extremely motivated, independent and passionate about their responsibilities. A geek with a lust for gadgets and tech will be right at home in this position.
You will have to speak with various stakeholders (customers, internal business heads, the internet, and competitors) to figure out what improvements to drive, how they will be realized (quality, hardware, software, vendors and price) and oversee the process of a) requirements gathering, b) prototyping the solution, and c) delivering the solution at an optimum price, keeping in mind the firm’s overall budgets. The TI-R&D Team works closely with the Project Setup and TI-Networking team on implementing finalized solutions at all the hubs.
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Non-emergencey contact to personal device security research institutes collaborative thread

This posts here to increase the effect of sending my phones and other devices targetedly hacked files and file contents to the correct places to help forward the progress of patching the in routes and exploits used to conmlrimise my devices. im not mass generically hacked like all content marketing oriented loa pricepoint device users are. im also targetedly hacked, being a poster of evidence of organized crime. how i know this is surveying the various search results of numerous parts of code grep'd through for everything from 'usually' to 'when the' and the like and finding undocumented code); analytics traces reports screenshots etc i need to send to the correct agencies labs and engineers to effetiely take an opportunity one rarely has, not a whole lot more luck needed just to expose what ive found to get help swnding it all to the right researchers.., here to also overstep and des mceibe a social engineerig aspect to this criminal co-perogative that seems to be boiled down to a method or science always changing specific tech understanding apartide line that one would say would be inperceptible if not being lóoked for. These effects are already known, ask any journalist or researcher whos benefitted from the use of tor. do u ever get o ly search results fro. 2013 2014? ueah thats not right its 2022 and those are whats been whiddled down as passable as results to you that will derail your presumptive expectation to find usefull relevant info. like free black market oligarchay totalitarianiasm censorship of good info by masses of evil black hearted tyranical rulers. What is or was being done was not unlike untargeted hacking, wasnt unlike stalking, wasnt unlike gaslighting, was engineered by heinous psychologists under a larger tech side of a harasment as a service outfit utilizing specific individually itemized psychological attacks managed and administered from a heirerarchal chain of command involong hassers unbeknownst (effectively anyone), and salaried operative sabetuer assailant rights violators harassers, being orchestrated by a few headpieces workong to effect intimidation, harm, debilitation, eventual ruin of targets. im a lucky one to have escaped their heretounforsceen murderous grasp... technical implementation and phychological advice, and the client criminal operations, all likley make io the types involved.. and some .MOs? . A score is kept of each targets perceptable work toward outing the criminal client(most dont continually announce display post what they know under threat to their familys, i fly in the face of these intimidations and threats as ofton as possible, or as necessary. they especoally anger me and i ofton
make sure to give a speech about it if needed bwcause id say thaTs the proverbial time and place for that
the stalker or stalkers will note it all and interfere suggesting or positing jackassedly outloud (the two harasser grouping lends to this) which is being pumped as audio to the tatget , only filtered down to narrow effective frequency bands of audible sound. a effort to disturb distract frustrate is debilitating especially at length. i have audio recorsdngs of this subliminal harassment,¹¹¹i will post and have posted online. Undocmentble and likely undocumented (ie unprovable) aspects of reality, of which there are many, are derived contrieved etc by the stalkers one after the next and projected subliminally to the target as heassments, threats, psychosis induction, all to kéep reports from going to police, knowlede of anythining relevant or related from being learned basically preventing anything the target might do in the course of a day,, randomly or specifically or especially if ostensibly they were heading to the police station printing store etc. a target has to endure : Internet is filtered
friends are threatened and harssed the programs on anyones phone in the vicinity re beiing montoped to know if recording or video apps start running. Im not the only person who knows bout what i videod and posted, many involved are plausibly victims, many benefiting, profiting, buying àre monstors heartless soulless murderous enemys to mankind. How i got targeted? i was attacked by two guards at a high rise, recorded it incidentally, posted it online, in the bckground is evidence of the activities of aug fifteenth sixteenth twentyeighteen, some largescale illegal sex crime party for high rolling invertebrate clients, and not just in the background, but my interactions with the guards upclose are all evidence and the 15 mins of video as i exited the vicinity all contain evidence. They usually keep anything like video taken on a cell phone contained and from ever reaching the net, but i was recording to disk and feeling extra like it was a miracle i survived the attack gonna take the disk out for safe keeping minded also, gonna post immediately minded after evading immedite stalker harassers traveled on foot strategizing for 12 hours, went forward in visiting an art school campus, visiting the library and uploading over a simple Vpn to youtube (browser built in one if i remember correctly). My civil rights activism prior to this gave me some ability to evade gang stalker harassments, and all in all i had been being targeted digitally and had some upload strategy to use because of the same, the civil rights and land use activism i was doing videoing and posting. So the stops were pulled and full scale cmpaigns were deployed to psychologically or otherwise send me into ruin in a way that would be indetectible in any way as being foul play or at least un reportably or documentably, because tens if not hindreds had to have noticed the oddities of patterns and diversions from the norms of everything everywhere variousley i frequented. stalkers effirts were all made with intention to have effect but also to effectively obscure what was being done, why, what crime there was to reported if any, and any routes or reasons provable that i might have to seek relief from foundations for the crimes against me, so as to be able to persist and continually attack playing any and all angles of various of psychological and physiological attacks through incetivatized or otherwise achieved malfunction or alternate to normal operation of things ... this is where conputers come in, my devices were and still are if im being realistic used for and integral in facilitating this, but not without a lot of code paper trail i was expected not ever to be able to ascertain knowledge of or obtain. Largescale distributed obscured attack on individual targets isnt always viable, but ofton is it would seem... In the curse of weathering this attack i achieved slowely progress in my life , trancendance above and beyond the thercheous pitfalls and all that laid out figuritvely to ensnare me, and have atained for myself many if not a few more of my life goals as well. I have explained and exposed the immediate harassments and stalking to those being subjected to its immediate and side effects, and a page long list of other focused intentional sometimes subtle corrective or stimulating vitalization of some sort to the social and interpersonal climate within which i live life ive been, seeing as how it was being accurely poluted. it wasnt always easy or obvious but certainly something of the needed necessary and natural reaction type of measure i believe either way i know i have succeeded in the various ways i went about keeping my life from falling apart. Somewhere in these outcomes, milemarkers, graduations and self afirmations i categorically became, non susceptible to a certain category of sheer wall affront to a person who is targeted. socially, technically, socially correctovely, verbally, orationally, (speech giving?), attritionally effectively strategically, in one too many ways they cant effect their zero click exploit on one Kyle Varela, as it were, and now im here, right pretty much where id be, only here in my hand is alot of the info needed to disenfranchise those who this computer based evasion of my privacy and much worse was undertaken by, to help potentionally a lot of people, to help the world operate one incriment less innificiently... But i have to delve into realms unknown to turn in the files and doing so will continue to make it self aparent in its non accomplishability approached alone by just me. ...Leading to my posts reason.
Stated: source help, advice, and leads into and about the most suspicious of the many entrys and code snippets within the uploaded files all taken from systems i was using, and i believe is likley to contain evidence provingthY the disfunctionalityt of my devices software and hardware was intentional identifiable and ultimately hopefully reportable and patchable.
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