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AppFinder on Windows Phone 7

Check out my free app in the Marketplace: AppFinder
AppFinder is the fastest way to find apps by name bar none.
Start typing the name of an app or publisher, and the search results are shown instantly.
tap one of the results to go to the marketplace page for the app.
Check it out and let me know what you think

Been using it last couple days, its a big help! Thanks!!!

I'll check it out thanks!

Thank you - it's very fast like the marketplace search should be. Good for quick looking apps if you know the name.
Are there any improvements coming? Like the Top Downloads or anything else?

appfinder feedback
thanks for the feedback - I'm on it

Great app, thanks!
BTW I can't find HTC Hub...

I think you need an HTC device for that sorry buddy

zukа said:
I think you need an HTC device for that sorry buddy
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Yeah but some guys were able to find it...

AppFinder
Ok, v1.1 has been submitted to the app marketplace and is ready for testing - should show up in the marketplace as an update within a few days

ebadger said:
Ok, v1.1 has been submitted to the app marketplace and is ready for testing - should show up in the marketplace as an update within a few days
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does this fix the crash where it closed and wouldn't reopen for me (even after soft reset)?
I had to uninstall, reinstall to get it working again.

I don't think so.
Although I think I know the cause. I will have to roll the fix into another update.
I think there is a small window where the downloaded data file can be corrupted if the writing to flash is interrupted. It will be simple to fix. For now, if you hit it, uninstall reinstall is the only option.

nice find. but did you know while in maketplace you can use the search button to find apps as well?

jimecm said:
nice find. but did you know while in maketplace you can use the search button to find apps as well?
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Of course I do
AppFinder is all about making apps discoverable in the fastest way possible.
I think if you're not in the top 20 apps in the marketplace under any one of the categories, then as a developer you're invisible. AppFinder seeks to make it easier to find apps via search, and with the update, via browsing as well.
Update is in the hopper, still waiting for testing to complete...

jimecm said:
nice find. but did you know while in maketplace you can use the search button to find apps as well?
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the annoying thing is that it searches music and video as well. i can't just search for apps alone

locales
Ok, so I just figured out I've only been indexing the en-US locale
I've updated the data to include
{ "en-US", "en-GB", "en-IE", "en-CA", "en-IN", "en-AU", "en-HK", "en-SG", "de-DE", "fr-FR", "fr-BE", "de-AT", "de-CH", "it-IT", "en-NZ", "es-ES", "es-MX" };
this change is effective immediately as it is a data update. Still waiting for the update to make it through the approval process. It seems that the holiday has slowed things down a bit

The update finally arrived
Nice new features and still very fast. But unfortunately, in my case, it wont load after the second app start (even at first start if I switch the section). I always have to deinstall/reinstall again once the app was started.
Maybe you can take a look? Feels like a caching problem or something like that. I'm using a Samsung Omnia 7 in germany - if that helps
Feature wishlist:
1. add a settings screen to edit:
a.) the number of list entries on one page (10, 20, 50) to keep the app fast enough
b.) the section on loading (and maybe you also can set this to no section just for fast look-up app search - I used the app for this before the update)
2. Maybe you can use the OS-typical "left-to-right-scrolling-loading-dots" instead of the big ones?
3. New logo if there is enough time

PrivateJoker said:
The update finally arrived
Nice new features and still very fast. But unfortunately, in my case, it wont load after the second app start (even at first start if I switch the section). I always have to deinstall/reinstall again once the app was started.
Maybe you can take a look? Feels like a caching problem or something like that. I'm using a Samsung Omnia 7 in germany - if that helps
Feature wishlist:
1. add a settings screen to edit:
a.) the number of list entries on one page (10, 20, 50) to keep the app fast enough
b.) the section on loading (and maybe you also can set this to no section just for fast look-up app search - I used the app for this before the update)
2. Maybe you can use the OS-typical "left-to-right-scrolling-loading-dots" instead of the big ones?
3. New logo if there is enough time
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Private Joker,
Thanks for the feedback.
First - there was a bug that only impacted the German locale! I was trying to save bandwidth by truncating unnecessary leading zeros in the price and this caused an exception when the locale was set to German. I've updated the data to include the leading zeros and this fixes the problem for Germans. You will have to uninstall and reinstall though to get it to work. I am very sorry for the inconvenience, and I really appreciate you taking the time to give me your feedback even though the app was not working for you at all. I hope you will try again given that the data has been fixed.
Regarding your feedback -
I think you are right on the mark for #2 and #3
I don't understand 2b.
regarding 1a.
perf should not be impacted by the number of items that are shown -
Appfinder actually transfers the marketplace data to the device and indexes it locally. I do this because the network is really, really slow. Aside from having artists and albums mixed up with apps in the marketplace search results, I also was tired of waiting for results to load. Scrolling through the apps means waiting.
The delay at the beginning is caused by reading the marketplace data from flash and indexing it in RAM. Occasionally the loading dots will appear after launching (like the first time that you use it) because AppFinder has transfered a new data file and needs to parse it again. Instead of delaying every 10 or so apps in the list, there is one delay at the beginning (which is relatively small). Right now parsing the file takes about 4 seconds.
Perf could be greatly improve if I had access to memory mapped file APIs. Further compressing the data would help as well - The really slowest part is really reading from the flash. I can improve perf when a network update occurs by reading from the flash in the background before blocking - this would drop the update delay from ~4 seconds to ~1 second.
I could also not query as you're typing -- Waiting until the enter button has been pressed would reduce CPU load and any chunkiness - pressing search would just render the apps instantly.
Anyway, really appreciate your positive attitude and willingness to give feedback in light of what must be a frustrating experience. Please give it another try.
Thanks,
Eric

App for importing Bookmarks, for those who like the Stock Browser!

Hi Guys
I've tried so many different browsers, in the hope i would find one as good as the stock samsung offering, only with the option of importing/syncing bookmarks, but every one seems to have a fatal flaw that means i always come back to Stock. I've also just tried the new Firefox Beta, but found the font really ugly, and so another challenger falls by the wayside.
Well it matters not anymore, for a splendid chap by the name of cb56 has developed a superb little app that lets you import .htm files. It works in the stock browser and even supports folders! I've just tested it and can confirm it works a treat. Here's a link to his thread here on xda:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1387858
I'm using the free version, but in order for it to work you need to change the permissions for /data/data/com.android.browser/databases/browser.db by checking all the 'Other' boxes.
Enjoy!
Just thought i'd post this in the hope it helps out others.

[Q] Animated GIFs for the GT-s5360?

Hello, fellow Samsung Galaxy Y owners.
I've been doing a bit of research, and a lot of attempted tweaks, but so far have had no luck on my own.
In short, I want animated GIFs to play on my phone.
I've tried various ROMs, and none of them seem to have it, and nobody ever seems to bring it up as a feature request.
My googling has found, on GitHub, /CyanogenMod/android_external_webkit/commit/dcc592df10bcce76be37cf9fa49292e8b132f7d2
Suggesting that it -is- possible, if the rom has this option compiled into WebCore/platform/graphics/android/ImageSourceAndroid.cpp and Android.mk -- however, I have no experience with compiling this, otherwise I'd attempt this on my own. I also have no idea which files I'd need to replace.
How do i get GIF animations working? Do I replace a core APK? Do i need a new kernel? Do I need to figure out how to compile my own ROM to get this to work?
Thanks in advance.

There's an app in the market. Just search it.
Sent from my PG86100 using xda premium

Yes, i've found an app to play gifs, but I have to download the gifs first.
For browsing things like gifdumps, or browsing reddit posts in baconreader, that is klutzy and HIGHLY annoying, and I'd much rather that the web based apps be able to natively animate the gifs.
Or, is there an app that will enable the native gif animation?
If so, what search terms should I be using, as my crawling thru the play market have turned up nothing over the past 3 months or so.

what do u want with gif's? for wallpapers? we have live wallpapers

Buddy use uc browser gif images are supported in it
Check this out
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=81

alkesh95 said:
Buddy use uc browser gif images are supported in it
Check this out
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=81
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I think you missed some of the link there, as it's invalid.
Allow me to clarify.
On other android devices, running Gingerbread, GIF animations run in the apps, by the native web rendering code. EG: BaconReader. Dolphin Browser. The standard browser. Apparently, this gets -disabled- on "Lower End" devices automagically during compilation
What I am asking for, has anyone tried, at all, to change those limits, so that -all applications- are able to display animated GIFs, WITHOUT having to resort to using another app to view them.
Also, to the person who suggested UC Browser, please do a little research to make sure that what you are suggesting is supported by the device. Google Play market tells me that it is incompatible with my device. And, I'm willing to wager that it does NOT support GIFs on my device, as gif animation is -disabled-, unless it uses it's own native rendering code instead of piggybacking off of the code supplied by Android.

clarjon1 said:
I think you missed some of the link there, as it's invalid.
Allow me to clarify.
On other android devices, running Gingerbread, GIF animations run in the apps, by the native web rendering code. EG: BaconReader. Dolphin Browser. The standard browser. Apparently, this gets -disabled- on "Lower End" devices automagically during compilation
What I am asking for, has anyone tried, at all, to change those limits, so that -all applications- are able to display animated GIFs, WITHOUT having to resort to using another app to view them.
Also, to the person who suggested UC Browser, please do a little research to make sure that what you are suggesting is supported by the device. Google Play market tells me that it is incompatible with my device. And, I'm willing to wager that it does NOT support GIFs on my device, as gif animation is -disabled-, unless it uses it's own native rendering code instead of piggybacking off of the code supplied by Android.
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On play store it will show incompatible but visit wap.ucweb.com u'll get the latest version of uc
And yes it uses its own rendering codes
Be happy

XDA forums almost unusable with NoScript

Hi - My internet browser is Firefox, and I have been using NoScript for years.
There is only one website that causes me constant problems when browsing: XDA Developers.
I use NoScript constantly with a lot of stuff disabled by default: Everything Facebook is always disabled, along with doubleclick and a bunch of other tracking websites.
With NoScript on, the XDA screen is constantly jumping around, with various websites constantly trying to refresh about twice a second. It is so jumpy with embedded websites continuously refreshing, that I can't even control NoScript well enough to enable whatever disabled website(s) are causing the problem.
I wouldn't be frustrated if this happened to me all the time, but XDA is the only website I see this problem on. I would expect a high-tech developer website like XDA to have less problems instead of more problems.
Sigh. I wish somebody at XDA could fix this.
¿GJ?

NoScript has a whitelist feature. If you don't want to use it, you can't expect it to be "fixed" (actually, modified to fit your needs would be a better choice of words) anytime soon, as the forums (and many other forums, in general) rely rather heavily on scripts.
I personally have XDA added to my whitelist.
As for the refreshes, did you make sure it's not another add-on that's conflicting? Start FF in safe mode and check if the issue persists.

Don't know if this helps, but I just tested XDA with NoScript without any issues.
That being said, a lot of features rely on JavaScript, so no guarantee what would happen if you only turned on some of them.

Huh.. I use NS on FF, and have seen no issues. To be sure it is NS, have you told it to temporarily allow all, and see if that fixes it? It could certainly be another issue..

What he could be speaking of is the portal constant refreshing (not on the forum), which also occurs on my differents computers with NS (with xda on whitelist).
For me, everytime I scroll on the portal main page, it refresh itself.

It's weird - Something changed between yesterday and today. Yesterday, this page wouldn't sit still until I was able to do enough "Temporarily allow all this page" button presses (about 5 or 6) to get the page finally stabilized.
Now, everything was stable when I entered XDA with the same "allow" list I had yesterday.
I'm not a big fan of "White List"ing sites, since so many sites have Facebook embedded in them (amongst many other tracking sites I don't like). Ever since Facebook violated my privacy and sucked up my personal contact information without my explicit approval, I ... ...
... well, let's just say I won't "Like" Facebook.
I appreciate the feedback from y'all, and I wish I knew what changed.
Thanks!
¿GJ?

bitpushr said:
Don't know if this helps, but I just tested XDA with NoScript without any issues.
That being said, a lot of features rely on JavaScript, so no guarantee what would happen if you only turned on some of them.
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Huh.. I use NS on FF, and have seen no issues. To be sure it is NS, have you told it to temporarily allow all, and see if that fixes it? It could certainly be another issue..
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Some forum features won't work: dropdown menus (e.g. "Go to Page" next to the page numbers, "Quick Links", "Rate thread") search boxes not being cleared automatically when you click them, username/device completion in search boxes or using the new mention feature, share buttons (they won't show how many times X got shared), etc. The WIYIWYG editor obviously doesn't work as well.
The portal's layout is a bit messed up, too.
It's all fixed by adding xda-developers.com to the whitelist. I think you both already have it added (I removed it for testing), which is what you're supposed to do for websites you trust anyway.
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¿GotJazz? said:
It's weird - Something changed between yesterday and today. Yesterday, this page wouldn't sit still until I was able to do enough "Temporarily allow all this page" button presses (about 5 or 6) to get the page finally stabilized.
Now, everything was stable when I entered XDA with the same "allow" list I had yesterday.
I'm not a big fan of "White List"ing sites, since so many sites have Facebook embedded in them (amongst many other tracking sites I don't like). Ever since Facebook violated my privacy and sucked up my personal contact information without my explicit approval, I ... ...
... well, let's just say I won't "Like" Facebook.
I appreciate the feedback from y'all, and I wish I knew what changed.
Thanks!
¿GJ?
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I would suggest using something that will block them on all websites, then. You can probably do it using NoScript's advanced filtering options, but I personally already use AdBlock Plus, and there's a neat list you can subscribe to that will block all those buttons. Get the "Annoyance Block List" from here.

¿GotJazz? said:
It's weird - Something changed between yesterday and today. Yesterday, this page wouldn't sit still until I was able to do enough "Temporarily allow all this page" button presses (about 5 or 6) to get the page finally stabilized.
Now, everything was stable when I entered XDA with the same "allow" list I had yesterday.
I'm not a big fan of "White List"ing sites, since so many sites have Facebook embedded in them (amongst many other tracking sites I don't like). Ever since Facebook violated my privacy and sucked up my personal contact information without my explicit approval, I ... ...
... well, let's just say I won't "Like" Facebook.
I appreciate the feedback from y'all, and I wish I knew what changed.
Thanks!
¿GJ?
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I have the opposite problem it seems, in that if I white-list the site then quite often one of the scripts goes haywire
and refreshes the page repeatedly for several refreshes or until the server complains with an error message about being overloaded.
It has been suggested to me that this may be a 2013 theme problem, so I'm trying the 2010 one for a few days to see if that fixes it.

Nameless One said:
I have the opposite problem it seems, in that if I white-list the site then quite often one of the scripts goes haywire
and refreshes the page repeatedly for several refreshes or until the server complains with an error message about being overloaded.
It has been suggested to me that this may be a 2013 theme problem, so I'm trying the 2010 one for a few days to see if that fixes it.
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@Nameless One: Yes, I've been seeing the "Server Overloaded" error message as well. I wasn't sure if it was NoScript related, though I was beginning to suspect it. I would open the same XDA pages in IE or Chrome without any problem, but see the "Overloaded" error only with Firefox. Usually (but, not always), temporarily enabling all sites fixed that problem for me.
¿GJ?

I have the same constant refresh problem.
The site only works if I set noscript to allow everything globally or if I use IE (ouch).
It feels to me this site is overburdened with ad/tracking scripts and blocking them forces the site to break (admins anti block?).
I will try the 2010 theme idea and report back, also I do have the main domain whitelisted.
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2010 theme fixes it, so I guess a 2013 theme issue.

Yep - Dumped the 2013 Theme and went back to 2010 Theme.
Everything's groovy now.
¿GJ?

¿GotJazz? said:
Yep - Dumped the 2013 Theme and went back to 2010 Theme.
Everything's groovy now.
¿GJ?
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2013 relies heavily on javascript so I imagine that is why you are having some issues. 2010 uses it much less but you may still see some issues relating to Javascript being blocked, such as menus not working and that sort of thing.

[bug] no-script or script-block results in page refreshes and double posts

browser: firefox 24
system: ginux (debian wheezy)
problem: when using the no-script or script-block addons it results in XDA pages refreshing repeatedly, and, double posts, etc. the only pages that are not affected are "thread views" and "new reply". xda has been allowed to run scripts, but not google, etc. suspect that xda's scripts are checking to see if their advertizers script's loaded, and, if not, refresh the page. would not mind allow ads for xda, but, it would mean allowing that ad-site globally or permanently, which i don't want. will try to find a setting that lets me allow them only for xda...

I'm using Chrome and getting the same thing. I also use Ad-Block. Not sure what is causing it but I haven't tried disabling the Ad-Block (which I won't disable just to view XDA).
It just seem to start a few days ago. I've posted this behavior else where and edited my post with a link here to help keep it all together. I'll disable Adblock when I reply to this and edit with my findings.
Edit:
Disabling AdBlock does NOT fix the problem for me on Chrome. When it turned off, I was still greeted with a double post error message.

We have seen reports of this here but I haven't been able to narrow it down. I suspect it has something to do with selective script blocking in some addons. Please use the 2013-1024 theme which disabled the sidebar and should clear up the reloading issue for you.
Closing this thread since this is already being discussed over there.