Is there a rss feed, website, or anything for the market that i can check for updates/new apps and games. I like to keep up with them but its a pain to check the market everyday to see whats new.
you can use the google reader to read the RSS news.
I think you misunderstood my question. Im looking for a rss feed for the market place not a rss reader.
I am also interested in this, any link on androids website just takes me to the developer site to submit stuff.
No such thing yet.
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Hi.
I am looking for a good looking RSS reader widget to aggregate all my RSS feeds.
I was hoping for something like the "friends" widget which aggregate all your social networking but for custom RSS feeds.
Anyone know of anything?
Thanks
I like NewsRoom. http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-trileet-android-newsroom-qiAt.aspx
NewsRoom is excellent, I also use it, but it doesn't really offer what the OP is asking for.
Since it'll add a notification of new content though it may be good enough for him (personally I prefer it that way, more space for other widgets). I guess the way it aggregates new content when you 'swipe up', arranged by provider or publication time, is quite close to what the OP is describing though...
I use default one.
Simple and can merge all my gmail subscripted rss
Try AtomaRSS!
Minimal reader.
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great widget that looks nice too
Hi guys ... I have just got an off contract Tab.
Love it ... but curiously there is no Social Hub installed. I spoke to Samsung support ... they came back after talking to colleagues only to say their one didn't have it either ... apparently some do and some don't ... and initially he said there is no way of getting it if you don't have it. I said that was unacceptable .. and he is supposed to be getting back to me.
I wonder what else is missing.
Cheers
Paul.
Sorry guys ... I'm sure this could be UK specific ... but I do need to know if anyone else hasn't got the Social Hub installed on their Tab ...
Please let me know if you have / haven't.
Cheers
Paul.
Got mine from PCWorld, it was cheaper than Tesco and TCW and their crappy free class2 16GB mSD and no pushing for simcard contracts or embarrassing credit checks
No Social Hub, No Media Hub either, unless the media hub is the Samsung movies and Samsung Games widgets?
I have the music hub and the readers hub (news and magazines not available yet) plus the daily briefing widget
Also for what I been reading around here the Samsung App store may have different apps depending on you location?
What is Samsung playing at!!
You have samsung movies and games widgets?
Dont have Social or Media Hub either, but i do have music hub..
Hopefully we can get the apks from the US model (if that has the missing Samsung apps) and install them.
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Can everyone check to see if their software build is different to this please ?
This is insane.
PCW and Tescos both market the social hub in their own adverts. I was in Tesco this morning and their Tab is the same - no Social Hub.
I don't want to wait until next year for a new firmware release to get something that was advertised at time of purchase.
What do we do to get Samsung to resolve this issue ?
I think we need to get more of a representative view from other UK people ... are we all missing it ? Are we missing other apps as well.
In Apps I have :
Alarm Clock, All Share, Browser, Calendar,
Camera, Contacts, Daily Briefing, Digital Frame,
eBook, Email, FT Mobile, Gallery,
Gmail, Google Search, Lattitude, Maps,
Market, Memo, Messaging, Music,
Music Hub, My Files, Navigation, News and Weather,
Nova, Phone, Places, Readers Hub
Samsung Apps, Samgung Games, Samsung Movies, Settings,
Sky+, Talk, Task Manager, ThinkFree Office,
Video, Voice Search, World Clock, YouTube
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No Social Hub, No Media Hub (are you sure there is one .. I have Music Hub).
Samsung Games and Samsung Movies aren't really apps or widgets - just short cuts to Samsung Game and Movie purchase websites.
We need to ensure we have a proper breakdown of what is missing and somehow approach Samsung to resolve.
Paul.
Picked up my Tab last night from my local PC World contract free. I seem to be missing the Social Hub also. Grrrrrrr.
No calculator?
I cannot find the calculator. Am I being a dunce?
Update
Just got off a the phone with a far better Samsung chap in the Apps group. He spoke to his tech chappie who explained that Social Hub isn't a standalone app like the Reader and Music Hub. It is basically the integration through the Contacts app which is activated when you go into Accounts and Sync and add Twitter, Facebook and MySpace. This then updates the Feeds and Updates Widget (which is too small in my view).
In the contacts ... go to groups tab ... scroll down to your facebook or twitter account and tap the All contacts below it ... on the right you then see all your contacts for that social network ... then if you tap one of those contacts you get a display focusing on just that network with your contact on the right showing their details and last message. Finally if you then click on their profile you get a facebook viewer or twitter viewer to show you those message. A bit clunky ... but that is the 'Social Hub'
As regards the missing media or video hub ... I think that is the 'Samsung Movies' which is just a website like iTunes you can order movies from ... not the fully integrated offering that Music hub is for music.
So ... perhaps it's just really bad marketing making out it was a separate app.
I'm pretty happy.
Aside from 2.2 on my HD2 which I just play with, this is the first real Android device I've played with.
The market place seems pretty good ... lots of free stuff that is actually worth having.
Kindle reader will never replace my new Kindle ... but is good if synced and I don't have the Kindle.
eWallet Viewer is great if you have eWallet for PC / WM which I do. You can't do updates yet ... but it does sync from the PC.
Real Calc is quite a nice basic scientific calculator - I'd really like something like Omega-One 1-Calc, myPlayer (BBC iPlayer ... mainly for the downloads for later watching), Google Translate, Google Sky Map, Google Streets, Google Earth, Yell.com (if you're in the UK). I'm sure I'll find a lot more
Have fun guys.
Paul.
Thanks for clarifying on the social hub, as I had the same issue.
The Samsung.co.uk site also advertises 2 premium games being installed: Nova and Asphalt 5.
On my version from Carphonewarehouse (contract-free), only Nova is installed and other game is missing. I called Samsung, and they advised to swap it around! I did, and new one still is missing the Asphalt game (probably from same batch, with even lower serial number).
Send an email to Samsung past Sunday and still no response. I guess I have to call them tomorrow...
Asphalt isn't preinstalled, you have to download it from Gameloft site.
A guy from Gameloft said it in a youtube video (it was in french)
Is there any apps that can run through rss feeds, news flashes , time and weather that is automated for my phone to run whilst its sat in a desktop docking station.
Ideally I am after a app that will show the weather feeds (animated), then any news flashes from rss feeds, and then show the time with a nice touchflo flip clock effect.
I had a look around but found nothing that would do anything like this, anyone able to help me out and find one.
Thanks in advance.
Okay, the Daily Briefing app is very very good, but it's really stupid that You can't add your own feeds to it. Would anyone be interested in either modding Daily Briefing or making a new app, or is there perhaps already a good RSS reader out there?
there are two RSS readers- RSS World which is free & allows adding your own feeds but you cannot search for feeds. you can manually add the feed address which is cumbersome. Also if you have feeds from a lot of sites, they will all be mixed up together.say for example you have selected feeds from Sites A, B & C. so the first three feeds maybe from A, then a few from B, then maybe again from A, then C, then B again..etc. it would have been helpful if there were scrollable pages to the left & right so that feeds from different sites would show up on different screens.
There is also a paid reader named Q-RSS but i cannot tell you about it as i have not bought it.
Lastly, if you only want a good news widget, the AP Mobile widget is very good.
btw, if daily briefing can be modded, then it should be modded. since it is a widget, it should not be very difficult.
Try the Pulse News Reader app. You can add feeds from a huge directory or search, comes with awesome default ones. widget only shows one per widget but when you click it, it full screens and has a very nice UI. Google reader incorporation too, so just add em there and import, wa-la.
Appbrain link
But I do like the idea of the OP, I don't use the Daily briefing app. because of this.
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Try the Pulse News Reader app. You can add feeds from a huge directory or search, comes with awesome default ones. widget only shows one per widget but when you click it, it full screens and has a very nice UI. Google reader incorporation too, so just add em there and import, wa-la.
Appbrain link
But I do like the idea of the OP, I don't use the Daily briefing app. because of this.
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You're in the wrong section dude, this is Bada not Android
I am in no means a proficient programmer. I have done some programming though. I know the most extreme basics.
I had a eureka moment today at work. We have typhoons here and we readily check the current weather conditions. Well, the local weather website is slow and the main means of communication is a Facebook fan page.
I was wondering how hard would it be to have an app grab info from a server and just display it. That's about it. Maybe some polish and fancy animations.
I don't think it would be much more than a few lines.
Thanks in advance.
Edit: Or open a .com and make a simple, secure form that let's you selection from options that forwards that info to the app.
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I am in no means a proficient programmer. I have done some programming though. I know the most extreme basics.
I had a eureka moment today at work. We have typhoons here and we readily check the current weather conditions. Well, the local weather website is slow and the main means of communication is a Facebook fan page.
I was wondering how hard would it be to have an app grab info from a server and just display it. That's about it. Maybe some polish and fancy animations.
I don't think it would be much more than a few lines.
Thanks in advance.
Edit: Or open a .com and make a simple, secure form that let's you selection from options that forwards that info to the app.
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this has been done. its called an rss reader
Well... if you want to get technical. Most apps do this that connect to the internet.
I'm not looking for a RSS. I'm just looking to display a very specific string of text that would be very useful to the residents of the island I live on.
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Well... if you want to get technical. Most apps do this that connect to the internet.
I'm not looking for a RSS. I'm just looking to display a very specific string of text that would be very useful to the residents of the island I live on.
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Seriously I would consider RSS, even if it is a widget which gets set to a single rss feed. It is what RSS was designed for, chances are the info you are after is available as RSS, otherwise it is very easy to create & host one.
The alternative is nasty if you end up parsing a site, since a single change to the site and the app is dead. Plus it would be a lot of work for something which can be very simple.
Hmm. Fair enough. Can you do widgets on the iphone? I was going to port it there too.
I just need to post a tccor and sea condition.
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inifekt said:
Hmm. Fair enough. Can you do widgets on the iphone? I was going to port it there too.
I just need to post a tccor and sea condition.
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I've not done any android widgets or iphone. But if you are lucky you might find some suitable code somewhere for a basic RSS widget, RSS is quite a common way to do things (since you download a single file and parse the xml).
You may even find there are already apps out there which allow you to set a single rss feed for displaying in a widget. But I guess you are after something you can put in the market yourself.
The RSS feed itself is easy:
There are site which will do it for you:
i.e. feedweaver.net
There are some which will monitor pages for changes too, depending on what you need.
Otherwise you can diy, Howto Create an RSS 2.0 Feed - http://www.petefreitag.com/item/465.cfm and host the file yourself (i.e. dropbox public links or FileDen, anywhere which hosts a file with direct links).
I would recommend using Google Feedburner to set your rss feed address and then link it to your file (this means you can move your file around without requiring the feed link to change).
Of course if you can find the info already available as an RSS feed, then you can re-feed it through Feedburner so you have control of it (if it changes you can change your links without changing your app).
You might also want to check out the word-of-the-day widget in the Android SDK. It grabs very specific information from a dictionary web site and displays it using an app widget.
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/04/introducing-home-screen-widgets-and.html