Box.net and Dropbox [closed] - ios

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I have an iOS app with Dropbox integration. It's possible to download/upload/preview files, navigation and edit some files. Also I need add box.net integration. How much it can take? And how compatible Dropbox and box.net api?
Can anyone compare developing with Dropbox and box.net?

Dropbox API have different working modes to use it: just upload files as backup, explore the system file, have full access to dropbox, etc.
You can take a look in their web:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers
They have drop ins, which allow you to save to dropbox or load files: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/dropins
Datastore: These days, your app needs to store and sync more than just files. With the Datastore API, structured data like contacts, to-do items, and game state can be synced effortlessly. Datastores support multiple platforms, offline access, and automatic conflict resolution.
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/datastore
Sync API: Work with files on Dropbox through a familiar, file system-like interface. The Sync API takes care of syncing and notifying you of remote changes so your app can respond instantly. It also handles caching, network flakiness, and offline logic so you don't have to.
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/sync
And Core API, which give you the access to everything in the most low level
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core
About box, they have differents API so they are not compatible. You'll need to manage each thing in different way, but as I can see (I have in mind to implement it too), it works in a similar way to dropbox.
Here you can see all the information: http://developers.box.com/sdks/ and you have a tutorial here: http://developers.box.com/box-ios-sdk-tutorial/
I can't tell you more because I haven't started to implement it.

For box.net you have a kind of open-source framework which includes viewing, editing and uploading files. It has top-notch security by using the same security the company provides you with their website and Box sync (for example the SMS verification by logging in on a new devices).
Box developers site
They also provide a forum where you can ask your questions, also StackOverflow does provide a box.net tag under Box API.
I don't have experience with the Dropbox API, but I guess temporarily storing files will help you cross platforming Box and Dropbox.

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How to protect google analytics mobile tracking ID from hacking [closed]

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Is there any solution to protect google analytics from receiving fake information from Spammers ? The problem is anybody can send information by knowing tracking id.
I found the following solution, filter domain. But that's for web and how to implement for mobile app ?
https://blog.kissmetrics.com/protect-analytics-from-hacking/
Thanks
Visible Tracking ID
On a website you can right click, Show source but you can't on a mobile application. Therefore your trying ID can't be find from your clients application. Nonetheless, if your code is pushed to a public repository (Github for example) robots may find it.
Random spammers
Even if your trackingID is kept secret you'll have some bot spamming your account randomly (they try every possible tracking ID). Google added a tool to prevent this: go to Admin > View > View settings > turn on Exclude all hits from known bots and spiders. Then Google will automatically filter hits from the known fake domains.
Hostname security hack
Even with Google's automatic filter you may still see some spam. This can be fixed with what they explain in the link you provided.
In your article they create a custom dimension and use it to filter real data from spam data. You can also use this with your mobile application, the thing is, it does not need to be a host name it just need to be a string only known by you, its sort of a new secret added to your tracking ID (which should already be secret).
This works because bots can handle the try of every trackingID but they can't try every custom dimension with every possible value, it's too much work for them.

What is the best way to save Iphone user data in a server? [duplicate]

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I want to start an iPhone app for an E-learning recommendation system which does the following:
Let the user register or log in the app.
After logging in the app ask the user questions.
My question:
What is the best way to manage users to be able to log/register and save/retrieve user questions and answers?
I feel like I've answered this question many times before, but the alleged duplicate recommends using NSUserDefaults and I think that's poor advice for saving the data that your app manages. (The dupe is from back in 2008, BTW; the iOS landscape was somewhat different back then, but even so I still don't think the most popular answer gives very good advice.)
Since you're looking at having your users log in, there may be a server that they're logging into. If so, saving the data on the server is the right thing to do. Exactly how that work will depend on your infrastructure, but you'll probably GET and POST data to a web server using HTTP. There's a LOT of information on the net about how to go about that (lack of research is probably why you're getting down votes), but you'll either use NSURLConnection and NSURLRequest directly, or you'll use a third party library like AFNetworking that makes it even easier to access a web server.

CrashData Report and feedback user ios App, use a server [closed]

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i want integreate in my iOS app, a CrashData Report that send me the log of the crash automatically, and the feedback form to let the user to contact me for request, issue or suggestion, i have found a lot of service online, but the most are payment service, like:
http://www.crittercism.com/
http://www.bugsense.com/
http://www.hockeyapp.net/
or for feedback:
http://www.uservoice.com/
i have also see that there is a opensource for crashdata:
http://quincykit.net/
so maybe the best solution is create my server to host quinckykit, and receive feedback user direct on the server, so my question is, how implement this, what type of server or webhosting i have take?...and what hosting did you advise me, or some tutorial, i never did it...
You should check Instabug (http://instabug.com) it's very specifically serving feedback reporting with a smooth experience.
It shows a screenshot for the user to draw on other than the text field to enter the feedback in.
It also captures all the device details needed.
You can customize it as you want.
PS. I'm working at Instabug. So let me know if you need any help. It's free btw!
QuincyKit contains all you need to receive crash reports and work with them. The hosted solution HockeyApp uses the same open source SDK and provides much more advanced features. If you are not familiar with server hosting php and MySQL, I would recommend to use a hosted solution instead of the open source server component. Also crash symbolication has to be done on your Mac, which HockeyApp e.g. does all automatically for you.
The QuincyKit GitHub repository contains all information you need.
User Feedback is not part of QuincyKit or HockeyApp. I think Crittercism provides some user feedback features independent from crash reporting. I don't know if UserVoice provides anything you can integrate into your iOS app.

Can I use images from Google results on my website? [closed]

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I'm planning to create a module for my directory which would fetch images from user's website using Google Image Search via this scenario:
User logs in to his account
Enter his website URL
Application request images from domain cached by google
Application displays N amount of images from website offering to link them to his profile
On confirmation, application will copy images to my server
Am I allowed to do that, and would it breach any copyrights?
UPDATE
I presume that person created account in my business directory is owner of that website (it states in Terms and Conditions) and as an owner he is accessing his website. Application would display thumbnails and fetch original image from his website using links from Google results. Does it make any difference?
Disclaimer: IANAL
As long as you only use thumbnails of maximum 80 to 200 pixels in size, then it is considered fair use. I also advise linking the image the source page and mentioning somewhere that the images may be copyright material.
Make sure to use the API, rather than scraping the results page.
You'll find that the Google images results have this disclaimer attached to them: "This image may be subject to copyright." I'd say you'd be in the wrong.
Similar to Facebook, you can use the images to link to those website. You need to mention that these images may be copyright protected. Google cache's the content. And it's image search says, "Image may be subject to copyright"

How to aggregate analytics from Google, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, etc [closed]

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I have a video blog for which I would like to track certain statistics, including stats from Google Analytics, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, etc.
The problem is that the various stats are on different websites, which require different logins, etc. It takes a long time to actually view everything. I am looking for a way to be able to aggregate all of this information in one place.
I have searched quite a bit on Google, Mashable, Delicious, etc and I haven't found any websites that do what I want. Are my searching skills bad, or does this really not exist?
The data in which I am interested appears to be available in readily parsable forms (see below), but I am hesitant to write an app to do this myself, because of an already more than full workload.
Data I want to aggregate:
Google Analytics -- tracking on my website
number of visitors
traffic sources
use Data Export API -- http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gdata/gdataDeveloperGuide.html
Twitter
number of followers
number of retweets
new # messages
new direct messages
Twitter API -- (sorry, I can only post one hyperlink because I am new)
Facebook fan page
number of fans
new posts on wall
Facebook API -- (sorry, I can only post one hyperlink because I am new)
Tumblr
number of followers
Video
number of views
view location
number of comments
number of channel subscribers
do this for
YouTube -- CSV report available at (sorry, I can only post one hyperlink because I am new)
MetaCritic
Feed burner (RSS)
number of subscribers
CSV report available at (sorry, I can only post one hyperlink because I am new)
SEO stuff
Google PageRank
Alexa rankings
So is there an app that does this already, or should I do this myself? I would like a quick and dirty way to do this -- I was thinking something like Yahoo pipes, but it appears to not be up to the task. I could probably get it done in Grails, but that might be more trouble than it's worth. Other ideas?
I have a better answer. YQL has community data tables for all the services you listed. You can pull in all the different values through their API.
http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/
You could try creating a Google Spreadsheet and use their external data import tools.
http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=75507
The biggest problem will probably be access authenticated APIs.
Presumably that all of the services above has fashioned a statistics API, I would advice you to write it yourself rather than battling an integration war with a bunch of aggregating programs.
Here's an iphone app that does at least a bit of this:
http://ego-app.com/
I don't know a single tool that can do this, off the top of my head. But you can chain a few tools together to do this.
1- If you're on Windows, use Website Watcher. It has a macro-recording tool to login a webpage, a regex-based tool to filter content and a scripting language that let you email/export the result. IMO, this will let you extract data from just any web page/RSS/forums.
2- Then use Dropbox to automatically upload the result files to your Dropbox's public folder (because you will need the public link to these file).
3- Use Yahoo Pipes to consolidate/aggregate the result files.
I suggest you try Metricly http://metricly.com/ that is natively intergating Facebook & Google Analytics data. It is extensible by nature and with a little bit of tweaking you can push any meric to it. I enjoy it.
I originally suggested this as an edit to abraham's answer but it was rejected:
Mikael Thuneberg has written a freely available google script for pulling GA data into Google Docs using the GA API: http://www.automateanalytics.com/2010/04/google-analytics-data-to-google-docs.html
I use it for creating client dashboards all the time. I suspect there may be others for pulling in twitter/facebook data etc.
And Google have just released this tool for importing GA data into Google Docs:
http://analytics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/automate-google-analytics-reporting.html
Also see SEOTools for Excel which can pull some facebook and twitter data as well as Google Analytics through the API.
YouTube has a public API http://developers.google.com/youtube/analytics to retrieve reports for your videos and channels.

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