I am using the Gracenote Entourage SDK for iOS and am able to recognize Live TV shows however when I try to recognize a Movie either from DVD or VOD it returns no matches. I have signed up for the Accelerator program which should give me access to the full database rather than the last seven days of aired broadcasts.
Can anyone provide an example returning movie data? Should I have access to this data with the Accelerator Plan?
Accelerator program gives you access to publicly available API's for commercial use. However, recognizing DVD or VOD is currently available to enterprise customers only.
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I'm trying to do some SEO and I want to index the location of an application based on keyword searching. By using the official search API, I've come up with the following query:
https://itunes.apple.com/search?media=software&term=sql+server&limit=&country=us&limit=200
To search the US App Store, for the term sql server. The app I am looking for current shows up in this list at position ~20'th. If I search from my phone, the app is closer to the ~30'th position (other search terms perform even worse). I have tried to use Wireshark to capture the search from my phone to try and see if they use different endpoints, but was unable to capture due to ssl.
Does anyone know of a way to scrape iOS App Store search results in the proper order?
Apple is under no obligation to return search results in any particular order, and is likely to change them depending on client/what search cluster you hit.
Seeing what your phone is sending to the app store is very difficult, however, as Apple takes excessive measures to ensure that communications aren't being read. Last time I tried required BURP Suite, a jailbroken phone, an app to disable SSL pinning, and manually restarting the app store on the phone, which would occasionally crash it.
Set your user agent to replicate an iPhone device browsing the App Store.
Try this one... This is the most recent App Store version, emulating an iPhone X with iOS 11.3.1:
AppStore/3.0 iOS/11.3.1 model/iPhone10,6 hwp/t8015 build/15E302 (6; dt:162)
What costs are involved with developing and/or releasing a Google Assistant App?
eg: Can you develop an app using DialogFlow and a backend (say Firebase) without having to pay while you learn?
First of all - you don't need to use Dialogflow or Firebase to develop your action. Both are suggested, but neither are required. You can use any NLP you want, or none at all if you use the Actions SDK (but you want an NLP). You can use any backend at all, including running it off your local machine and tunneling to it via ngrok, but you don't want to do that for production.
But, during development (and even during a light deployment before your action becomes massively popular and a stand-out hit), you have lots of solutions that will be free.
Dialogflow is free for use with the Google Assistant. Period. There is an Enterprise edition which offers additional services and support for a cost, but you won't need them. There are restrictions, but you won't bump into them until you hit 3 requests per second - which you shouldn't during development.
Firebase's free tier (the Spark Plan) is good for very simple experimentation, but once you start doing network calls to outside Google's network (if you are trying to call the network API for other services), you will be blocked. No worries! The "Blaze Plan" paid tier does require a way to bill you, but they don't start billing you until you get quite a bit of usage: 2 million function calls / month and similarly scaled usage of CPU, memory, and network. So even the "Blaze Plan" will be free during development (and for basic usage).
Updated, December 2020
Things have changed a bit since the original answer was posted, but the underlying basics remain true - there is no charge to develop for Actions on Google.
Dialogflow now has an "Essentials" edition and a more advanced "CX" edition. While you can still use both to build Actions, they're not really intended for this purpose anymore.
Instead, Google has included the Actions Builder into the Actions Console to handle the NLP work. The Actions SDK works with this, but can also just pass along all the STT information to your webhook. Both are also free to use.
Dialogflow is for free if you don't use it as an enterprise:
https://dialogflow.com/pricing/
And Firebase free tier should be enough if you not using firebase
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But of course you have to calculate your own time so in case of the
spent time probably not.
For everything else yes it is, as long as you not using it already somewhere. You can for development also host your server local and use an ngrok tunnel as sever address for Dialogflow.
As an addition to shortQuestion's answer:
The free plan in Firebase should be enough if you're just using it for learning and developing apps for personal use. If you want to go a bit further you'll need to upgrade the plan.
You can sign up with a free trial for actions on Google to get 300$ of credits during a 12 month period which would be more than enough to do anything you want.
The costs of Firebase/Actions on Google on a higher plan aren't anything to worry about though, you'd be talking about a few cent per multiple hundred thousand requests.
We are planning to develop a web based application for one of the Research Institute.
Overview of the application:
It is survey application
It requires login credentials for data-entry operator to open web-app for collecting participant’s information
It has fixed number of login credentials for data-entry operators (No user registration)
Google Maps APIs will be used in this application for locating and collecting participant’s address details (Places Search APIs and
Reverse Geo coding)
We have gone through the following links
https://developers.google.com/maps/pricing-and-plans/
https://developers.google.com/maps/terms
As this application will be used by Research Institute, We are not sure which plan (Standard/Premium) can be used for such type of application.
Also we are not able to connect with Sales team where we can evaluate the application for correct billing plan.
We need help on following items
Identifying correct plan/package for pricing and legal terms as the customer is a research institute
How can we connect to direct Googles' sales team for clarifying or identifying correct plan as there is no direct support available except for Premium plan?
After different searches (googling) and connects found below URL to connect with Google Support team for Map API queries
https://enterprise.google.com/intl/en_in/maps/contact-form/
Note: We got response from google support team after aprox. 7 days. So expect minimum 7 days for response.
Hope this would help to someone having similar query.
Thanks!
Is this possible to record short, sample sound (like 10-15 sec) and store on paired phone/device?
Allowing user to gather sample sound from environment would be rally beneficial to our product.
unfortunately the Microsoft Band does not support this feature and the microphone is not exposed via an API of the current SDK https://developer.microsoftband.com/bandSDK
As danvy has said, unfortunately it isn't available within the SDK to access the microphone.
If there is enough voice from developers for this to be added, I'm sure that the Microsoft Band team would be happy to expose more of the features in the Band to developers through the SDK. There is a UserVoice site just for the Microsoft Health & Band team which you can ask for these sorts of features but I'm also sure that they check here too!
I need a custom multi-user multi-chatroom app to extend an existing Flex app that I have.
I obviously wouldn't like to develop it from scratch, but focus only on the customizations and integration.
Are there any products (free or commercial) that provide multi-chatroom functionality from which I could start?
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplatform/services/collaboration.html
Have a look at Union Platform chat tutorial:
http://www.unionplatform.com/?page_id=1216
You can also check BlazeDS chat example:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/blazeds/1/blazeds_devguide/help.html?content=build_apps_3.html
I wrote an AS3 Chat Application that makes use of Player.io's free server package of 20 gigs of data transfer, other small limitations. The app is open source, and you can find the source code on GitHub.
The chat itself only uses one room, since it is averaging only around 10-15 users on at any time and its specialized to helping flash game developers, meaning it has a code storage area (simple database interaction), developer links, actionscript help, etc, but it does have some basic features if you want to see how I code them.
The chat itself has a few features you might be interested in checking out even if you don't use the source code, are such:
Support for authentication on server-side
Different types of users. (Currently overlord admin, admin, mod, developer, regular users)
Editable individual user data (Currently saves how long each user has spent on the app)
Server-side Silencing and banning individual users
Support for tags near usernames
Sound Settings on message received
Code box for users to share large amounts of text without spamming the chat
Support for multiple rooms (uses 1 public currently + 1 hidden for select users)
The server-side is written in C# and hosted on playerio.com and is supposed to be an authoritative server (meaning it checks all the client data and makes sure its valid before doing anything). The server code is also included on github.
If your interested you can comment and I will answer any questions.