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Android Q Beta 7 years ago

That won't happen because 3rd party apps cannot have the READ_PRIVILEGED_PHONE_STATE permission.

Shameless plug: I started creating an alternative client for Android, you can download it here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.olivierpay...

I'm a heavy Instapaper user myself and was always disappointed with the quality of the official Android app: it runs terribly slow, some articles don't even show up, no image thumbnail, etc.

My app doesn't have all the feature from the official app yet (I'm starting simple), but I'm very open to feedback.

As I understood, this part with printing emoji was just a joke :)

What they are saying is that you can use regular emoji reactions while a video call.

I could be interesting to compare that to the Android/iOS/HTML5 equivalent.

Basically this XAML does 3 things:

- declare 2 states: narrowState for windows smaller than 640px widestate for windows wider >= 641px

- set the layout stacking strategy of a container to Vertical when in narrowState

- set a top margin of a button to 4px when in narrowState (not sure this is relevant for this sample)

From the article: "Unless you know the exact name of my app, you won't find it."

His "Website constructor" app is in 3rd position when I search for "Website". Not that bad for such a generic keyword.

Also, I guess one thing with these apps is that the price range (between $12 and $20) is a quite high compared to the majority of the other apps on the store and (unfortunately?) a lot of people are not ready to buy apps >$2.

I guess that the store search algorithm depends on the conversion rate (people buying the app VS people trying it) and that conversion rate is probably pretty low, so maybe lowering the app price could lead to more sales and higher ranking.

[dead] 14 years ago

Let's hope that Microsoft will not call it Windows SmartPhone 8