On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Spiderfly Studios <spiderflystud...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have looked at it and it just isn't well done. Others say the same thing > about it. kinda hacky. it also doesn't do much good for the average > person.
It's the same protocol the Android Market client on your phone uses. It's less hacky than anything you can possibly come up with. If your definition of 'average person' is 'copy-and-paste PHP programmer', then maybe you are right, it's not for those. > As for "scraping", again, it just doesn't work that way without writing some > very custom and possibly privacy leaking code. In order to "scrape", one > would have to either have access to a particular site's API or they would > have to write a custom script that on page load would check and update the > always changing and variable data. Scraping implies the lack of an API. Parsing out two lines from the of HTML *your own* developer console is hardly privacy leaking code. Surely, you might have to update your script once in a while if the console changes, but how hard is that? Good luck waiting for an official, easy-to-integrate, works-out-of-the-box, batteries included way to do this. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
