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It's called "Forced Perspective"
Step 1. Go outdoors with a friend. Stand in front of a building.
Step 2. Take a picture so that the friend is really close to you and the building is really far away. Assure that the friend's head lines up with the top of the building.
Step 3. Ask your customer how tall it is, given just the photograph.
Do not ...
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view product information and create orders
Sounds like stuff well within the capability of HTML 5 (and the related technologies usually mentioned in the same breath). Write a rich Web application, and you immediately support any device with a browser.
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Imagine you live in a small town and you have two supermarkets.
The first one is across the street. You go there, you buy what you need, you pay for it, and you can leave with the products you've bought.
The second one is outside the city. You have to use your car to go to it, then you have to find a free parking spot (the parking being small, you have ...
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JQuery Mobile + Phone Gap Build.
This is basically saying "use HTML5 and JavaScript to build your app", as has been said before, but with an important twist.
Nitobi's Phone Gap Build service (now owned by Adobe) allows developers to convert HTML5/JavaScript apps to "native" apps (really hybrid apps) that can be deployed locally to a device. It's my ...
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Unless an existing app already dominates the market such that it creates an insurmountable barrier to entry (which is rare), it doesn't matter.
Besides, if you have an idea for an app that you think is truly unique and you can't find any prior examples, it might just be a bad idea. Competition helps provide market validation.
In any case, the idea isn't ...
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It's possible - plus, you could always do the processing remotely, only using the phone to collect data and display results. Beyond that, there's also nothing that says you're not able to mount a device to the phone's camera to split and offset 2D input, and then convert those two inputs into a 3D input.
As for app ratings, that's not really a solid basis ...
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Will this work and I'd so how risky is it to future problems?
Yes it will work, and how risky it is depends on how good your implementation is. This is perfectly acceptable if done correctly. I have successfully integrated PHP and C, when PHP was simply too slow to do certain niche tasks in real time (IIRC, PHP is 7 times slower than its C counterpart).
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Ok, Here is the secret Truth about It...
The Data in your app in worth more than the App it self!
The reason you can't find that data is because it has value, more value than any set of code accessing it, it would be cheaper to buy the Code base to seamless web than to buy it's database of restaurant, menus and pricing.
You will just have to build your ...
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No.
Those are different Platforms, So they are Different APPs!!
I think even if you sell on the Android APP store you can still also list your app in the Amazon Android App store. Read the Terms of service to sure, as it can change any moment.
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Don't know what you app is, but have you considered/would a data driven model work for you - the app would not need to change and the data can be downloaded of servers you provide and manage. Maybe a (yet another) DSL would be of use.
Another alternate is how locked into Apple are you? Build you business on Android - then you have the choice to use a ...
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Not sure how to respond to this. Just search for it.
Unless you have magical powers, your best bet will always be a Google search with keywords that reflect your app. Of course, whether or not someone has already made one isn't as relevant as questions like the following:
Is the existing app really popular?
Is the existing app really good?
If the answer ...
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No, not at all. Encouraging people to contact you in the app description can reduce "the app doesn't work" reviews, but that's about it. It's unfortunate and pretty severely flawed, but there's no way to contact the reviewer and no way to challenge or respond to reviews.
Reviews from people who've used the app and indicate they've not had the problem might ...
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Ubuntu has a closed-source applications app-store, so that covers one option for linux:
techie-buzz article on ubuntu app store
There is also intel's App-up for netbook apps
Microsoft has plans for an apple-style app-store of their own, but as far as i know they're not rolling it out yet.
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How about approaching this backwards- there are quite a few small/one-man type application developers on the iWhatever platform. Why not take a look at the people who developed some apps that you like and see whether any of them do freelance work? Even if they don't they may be able to recommend someone who does and I would always take a recommendation ...
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I'd recommend developing it as a MVC web app. This would allow you to run it on most any device from a desktop to a smartphone provided you design it well. HTML5 might work but it will depend on the types of devices/browsers you'll need to support. It would be nice if you can get away with using it. Make sure that you architect it where you could adapt ...
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Why not force the user to take the picture with a clearly displayed item of standard size next to the item being measured; a penny for example.
It's probably not as good of a solution as your employer wants but explaining a solution like this would at least show you can make something happen.
As you start listing the limitations and compromises needed, ...
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This is a reason why it is hard to do business with your friends. It's always going to be the case that someone feels like they are pulling more weight than the others and should get more of the rewards. Difference is that it's much harder to have that negotiation with friends and keep your own interests at the forefront.
Best practice in these cases is to ...
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It looks like they are two different subscriptions; I was able to make two separate registrations, and they both accepted the same "display name," and there are two different prices. Really, they should have just made this one single store.
The Windows Phone App Store is $99 per year, although they say they will credit you back $91 if you apply in the next ...
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1. On app level
Running an app on multiple servers isn't terribly hard. There are techniques which are difficult to understand and implement, but there are also some basic techniques any one can use.
Learn those basic techniques. If it's not enough, then yes, you'll have to find a freelancer or to hire a developer.
2. On infrastructure level
Running ...
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Actually I'm not sure you are correct.
Provided the user assist the app it should be possible.
For example of a 1D measurement.
Stand 1meter away from 1dm high object. Add this as user input to your app.
Stand 1km from a mountain, add this as user input.
Keep the same angle from the camera with both your 1dm object and the mountain.
The app should calculate ...
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Unfortunately the PlayBook, unlike other BlackBerry devices, doesn't directly support applications that aren't released through the AppWorld.
There are a couple of ways around that.
You could put every device in developer mode and then connect via cable directly to the development machine and deploy the application. For a very small number of devices ...
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There are many, many services which will process the sale for you and send you a check, and they've been around since the earliest days of the web. Though they're usually called 'shareware registration services' or somesuch, rather than the more faddish 'app store'.
If you are looking for something more integrated, like a phone app store, several are in ...
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I think it depends on where your interests lie. If your interests are games and other local applications, you might consider going native.
If, on the other hand, your interests are more in the vein of business applications, HTML5 is probably your future, since you have to write the app only once, and communication with a remote database is relatively ...
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You don't find partners the same way you find programmers. A partner is somebody who is part of the business, somebody you trust and can work with. A freelance programmer in a marketplace is somebody who will do some work for you for a mutually satisfactory payment. So, you're looking in the wrong place. If you don't know a suitable programmer, ask ...
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If you want to leverage the existing .NET knowledge, you should go for a SOA approach, and put as much functionality as possible into a web service (SOAP or REST, pick whichever suits you better).
That way you only need a small client app on the device, which would only call the web service functionality and display the results.
This should be much easier ...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses
You have several versions of the BSD license. It's one of the simplest licenses, so you should simply read it.
Here is the "longest one":
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
met:
Redistributions of ...
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Probably not. See the iOS App Store Review Guidelines:
2.12 Apps that are not very useful, are simply web sites bundled as apps, or do not provide any lasting entertainment value may be
rejected
One might guess that if your app is just a pointer to a web site, not even the web site bundled into an app, then it's even less useful than the sort of ...
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In the interests of full disclosure, I work for Barnes & Noble. I do not own, nor do I plan to purchase stock of any of the companies I mention here.
You're confusing publishers and distributors. There are exclusivity deals with some games as well as some distributors functioning as publishers (Valve, Sony, Microsoft). However, in the case of books you ...
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