- 6 Nov 2010
- 5,212
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Hello everyone,
to avoid the clear outrage my mention of a paid application has caused here on the forums i am going to run a simple poll to get a clearer idea of the demand and interest in the apk.
To let people know the background of this app.
MIUI developed this Weather application about 5 months ago, it was NEVER designed to be functional anywhere but within China.
During this time some people have poked at the app to see how it works and no one figured it out, that is until about 2 months ago.
I spent some nights digging into smali code and discovered how the app interacted with the SQLite database, once i figured out this part the hard part was finding a suitable API, then how to create databases consistent with our locations and needs.
After a while I gave up, then along came Xacro who looked in the same way I did and got a little further with the JSON which is called to display the weather in the app. Together we worked to develop the application along with the help of forum member wowthatisrandom.
Between the 3 of us working together and sharing ideas we've managed to get a working application internationally!
This effort has taken time and effort, lost nights of sleep and a lot of other issues. Now in order for the app to actually work requires a PHP script and a MySQL database on our server here, without this the app will not work.
To support an app on the scale we anticipate would require additional funding one way or another, mainly due to demand on our server for calls to the weather api.
To say that $1 or £1 is unreasonable does not seem like a big ask? anyway, your thoughts!
to avoid the clear outrage my mention of a paid application has caused here on the forums i am going to run a simple poll to get a clearer idea of the demand and interest in the apk.
To let people know the background of this app.
MIUI developed this Weather application about 5 months ago, it was NEVER designed to be functional anywhere but within China.
During this time some people have poked at the app to see how it works and no one figured it out, that is until about 2 months ago.
I spent some nights digging into smali code and discovered how the app interacted with the SQLite database, once i figured out this part the hard part was finding a suitable API, then how to create databases consistent with our locations and needs.
After a while I gave up, then along came Xacro who looked in the same way I did and got a little further with the JSON which is called to display the weather in the app. Together we worked to develop the application along with the help of forum member wowthatisrandom.
Between the 3 of us working together and sharing ideas we've managed to get a working application internationally!
This effort has taken time and effort, lost nights of sleep and a lot of other issues. Now in order for the app to actually work requires a PHP script and a MySQL database on our server here, without this the app will not work.
To support an app on the scale we anticipate would require additional funding one way or another, mainly due to demand on our server for calls to the weather api.
To say that $1 or £1 is unreasonable does not seem like a big ask? anyway, your thoughts!
