To start: I'm completely new to working with APIs, so please bear with me.
My first question is related to getting access to the Walmart API. I see the example code to generate time stamp and signature. How do I run this file? I've looked at YouTube videos, the Walmart tutorial, and other posts in this forum and am still a little stuck.
Second, I'm guessing this file needs to be included in the actual application to continue to be able to access the products?
Third, my goal is to map only a subset of the product catalog for users of the app to view. Let's use 'soda' as an example. Is it the Taxonomy API I need to use? And how do I limit the available products a user can search?
Note: This will be implemented in a Flutter application, if it makes any difference.
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I'm creating a type of ride-sharing application for iOS using Swift and Firebase Functions and would like to implement the following workflow:
Passenger requests ride from specific driver
Driver has 2 options
a. Driver accepts and the passengers card is charged
b. Driver declines and thats it
I've gone through pages and pages of Stripes documentation and Github to find the best example to go off, but can't seem to find one that fits what I'm after.
You can find an example here: https://stripe.com/docs/connect/collect-then-transfer-guide
There's also https://rocketrides.io/ which is a complete example, including code, of a ride sharing app.
I am totally new in mobile app development and consequently very confused about how to get going (independent from how much I have read Google Drive API documentation over and over again.)
The way I would like to implement my (initially "android") mobile app (which I will develop by using ionic):
I will have a Google Drive account where I will have 1 CSV file. I will periodically renew the content of the file in the background (possibly twice a week).
The mobile app that I will develop will just retrieve the file from Google Drive, process the content and show it to the user in a more readable (easy to understand) format.
My app will not upload any data/file from the user device to the Google Drive. The app will only retrieve a file from Google Drive to show the content to the user.
Question 1) Does this approach make sense? I ideally would like to eliminate the work for back-end development. Or would you suggest another approach to do the same thing (with or without Google Drive)?
Question 2) The authorization process looks quite confusing to me as it is explained in Google's documentation. I could not find relevant information only addressing the scenario I have in my use case. Requirements: The mobile apps can fetch the corresponding file (or the content of it) and process it to show to the end user, but mobile apps (or any other client) may not update/edit/delete the file, cannot add a new file either. The only purpose of using the Google Drive will be to enable the mobile app fetching the data that will be shown to the user. How can this problem be solved by using Google's OAuth framework? A step by step action plan would really be appreciated.
ADDENDUM
You are also welcome to share your view if I should instead consider using Firebase for my problem, which I guess will be more costly.
Based on discussing the requirements with you, I would recommend against trying to do this with Google Drive API.
There are no tutorials out there for Ionic 4 + Google Drive API, and only a few for older versions. It will be an uphill struggle to create a solution that isn't going to scale well.
Instead you should start looking into using Firebase.
There are lots of tutorials which show you the basics: setting up a login system, and reading some data from the database.
The free limits are quite generous.
You can implement caching into your app so that you store a copy of the data on the device, and only refresh it either weekly, or more advanced, put a second table in that records the last updated date for the main table.
Firebase charges by reads so if you can set it up so that you only read one record (last updated) instead of downloading the whole database every time, then you can stretch your free tier a lot further.
If you do outgrow the free tier and the app is not generating enough to cover the costs then you have the option of investing time instead of money. There are guides in the docs about exporting the users and they provide tools so that the passwords can be put into another system without requiring the users to reset their passwords. The database can be similarly exported.
I am able to connect with my ad manager account using Google Ad Manager API (https://github.com/googleads/googleads-php-lib/tree/master/examples/AdManager). I am getting data i.e all companies, all placement on my command line. But confused on getting impressions.
How to get an impression of a placement?
First, you will need a query. Using the UI is the easiest way to build a query, and see the results. Here's the guide from Google to create a query on the UI.
Then, you will save the query and follow the ReportService/RunSavedQuery.php example to download the impression report in your program.
Please note that the examples are removed every 4 quarters and replaced by newer examples. So, if the example link above doesn't work, the example might have been replaced with a newer one.
This question is not a PHP specific question. Indeed, it is a "how to use the product" question, and is best suitable to be answered on the Google Ad Manager product forum. If you raise a question on the forum, the support staff may get back to you on a secured channel to help you build the query.
I have been playing around with GWT and GWT Visualization Wrapper API. One thing I learned recently is that GWT Visualization API does not work without an internet connection (I was working offline the other day and it took me a good half hour to figure out why my charts were not loading)
After doing a lot of reading online about privacy, data, and GWT, it seems that many people, including me, have a concern about sending data to Google when trying to display graphs. I already searched through many sources, including stackoverflow, and I would like to 100% confirm that my assumptions are correct.
The reason for people's concern about sending data to Google was when you tried to get an image of the said chart. This required data to be sent to Google, they processed it, and then they returned an image to be embedded in your website. According to my studies, that feature has been deprecated from Google charts (and for good reason). The way it works now, to my understanding, is that every time you want to display a chart, you download the most up-to-date library on the client side and perform all the calculations on the client. This makes it so that Google doesn’t actually get any information you will display on the charts.
Thus, I can continue using the visualization API as long as I keep using interactive charts and keep checking on the Google charts documentation page that it says that for this particular chart i.e Line Chart:
https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery/linechart
(SEE BOTTOM OF PAGE) “All code and data are processed and rendered in the browser. No data is sent to any server” I do not have to worry about anyone getting my data because all information is processed client side.
Please correct any incorrect assumptions that I may have. Thank you.
The charts on this page, https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery, all include a "Data Policy" section which details whether the chart is rendered on the client and what data will leave the client. Currently, only GeoChart communicates with Google (in order to do the Geocoding); obviously, this could change in the future.
The charts on this other page, https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/more_charts, include some that were written by Google, and some that were written by third parties. These also include a Data Policy section. For those written by Google, you can rely on this policy. For those written by third parties, Google has not validated the claims and cannot guarantee them.
I am wondering if the App Store provides an API that allows others to access the data like descriptions, prices, reviews, etc.?
The iTunes Store is the API.
All pages in the iTunes Store are simply XML files rendered by iTunes. You can parse these files yourself and navigate around to your heart's content.
Here's the URL for the front page:
http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/com.apple.jingle.app.store.DirectAction/storeFront
You might also want to see:
http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/itms/
http://www.s-seven.net/itunes_xml
Apple has an official API for the App Store, it's named iTunes Search API. In the documentation there are also some examples on how to use the "lookup" and "search" endpoints, quite easy to use and data is returned in JSON format :)
Unfortunately that's not the same with Google Play (previously known as Android Market) which does not expose apps' meta-data through an API.
To get that data for Android, you could develop your own HTML crawler, parse the page and extract the app meta-data you need. This topic has been covered in other questions, for instance here.
If you don't want to implement all that by yourself, you could use a third-party service to access Android apps meta-data through a JSON-based API.
For instance, 42matters.com(the company I work for) offers a unified API for both Android and iOS, here more details:
https://42matters.com/app-market-data
The endpoints range from "lookup" (to get one app's meta-data, probably what you need) to "search", but we also expose "rank history" and other stats from the leading app stores. We have extensive documentation for all supported features, you find them in the left panel: https://42matters.com/docs/overview
I hope this helps, otherwise feel free to get in touch with me. I know this industry quite well and can point you in the right direction.
Regards,
Andrea