I want to create a "personal finance" app with Flutter.
I want to access my bank account stats from my app in order to keep track of the money I spend and/or I earn.
Is that possibile? (which I think it is 'cause other apps seem to do it)
And if it is, what's the smartest & safest way?
Well, flutter can help you achieve this based on the following:
Your financial institution permits you to carry out such actions.
Your financial institution provides necessary API's for such developments.
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My users register on my website (200 per day) and can select from a large pool of categories (100) of content they are interested in: Tech, Business, Health... and so on.
I want to send them an email every week with a digest of the categories they selected.
What's the best tool for the job?
I'm not sure you can do that with Mailchimp and is really expensive considering my user count growth. Plus, users would register on my database and then would have to re register and confirm it on Mailchimp.
I was thinking of making my own / buying something custom that uses Amazon SES.. Looks cheaper. Is that a good idea? What would the obstacles be? Is it very hard to manage bounces, getting your domain through spam blockers and stuff?
Mailchimp is a great way to go here. You can use their API so that your users do not need to re-register. Their content creation tools are great as well so you can build everything you need with them. https://apidocs.mailchimp.com/gettingstarted/connectivity.php
Building out your own tools really depends on what all your platform does today.. that make vs buy decision is a complex one.
I see that many iOS games nowadays don't hardcode their store, and items, description, price etc. are loaded from an external server.
What would be the easiest way to implement this? I am a game programmer with very little experience in server side programming. (Have done hobby PHP scripts a long time ago)
Please let me know what libraries can ease the effort on server side / client side. I would like something that is easy to manage. How do they announce offers like 50% off on certain items etc. whenever they want? Doesn't every in-app purchase manipulation need to get approval from Apple?
Also I would want to maximize security, and prevent the game store getting hacked as much as possible.
You are correct that this has to go through Apple's IAP. You'll want to read about this at https://developer.apple.com/appstore/in-app-purchase/index.html. You setup the IAP items in iTunesConnect (iTC). Your in-app store lists only items that you've setup in iTC, though you can choose not to list every item in ITC. To make your store dynamic, the easiest way is probably to use a UIWebView and then have your store be a series of webpages. This lets you update it on your server easily.
You might check out http://stackmob.com which makes it relatively easy to do just the store part of your in-game store without having all the server admin aspect of it (and associated security). Also, http://urbanairship.com provides hosting for IAP items.
I have a website where people do simple cognitive psychology experiments. Currently, people volunteer. To increase numbers of responses, I would like to offer micropayments in a manner similar to Mechanical Turk*.
My question is, What would would be the best system to use to make these payments? I would guess that both paypal and flattr would be options. Has anyone with experience with setting up a micropayment system like this be able to offer advice?
cheers,
Mark
*I am not thinking about using mechanical turk itself, just because I do not think I would be able to control the web based studies exactly I would need.
Flattr would work in your scenario:
Each person doing the test would need a Flattr account.
They’d need to login with their Flattr account on your site (like on fundd.de) or connect your site with their Flattr (easy with OAuth).
Once they’ve taken the test you manually Flattr them and by controlling your monthly budget you control how much each click is worth.
Our API makes setting this up fairly easy and straightforward http://developers.flattr.net/
Downsides:
Required to sign up with an additional service.
Flattr currently caps monthly spending at €100 so if you have lots and lots of testers you’d run into problems of making the payment high enough. We are reconsidering this, at least for users in good standing.
Monetary incentives for testers bring in a different crowd and can influence the results of their tests but you probably already know that.
Cheers,
Teller
PS. I work at Flattr.
I was wondering is there any way to create 2 ios developer accounts with same bank account ?
I'm pretty sire it is simply not possible to create two developer ACCOUNTS, for the same person. (Or, the same company.)
So, the "bank account" part isn't the problem. The problem is you simply can't create two accounts for the same person (or company) ... as far as I know.
I guess the problem you're having: *you want to separate the accounting for two different products.** That is a huge nuisance even for the largest companies. There's no easy solution.
A word of advice if you're just starting out: it's almost inconceivable you'll make any real money from apps. If you're ever making serious money from not one but two apps, deal with the problem then.
Incorporate a new LLC that you own, and have that company enroll as an iOS Developer under the company's name.
I am planning to create a stock based app for iphone. It's going to be a paid app. So I wanted to know what options do I have for getting the data from API.
I have heard of Yahoo finance api, but think it is not free for commecrial use.
What does Apple use for their native app. Could you please provide me with other options.
Thank you.
Getting fast reliable tick data is going to be very expensive, especially if you want every tick. If you want any kind of order book depth, it's even more expensive.
You might want to investigate LMAX who offer a free API. I think they are the same company that do Betfair in the UK. I'm not sure what markets they offer, whether you can use it outside the UK, and whether the prices on show are actual exchange traded prices, or from their own user generated markets, but it might be of interest...
For historical data (historical stock quotes, historical financial statements, historical dividends, etc), you can use the APIs at http://www.mergent.com/servius
(EDIT: The API can deliver historical ratio information such as P/E ratios, but that feature is still undocumented - will be documented soon).
(EDIT: There's also http://www.zacksdata.com/zacks-data-api . By the way, as a disclosure, both APIs are managed by my company).