I have a web app where if a user signs up, a notification is sent to the slack channel. I want to achieve the same thing in skype for business but I cant find any good resources. Will it be possible to do this?
That isn´t so easy to answer as Skype for Business (=SfB) is a very complex product and you didn´t outlined a real use case (e.g. will a group of persons addressed or only one person, what should happen if nobody is in, ...).
As a starting point you could build something on your own via the Skype for Business Web SDK which fits your needs. If you search for that via Google you can find various article which gives you some examples which can be adjusted (for example here).
You might also wish to try to find a old version from the "Lync Presence & Chat Widget" as it became a commercial product.
If you wish to get a commercial "plugin" you can try to use:
OrbitOne - Lync Presence & Chat Widgets see here (Demo here)
Vytru Live Web Chat Widget for Lync/Skype for Business
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I dont know where to begin. Do I need to create an app? Do I need to use bots? I have tried finding docs online but don't know where to start. Any help with be appreciated.
I am trying to create a small form in a teams channel that my users will fill out.
User enters #projects
Web server responds with
User clicks submit and data gets posted to my web server.
You're correct that there are a few different kinds of applications in Teams, so finding the one that suits your needs can be a little confusing at first. For what you're trying to do, I would recommend a Bot, and when it received a message (which it will do when it receives your #mention), it can respond with an Adaptive Cards. Adaptive Cards, if you've not used them, are like small embedded forms inside the chat. The user can complete the card and click a button, and it will send the payload back to your bot to do whatever it needs.
Bots, incidentally, are basically just web services, so your bot can do whatever it needs once it received the payload, such as calling another API in turn.
You haven't mentioned what language you might want to work in, but here are some good starting point nevertheless:
https://dev.botframework.com/
https://github.com/microsoft/BotBuilder-Samples/tree/main/samples
https://github.com/microsoft/BotBuilder-Samples/tree/main/samples/csharp_dotnetcore/57.teams-conversation-bot (I've linked the C# version - you should know that Teams bots use the same Microsoft framework as -all- bots build for the Microsoft world, such as web chat bot or a Skype bot. As a result, you have to ensure that anything you look at is applicable to Teams as some content/samples are not)
https://adaptivecards.io/ (as with Bots, Adaptive Cards have a life outside of Teams, so some articles/content/etc. might not be applicable to your scenario)
I want to send email through gmail or other message clients,is it possible in iOS.
I searched a lot but didn't find anything.
I don't want to use the default composer to send mail.I wants user to choose whether they want to send emails from the default mfmailcomposeviewcontroll or can send through gmail,yahoo.
There are a few ways in which 3rd-party developers may offer this functionality -- regardless of the manner selected, it is up to the 3rd-party vendor to decide how much (if any) of these methods are implemented and documented in the public domain as accessible to other applications or users. Ultimately you will need to consult the target product's documentation or support channels to determine if such mechanisms exist. While this is neither an exhaustive list, nor it is a list of formally supported mechanisms for achieving your goal, it should give you some insight into what to go research or ask additional questions about:
Option 1: Open URL Schemes
iOS Developers can register their applications to respond to a URL scheme like "tel://" or "sms://" or "http://". If vendors register a URL scheme it will be visible in the app's info.plist. While it won't speak to the format of any parameters you need to pass, the vendor's documentation or support personnel may be able to shine a light on those capabilities. For the HTTP scheme, iOS' MobileSafari.app is registered to respond -- the well-formed NSURL that gets passed to Safari is used as the URL to which Safari navigates when launched.
Option 2: 3rd-party SDK
Other vendors may elect to make an SDK available that you can implement in your app. Google Drive, Dropbox, and Facebook are all great examples. To incorporate these cloud filesystems or social capabilities in your own apps, you can register as a developer and follow install guides to both adopt their SDK and leverage the functionality the SDK provides.
As for your specific question, it appears as though Google's official Gmail app does have an undocumented URL Scheme that the community has discovered, reverse-engineered, and written up. While I VERY STRONGLY DISCOURAGE use of undocumented app capabilities there is nothing preventing you from using this functionality. Keep in mind that because this is undocumented, there is a distinct possibility that the feature could be removed, changed, or otherwise made unavailable in future builds that can leave your own app in a bit of a bind. Furthermore, for those of your users that do not have the Gmail app installed would not be able to leverage this URL Scheme and could lead to a poor user experience. All that said, with the caveats above, Tom Scotland has written up a series of blog posts on the Gmail app's URL scheme and updates to the scheme as a function of the rest of the Google constellation of iOS apps - http://tom.scogland.com/blog/2013/01/29/gmail-url-scheme/
Yahoo Mail is a separate issue -- As far as I can tell, this app offers neither of these access options, however I'll leave the digging as an exercise for the OP.
Again, I encourage you to use MFMailComposerViewController instead of unofficial or unapproved app capabilities so as to limit your own app's exposure to changes beyond your control.
I am building a SMALL subscription-based educational video site (openly accessible examples of similar technical implementations would include RailsCasts Pro, Egghead.io Pro, Codeschool.com, etc.) where users pay to get access to a certain array of videos.
Obviously, I don't want to spend time on reinventing the video hosting wheel, so I would like to use a hosted solution for that.
Now, googling "hosted video access control" or anything like that hasn't yielded any meaningful results, since it seems to be the wrong search phrase - this has less to do with access control and more with restricting video access based on some from of authentication & authorization. My guess this would be in practice implemented by some token system.
I'm having trouble of knowing where to start.
My questions are:
1) What is the de facto way of doing access control to videos on these subscription video sites?
2) Are these providers doing it from scratch; is there a provider that has a easy to setup, simple and affordable solution for this; or is there a set of tools that you can use to build the system?
3) Are some of the major video hosting providers such as YouTube, Vimeo, etc. usable for this kind of a use case, perhaps using some 3rd party solutions to handle the access control part?
Thank you!
Although not a definitive answer, the best thing so far I've found is Wistia (http://wistia.com/product). And Udemy (http://udemy.com) is a more controlled learning video / online course environment.
I've googles about it, yet couldn't understand it properly.. Not sure if it's a library or intra-server communicator..
Can someone explain me in a high-level /low-level what is meant by an API.??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface
Read it from here , will hopefully clear most of your doubts.
An API stands for Application Programming Interface, which means using and existing program or code and accessing it with your code.
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Example, Search Engine:
Search engine 1: offers search and api (if you want this can be google)
Search engine 2: uses googles api to get results (this is your one)
To get results you basically search the other search engine and get their results to yours
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An API can be used in many ways, to access others data or code, ect
An in-depth explination can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface
An application-programming interface (API) is a set of programming instructions and standards for accessing a Web-based software application or Web tool. A software company releases its API to the public so that other software developers can design products that are powered by its service.
For example, Amazon.com released its API so that Web site developers could more easily access Amazon's product information. Using the Amazon API, a third party Web site can post direct links to Amazon products with updated prices and an option to "buy now."
An API is a software-to-software interface, not a user interface. With APIs, applications talk to each other without any user knowledge or intervention. When you buy movie tickets online and enter your credit card information, the movie ticket Web site uses an API to send your credit card information to a remote application that verifies whether your information is correct. Once payment is confirmed, the remote application sends a response back to the movie ticket Web site saying it's OK to issue the tickets.
As a user, you only see one interface -- the movie ticket Web site -- but behind the scenes, many applications are working together using APIs. This type of integration is called seamless, since the user never notices when software functions are handed from one application to another.
This article shows an example
http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/127316/Integrate-FB-javascript-API-to-your-asp-net-app-to
Is it possible to use Google Analytics API's to track Mac OSX applications?
If not could any one suggest me an alternative for Google Analytics.
Google Analytics is designed to work with web applications not for desktop apps. Although it might be possible to collect info about your application and send it to your Google Analytic account but the amount of work required to retrofit might be better spent, building your own Analytic solution.
A good starting point would be to create a simple web service, which collects information regarding clicks. Then rewrite your application to call that web service on every click within your application.
You would ideally want to store this information locally and submit it to the web service in batches. You would also want to design the application, so that if you ever shut down the web service, the application would still be able to operate.
UPDATE: As pointed out in the comments by Václav Slavík, they have added apps analytics for iOS/Android.
I made a simple set of classes for doing this:
https://github.com/stephenlind/SimpleCocoaGoogleAnalytics
Google Analytics is not only for web applications, but also for mobile. It's available on the platform like android, iOS, etc. If you want to track your MAC OS X application, you can choose DeskAppTrack or DeskMetrics. DeskAppTrack is only available on MAC. It provide a professional data statistical analysis and it's free. While DeskMetrics is available on MAC and Windows. Either one is ok.
This really depends on how detailed you want to get. If you are are truly looking for analytics with detail and control flow data, you are better suited to created your own web service, as mentioned.
However, if you simply want to know a small number of operations, that occur at a small volume, i.e. when the app is launched (a quick and dirty solution): then in theory you could create a landing page on your site that contains a minimal head section, and a blank body, and then load the URL with an NSURL when you want to trigger the action.
Of course, you would have to include the google analytics tracking codes in the header, and you may need to load an off-screen webview to get the javascript to run. Like I said, quick and dirty.
In either case, you want to make sure the application will continue to perform properly, even if the web service / page is not present.