I want to build an app related to musics.
Can someone please suggest me some ruby gems that can help me in finding music ratings/finding top musics of particular band or singer.
go http://rubygems.org/
type music
You'll see that there are many music related gems. However if you are building an app that finds top rated music, I suggest looking into the APIs for various music services, check Rdio, Spotify, Soundcloud, Groovshark etc. I believe most of those have fairly complete APIs that will allow you to access the kind information you might be looking for.
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Since I haven't got any response on the Unity3d or Evernote forums, I'll try it here.
The last year I have worked a lot with Unity3D, mostly because the good integration with the Vuforia Augmented Reality library and the fact that publishing for multiple platforms is a piece of cake.
Now I want to show notes in an AR setting and am looking at the Evernote API for this. I couldn't find anything about using this with Unity, I can see why this is not the most common combination.
My question is: do you think I can access the Evernote API through Unity? If so, how should I do this? Or is it for this purpose perhaps wiser to make (parts of) the application with Eclipse/xCode?
Hope to hear from you!
Link to Evernote API: http://dev.evernote.com/doc/
The Evernote API has a C# SDK which you should be able to call through Unity. In terms of how to do it, you will probably need to download the SDK and follow the instructions yourself. Their github seems like a good starting point.
One thing to note is that Unity's .Net library for mobile clients are quite limited and with webplayer you will need to deal with sandbox security issues. But start with the standalone build first and see how you go
Im working on an iPhone app and would like to add a photo element to it. The features Im looking for are:
A photo gallery in my app.
Take a photo from my app and return one or more images to the app gallery.
Upload images to a server.
Image resizing.
I know there are a lot of great frameworks out there for iOS/OS X so I was hoping someone knew of one that could accomplish the above.
Also I was wondering if it would be a better idea to have a framework for the photography features and a fuller networking framework for uploads and downloads? Im leaning towards two because Im familiar with MKNetworkKit : https://github.com/MugunthKumar/MKNetworkKit
I just thought of another thing. I need to set up a server with an API so I can send and receive photos and data. Does anyone know of any frameworks/libraries/toolkits that would help me set up the server for uploading/downloading photos and data?
I dont want to program from scratch what I dont have to. Why reinvent the wheel when I can give it chrome plating and spinners :)
I've used MWPhotoBrowser for generating gallery views before, but it's not been updated for a little while, and it doesn't cover everything you want out of the box. You'll probably be best served by splitting it into multiple libraries to cover the necessary functionality, and adapting them as needed.
In terms of the backend server you'd probably get quite far with Rails and the Paperclip gem. I set up a basic image and data serving API in about half a day with the two, and there's a fair amount of tutorials showing how to do it with the Rails scaffolding commands. To get you started a video of how to build a RESTful API in Rails and a railscast on Paperclip.
I am working on a newsstand magazine and I have done the content (with great help from the Laker Compendium), but can't manage to do the part concerning the app's store view and server downloading.
There is really a small number of tutorials and such help on newsstand and the only one I found to be helpful in some other aspects, doesn't really explain well this part.
Simply, what I'm asking is if I have created content (as a single app), how do I get it to work with a store and future issues?
Is there a downloadable project I can adapt to my own server?
Laker does not yet have newsstand capability. You can try to add it yourself. This is the best tutorial I have found:
http://www.viggiosoft.com/blog/blog/2011/10/17/ios-newsstand-tutorial/
Also, I recommend the wwdc video talks that you can download for free on iTunes about newsstand. You will need to build your own server to host the files. I'm doing the same using Google App Engine. This is a non-trivial project.
I am thinking there must be some libraries out there that people have developed which can be used as "plugins" or whatever people call them to do simple and common UI types of things.
I am using the message board idea as just an example, but I am looking for a general solution. For example, is there a place where I can browse "gems" for RoR that just take care of some UI component?
How do people usually integrate such pieces as a message board present at the bottom of every page, or some other ui tool without writing their own, or using a CMS?
Thanks,
Alex
Two good places to browse gems are http://ruby-toolbox.com/ and of course http://rubygems.org/
Does anyone here know any resources on how to get started writing a plugin for Google's Picasa? I love it for photo management, but I have some ideas for how it could be better.
Riya-esque facial search: given a large enough corpus of faces and pictures (people tend to be repeated often in individuals' albums (family, friends), I would think some semi-workable version of this could be done. And with 13+ gigs/7 years of photos, it would be very nice for search.
Upload to Facebook EDIT: Someone already made a very nice version
Upload to any non-Google property, actually.
I know there are certain APIs and a Picasa2Flickr plugin out there, and I was wondering if anyone had seen any resources on this topic or had any experience
there is a an Opensource Project which created a "Upload To FlickR" Plugin. Maybe you could use it as an startingpoint...
I thought about facial recognition many years ago but my search only found a web API - no plugin api. My idea was to use an external facial recognition program to slowly index my entire catalogue of pictures and reliably tag them according to who was in them. It wouldn't need to be 100% accurate, but anything over 85% would be acceptable.
I would start with the Picasa API:
Picasa API