I have been trawling through all I can to do with the Google GData YouTube API and its doing nothing but hurting my brain, Google do not make it clear to learn and there seesm to be little content online about it (Objective-C iOS, Mac).
I just want to achieve one of the most simply tasks, search YouTube, getting thumbnails, descriptions, titles etc for the search results. If you can help with this I would appreciate it. I am unsure of where to start.
Alternatively if you can recommend some good resources for learning the API I'd appreciate it, thanks.
The YouTubeSample app would be the most straightforward example. You would need to first read and understand the API library documentation.
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Please advise an API where you can send a photo and it will be regenerated into a texture.
I didn't find something like this on google vision API.
Maybe somebody know good website for this?
I have a UIMapView in my iPhone-app.
First I want to show streetnames on it.
Second I want to give the user the chance to look for places with an UISearchViewController.
Are there any tutorials for these 2 points and which service do you think is the best for finding places?
You need to explore and understand Apple's MapKit Framework (https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/MapKit/Reference/MapKit_Framework_Reference/_index.html). To show stuff on the Map you can use MKAnnotations and MKLocalSearch to get points of interest around the user's location. The Documentation is super clear and has examples on how to get latitude/longitude, drop pins, pin-point user's location, add balloons with info (MKAnnotations), etc. Also, take a look at UISearchViewController documentation to see if it is the best for your use case.
Then, I would suggest you to take a look at Google Places Search API (https://developers.google.com/places/documentation/search) or Foursquare's API (https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/). At the end everything is about showing the info coming on a JSON response from one of the APIs on a List or on the Map with balloons.
If your data source ends up being Google Places... I would suggest you to use Google Maps for iOS instead of the native MapKit.
As for tutorials, there are probably 100s of them in the Interwebz... but I suggest you to start with Apple Documentation on MapKit understand that first and then try to mix it with other data sources.
Good luck and happy holidays!
https://www.google.com/reader/api/0/stream/contents/feed/FEEDHERE?output=json&n=20
I'm using this right now to parse RSS and Atom feeds, for a lot of reasons. But there is no official API key or something so I'm afraid something may break in the future, like Google stopping my access if I make a lot of queries.
Is there an alternative to this with API keys?
I suggest trying out Simplepie, I wrote a nice RSS reader with it once. Pretty easy to use.
There are multiple alternatives.
There's Feedly. It’s not the minimalistic, omnipresent glory that is Google Reader, but it’s close, and in some ways exceeds Reader’s capabilities. They've got even a guide for transitioning.
There's NewsBlur. It's developed "in the open", aka you can just check it out on their GitHub.
There's Netvibes. However. Unlike Feedly there's no simple import route in Netvibes for integrating your Google Reader subscriptions. Instead, you need to export your Reader subscriptions as a .ZIP file, extract them to find the 'Subscriptions.xml' file and then import that into Netvibes.
There's also another question on the same subject on Stack Overflow.
And there's many more, just do a Google search.
In my (and many others') opinion, Feedly's the best alternative. But each their own. Good luck!
Try Google Feed Api, it is easy to use. It supports JSON and XML formats, but it is limited to a maximum of 250 feeds per url.
wondering if anyone has heard of a way to filter Twitter search results to the users 'following' list? I'd like to do a search for pics that people I follow have posted. The pics part is fairly trivial (search for image URLs) but I'm guessing that a user-filtered search is beyond the API, even with oAuth.
I've seen a couple of services like snapbird.org that advertise this feature (even though they don't seem to work well), any guesses as to how they go about this?
Thanks!
You can implement this specific image search easily with the help of jetwick.com available as open source here: https://github.com/karussell/Jetwick
Currently searching in your friends is possible but adding yet another filter isn't that hard. Patches are welcome ;)
I've been scouring both this site and the net in general for an example cocoa app that uses QTKit or Audio Queue and actually works.
Unfortunately, I can't find anything that fits the above description.
All I want to do is get a simple audio recording app so I can learn how it works!
Please, I have put alot of time into this already so don't point me to Apple Dev. It is just too dense for my simple brain.
And yes, there is a dupe or two here, but none of them actually produced a satisfactory outcome.
I am desperate! I feel like this should be WAY easier. I am starting to worry about getting deeply into Cocoa because the developer documentation is really not good.
Help!
It's not reasonable to ask people not to point to the documentation, especially when there is a step-by-step tutorial for creating a simple recording app with QTKit therein. It's titled "Creating a Simple Capture and Recording Application" with about ten steps (with code). If that's not enough, the Sample Code section gives you "MyRecorder," which is a ready-to-go media recorder using QTKit.
It's far easier to get help if you a) don't limit people by telling them not to refer you to a resource and, b) start with some standard resource and explain what it is that's confusing you or that's not working for you, so we have a starting point from which to offer help.