InstaPAL – Instagram New Post Alerts and Auto Like for Android

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It’s now possible for you to get alerts when your favorite friend lists post new Photos or videos on Instagram using my latest Android Application called InstaPAL (Instagram Post Alerts and Auto Like).

To use it is simple, but I just want to highlight some point of concepts. Before you are able choose or favorite users you are currently following, the app will ask for sign-in and ask you authorize basic,comments,relationships and likes permissions. Why there are so many permissions but not all is being used for this app? You might think so but for simplicity I just request all permissions so that when later I add new features I don’t have to deal with authorization again.

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Uniten Student Info Android Application, behind the scene

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If I’m not mistaken, my last time coding Android application ( in java) was in April 2013. I was attending the Android workshop in November last year but wasn’t doing the coding, only copy and pasting the code. I Almost forgotten all the steps, the hardest part for me always on designing user interfaces. The coding which are using java fairly straightforward except the NTLM authentication part, java and apache web client currently isn’t supporting this authentication by default. I took almost 2 or 3 days to find the solution to this authentication and I found jcifs library from samba.org to do the stuff.

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