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  • FrootLoops (edited 8 years ago)
    +18

    Hi,

    i think your options right now are limited without an api.

    Anyway, here are my suggestions on how to handle your situation:

    1. Remove the adds, you will never earn any money with it, the user base is still much much too low. Besides that it gives a bad impression cause, lets be honest it's just the mobile page with an app skeleton around it and people know that. I think making money with that is not justified.

    2. Even if it's just the mobile page, i like it in a separate app. Makes it easier to access and there is no way other sites can track me.

    3. To make this app really useful you could inject custom javascript / css to make the mobile snapzu experience better. Lets be honest, the mobile page sucks. The filters are not visible, the elements are to small and the whole interface is not made for mobile devices.

    4. The font size changer is a great idea but it fucks op the page in a lot of places. You should limit the font size change just to the parts that look good with a bigger font size.

    Hope that helps.

    Greetings

    • internethermit
      +9

      Thanks for the advice, ad's will be removed on the next build (within 24 hours I would think).

      With regards to point 4. I've been wrestling with that for days, I've been trying to inject JavaScript to change the styling of certain elements but it's breaking the entire page every time. I'm still working on it though, I'll be trying to incorporate JSoup soon.

      • miyakohouou
        +5

        If you're going to remove ads and give up on the idea of making money on the app you might consider open sourcing it. There may be others that would be interested in contributing to a mobile app.

        • internethermit
          +6

          I am considering open sourcing it. To date all of my programming / scripting projects have been entirely my own work, and I have hacked together my own version control systems I work with, so I need to take a look at learning git.

          • HauntedCryme
            +3

            If you're using Android Studio (which you should be doing if you're using Java hint hint), then Git integration is very nice, and I would definitely consider open-sourcing it. I for one would definitely look at helping you in any way I can if there were a git open :)

      • FrootLoops
        +2

        I see, sounds good.

        I have no experience with JSoup but maybe injecting an additional javascript file is even easier. You could use jquery what is already available on snapzu and go from there. Here is how you do that: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21552912/a...nject-local-javascript-file-to-remote-webpage