[TOOL] AppThwack - Easily test apps on real devices we host - Testing

Hi, I'm Trent and I co-created AppThwack, a service for on-demand automated testing of Android apps on real devices. Basically, you upload an apk and a couple minutes later you get screenshots and logcat dumps from actual phones and tablets we host.
Beta Users Needed
We're currently looking for devs to join our private beta. You can message me or sign up on our website and I'll get a beta code to you shortly. We're trying to stress the system and make additions/adjustments so the service is as useful as possible for developers.
Current Features
Real phones and tablets: About 20 high- and low-end devices and we add a few more every week.
Fast: See results in real time. Full test runs on all devices takes a minute or two to complete.
Selectable default tests: Install, launch, UI Monkey, Cleanup
Configurable tests: For example, specify the number of UI Monkey events and seed the randomizer
JUnit including Robotium support via uploaded test packages
Screenshots in portrait and landscape on all devices
Logcat and filterable logcat viewer
High-level results sortable by device or test
Full stack-traces for any exception that occurs
Future
We're working on adding more test frameworks like monkeyrunner and more default tests, particularly performance tests that measure battery consumption, CPU usage, etc. We're also adding more data visualization and charting so it's easy to see what some of the gathered statistics mean.
We plan to launch soon, but the beta program will remain in effect even after that. The service will follow a freemium model. Again, the beta is free and we're going to keep it in place even after we eventually launch.
Inter-device automation
Our back-end supports device-to-device automation, so if you have an app or scenario that you'd like to test that involves multiple devices or interaction with other devices, even non-Android devices, let me know. We're looking for people to help us develop how this service will be exposed.
Edit: I can't post links, but if you search for "appthwack" you'll find it. Btw, I've apparently lurked since October, 2008. Yikes.

Just wondering will this support of testing apps that require root?
Also any chance we can see like a live pic of the device when it installs the app and opens it?
Sent from my VS910 4G using xda premium

motodroidfreak said:
Just wondering will this support of testing apps that require root?
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Right now it does not and all of our phones are as close to stock as possible. I'll look into making it an option so we automatically root before your app installs and then un-root after the tests are complete. Root opens up some new possibilities, both good and bad, so I'll need to think about it.
motodroidfreak said:
Also any chance we can see like a live pic of the device when it installs the app and opens it?
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Yes! The launch test takes a screenshot in both landscape and portrait. You can see all screenshots sorted by device by clicking "By Device" or "By Test" and clicking the "Screenshots" link in the blue box at the top.
Screenshots also show up in each launch test log so you can see the context as the shot was captured. Logcat dumps show up in the same place (Link from the blue box at the top will open a filterable and highlighted log viewer).

Alright thanks I'll try it out tonight
Sent from my VS910 4G using xda premium

Holy cow. Didn't realize such web service existed.
I just signed up and currently having a look around. Is it possible for me to join the beta? Thanks!
Is it possible for a "free" upgrade for my account? Heh just asking
EDIT : Created a new project. Then I'm stuck. The "Runs" tab is empty.
EDIT again : Oh.. uploading had error previously. Uploading again.

Very interesting project. Good luck to your team and I hope I can be a good beta tester

Realy interesting, for us, almost of our apps needs root access, so please think about adding root to your service

Test on my Sensation
Will test on my sensation

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nullFactory said:
Hi, I'm Trent and I co-created AppThwack, a service for on-demand automated testing of Android apps on real devices. Basically, you upload an apk and a couple minutes later you get screenshots and logcat dumps from actual phones and tablets we host.
Beta Users Needed
We're currently looking for devs to join our private beta. You can message me or sign up on our website and I'll get a beta code to you shortly. We're trying to stress the system and make additions/adjustments so the service is as useful as possible for developers.
Current Features
Real phones and tablets: About 20 high- and low-end devices and we add a few more every week.
Fast: See results in real time. Full test runs on all devices takes a minute or two to complete.
Selectable default tests: Install, launch, UI Monkey, Cleanup
Configurable tests: For example, specify the number of UI Monkey events and seed the randomizer
JUnit including Robotium support via uploaded test packages
Screenshots in portrait and landscape on all devices
Logcat and filterable logcat viewer
High-level results sortable by device or test
Full stack-traces for any exception that occurs
Future
We're working on adding more test frameworks like monkeyrunner and more default tests, particularly performance tests that measure battery consumption, CPU usage, etc. We're also adding more data visualization and charting so it's easy to see what some of the gathered statistics mean.
We plan to launch soon, but the beta program will remain in effect even after that. The service will follow a freemium model. Again, the beta is free and we're going to keep it in place even after we eventually launch.
Inter-device automation
Our back-end supports device-to-device automation, so if you have an app or scenario that you'd like to test that involves multiple devices or interaction with other devices, even non-Android devices, let me know. We're looking for people to help us develop how this service will be exposed.
Edit: I can't post links, but if you search for "appthwack" you'll find it. Btw, I've apparently lurked since October, 2008. Yikes.
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I would like to test the tool, can you share with me..

Tested
Tested the tool, seems too good..
Suggestion : In-case if you want to reach maximum number of developer. Allow developer to use has free.
IDEA : You can request developer to post about you're tool on there app page, website & play store... As you're giving the tool as free you will get enough number of people to view & use the tool.. if the developer agree then you will allow him to use the tool for free of cost..
As a developer am ready to use the tool & post about you in my app & other places too...

This is a great tool, just uploaded an apk of my app that's in my signature and it worked, with a couple of NullPointers from the Play Store's licence service. That shouldn't happen, and doesn't on any of my devices, so I suspect it's an issue on your end. Any idea why?
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java.lang.NullPointerException at com.google.android.vending.licensing.LicenseValidator.verify(LicenseValidator.java:99) at com.google.android.vending.licensing.LicenseChecker$ResultListener$2.run(LicenseChecker.java:228) at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:605) at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92) at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137) at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:60)
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FATAL EXCEPTION: background thread java.lang.NullPointerException at com.google.android.vending.licensing.LicenseValidator.verify(LicenseValidator.java:99) at com.google.android.vending.licensing.LicenseChecker$ResultListener$2.run(LicenseChecker.java:228) at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:608) at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92) at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:156) at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:60)

Borland
We are using Silk Mobile for end to end applications testing. Do you ever used this tool?

What an interesting service! I'll look into this from work tomorrow.
Not having used this at all, the first things which do spring to mind are:
-streaming realtime logcat
-a (skype?) connection with live streaming video of the app running, so you can see layouts/animations etc.
Anyway, I'm going to check this out tomorrow!

Quinny899 said:
This is a great tool, just uploaded an apk of my app that's in my signature and it worked, with a couple of NullPointers from the Play Store's licence service. That shouldn't happen, and doesn't on any of my devices, so I suspect it's an issue on your end. Any idea why?
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Thanks for checking out the service. My immediate guess it that this is caused by the absence of a default Play account. Many devices have no account as one of our supported frameworks, calabash, removes accounts upon cleanup after script completion. On the plus-side, if you were to write scripts you should be able to add a temporary account from the test itself.
Highly unlikely you'd hit this bug in a real world situation, but it is a bug nonetheless.

Really awesome service! Can't test it for the moment as it doesn't support root apps, but this is really a great concept :good:
Maybe you could build a superuser permissions manager which would grant root access but makes sure to keep /system mounted as read-only, this way no harm could be done to the devices and us root apps devs could use your awesome service.
I actually got quite a few ideas, you could delete the mount binary in /system/xbin and use it in an internal appthwack app's private data, so that it's the only app able to call this binary and thus to mount /system.
I'd definitely subscribe to AppThwack if it had root support.
If you want help with developing this kind of secure root environment for the testing, I'd gladly contribute.
EDIT : Strangely enough, I just tested it with my app (which asks for root in the launcher activity, so I really didn't expect it to work) and had 0 failures, 75 pass.
How comes ? Have you already added root support ?^^
Either way this is really cool, I'm going to spread the words and most likely subscribe a paid account :good:
Is there somewhere we can see pictures of your device lab? Gotta be one hell of a device museum you got over there^^

Androguide.fr said:
Really awesome service! Can't test it for the moment as it doesn't support root apps, but this is really a great concept :good:
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Awesome, thanks for the kind words!
EDIT : Strangely enough, I just tested it with my app (which asks for root in the launcher activity, so I really didn't expect it to work) and had 0 failures, 75 pass.
How comes ? Have you already added root support ?^^
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This is pretty interesting. The only two rooted devices are a couple running CM. I'll look into this further, and if you have any ideas I'd love to hear them as well.
Either way this is really cool, I'm going to spread the words and most likely subscribe a paid account :good:
Is there somewhere we can see pictures of your device lab? Gotta be one hell of a device museum you got over there^^
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Sweet, I really appreciate it. As soon as I have the number of posts to do so I'll post a pic of the lab.

Some things can not be automated, like scanning a QR code or reading/writing to an NFC tag. Do you plan on adding "manual tests" for a fee?
This would be really great to test apps on specific hardware.

worldtiki said:
Some things can not be automated, like scanning a QR code or reading/writing to an NFC tag. Do you plan on adding "manual tests" for a fee?
This would be really great to test apps on specific hardware.
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Thanks for the question! Our primary focus is on automation. There are existing test houses and services that will execute manual tests like those you describe, but of course because of the manual component they're slow and expensive.
We often push folks to break their testing down into more granular chunks. For instance, verify you can take a picture and deal with the image, even if it's not the QR code or whatever your app usually consumes. This will find problems with simply using the camera and resulting image location. Now, have a separate test that processes a photo of a QR code, but feed the image in as part of the test. This removes the camera component from the analysis part, meaning it's now possible to benchmark the image analysis algorithm on all devices.
With a combination of a service like ours where you test very, very quickly on tons of devices, you can now do some more UX/end-to-end tests on a handful of devices yourself. This hybrid approach is great for finding the vast majority of issues before release.

nice post
Realy interesting, for us

Awesome tool !
No Developer can test his/her app on many devices. But your tool ... A W E S O M E ! ... I Used it yesterday to test two of my new apps ... Found some error is my app on certain devices which i'd have never found without AppThwack .. :good: :good:

Related

Frostwire apk tester

anyone else a tester for limewire? sign up on their site they emailed me right back. seems ok sofar evo 2.2
Looks like a great thread for the aps forum.
i'm not a tester, the development forum is probably not the palce for this post. I personlally dont use [email protected] programs as they are infested with spyware, viruses and fake files. Newsgroups all the way, still has some but much much less.
slvrprelude said:
anyone else a tester for limewire? sign up on their site they emailed me right back. seems ok sofar evo 2.2
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I signed up days ago but they havent contacted me at all. Can you share the apk with me?
Holy crap! People still use Limewire aka the most viruses on the internets?
SolsticeZero said:
Holy crap! People still use Limewire aka the most viruses on the internets?
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Yeah, I usually end up yelling "DEAR GOD - DON'T YOU LOVE YOURSELF?" at them in my best Jon Pinette voice.
SolsticeZero said:
Holy crap! People still use Limewire aka the most viruses on the internets?
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It only has viruses for the people that don't know what their doing. But such is true with any aspect of the internet. This is why I have a job in tech support because people will always be dumb enough to click on just about anything and open the floodgates to infect their computers.
if anyone wants the apk just msg me. io have it on my evo 2.2 and my moment 2.1 and runs great really.. just not many people on there yet. also yea if you are dumb you can get viruses from going to google. people that know how to use computes really shouldnt worry about too many problems. also its should stay in the development cause its trying to develop the features and this shows that we can totally open these things up for some wicked stuff.
Unknownforce said:
It only has viruses for the people that don't know what their doing. But such is true with any aspect of the internet. This is why I have a job in tech support because people will always be dumb enough to click on just about anything and open the floodgates to infect their computers.
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It has viruses for everyone however if you know what you are doing you can weed out about 95% of them this is true (i mean come on i thought all mp3s were 5kbs and made you go to a web page to "acquire a license" first.). this doesn't mean you aren't at risk of getting particularly clever virus or spyware no matter how much you know.
still like i said much better ways then P2P. though i haven't found a decent newsgroup program for android yet.
Besides the fact that this is in the wrong section, I'll post the newest apk link here: http://dl.frostwire.com/android/0.3.10/frostwire.apk
edit: added new link with updated version on 08/31/10
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Newest Link :
http://dl.frostwire.com/android/0.4.3/frostwire.apk
FrostWire developers here
Hi, just joined xda developers (can't believe we didn't do it before)
anyways, you're all welcome to help us test our next release, it's been a while since 0.4.x, we're now about to release 1.0.6 and we've fixed a lot.
You can download and test the 1.0.6 release candidate 1 here
dl.frostwire.com/android/fresh/frostwire.1.0.6.rc1.apk
This release includes the following fixes:
FrostWire 1.0.6 - APR/03/2013
- Faster search results. Search architecture revised and improved.
- Includes search results from archive.org, which indexes millions
of public domain and creative commons works from all over the
internet.
- Reduces CPU and battery consumption up to 84%.
- FrostWire won't disable screen locking during audio playback.
It's now up to the user to set longer auto-locking timeouts if
they want to use FrostWire as an audio player in their vehicles.
- UI fix, media player screen is correctly updated if a song starts
while the screen was locked.
- Updated icons and graphics.
- Improved mime type detection.
- Supports WebM video search results.
- Updated UPnP cling libraries for better Wi-Fi sharing discovery.
- Multiple crashes and freezes fixed.
- Opens .torrent files from urls and from any file browser.
- Faster hashing and checking of ongoing and finished torrent downloads.
- Fixes a crash when sharing files from third party apps like FileKicker
which pass filepath uris instead of android provider uris.
- Fixes double audio playback issue with third party media playing apps.
- Fixes bug where the app would force close and restart on phones without SD cards.
- Fixes bug on Android 4.x where finished document downloads wouldn't appear under
documents.
- Avoids crash caused by AdMobSDK and WebView's cache being null.
You can follow live code progress on github.com/frostwire/frostwire-android/commits/master, hackers are most welcome to send pull requests.

Multitasking on wp7

Have a look at this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jipqNtc_PPU&feature=player_embedded
Our own developer Jaxbot is up to his tricks again, and this time, it's paid off: Finder of a hack that brought instant resuming to Windows Phone 7, he has been developing a full fast app switching/multitasking solution for Windows Phone 7.
Shown in the video above, the preview of the application is triggered by pressing the half shutter button (pressing the camera button halfway, not to the point where the camera would launch), and allows the user to jump between desired applications. The applications run in the background to a degree, as shown with the timer, and no time is required to bring the applications back from their background state. It's all very technical, but rest assure that he will be sharing some more details in the future.
Keep in mind the application is a preview-the interface and how it functions may very well change before release, and no release date is available. But if you're interested in having it on your device, share some thoughts about how you think it should look, function, etc, in the comments below.
Without further ado, watch the video above for a demonstration of fast app switching on Windows Phone 7.
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Source
Yeah, checked the article out yesterday. Hopefully he'll be releasing something to everyone soon. It's the one thing I'm dying without No third party alarms (as the one MS provides kind of blows) and all this resuming nonsense is becoming slightly annoying.
That looks pretty slick! Would love to see this one in the wild soon, now if I could only get Pandora I would be set.
kwill said:
Yeah, checked the article out yesterday. Hopefully he'll be releasing something to everyone soon. It's the one thing I'm dying without No third party alarms (as the one MS provides kind of blows) and all this resuming nonsense is becoming slightly annoying.
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Its still work in progress, there are limitations... people work as hard as they can to overcome these limitations and make it work for all devices.
Currently I believe its not possible to automatically find the titles of the running apps, so they are manually added (hardcoded) however they can find the paths to the files... so the remaining thing is getting access to the files in these paths to extract the title and tile image.
However what you see really works, its real and should work with every app once this is accomplished.
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Its still work in progress, there are limitations... people work as hard as they can to overcome these limitations and make it work for all devices.
Currently I believe its not possible to automatically find the titles of the running apps, so they are manually added (hardcoded) however they can find the paths to the files... so the remaining thing is getting access to the files in these paths to extract the title and tile image.
However what you see really works, its real and should work with every app once this is accomplished.
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Thanks a lot for the insight on the operation and the obstacles they have to overcome. I'll be monitoring for any progress or assistance I can provide. Although, I'm sure my non-expert help won't be of much help.
kwill said:
Thanks a lot for the insight on the operation and the obstacles they have to overcome. I'll be monitoring for any progress or assistance I can provide. Although, I'm sure my non-expert help won't be of much help.
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you can monitor here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1006331
and here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1021135
btw I have nothing to do with the developments, I was just excited by the news and kept contact with Jaxbot who made this app/video with the code wrapper provided by fiinix
Looks great! I like the idea of a half shutter press. Very elegant solution.
Want that app!
Is this app on the video released?????? I can't find any link to download, although it was introduces about 2 years

[XAP] LG Test App (provxml query) 1

Hi folks,
I need a few testers with LG devices to try something for me. This app is a test app to see if it might be possible to write a registry browser using no homebrew native DLLs (and therefore it would work on Mango).
The test app does not require Mango, but will run on Mango if your device is unlocked for Mango homebrew ("full unlock", not just "dev unlock"). Don't remove ID_CAP_INTEROPSERVICES; the app almost certainly work without it.
Please run the three tests and report the results. You can then uninstall the app. It will make no changes to your phone. Whether successful or unsuccessful, I have more tests that I'll want to run later. Thanks for helping out; I don't have an LG device so you're really just helping yourselves!
Note: I'm aware that Heathclif74 is bringing his Root Tools app to LG and to Mango, so in the long run this won't be needed. However, it may still be useful - as an interim solution or as an easy way to get interesting results.
EDIT 1: Thanks folks! Due to the third testing returning wayyyyy too many results, I suggest you don't run this anymore - I've got the data I need to create another version. I'll post test 2 later (and I'll have a better way to handle anything expected to return lots of data).
Ok, I will testing after ~5 hours.
I was thinking of the same thing although i tried to copy the repsonse xml files on samsungs to query, but unfortunately they were empty and querying did not work for me. I remember that LG indeed has a query api (it will probably only work on the registry and not on the file system itself).
Good luck with it, if you need help let me know
LG Optimus 7, V7392
Test 1= 1
Test 2= Sub.key contained 1 values: Version
Test 3= a whole bunch of results, maybe 150 !!!!!
If i have more time would report it all.
Thanks
LG Quantum: 7720.68
Test 1:
Success
the value was 1
Test 2:
Sub-key contained 1 values:
Version
Test 3:
attached 1st page as image.
all following pages as jpeg package (images 1168 through 1187)
it should be straight forward to OCR these if necessary.... (btw. it's not possible to create txt file and email this within your app? )
btw. Marvin_S and GoodDayToDie, some of this looks like a set of the config.xml that I can call up with the MFG tool on the phone.
the entire config.xml is here:
http://daytonacs.org/files/wp7/
image IMG_1160 (600x800).jpg through IMG_1167 (600x800).jpg
You say we need to full unlock our LG devices if we are on Mango. How can we do this if we can only unlock HTC devices? Did I miss something here?
airwa1kin7 said:
You say we need to full unlock our LG devices if we are on Mango. How can we do this if we can only unlock HTC devices? Did I miss something here?
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I think dev unlock here is meant to be a legit developer unlocked device via an AppHub account etc.
Not the way LG users use the MFG tool to unlock their phones. I consider this as fully unlocked because I can sideload ID_CAP_INTEROPSERVICES xaps perfectly fine, whereas a user with a legit dev unlocked device cannot. They just get the dreaded E: 0x81030120 error.
Here is what the expert says.
The current status with LG devices on Mango is that registry changes are possible via DiagProvXML (MFG tool aside) but file ops are restricted.
1 and 2 tests - same.
What you need from 3th test? I don't understand.
minep said:
1 and 2 tests - same.
What you need from 3th test? I don't understand.
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he needs the entire query result for research into LG on-device file operations and registry changes. Since it's many pages of code and no way to export to txt the best way is to take pics of your device for each page you can scroll through (see my post above).
That need change to TextBox.
Whoa, thanks guys!!
Not sure what test 3 is doing - it should be only retrieving results one level deep (recursive=false). This will need to be explored more.
However, the actual result is fantastic! Please stop running the app for now until I come up witha new version that doesn't throw pages and pages of results at you.
@derausgewanderte: I opened up Visual Studio to start that app less than 30 minutes before posting it. Total hack, no frills. I was only expecting maybe 20 results max for the third test, and not recursive ones either!
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Whoa, thanks guys!!
Not sure what test 3 is doing - it should be only retrieving results one level deep (recursive=false). This will need to be explored more.
However, the actual result is fantastic! Please stop running the app for now until I come up witha new version that doesn't throw pages and pages of results at you.
@derausgewanderte: I opened up Visual Studio to start that app less than 30 minutes before posting it. Total hack, no frills. I was only expecting maybe 20 results max for the third test, and not recursive ones either!
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either way, there seems to be tons of interesting information in there

[SDK] LiveLibs ~ auto-updating code in your apps!

LiveLibs is an SDK that you can use in your apps. It allows you to have automatically updating code written in JavaScript. And yes, it'll even pass Marketplace approval. For more info, go here:
LiveLibs.com
Alpha 2 changes:
- Completely changed over from IronRuby to Jurassic (JavaScript) engine
- Improved security (hints and libraries are signed; lib.xml contains more verification data)
(Reserved)
Even though I do respect all the effort you may have put in this project, I'm still not too sure about it. As we've already seen and learned from Android and even iOS there's always the risk of a misuse of such an updating method as unauthorized code can be injected. I rather wait for updates to pass the official certification ways than let my apps update on their own and not knowing what exactly was downloaded.
You are right. With alpha 1 there is a risk of a MitM attack causing apps to download something they shouldn't. However, the framework is already in place to mitigate that - I just haven't had time to implement it fully.
All library ZIP files are signed on the server side with the LiveLibs private key, and the signature is checked by the SDK upon download. Starting with alpha 2, hints will also be signed, which will ensure that erroneous updates are never downloaded.
Also, you don't have to trust the LiveLibs.com site to do the updating. The SDK lets you specify alternate URLs for hints and for libraries.
Just stumbled across this link from your sig. Very cool idea. However, I want to know: have you tested it on a developer-locked phone? Dev-unlock allows the phone to execute code that doesn't have a Microsoft signature (Marketplace apps receive this on all DLLs) but user-replaced or self-compiled binaries won't have that signature. I don't know exactly how your libs worked, but from the look of things (based on your choice of languages) you're looking at monkey-patching the code in place. That's a cool idea, and may well get through Marketplace ingestion, but as soon as the patching is used, you'll have a file without a valid Marketplace signature, and the app won't run anymore...
At least, that's my guess on what would happen. If you can get around that, it would be incredible. That would provide a way to run homebrew code on dev-locked Windows Phones...
The way it worked with IronRuby is the Ruby code was interpreted on the fly. With Jurassic, the JavaScript is compiled into anonymous classes (IIRC from docs/forums on Jurassic.codeplex.com) and executed w/o ever creating separate assemblies. In other words, there's no monkey patching - just live emitted code via Reflection.Emit and similar methods. I'm in the process of getting alpha 2 ready for release now, actually.
Hmm, it's sounds quite interesting! However it's not a way to get an interop-unlock. Also (from the marketing side) it has another cons: an official updates via marketplace for some reasons are increasing number of app customers/downloads (so, good idea - if you have ads-based app - to publish updates at least monthly) but silent, "self-update" I afraid will not.
There's no reason to stop doing proper Marketplace-based updates. The biggest benefit of LiveLibs is the ability to quickly crush bugs instead of having to wait for Marketplace approval while your users complain and give your app bad ratings because of some simple bug.
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There's no reason to stop doing proper Marketplace-based updates. The biggest benefit of LiveLibs is the ability to quickly crush bugs instead of having to wait for Marketplace approval while your users complain and give your app bad ratings because of some simple bug.
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Agree. But your code also may have a bugs so it's still not an easy decision: should I add that app's overhead or better to spend more time/money for beta-testing
That, my friend, is entirely up to you
LiveLibs alpha 2 is out. Also, here's a little demo app I wrote using LiveLibs: Rando!

[XAP|Source] Marketplace Config - Easily change marketplace settings

Here is an app I made to quickly and easily change marketplace settings. Similar apps exist already, but this one has a few features I've not seen in the other ones. This project was more of a way for me to learn about homebrew dev, but it resulted in a useful program so nothing wrong with that
Source
This app is open source. It is hosted on Google Code. If anyone would like to help contribute, PM me and we'll discuss getting you added.
What you can do
Change OEM marketplace - You can choose from any of the 8 OEM stores, or view a combined market with all 8 at the same time.
Change MO marketplace - I'm working on getting as many as possible included. The app will ask kindly to submit if yours is a new one.
Change the maximum file size cap over 3g - Download larger apps and podcasts over 3G without needing a wifi connection
Lock the settings - Prevents your settings from reverting back in a day or two when the marketplace updates itself
Who can run this?
You need a root unlock. So either a full unlock or WP7 Root Tools with this app marked as Trusted.
Changelog
Beta 2.0.3 - 6/7/12 - Going off of the error reports I received from yesterday's release, I added better error handling to hopefully alleviate those problems.
Beta 2.0.2 - 6/6/12 - Added a better error handler. Users are now prompted with the option to submit bug reports, so I may better track down issues.
Beta 2.0.1 - 6/4/12 - Fixed a bug that would cause the app to crash if no MO store was configured on the device. The app also informs you if it's not set to Trusted in WP7 Root Tools.
Beta 2 - 5/31/12 - After spending too much time working on a rewrite, the next beta is ready. I've changed a ton of things under the hood, but the big new feature is viewing all OEM markets at the same time. I've also released the source as of this version, though I am not speaking for it's quality. Some parts are more polished than others.
Beta 1.4 - 5/2/12 - Added a few new mobile operators. Added country flags to MO selection screen. Fixed more crashed.
Beta 1.3 - 5/1/12 - Added a slew of new mobile operators, along with an option to remove it (for contract-free phones, direct from OEM, etc)
Beta 1.2 - 4/29/12 - Fixed crashing bug. Added Telekom MO (thanks contable). Added OEM logos.
Beta 1.1 - 4/28/12 - Removed device spoofing (it can break DRM, thanks for the heads up GoodDayToDie). Added Sprint MO.
Beta 1 - 4/28/12 - Initial release
Thanks to
Heathcliff74 for the wonderful WP7 Root Tools SDK
GoodDayToDie for his homebrew efforts, which I use for file IO
balcsida for providing new icons
It doesn't launch on my Titan...so it will probably need a higher level of unlock than a Dev unlock.
You'll need "root" unlock, meaning either full-unlock or WP7 Root Tools and the app marked as "Trusted".
@ken52787: Very cool! I was actually working on something very much like this. Would you mind sharing your source code? If I can merge what I was working on into what you've already got, that would be great.
One very big concern, though: changing the OEM name in DeviceTargetingInfo (which is what I assume you're doing to make apps like Nokia Drive work) is extremely dangerous. Although I'm not sure exactly what the trigger is (suggestions have been things like leaving it changed for more than 24 hours, or changing it more than 5 times), changing that value can permanently break the Marketplace DRM on your phone. All your Marketplace apps will stop launching, and you won't be able to install more. The only solution we know of is a hard-reset or a restore point; returning the registry value to the original OEM name does not help.
GoodDayToDie said:
You'll need "root" unlock, meaning either full-unlock or WP7 Root Tools and the app marked as "Trusted".
@ken52787: Very cool! I was actually working on something very much like this. Would you mind sharing your source code? If I can merge what I was working on into what you've already got, that would be great.
One very big concern, though: changing the OEM name in DeviceTargetingInfo (which is what I assume you're doing to make apps like Nokia Drive work) is extremely dangerous. Although I'm not sure exactly what the trigger is (suggestions have been things like leaving it changed for more than 24 hours, or changing it more than 5 times), changing that value can permanently break the Marketplace DRM on your phone. All your Marketplace apps will stop launching, and you won't be able to install more. The only solution we know of is a hard-reset or a restore point; returning the registry value to the original OEM name does not help.
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Yikes! I was not aware of this. I took that out and reupped the xap.
And yes, I'll share the source soon, I just want to clean it up a bit first since it's rather sloppy at the moment
ken52787 said:
Here is an app I made to quickly and easily change marketplace settings. Similar apps exist already, but this one has a few features I've not seen in the other ones. This project was more of a way for me to learn about homebrew dev, but it resulted in a useful program so nothing wrong with that
The initial beta is a little rough around the edges, but should be stable. Please report any oddities you notice and provide feedback and suggestions.
What you can do
Change OEM marketplace - Included are Acer, Dell, Fujitsu, HTC, LG, Nokia, Samsung, and ZTE (although only HTC, LG, Nokia, and Samsung have accessible marketplaces)
Change MO marketplace - Included are AT&T, Orange, Sprint, and Verizon (I had a hard time finding other marketplaces. If you are on a carrier other than these, please send me your settings so I can include them, the program will automate this for you with your permission)
Change the maximum file size cap over 3g - Download larger apps and podcasts over 3G without needing a wifi connection
Lock the settings - Prevents your settings from reverting back in a day or two when the marketplace updates itself
Who can run this?
You need a root unlock. So either a full unlock or WP7 Root Tools with this app marked as Trusted.
Changelog
Beta 1.1 - 4/28/12 - Removed device spoofing (it can break DRM, thanks for the heads up GoodDayToDie). Added Sprint MO.
Beta 1 - 4/28/12 - Initial release
Thanks to
Heathcliff74 for the wonderful WP7 Root Tools SDK
GoodDayToDie for his homebrew efforts, which I use for file IO
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not working with my mozart?
life25ak said:
not working with my mozart?
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What kind of unlock do you have?
curious... why are XAPs being posted in this sub-forum when their is a WP7 Software Development sub-forum?
nice looking app, though. curious as to how you 'locked' the Market.
would love to add that into my version of this app, Market Select.
The Software Development sub-forum always seemsed more focused on general app development rather than tweaks to the OS. Last time I was reading that forum, it seemed like it was mostly stuff using the official APIs, too. Maybe I should start reading it again, though...
You can lock in changes to Marketplace configurations by setting read-only on the XML files.
@OP: Thanks for the quick fix, and you're welcome for the tip! The 1.1 version works well on my phone. Two (related) suggestions, though:
1: The messageboxes the pop up at first run block the UI from loading. If the UI doesn't load within a few seconds (10 or so) the OS will kill the app. You may want to cause them to pop up on a delay or something...
2: There's no option to send your MO (or OEM) files after the initial messagebox prompt. I'd like to send you the T-Mobile US files (not that the TMoUS apps are super-exciting) but the app was killed on me before I could click it! I can go pull them off the filesystem manually, of course...
Thx for this app.
I have sent you the settings for Telekom Germany (T-Mobile DE), would be nice if you could add them...
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@OP: Thanks for the quick fix, and you're welcome for the tip! The 1.1 version works well on my phone. Two (related) suggestions, though:
1: The messageboxes the pop up at first run block the UI from loading. If the UI doesn't load within a few seconds (10 or so) the OS will kill the app. You may want to cause them to pop up on a delay or something...
2: There's no option to send your MO (or OEM) files after the initial messagebox prompt. I'd like to send you the T-Mobile US files (not that the TMoUS apps are super-exciting) but the app was killed on me before I could click it! I can go pull them off the filesystem manually, of course...
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See what I mean about sloppy coding and wanting to clean it up before releasing the source
App works good on my hd7. Although during first run it made a backup. Then asked me if I wanted to sent my carrier setting since you don't have them. I was going to then the app crashed and never gave me the option again. App runs fine other than the first run when it crashed.
Sent from my HD7 T9292 using XDA Windows Phone 7 App
I posted a quick update. This one fixes the crashing bug.
Thx for the quick update...
Sent from my OMNIA7 using XDA Windows Phone 7 App
Very Cool..!!! Thank you! Htc Arrive
v1.1 and v 1.2 are crash
it mean i install this app then set trust on root...it open but quickly get out
so;
whats the problem !?
Doesn't load on my Dev Unlocked TITAN.
Says something about an error occurred while reading current store config
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Doesn't load on my Dev Unlocked TITAN.
Says something about an error occurred while reading current store config
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You need a full unlock or root access with WP7 Root Tools. Dev unlock is not enough (the phone doesn't like me messing about in the file system)
Also, I just posted an update. No changes other than adding a bunch of new MOs. Thanks to everyone who submitted them! I have some ideas for beta 2, if only I could find some time to work on it I also plan on releasing the source when I get that version out.
Using 1.3 with Samsung Focus... Set the Trust to ON through RootTools as well.
I Get the "an error occured while reading your current store config".
If i click on OK application shows the main screen briefly and then exists. Otherwise shows the following error:::
CreateFile failed for \My Documents\Zune\PimentoCache\Keepers\LKKG_MOStoreConfig.xml! GetLastError: 2
Thanks.
You're sure it's two Ks ("LKKG_MOStoreConfig.xml")? That's a typo, then. It would explain why you're getting an error of File Not Found as well.

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