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Thank you, that's good info. Please report back if you have time to scrape the app and give us that perspective. Is it easy to scrape the app now that it isn'
by ghostbrainalpha 7y ago
Thank you, that's good info. Please report back if you have time to scrape the app and give us that perspective.
Is it easy to scrape the app now that it isn't in the store anymore?
I have a hunch the violation will be something to do with him trying to cut costs on the Google Places API.
- on_and_off 7y agoBy scrape I meant that there are some sites allowing to download apks from Google play They usually cache the apks for a couple of days so that would have been a way to download it. And after that, I would have looked at the app manifest (it contains all the permissions that the app might want to use, so there might be some interesting stuff there) and maybe use it. I don't plan to look at the bytecode for shady behavior .. that's not my forte and I am not interested enough to spend one week looking at bytecode. edit : I have just opened the article again to get the app package name .. looks like it got reinstated. But no comment of the author as of why it was removed.
- ghostbrainalpha 7y agoYa, looks like it got updated again and he doesn't have to make any changes. Google thinking he was in violation was an error on their part.