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AnPost android app

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  • 14-05-2011 9:19am
    #1
    Fresh Pots
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    Foto Joe has very kindly put together an app to track your registered anPost mail.

    As this is the first release there may be a few bugs so be sure and report them here and I'm sure he'll get on fixing them as soon as possible. He is also planning on putting together a version together that can track one, numerous or within a range of numbers. What other features would you like to see?

    begin.pngtrack_1.png



    Download here: http://bit.ly/mMXq8Z or

    scan this:
    img.php?s=6&d=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FmMXq8Z


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    #2
    Fresh Pots
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    Not working with my tracking number: AZ751261097IE, getting a not found message.

    Possible new features?
    Postage calculator with the info being pulled from here.

    Progress notifications - the app could check back at set intervals of 15mins,30mins,1hour etc. and if any progress has been made a message could be displayed in the notification bar.


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    mooneyd
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    Is this an app inventor app?


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    killbillvol2
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    TheTechGuy wrote: »
    Not working with my tracking number: AZ751261097IE, getting a not found message.

    Possible new features?
    Postage calculator with the info being pulled from here.

    Progress notifications - the app could check back at set intervals of 15mins,30mins,1hour etc. and if any progress has been made a message could be displayed in the notification bar.

    Assuming that's an Amazon package? I've never managed to track one with An Post so it's not the app at fault.


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    Stench Blossoms
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    Working fine for me.

    Well done. A much needed app.


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    #6
    Fresh Pots
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    But its working fine when you input it to the website...


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    srsly78
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    Stench Blossoms wrote: »
    Working fine for me.

    Well done. A much needed app.

    Not needed, it just replicates what the website does.


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    Atomic Pineapple
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    srsly78 wrote: »
    Not needed, it just replicates what the website does.

    Optimised for a mobile device.


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    Fresh Pots
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    srsly78 wrote: »
    Not needed, it just replicates what the website does.
    Maybe for you but it uses less data so that's always a bonus plus if he introduces the new notifications feature I mentioned it will be much more useful than the website.


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    srsly78
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    draffodx wrote: »
    Optimised for a mobile device.

    Yes, it might be useful for people that have older devices. It's important for people to know that you don't actually "need an app" for most things tho, especially on android.


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    5500
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    Good to see this app Its something Ive been looking for recently. Would be even better if something like this website could be incorporated - http://www.track-trace.com/post

    It has a very extensive list of delivery agents so would be excellent.


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    Stench Blossoms
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    srsly78 wrote: »
    Yes, it might be useful for people that have older devices. It's important for people to know that you don't actually "need an app" for most things tho, especially on android.

    I NEED it.

    Stop being a spoil sport.


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    killbillvol2
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    srsly78 wrote: »
    Yes, it might be useful for people that have older devices. It's important for people to know that you don't actually "need an app" for most things tho, especially on android.

    I need an app to block pointless, stupid posts.


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    Davy
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    Relax guys before someone needs a little holiday


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    Kenny Logins
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    srsly78 wrote: »
    Yes, it might be useful for people that have older devices. It's important for people to know that you don't actually "need an app" for most things tho, especially on android.

    Fair point, but to have just the information you need with everything else stripped away is convenient.


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    54kroc
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    Very handy app, Nice one.


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    Atomic Pineapple
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    TheTechGuy wrote: »
    But its working fine when you input it to the website...

    I actually have a full engine for this anPost app on Android, I just never hooked it up to a UI, the reason that AZ751261097IE isn't working is because the data comes back in a slightly different format for each case (In Depot, On way to customer, Delivered, etc...).


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    joeKel73
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    Out on mobile, will reply to thread proper tonight or tomorrow. The reason that number fails is there is an extra "Reason" column to explain a failed delivery I'd say. Will correct for this.


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    joeKel73
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    TheTechGuy wrote: »
    Not working with my tracking number: AZ751261097IE, getting a not found message.

    Possible new features?
    Postage calculator with the info being pulled from here.



    Progress notifications - the app could check back at set intervals of 15mins,30mins,1hour etc. and if any progress has been made a message could be displayed in the notification bar.

    That's fixed now, you'll need to download the updated app for it to work right;
    img.php?s=6&d=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FmMXq8Z

    devicekk.png

    Don't think I'll add the postage calculator, keep it for just tracking.


    mooneyd wrote: »
    Is this an app inventor app?

    Yeah it is, playing around with a php api through the tinywebdb component.
    eireal wrote: »
    Good to see this app Its something Ive been looking for recently. Would be even better if something like this website could be incorporated - http://www.track-trace.com/post

    It has a very extensive list of delivery agents so would be excellent.

    Had a look at that site but it just links into all the national sites, doesn't pull the data itself so there's no consistency. Would have to do a separate job for each country.


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    subway
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    nice looking app, have nothing to track so havent installed it yet, but does it scan barcodes and save them?
    so you can follow a package you have sent for example?


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    joeKel73
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    I was going to do barcode scanning but checked the only registered post receipt I have and there's no barcode. Do you get something with parcels?


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    5500
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    How about an option to track & save multiple items like a notepade within the app that can save your multiple tracking numbers and by hitting each number brings up the details?


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    subway
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    foto joe wrote: »
    I was going to do barcode scanning but checked the only registered post receipt I have and there's no barcode. Do you get something with parcels?
    maybe it goes on the envelope, ill see what if i have one around


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    Kenny Logins
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    subway wrote: »
    maybe it goes on the envelope, ill see what if i have one around

    It does, but you'd have to scan and store it before posting.


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    subway
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    Kenny Logins wrote: »
    It does, but you'd have to scan and store it before posting.
    thats what i was suggesting :)


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    Kenny Logins
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    subway wrote: »
    thats what i was suggesting :)

    Of course, I was just checking. :D


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    Atomic Pineapple
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    foto joe wrote: »
    Yeah it is, playing around with a php api through the tinywebdb component.

    What the flip! What does the php api involve? Here's me using the full sdk and parsing HTML manually to get the data!


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    Kenny Logins
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    draffodx wrote: »
    What the flip! What does the php api involve? Here's me using the full sdk and parsing HTML manually to get the data!


    What are you using to parse the HTML? ..if you dont mind me asking?


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    #29
    Atomic Pineapple
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    Kenny Logins wrote: »
    What are you using to parse the HTML? ..if you dont mind me asking?

    http://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/Html.html#fromHtml%28java.lang.String%29


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    Kenny Logins
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    draffodx wrote: »
    http://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/Html.html#fromHtml%28java.lang.String%29

    Hmm, interesting. I'm only getting into the SDK now and was looking at jsoup to grab the bits I want..

    Cheers.


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    Atomic Pineapple
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    Kenny Logins wrote: »
    Hmm, interesting. I'm only getting into the SDK now and was looking at jsoup to grab the bits I want..

    Cheers.

    Jsoup or tagSoup may be better, I haven't had time to look into them, the HTML parser in Android simply returns all the text as readable (strips the html) in an array of lines. So for the post app the data comes back on array line 26 for a delivered package but comes back on array line 28 for one in the Depot.

    So its not great. Let me know if jSoup or tagSoup are any better.


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