new app idear! - Page 2

kayfouroh · #11 (**permalink**) 08-05-2009, 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by elephant007

Surely making this app can't be all-to-difficult. Basically you build an interface that interacts with their website, trimming off most of the visual stuff and keeping the essentials like login, find a movie/Redbox, reserve.... I've never made an app nor know how to, I think I will research this to find out if I can make one!! That would be cool...

It shows you never made an app (not being a jerk!)

Screen scraping is a very unreliable way to get data from a webpage and display it in another way. Generally, web applications use SOAP/WSDL connectivity between client and server.. client makes calls via XML SOAP requests and host replies with XML as well.

Ed Zachary · #12 (**permalink**) 08-12-2009, 10:02 AM

OR...

You could contact them and tell them how much more business they would have "if only they would build a simple, mobile browser enabled version of their web pages".

I used to build mobile versions of all kinds of business websites.

**bradart** · #13 (**permalink**) 08-12-2009, 10:17 AM

Isn't Micro$oft developing a reliable way to port iphone apps? If so, this problem might be a thing of the past...

**elephant007** · #14 (**permalink**) 08-13-2009, 11:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kayfouroh

It shows you never made an app (not being a jerk!)

Screen scraping is a very unreliable way to get data from a webpage and display it in another way. Generally, web applications use SOAP/WSDL connectivity between client and server.. client makes calls via XML SOAP requests and host replies with XML as well.

Jerk? Nah, you're being realistic and I wasn't... I tried and failed
Hibby made a smooth PPCGeeks app, wonder if he could do the same for Redbox?