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Hi I not sure if I'm posting this in the correct section.
Just have a quick question.
In my java android application code I have created and instance of MapView class like this:
MapView mapView = (MapView) findViewById(R.id.mapview);
What does the (MapView) do compared when you normally create an instance of a class like this:
MapView mapView = new MapView(parameters);
Thanks.
The second one is calling constructor with parameter.I am not sure ,but the first one seems like member function calling with casting .
HTC Sense 3.5, Android 2.3.5
Thanks for answering! I tried searching the web for an explanation but not easy to find.
Cheers!
Well... the first one won'k work unless you have a layout which contains a MapView called "mapview".
So first of all you should build your xml layout file.
You can use MapView mapView = new MapView(parameters) and do it all programmatically.. which is definitely harder.
Btw the "Android software development" section would be more appropriate for this question.
Just to elaborate a bit more...in Java, most of the data you work with are types of Objects. The blueprint for the type of Object is called a class. When developing a new Class, you could define this new type of Object from scratch or you could Extend an existing one.
For example, when they whipped up the MapView class, they probably decided that "you know what...MapView's are sort of like other Views (they have gravity, padding, an id, perhaps a position, a border, etc)" and decided to define a skeleton class called View which maps out the aspects that are common to all Views. They likely then made MapView extend View, overriding or adding any aspects that make MapView unique.
So, where am I going with this...back to your code snippet, there's a function called getViewById(id) that--if you look at its definition--is set to return a View. If you just tried to use the result of this function like a MapView, you would run into problems because the Java compiler would have no way of knowing under which circumstances (ie. with which ID) the returned view would actually be a MapView. In these situations where you want to tell the compiler that you want to treat an object like some other type of object, you need to cast the reference to the object. You do this by putting the type you want in parentheses and to the left of the reference you want to cast.
For example, if you made a variable of type View (View mv) and are using it to refer to something you known is a MapView ( View mv = new MapView() ), to treat it like a MapView you need to cast it ( (MapView mv).aMethodUniqueToMapView() ). Keep in mind that unless there's no way an reference to one type could contain an object of another, the compiler will allow the cast. This means that at run time there's a chance you'll get an Exception (a ClassCastException). In certain situations, this is something you'll need to handle but in this case, you're usually good to go as you know for certain the ids you assigned to your views.
Hope this didn't put you to sleep
- chris
Thank you both for answering! =)
Chris or ctttt. Your explanation did not but me to sleep, you explained just what I was asking about! I have done java for only 1 year, and just started programming for my phone, so when I saw the (MapView) casting when you created an instance of a class i just wanted to know how that worked since I haven't seen it being done before =).
Thanks so much for clearing that up =)
Cheers
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Hi forum,
I'm implementing in-app billing into one of my apps, and I must admit it's quite complicated. I stumbled upon this lib that seems to make things a little easier. But it wasn't updated for a long time, and I was wondering it it was usable in production.
Anyone has any experience with it?
github.com/robotmedia/AndroidBillingLibrary
(…still cannot post real links, nor in development forum)
And what about alternatives
It seems no one is using this lib. And what are you using for in-app billing? Since amazon has started it's own solution, and each billing solution is limited to a specific market, I would think there would be a way to implement a cross-market solution.
New and Improved in-app billing library
There is a new library called The SOOMLA Project - you can google it or use project dot soom dot la.
this project is an In-App Billing Library for Android and includes:
Simplifies the Google Play API
Storage for currency/goods balances
Improved security
Event handling
Sample App for reference
It's open source so you can either use it as reference or just take the SDK.
Thank you, I'll check it out.
thibaultj said:
Thank you, I'll check it out.
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Soomla is a good instrument. But i cant understand one thing.
May be its a property of markets, but no property of Soomla.... why displaying price on my device in currency, that i pointed at the market.
i want to have price in $ fo US, euro for EuroCountries.... etc
when i push Buy button, there is price in right currency (native for account ). Problem is only for
PurchasableVirtualItem item = (PurchasableVirtualItem)StoreInfo.GetItemByItemId(itemId);
if(item == null)
return "--.--";
PurchaseWithMarket purchaseType = (PurchaseWithMarket)item.PurchaseType;
return purchaseType.MarketItem.MarketPrice;
Hello.
I followed all the New Boston Android videos, did everything, understood everything.
I tried to create a basic RSS feed reader, in order to better incorporate some concepts I learned in the New Boston videos (http processing, xml processing, adapting the content to lists, custom lists, etc). When I got to pass the information from the http processed data to xml parser and the list, that's when I got too much confused and knew I didn't have enough knowledge.
Then I tried to do some "Shopping List Manager" (just like OI Shopping, a bit adapted more to my taste), in order to learn.
However, again, when I neededto pass information to other objects in other classes or something like that, I get confused and don't know what to do.
So I bought CommonsWare book, "The Busy Coder's Guide to Android", which I have the latest version (5.1) and I'm reading, but I don't like to advance when I don't fully understand something. This time I'm stuck on the Action Bar part, more precisely this one:
Code:
private void configureActionItem(Menu menu) {
EditText add=
(EditText)menu.findItem(R.id.add).getActionView()
.findViewById(R.id.title);
add.setOnEditorActionListener(this);
}
I know this will seem very basic to many of you, but I get really confused on all this calls, returning results and more calls.
I don't have a background on OOP, except when I worked with PHP frameworks like Symfony, I work usually with direct task programming (scripting, automation, etc), as I am a Linux System Administrator, so my code is mainly scripting and web interface building (Python, Shell Script, PHP, Javascript, etc).
Can anybody explain what can I do to better understand this? It's just lack of practice and in time I'll understand better? Is it OOP lack of knowledge/practice? Or is it Java lack of knowledge/practice?
Thanks a lot for all your help.
Maybe the best approach is to get some face time with a person who is more experienced and have him explain to you the concept you have trouble with while focusing on the parts you don't grasp. A real human has this flexibility to do a "targeted strike" unlike a tutorial or a book that has no idea where in particular the student may get confused.
For this particular issue, the issue can be summarized as follows. Let's say you have an object call a function:
Code:
orange.peel();
This should be relatively straightforward. The next level of complexity is the fact that obj is just a variable representing an object, and in fact we can substitute anything else that evaluates to an object (i.e.: after it runs, you end up with an object). For example these all are legal ways to call the method as long as types match:
Code:
(new Orange()).peel();
(shouldEatSmallerOrange ? smallerOrange : largerOrange).peel();
retrieveOrangeFromBox().peel();
The last line illustrates calling some other function that returns the object, which is then used to call a second function. The final step from here is to recognize that instead of a single retrieveOrangeFromBox() we can have a chain of functions, each of which returns an object that is used to call the next function in line. For example:
Code:
findCar().accessCarTrunk().unloadBoxFromTrunk().retrieveOrangeFromBox().peel();
The names are unnecessarily verbose to illustrate how functions and their results relate to each other.
OOP + Android system
You're not that clear as to exactly what you are having a problem with, but in general, it sounds like you need to get a java book and learn the basic concepts of classes and interfaces. Since you say you have a background in PHP you could probably go pretty far just by following the Java tutorials on the Sun website. I say java because that's the target language here, any book on OOP in any language would be adequate but learning java would give you the added ability to read other people's android code examples more easily.
After that, you can learn the Android framework. You develop in the Java language but you work within the android framework. What that means is that here, for example, the action bar is provided to you by the android system, and this callback is called by the system, so it is all set up for you. But to understand what is happening, you need to understand when the system calls this method and what it does. That is the framework.
So more specifically, how can you understand this code? This method is called from another method, onCreateOptionsMenu(). OnCreateOptionsMenu() is a method in the Activity class that is called automatically by the system at a specific time. You need to read about the Activity class and the Activity lifecycle on the android developers site. If you want your activity to provide an options menu, you create it in OnCreateOptionsMenu and return it, the system will handle it from there. So back to configureActionItem(Menu menu), here you are passing in the menu object, which contains MenuItem objects, which the system uses to populate the menu (either on the action bar, or when you hit the menu button, depending on the android version). Each MenuItem object has a view that is associated with it (usually created in an XML file).
One thing that may be hard to understand is that all these calls are chained, so if you don't know what they are returning you don't know where to look for help. It's easier if you separate the calls out. Here, the documentation is your friend. If you look at the Menu class on the android dev site, you see that findItem() returns a MenuItem. So then you look up MenuItem, and you see that getActionView() returns a View. Look at the View class, and you can see findViewById() returns another view (a sub-view that is contained within this view). so when you look at it all together, unchained:
Code:
private void configureActionItem(Menu menu) {
MenuItem mi = menu.findItem(R.id.add);
View parentView = mi.getActionView();
EditText add = (EditText)parentView.findViewById(R.id.title);
}
findViewById returns a View, but you know that the view known by the id R.id.title is an EditText view, and you want to use it as an EditText, so you have to cast the View to an EditText (which is a subclass of View) so that the compiler knows that it is an EditText type of view. That's what the (EditText) is doing in front of the findViewById call. To understand that you need to read about subclassing and strongly-typed programming languages. PHP is weakly-typed, so that might be new to you.
finally, you call setOnEditActionListener on the EditText. OnEditActionListener is an interface that you have implemented in this class. An interface defines a common set of methods that are guaranteed to be present in whichever class has implemented it. So when you set the OnEditActionListener to this, (this means the current instance of this class), the EditText will hold on to the "this" object and it knows that it can call a certain set of methods on it. What are those methods? look up the OnEditActionListener interface in the docs:
it only has one method,
Code:
public abstract boolean onEditorAction (TextView v, int actionId, KeyEvent event);
so somewhere in this class, you will have this method defined and this is where you put code that you want to run when the EditText triggers this action. I assume this get called when the user touches the EditText.
It's really not going to be easy to work with android if you don't have a basic knowledge of OOP, specifically classes, inheritance, and interfaces. Also, knowing how java implements these concepts will help a lot. Then you can use your book to learn the Android framework.
GreenTuxer said:
Hello.
I followed all the New Boston Android videos, did everything, understood everything.
I tried to create a basic RSS feed reader, in order to better incorporate some concepts I learned in the New Boston videos (http processing, xml processing, adapting the content to lists, custom lists, etc). When I got to pass the information from the http processed data to xml parser and the list, that's when I got too much confused and knew I didn't have enough knowledge.
Then I tried to do some "Shopping List Manager" (just like OI Shopping, a bit adapted more to my taste), in order to learn.
However, again, when I neededto pass information to other objects in other classes or something like that, I get confused and don't know what to do.
So I bought CommonsWare book, "The Busy Coder's Guide to Android", which I have the latest version (5.1) and I'm reading, but I don't like to advance when I don't fully understand something. This time I'm stuck on the Action Bar part, more precisely this one:
Code:
private void configureActionItem(Menu menu) {
EditText add=
(EditText)menu.findItem(R.id.add).getActionView()
.findViewById(R.id.title);
add.setOnEditorActionListener(this);
}
I know this will seem very basic to many of you, but I get really confused on all this calls, returning results and more calls.
I don't have a background on OOP, except when I worked with PHP frameworks like Symfony, I work usually with direct task programming (scripting, automation, etc), as I am a Linux System Administrator, so my code is mainly scripting and web interface building (Python, Shell Script, PHP, Javascript, etc).
Can anybody explain what can I do to better understand this? It's just lack of practice and in time I'll understand better? Is it OOP lack of knowledge/practice? Or is it Java lack of knowledge/practice?
Thanks a lot for all your help.
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Thanks a lot for your help. I also think my issue is with OOP, but I needed the opinion of people with more knowledge.
I understand very well what you said about onCreateOptionsMenu(), why and when is called, Activity class, lifecycle, etc.
Those things I understand without any problem. I also understand the basics of OOP, but I don't know almost nothing about Interfaces and I don't have almost any experience with inheritance, although I understand it.
I think I'm just confused because I haven't worked very long with OOP. I just don't know if I should invest in something like reading and testing something like Thinking in Java, or just practice more and more Android Development.
I was struggling not to make that kind of posts but as far I can see, I definitely need help in order to proceed.
I need help with hacking an app. The application in question utilizes AES encryption for some subset of web requests. As I understand, the key for encryption is generated by the app at native code level which then used for encrypting/decrypting internet traffic, using shared library. In addition to that, there is a method to fetch the encryption key, if my understanding of the process is correct.
Personally, I don't follow the whole sequence of actions it does to encode/decode data (app heavily utilizes both java, native arm code and server-obfuscated JS code so it'd a bit complicated to follow). So, I thought that it might be faster and more effective to go straight for the key, so the plan was writing xposed module which would fetch it.
I haven't developed for Android platform before so please bear with my ignorance. As I understand, if the method in shared library is called Java_<class>_<method> then it can be declared in that class and be called from there. If the library is checked using IDA Pro, you could see a bunch of method following that naming approach in Exports tab. The problem is that the key fetching method uses different naming/declaration - <ClassA>::<ClassB>::<Method> (and its export name is something like _ZN3ClassA6ClassB9MethodEv). While I have a vague idea of calling typical native class methods (Java_.... ones), I don't have a slightest idea if <Class1>::<Class2>::<method> could be called from Java code somehow.
Any help would be appreciated.
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XPrivacyLua custom hook definitions
By using XPrivacyLua you can define Xposed hooks and apply them to any app at run time (so, rebooting your device is not necessary). You can write hook code on your device in Lua, which is quite easy to learn.
See the documentation about how to define hooks.
Although XPrivacyLua has 'privacy' in its name, new hooks don't need to be privacy related at all. Disabling the built in privacy related hooks is a matter of selecting another collection of hooks.
This XDA thread is meant to discuss defining hooks, with the restriction that hook definitions must serve a legally allowed purpose. This XDA thread is not meant to make you a developer, so at least some development experience is expected, which means that you'll need to be able to figure out where to hook yourself and that you'll need to be able to write Lua scripts yourself.
XDA:DevDB Information
XPrivacyLua hook definitions, Xposed for all devices (see above for details)
Contributors
M66B
Xposed Package Name:
Version Information
Status: Beta
Created 2018-01-28
Last Updated 2018-04-01
Could there be a generic "always return true" lua script?
And when building a definition, what does it mean to be in a group and collection? Do I just put anything there or do I have to call them something particular?
Well, I'm trying but I'm lost. Just trying to setAnalyticsCollectionEnabled
https://firebase.google.com/support/guides/disable-analytics
Code:
public void setAnalyticsCollectionEnabled (boolean enabled) = false
supposedly disables Firebase Analytics (which apparently 67% of the top 200 apps use).
My definition looks like
Collection: privacy
Group: firebase
Name: firebase.analytics
author: whatever
class: com.google.firebase.analytics
method:setAnalyticsCollectionEnabled
parameter type: void
return type: boolean
min/max sdk: 1/999
lua script: @generic_false_value I suppose I can use this?
Even if this looks valid, it feels like maybe this wouldn't fire unless certain other things happen first? Looking at your hooks.json for google analytics it looks like you had to maybe set a chain of events to occur to get to the point of controlling the method you intend to make changes?
jawz101 said:
Could there be a generic "always return true" lua script?
And when building a definition, what does it mean to be in a group and collection? Do I just put anything there or do I have to call them something particular?
Well, I'm trying but I'm lost. Just trying to setAnalyticsCollectionEnabled
https://firebase.google.com/support/guides/disable-analytics
Code:
public void setAnalyticsCollectionEnabled (boolean enabled) = false
supposedly disables Firebase Analytics (which apparently 67% of the top 200 apps use).
My definition looks like
Collection: privacy
Group: firebase
Name: firebase.analytics
author: whatever
class: com.google.firebase.analytics
method:setAnalyticsCollectionEnabled
parameter type: void
return type: boolean
min/max sdk: 1/999
lua script: @generic_false_value I suppose I can use this?
Even if this looks valid, it feels like maybe this wouldn't fire unless certain other things happen first? Looking at your hooks.json for google analytics it looks like you had to maybe set a chain of events to occur to get to the point of controlling the method you intend to make changes?
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The built-in scripts are not meant for general use because they might change over time breaking stuff that depends on them. Therefore imported definitions are not linked against the built-in scripts. If needed, you can simply copy and paste the Lua script from another (built in) definition. Copying guarantees your definition will keep working, even when the built-in scripts are changed or even removed.
Calling setAnalyticsCollectionEnabled requires access to an instance of FirebaseAnalytics, which apps needs to get by calling getInstance. So, hook getInstance to call setAnalyticsCollectionEnabled(false) and hook setAnalyticsCollectionEnabled to prevent an app from turning analytics on again.
Restricting Google Analytics (available in the next release of XPrivacyLua) works similar:
https://github.com/M66B/XPrivacyLua/blob/master/app/src/main/assets/ga_getinstance.lua
https://github.com/M66B/XPrivacyLua/blob/master/app/src/main/assets/ga_setdryrun.lua
You can also wait until I have added this ...
But firebase isn't necessarily the same thing, right?
jawz101 said:
But firebase isn't necessarily the same thing, right?
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No, Google Analytics and Firebase Analytics are not the same and need different definitions.
Restricting Firebase Analytics works properly with these hook definitions:
https://github.com/M66B/XPrivacyLua/commit/1708fc6e4a15cef85cb973f5c08286d90d3ca806
jawz101 said:
And when building a definition, what does it mean to be in a group and collection? Do I just put anything there or do I have to call them something particular?
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With the latest version of XPrivacyLua / companion app you can change the collection of hooks to use in XPrivacyLua. The default is to use the collection 'Privacy'. You can define your own collection by definition hooks with a new collection name. There can only be one collection active at one time, so if you want to add your own definitions to the built-in privacy collection you'll have to use the collection 'Privacy'. Basically collections exists to allow using XPrivacyLua for things other than privacy.
Groups are listed in the XPrivacyLua app and make it easy to apply a group of hooks to one or more apps. XPrivacyLua cannot and will not handle applying individual hooks to keep things simple, but I might add this to the pro companion app in the near feature. For now you can rename a group of an existing hook definition to be able to apply it separately in XPrivacyLua.
Edit: this has been clarified in the documentation too now: https://github.com/M66B/XPrivacyLua/blob/master/DEFINE.md
I still have some questions on when,where,how etc.... but I will wait until I can dedicate more time to playing with this.
I do have a feature request.
could there be a sort of drop down box that queries all valid entries for each item when creating a custom definition.
for example...
when creating a custom definition, when taping on the line for group, you would just type a new group (as it is now) but if there was a drop down arrow at the end of the line that could give a list of currently used groups and then the user could just click the listed group instead of typing and it would auto-fill that field.
maybe even more useful would be for the other items like Name,Class, Method etc...
where it could show possible entries. That would help a lot.
... I turned on notifications for your new Firebase rules. I would think a bunch of apps I have use Firebase Analytics. @M66B Have you seen any apps trigger it yet?
Even if the app imported Firebase Analytics library and gathers Firebase Analytics but never uses the setAnalyticsCollectionEnabled() method in its own code would it mean this hook will never trigger?
With the latest version of XPrivacyLua / companion app you can change the collection of hooks to use in XPrivacyLua. The default is to use the collection 'Privacy'. You can define your own collection by definition hooks with a new collection name. There can only be one collection active at one time, so if you want to add your own definitions to the built-in privacy collection you'll have to use the collection 'Privacy'. Basically collections exists to allow using XPrivacyLua for things other than privacy.
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Thanks:highfive:.
This is just a suggestion but if this was my app I would break these 2 elements out to separate screens from the definition builder. You would define collections and groups in a separate spot, and then when building rules the collections and groups would pull in as a selectable dropdown. Avoids typos and helps to explain how there can be only one active collection for XPrivacyLua.
mnjm9b said:
I still have some questions on when,where,how etc.... but I will wait until I can dedicate more time to playing with this.
I do have a feature request.
could there be a sort of drop down box that queries all valid entries for each item when creating a custom definition.
for example...
when creating a custom definition, when taping on the line for group, you would just type a new group (as it is now) but if there was a drop down arrow at the end of the line that could give a list of currently used groups and then the user could just click the listed group instead of typing and it would auto-fill that field.
maybe even more useful would be for the other items like Name,Class, Method etc...
where it could show possible entries. That would help a lot.
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I will see what I can do for collection and group, but all the other fields are flexible and depend on the hook.
jawz101 said:
... I turned on notifications for your new Firebase rules. I would think a bunch of apps I have use Firebase Analytics. @M66B Have you seen any apps trigger it yet?
Even if the app imported Firebase Analytics library and gathers Firebase Analytics but never uses the setAnalyticsCollectionEnabled() method in its own code would it mean this hook will never trigger?
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An app will normally not disable/enable analytics given the default is enabled and the user has mostly no choice in this. So see this hook as a safeguard to prevent an app enabling analytics again after we disabled it in another hook
M66B said:
An app will normally not disable/enable analytics given the default is enabled and the user has mostly no choice in this. So see this hook as a safeguard to prevent an app enabling analytics again after we disabled it in another hook
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Would there be a way to introduce the app to calling it? Or maybe that's what you're implying. Also, have you noticed that system and google apps seem to gray out the read identifiers permission? Ex: set read identifiers as restricted on Android Webview or Google Photos/Maps/Google TTS. Turns pink Get out of XPrivacyLua and open it again. Read Identifiers is gray. (I'm on LineageOS if that matters)
jawz101 said:
Would there be a way to introduce the app to calling it? Or maybe that's what you're implying. Also, have you noticed that system and google apps seem to gray out the read identifiers permission? Ex: set read identifiers as restricted on Android Webview or Google Photos/Maps/Google TTS. Turns pink Get out of XPrivacyLua and open it again. Read Identifiers is gray. (I'm on LineageOS if that matters)
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Normally an apps doesn't call the function. Maybe if the user can choose to opt in or opt out, but this is rarely the case.
The other thing should go into the XPrivacyLua XDA thread, but I will look into it anyway.
M66B said:
I will see what I can do for collection and group, but all the other fields are flexible and depend on the hook.
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Thanks, That's a good start.
Maybe if the "PRO" app takes off enough for you to bother you could charge extra for the expanded feature of having the drop lists change depending on the choices made?
I did have a moment to look over a definition I was playing with for "TIME"
it serves no real purpose so I gave up early but if I could get a better understanding on why it doesn't work it could help with actual ones.
using the FINGERPRINT example I made several other entries that all worked fine but this one caused issue.
I assumed it was because according to https://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Build.html the type for TIME wasn't "String" but "Long"
this is the last one I tried...
Code:
{
"collection": "Privacy",
"group": "Read.Device",
"name": "Build.TIME",
"author": "M66B",
"className": "android.os.Build",
"methodName": "#TIME",
"parameterTypes": [],
"returnType": "long",
"minSdk": 1,
"maxSdk": 999,
"enabled": true,
"optional": false,
"usage": true,
"notify": false,
"luaScript": "function after(hook, param)\n param:setResult("unknown")\n return true\nend\n"
}
I was also playing with "SUPPORTED_ABIS" which also didn't work and the type was "Sting []" instead of just "String" so I was thinking that was the problem also.
@mnjm9b You are returning a string (series of characters) as a long (number). Try returning just a number (without the quotes).
String[] is an array (mulitple strings), so you need to return an array as well. But I don't know how to do that in Lua right now
Namnodorel said:
@mnjm9b You are returning a string (series of characters) as a long (number). Try returning just a number (without the quotes).
String[] is an array (mulitple strings), so you need to return an array as well. But I don't know how to do that in Lua right now
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You are 100% right.
Returning a string array is not trivial. Look at 'generic_empty_string_array.lua' about how to do this.
Namnodorel said:
@mnjm9b You are returning a string (series of characters) as a long (number). Try returning just a number (without the quotes).
String[] is an array (mulitple strings), so you need to return an array as well. But I don't know how to do that in Lua right now
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so in my example the returnType instead of "long" should be a number like 0 without quotes?
I tried that and it still doesn't work.
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M66B said:
You are 100% right.
Returning a string array is not trivial. Look at 'generic_empty_string_array.lua' about how to do this.
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thanks for this, I guess I am in WAY over my head.
mnjm9b said:
so in my example the returnType instead of "long" should be a number like 0 without quotes?
I tried that and it still doesn't work.
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No. the return type was correct. That specifies what type of object you are expected to return. What you need to change is what you then actually return, which is
Code:
param:setResult("unknown")
to
Code:
param:setResult(12345678)
@M66B
Thank you for your work, if i understand right, you provide us an programmable interface that will execute command lines written in Lua language without having to create a complete module in JAVA for XPosed?
From what i understood in your initial post, you indicate that we must install your module "XPrivacyLua", then that one disposes there after of the possibility to apply for the applications which one wishes, lines of codes written in Lua language and which do not necessarily have to relate to the logic of rights of access concerning privacy?
If yes then we must necessarily install XPrivacyLua even if in view of all your work provided on it the basic functions do not interest me forcibly?
All this seems to be promising however :good:
Rom said:
@M66B
Thank you for your work, if i understand right, you provide us an programmable interface that will execute command lines written in Lua language without having to create a complete module in JAVA for XPosed?
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Yes.
Rom said:
From what i understood in your initial post, you indicate that we must install your module "XPrivacyLua", then that one disposes there after of the possibility to apply for the applications which one wishes, lines of codes written in Lua language and which do not necessarily have to relate to the logic of rights of access concerning privacy?
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Yes.
Rom said:
If yes then we must necessarily install XPrivacyLua even if in view of all your work provided on it the basic functions do not interest me forcibly?
All this seems to be promising however :good:
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You'll need XPrivacyLua to install and run defined Xposed hooks written in Lua, but you don't need to use the built in privacy related hooks.
The companion app allows you to switch to another collection of hooks you've written, in effect disabling the built-in privacy related hooks.
Try it and I will help you when needed and in the process I will update the documentation where needed.