Top 100 motivational Quotes - MotiveTown - Motivational App

Recently Launched Mobile & web app based on concept of motivating others using inspiring pictures and quotes from various sources such as simpleremainders,spiritofscience & Motivational guides.combining all resource and categorizing the quotes and images,generated a unified format to form a web service.Additional to this we've optimized the Image using opensource tools such as Imagemagick and few shell scripts to automate the process.We named the App as MotiveTown - Motivational App So,let's see about the various features implemented in mobile app below.

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Why this App ?

Everyone needs motivation in some point of life either letting-go or to chase their dream,this makes us to search to read books,quotes,inspiring videos,lectures even in soundcloud for audio speech.Some peoples watch movies,videos where others check out magazines,daily.And targeting this fragmented categories,we decided to bring unified platform with personalized newsfeed contents with videos,audio and quotes with images via simple Mobile App.Thus as a result we were able to publish first version of this app with limited contents of news,images and quotes and features.

Why Ads ? 

We need to provide you reliable backend service without outages and crash.so, we rented a economy server package and customized backend to adapt daily updates.we too optimized several hundred KB image files to less than 100 KB JPG compressed files with automated scripts and Imagemagick opensource tools.so,to keep running these operations smooth and more faster we adopted ads to generate some amount to maintain hosting.

Categories - MotiveTown App

We have Daily updated 23+ categories of Motivational quotes 

• Achieving Gratitude
• Daily Inspiration
• Business Leadership
• Changing the World
• Community Thoughts
• Conquer Negativity
• Walking in Faith
• Various Saying
• Uplifting Music
• Success Secrets
• Staying Motivated
• Relationship Dynamics
• Recover and Loss
• Positive Thinking
• Overcoming Fear
• New Awakenings
• Mindful Living
• Letting Go
• Law of Attraction
• Impact Media
• Healthy Living
• Forgiveness
• Exploring Thoughts

About 23+ categories and 3000+ images,quotes,articles and videos combined we're making a unified platform for everyone to engage and get the benefits out of it.Download the MotiveTown - Motivational App from Playstore.

App description :

MotiveTown App Provides various categories of motivational quotes,images and text poems.Motivation is the Key point for everyone and that can act as turning point in their life.Push them Ahead with spirit in their mind to succeed and compete with others.It also providesMotivational quotes for success in Tamil,English and even more supported languages.Start your day with motivational quotes everyday category to get some random quotes and you can customize your own news feed for Motivational Quotes for Daily inspiration.Share quotes,images directly with your friends from the motivational quotes by great persons.

Screenshots :

check it out in playstore : Link

To Become Beta tester,developing for other platforms,exposing API's and join with me for further development drop me a mail : s.shivasurya@gmail.com or chat with me in G+ hangouts/Facebook.Don't forget to rate the App in Playstore.

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Working with Instamojo Payment Integration For Websites And Mobile Apps

Few week back was working with a company for a premium project for Hybrid mobile app development and came across a wonderful service named as instamojo payment service/gateway for selling service/physical goods/events and tickets and even more.we used this service for adding credit amount to the Hybrid mobile apps.And the service charge is too nominal fee i hope since i got paid Sample Rs.100 and the service charge was around Rs.2.And it was awesome to talk with the developers of instamojo since it is a startup company.

Reference :    

Prerequisites :

• A Valid website or Mobile App to Integrate.
• Fully Activated Instamojo Account.
   You should submit your Bank statement and PAN card for verification and Phone number to prove that you're a legitimate user.
• Developer keys private/Oauth key and Hash Secret.
• Little patience to set up everything around :)

procedure:

We will see about initiating the Payment from our site along with the Web Hook request as well API service from Instamojo.Additional to this we will see how to implement the HMAC-SHA1 Integrity check for Safer transactions and protecting the user data over Network.

Initial Setup :

Create Instamojo Account here.And verify KYC by submitting your Bank Account Passbook photo snap and PAN Card with few more documents as instructed by instamojo.com.And get verified and it allows you to create links for new payment where you can sell your service or products over online.

After the approval process :

Create new Link for payment :

Instamojo Provides excellent features such as Events,Physical goods,service and membership plans and even more.with this they offer to index the link in search engine and they do SEO for the links you have created.

Follow the steps to create your own links: have a look at it.

So,from the Above Example snaps you can create your own service.The only thing here may be new is WebHook url,it is just a POST request made by the instamojo server to our server after every successful transactions made by the users.so that we could update our database faster and provide service to the user who have paid without any delay.

Note : The Above Screenshots are just for depiction and may Contain Fake Data and you need to create it with correct information inorder to ensure payment goes correctly.

Dont share your WebHook URL in public may be someone can try making Bruteforce attacks by making POST request and attack your DATABASE.never reveal your Private/Ouath and Hash keys.

Setup Payment in Web or App :

Here you can setup two types of Payment integration within the site either by prefiling the user information and proceed to payment or just redirecting the user to Gateway where he fills the info and process the payment.

hereby we will see the just redirection to the Payment gateway and user fills the Payment information at the Processing time.Prefilling the form contains HMAC-SHA1 verification and verifying the integrity check of the transfered information over network.We will see this in Next Post.

Select Dashboard > Corresponding link > payment Button will show you this form and can customize it.

Note : if you want to remove powered by instamojo you need to pay them some credits in their market place seems.

paste the code in our web app or mobile app.Coming to the mobile app(HTML5 hybrid apps) just you have to do the transaction in in-app browsers and writing listeners function for url change you could detect the success of the payment and return back to your app.[for further clarification drop me a Mail or Hire me to set up payment gateway in Mobile Apps].

Handling Webhooks :

Most important part of this application is handling webhooks from Instamojo server with Integrity check of source and data for updating our payment database.

<?php
$filename = "/tmp/webhook_data.txt";
foreach($_POST as $key => $value)
{
    file_put_contents($filename, "$key: $value\n", FILE_APPEND);
}
file_put_contents($filename, "----------\n", FILE_APPEND);
?>

The above code will just receive the payment data from the instamojo server when they try to post in our URL.it can be viewed when opening this file.This is really a bad approach of saving users data in flat file and we should check the REQUEST was made actually from INSTAMOJO server by checking Hash sum  calculation using our private key provided by instamojo.

A clear understanding : 

first of all instamojo with the users data they combine all data in alphabetical of the keys taking their values and adding '|' as concatenation and therefore combining all them as Strings.They calculate the hash with your private hash key.(You can get it here) and append it to the post request as sign as key and value as hash.

After reaching our server,for most step is to check for SQL injection attacks,Scan all POST variables and filter all variables.Then retrieve all key pair values from the request part.once again concatenate all the Values with '|' except the Sign part and recalculate the HMAC-SHA1 hash.

Compare both hash and if it is true,the request from instamojo server is legitimate one and you can trust the data and save it in your business Database.

I have implemented this in Node.js - HMAC-SHA1 verification - if you're interested drop me mail to get samples.

Note : Calculate the Hash as prescribed by the Instamojo( get the Complete guide here) or else it may lead to false value and ignoring valid customer data sometimes and lead to dual work and overhead.

Always try with all testcases in Development mode before moving to Production mode of app because,payment gateway can cause many troubles.Read more error codes from Instamojo website for better understanding.

Final Word :

Test all possible testcase in development mode itself and hadle all security checks in development mode and try with all testcase in webhooks,even a single loop hole can cause danger to your Customer data and business logics.

Thus instamojo made our life easy by integrating payments more simplified with pay with links as motto.my next post will be completely how to add custom data,prefilled form,HMAC-SHA1 check sum calculation for web and mobile apps.

for bugs/errors/hugs/comments/help/projects just drop me a mail to s.shivasurya@gmail.com.or chat with me in G+ / Fb chat.Share is care.do comments. 

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Getting Started With Google App Scripts - Send Email From Google Spreadsheets

In This Modern World it would be better to have triggers to do our works automatically with less input feed and make more automated manner.and Recently,This was running in my head and concurrently i'm one of the member of Google Student club in my College and we were about to conduct a small workshop and one of the member took in-charge of getting online forms filled and select 30 students and sending them a confirmation mail to them and instruction.and it was successfully implemented in native hand written scripts in PHP and MYSQL.And there comes my idea of using Google App Scripts with Triggers in Action to Automate our Selection panel and E-mail Sending to who have registered.and suddenly gone through DOCS and tried with my mail and was sending mails in minutes from spreadsheet and thought of sharing it my followers,and recently i got request to write Google Apps scripts tutorial.

This is just Kick Start for Google App Scripts @ +i-visionblog !You can expect more business and Productivity based app scripts soon in our blog or personally contact me in mail for Other Apps Scripts for Business and Productivity.

Reference : Demo | Download Script

Motive :

Our Goal in this post is to send Email to the peoples who have submitted the form or recorded response and as well as Admin.The mail will be delivered from your mail inbox to the client through Gmail API.

Prerequisites :

• A Google Account with Google Drive Enabled.
• A Little knowledge in JavaScript to handle Arrays and functions.
• Google Forms and Spreadsheet.

And little patient to test and Debug the code and check the log for error handling! 

Procedure :

Setup up A Basic Form with Google Forms.

• Open the link create Simple Form with Name and Email as TEXT attribute and make it as mandatory by ticking required.
• Then publish the form public and test whether it is working and accepting the form submission over public.

select Script Editor

Setting up Basic Script for sending the Mail with Script editor in Spreadsheet :

• Go to the corresponding the Response Form Spreadsheet and open and view in Browser.
• under Tools > Script Editor select it and will open the new tab with Google scripts page.
• create new blank Project in Google App Script Editor.
• And then with default code.gs file will be prompting you to type the code.
• So,it's time now to write down the code for Responding the user with the mail who submitted the form with our function written in Google App Script Editor.

 Code : 

 function onFormSubmit(e) {

  var timestamp = e.values[0];

  var mailaddress = e.values[2];

  var body = e.values[1];

  MailApp.sendEmail(mailaddress,"TEST MAIL",body);

  }

The Above Code is self explanatory one ! however you could get the the response from the e variable as array e.values and with MailApp.sendEmail function you could send the email by passing the parameters as mail address ,Subject and body.note that always the first array value will be timestamp of submission and next will be your form values in according your arrangement in Google Form.

Steps to Execute :

Follow the steps correctly to test and execute the script.

select current project trigger

Click Current Trigger Project in Google App Script page Toolbar.

You will be listed with Triggers with corresponding functions written in code.gs,it must be mapped with corresponding events like spreadsheet on view,edit,update and adding entries and form submissions.

set up trigger 

• Click on Notification > and change it to immediately for crash Reports 

change to immediately to check your errors

• Click Okay and in main Project Trigger confirm your identity by accepting the OAuth from google for delivering the mails on your behalf and with your name.
• Now view the live form and test it in your browser and if all goes well just you will be getting mail who submitted the form with correct mail id.
• If you need admin Email also just copy the same function and replace with your email hardcoded so that you may also get mail whenever the form is submitted.
• If something you(Admin) will receive the script Failure Exception details via Email update immediately since we set immediately in our notification of current project triggers.

My Result on Testing the Google Form :

Test Mail successfully Received

thus have a live Demo from above given link in reference section and download the code and try yourself.Always validate the input from the client! side for improving the security.

Note: This post deals with the basic of Google App Script usage.You can do a lot with Google App Scripts almost you can Automate all your activities.Let us see about it in future post.subscribe our blog for updates and recent posts.

For Bugs/Hugs/comments/doubts/updates and projects just drop mail to s.shivasurya@gmail.com or chat with me in Facebook/Google+ chat and for updates and interesting tweets/updates follow me in Twitter.

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