Thanks for feedback! It's pretty clear people don't like the alert window, so I'll remove that.
What I liked about the alert window is that it displayed results, on same page without needing to scroll, on a mobile device.
Would you be OK with scrolling down to the see the results?
Re: your second idea, that's definitely come up a lot. They don't have API so it requires a hack around. Are there phone apps out there that read the status from another app? I'm not really thinking of any at moment, but maybe if an app could use the phone to open another app and then read from the screen, that could work...
Uber has a mobile website - you could either scrape the site (probably much easier than trying to scrape an app) or capture the traffic and build your own kind of API. There's a service called gargl that says they do that kind of thing, although I haven't got around to looking at them yet.
Hm interesting! I had not heard of gargl - may check it out. This is a hard feature to implement without their permission. There is a benefit to Uber / Lyft, if there was a direct link to their apps.
What I liked about the alert window is that it displayed results, on same page without needing to scroll, on a mobile device.
Would you be OK with scrolling down to the see the results?
Re: your second idea, that's definitely come up a lot. They don't have API so it requires a hack around. Are there phone apps out there that read the status from another app? I'm not really thinking of any at moment, but maybe if an app could use the phone to open another app and then read from the screen, that could work...