There are many apps, which can inform you about the things in which you are interested.
But what about - to get this informations direct in your Titanium?
e.g.:
- What's running on TV tonight? (TV_Journal)
- especially TV-Programm on PrimeTime today?
- Which movies are now in my local cinema and when does they start?
- Detailed Weather-Information for my town?
- Read the Newspaper most important reports?
- Worldwide News? Local News?
- Latest Sports Results - Soccer,Baseball,Basketball,...
- News from a special kind of Sport - Formula1, Soccer,...
- What's the latest new Posts in xda-devs, e.g. in new Posts (Apps) in Development&Hacking or for my Device (e.g. Diamond) ?
That would be a nice app, don't you think, too? But it's hard to adapt it to your personal interests, right?
No - it's not difficult - and this app already exists for free - but could be expanded. You know the word "RSS" - but you don't read RSS, right?
But: You mustn't know, that it is RSS - it's more important, to know, what you want to know.
RSS is only one of the standardized formats, which can be read programimatically and show the infos, you want, on your screen. Especially on your TitaniumPanel. And that's also the reason, why I made TitaniumRSS - I can have all the interests in one App - one internal App.
But I made a new Thread "Titanium Informer" - perhaps later on, we will see, if there are other formats, which are not RSS, and have things of interests of you. And so the Project could split later on. We will see.
But ther must be a Collection, to know, where you can access your personal information or where/how you can find it.
At first - here you can find the Download for the "Titanium Informer" - at the moment "TitaniumRSS" (QVGA,VGA,WQVGA,VGA) :
*Application TitaniumInformer/TitaniumRSS with Information & Download free*
*Direct Download Link of cab (now 1.1)*
You only need 2 more Apps, that everything runs:
- Mortscript 4.2 *Mortscript 4.2*
- JMLPanex >= 0.99 / better 1.0 *JMLPanex* ,so Titanium-Buttons are working
And now we can collect together the Informations (aka RSS-Feeds), which could be of interest. To be shown in Application, only look at the *description* - it's a simple edit of the Text-File TitaniumRSS.ini :
Informations about current News:
Worldwide:
World News Metro
http://feeds.feedburner.com/metro-world-news?format=xml
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World Top-Stories
http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/UsatodaycomWorld-TopStories
National:
USA-Today - TopStories
http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/usatoday-NewsTopStories
Much more different Feeds of USA-Today (Weather, Politics, Stocks, National, Religion, Sports, Education,...) are to find: *click here*
German Newsticker
http://feeds.feedburner.com/bto-newsticker.xml
German News Telegramm
http://feeds.feedburner.com/bto-ShowTelegramm.xml
Much more news can for your country or worldwide in your language can be find easily by Google-Search "RSS news <myCountry>"
TV-Programm:
TV-Stories USA (with long informations)
http://www.newsday.com/cmlink/tv-stories-from-newsday-1.1251975?localLinksEnabled=false
Episodes Guide - informs about all new one
http://epguides.com/menu/recentAddAll.xml
Dancing-with-the-Stars Informations
http://rss.tvguide.com/tvshows/dancing-stars/191470
(much more TV-Shows to find: *click here*
NBC-Chicago-News
http://feeds.nbcchicago.com/nbcchicago/entertainment/television/
German Top Program Today
url=http://www.klack.de/xml/klackTopRSS.xml
German TV Program PrimeTime
url=http://www.klack.de/xml/klack2015RSS.xml
German TV - now in TV
url=http://www.tvspielfilm.de/tv-programm/rss/jetzt.xml
All similar things are to find easily with Google "RSS today TV <your country>" in your language
Cinema:
New Movie Reviews
http://feeds.eonline.com/eonline/moviereviews?format=xml
German Start of Movies current
http://www.filmstarts.de/kino.rss
German Movies coming soon
http://www.filmstarts.de/kino-soon.rss
German Upcoming Blockbusters
http://www.filmstarts.de/kino-highlights.rss
XDA-Developers:
New Topics (and apps) in Development&Hacking
http://forum.xda-developers.com/external.php?type=RSS2&forumids=260
New Topics for HTC Touch Diamond
http://forum.xda-developers.com/external.php?type=RSS2&forumids=441
Each Part of XDA-Developers has it's own RSS-Feed. Just click on the RSS-Icon in your Browser to get the URL.
IN TitaniumRSS with option "Read HTML in Browser(offline) you can read also HTML-Code
With "Read Feed in Browser (online)" you can direct jump to this Topic and can read the answers or answer on your own
Weather:
Only as Example-weather from the Niagara Falls
http://www.rssweather.com/wx/us/ny/niagara falls/rss.php
You can choose worldwide your personal weather info from: *click here*
Weather for your city, e.g. Chicago
http://weather.msn.com/RSS.aspx?wealocations=wc:USIL0225&weadegreetype=F
Your weather code is the same as you know it from JMLToday (after "wc: )
Look *here*
Ebay:
Ebay: e.g. All WII-Consoles, which auctions will close soon
http://games.shop.ebay.de/Konsolen-/54953/i.html?_nkw=wii&_catref=1&_dmpt=Videospielkonsolen&_rss=1
Ebay uses for almost all categories RSS-Feeds, you can have a look, if something is new/is soon end of auction. Info about current price, End of auction, ...
In Bottom of each category you find the "RSS"-Sign to get the URL and transfer it to TitaniumRSS
Sports:
Formula1:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/totalf1-recent
World Soccer News
url=http://sports.yahoo.com/sow/rss.xml
There's much more - only search for
General Search for Informations:
With Google and "RSS <your search topics>" - you will find the most of the Informations, you want
Also:
http://www.search4rss.com/
http://www.faganfinder.com/blogs/
...
There is much more - and everybody can tell his favorite information sources here. And that RSS is only a format, which can be automatically used to get this information into your Titanium Panel.
And if that's not RSS-Feeds - but other standardized formats - we can have a look, if it's senseful to split/transfer the TitaniumRSS to a Titanium Informer-Project.
Micha
PS: Which "Feeds" would you recommend for information?
.
.
Radar Traps /Traffic:
Radar Traps for Germany/Bavaria
http://www.antenne.de/cf/verkehr/blitzer_rss.xml
Traffic News for Germany/Bavaria
http://www.antenne.de/clickser.php?...url=www.antenne.de/cf/verkehr/bayern_rss2.xml
Mostly your local Radio Stations provides some RSS-Feeds for Traffic or Speed Traps.
Just think: For other phones they sell special applications only for Speed Traps.. here it's free
Windows Mobile:
1800PocketPc.com - Deals with Windows Mobile Freeware and News
Feed URL : http://www.1800pocketpc.com/feed
BestWindowsMobileApss.com - Review of Windows Mobile Apps and Games
Feed URL : http://www.bestwindowsmobileapps.com/feed
PocketPC Thoughts
url=http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/xml/thoughtcast.xml
WMPoweruser
http://wmpoweruser.com/?feed=rss2
Windows Mobile Developing
http://services.community.microsoft.com/feeds/feed/windowsmobilewebcasts
IntoMobile
http://www.intomobile.com/feed/
Computer:
HeiseNews
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/heise.rdf
Humour:
New Jokes Feed
http://www.jokespalace.com/feed/
.
You see - for almost each of this Informations exists a single external app - and you can do it now One1All in Titanium.
French Link
About French RSS feed :
Cinema (Movies) :
this Week : http://rss.allocine.fr/ac/cine/cettesemaine
Comming soon : http://rss.allocine.fr/ac/cine/prochainement
News :
All news : http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/861/fe.ed/www.metrofrance.com/rss.xml?c=section-news&mediafed=1
Sport : http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/861/fe.ed/www.metrofrance.com/rss.xml?c=1157379271-45&mediafed=1
HighTech : http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/861/fe.ed/www.metrofrance.com/rss.xml?c=1157379272-44&mediafed=1
TV program : http://programme-tv.orange.fr/rss/fluxRssProgrammeSoiree.xml
PDA news and More : http://www.mobinaute.com/rss.xml
My contribution !
Thanx lesscro, also now a little bit updated with some freeware sources like 1800pocketpc.com - Informations
Micha
awesome!
hey man, awesome plugin! got me interested in RSS feeds! im having some issues with it tho. so, where do i point where the RSS directory should be? any folder? where my RSS Hub channels are? when i click on the toggle/ full previw or whatever, it just sends me to my top titanium panel and usually freezes up the phone. i also cant figure out how to add a channel. so, mayb we could get a little tutorial? mayb, hopefully, i screwed up sumwhere. btw, im workin with a htc ozone runnin the latest 3vo rom. any help would be great. this is such a cool panel!
Thanx
I already wanted to make it faster.
In current version (1.1) you can add your feeds in TitaniumRSS.ini.
Perhaps you have only clicked the drect download link - because over there is already a tutorial (Post #2) :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=545831
At the moment TitaniumRSS and TitaniumInformer are the same apps - but I'm thinking about, to seperate them and not only showing RSS. But I'm not sure - perhaps I will keep it in one app with extensions.
My recommendation for choosed RSS-Folder is directly storage card (or perhaps is the name "internal storage" on your device)
While installing a subfolder is created automatically.
Have you installed TitaniumRSS to main storage like it's necessary for Titanium Plugins? Otherwise please reinstall it (in Preview Mode - never in Full Mode)
If you still see freezes, then I would need an export of your Registry:
HKLM/Software/Microsoft/CHome
and
HKCU/Software/TitaniumRSS
(you can do it easy with TotalCommander, just COPY them to your storage Card, then you have .reg-Files as Text)
Then I could have a look
And IF something happens: I have a double security system because of switching .cpr inside. You can switch to Preveiw Mode always by Startmenu (Utilities->TitaniumRSS) and your .cpr is in your choosen RSS-Folder in Subfolder "internal" - also together with a copy of SwitchBack-Script.
A little remark perhaps: Because of TitaniumRSS I develped TICS afterwards - a program which can be used to install Applications into each .cpr.
TitaniumRSS has an "internal" TICS - but uses in 1.1 older ATPluginInstaller - I wanted to change it with 2.0 (when I finished another little project... I only had not much time the last months to change it)
Thanx for your feedback
Greetings
Micha
hopin im just a noob...
ok so, figured out how to add/change the feeds. lots of stuff in this plugin man. you must have worked like heck over this.
in my opinion, id like to see two diffrent apps and and a combined. options. people like them.
ya, was installed on internal storage like all other titanium plugins.
so, i know nothing about programming. a little about the registry and .png files. anything else, well, pointed in the right direction i can prolly figure it out. so ya, heres my registry folders ya said you would need to look at.
hey, thanks man. for the quick response and helping me with your plugin. this is truly the most intricate and awesome plugin ive seen for titanium yet.
thanx for the nice words
yes-it was really hard work - it's more a complex app than a Titanium Plugin.
One little remark,if animations run slowly: you can resize each image to the half for your qvga-device (e.g. with IrfanView)
ok,I looked at Registry, and now I have some different suggestions:
1. I see an add-on to switch between Bronzelistview and Titaniumlistview.what's this app,which add these "feature"?
perhaps this could confuse analyser.could you switch to Titaniumlistview and choose Re-Analyse from Menu?
2. perhaps Analysis would throw an error message because of active FullView,even if you are in Preview Mode. I saw 2 inconsistent Registry-keys.Fullview is active,but cpr is original Titanium,not TitaniumRSS
Could you execute trssSwitchBack.mscr from /Internal storage/.../TitaniumRSSFeeds/Internal?
and then have a look if in hklm/software/microsoft/chome/Titaniumrss the key "fullviewactive" is then on "0"
if not,change it manually to 0
3. perhaps I made a bug,because the most tests are made with jmltoday as Top-Plugin.you could try 2 things (if you want) : make titaniumrss to top-plugin (in Faq explained) or install JMLToday and try it againwith Reanalysation.
please always consider-indifferent if you install a Plugin or reinstall TitaniumRSS or Reanalyse Titanium-switch to Preview Mode.
please feedback what has helped - and if you found out something else and have questions about,just ask.
Greetz
Micha
before i write a long one...
a couple quick questions before i lay it all out again.
do I HAVE to have TICS installed for this to install directly?
when you say you have JMLToday as your Top-Plugin, is that the same as the default plugin?
JML, really cool btw. will be playing around with that after we hopefully get this working.
a couple quick questions before i lay it all out again.
# ok
do I HAVE to have TICS installed for this to install directly?
# I made the last version of this app before I developed TICS,so it's not integrated so far.because of the FullView-Feature of TitaniumInformer (which is "TICS-light" ) it's not so easy to integrate TICS-Installer.
TICS is nothing which can bw downloaded and installed-it's integrated in much Titanium-Apps by the developers.so there are only a few download,but I would estimate it's already integrated in 100.000 installations on devices.
So I would recommend,if you don't use original Titanium...cpr:
1. Install TitaniumInformer, let the first analyse
run.
2. Copy part of TitaniumRSS from Titanium...cpr to your current .cpr
3. Restart Titanium
4.Re-Analyse again by Main Menu-then it should work and switch in all Themes
in 2.0 TICS will be certainly integrated.
when you say you have JMLToday as your Top-Plugin, is that the same as the default plugin?
# no.sorry-perhaps because English isn't my mother tongue:
Jmltoday is my top-most Plugin.With CHome-Editor set to top.that's needed if you want to have a not-default-Microsoft-Plugin to be default plugin.
Default Plugin is this Plugin,when you refresh Titanium or switch from an app to Titanium,which is selected(expanded). that's CClock usually,but changeable.E.g. jmltoday or TitaniumRss.what's top-most(because all other Plugins have the same GUID)
JML, really cool btw. will be playing around with that after we hopefully get this working.
# it works - sure
Greetz
Micha
ok...
so, that add on for bronze and titaniumlistview is something that came with ookba's 3vo rom. honestly, dont know what the difference is. I dont know if it was this option or, from going to the Tiatanium Panel Meda homescreen layout to the Titanium Panel Media Topbar layout but, one of these heled with the overall visuals in this panel and, another one actually.
I was able to find the switchback mscr and the fullviewactive in the registry. runnign the switchback changed the registry setting but, my homescreen was still frozen. not my phone entirely but, my homescreen. \
i also tried JMLToday and TitaniumRSS as my top plugins. no luck.
i thought you want to mention in further releases, that as of now, you have to have a default brpwser set to be able to open the feed in a browser. that took me a while to figure out.
so, im posting some files for you again, in case you wish to help me out further. im hoping this might help you out in further updates as well. i just dont know enough yet about .cpr's to feel comfortable with messing around with em. in the zip are 2 screen shots. pretty much everything is working for me with this now except the full view. the only other complaint is, is that the words on mine look like they are smushed together. that theres not enough room. thats what those shots are of. i included my reg folders again as they are now. i also included my .cpr's from titaniumrss and what im sure is my current .cpr. The titanium media topbar.cpr.
hate to be such a noob man but, i am picking up on stuff. hopin this feedback helps.
that zip..
heres that zip with that stuff in it man. again, hope this helps for further releases
Thanx for the explanation-if I'm at home,I will try to find out,what's th "speciality" of your ookba-Rom is.
TitaniumListView is the newer standard (therefore CHome is called Titanium) - the slider is always centered in the screen.
the older BronzeView the slider position variies with the positon of the active plugin.
for 2.0 noted:also in preview a feed can be read off- and online,ok? (opera,opera mini, ie)
Greetings
Micha
btw: I'm at the moment about another dev and have a lack of time because of office,too.but I will try is asap after first release of my new app.
cool
oh, ya, take your time man. I can only assume that someone that can write stuff like this is working on plenty of stuff. this thread will be staying in my bookmarks and Ill be checking it for updates. thanks for the help man.
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Summary:
XDA users no longer have to deal with the hassle of using an inefficient browser to view the forum which provides the liveblood of their devices. Now, the Mobile XDApp gives you options to help eliminate load times and increase your productivity as you view fourms, read and reply to posts, start new threads, upload files, download files, manage your account and more!
Progress towards next release:
Code:
[|||||||||||||||_____] 75%
Latest Nightly: 00230
Updates:
Development is temporarily slowed, as I'll be very busy with work from here until late December. You have to do what you have to do, right? I'm trying to fit the XDApp in as best I can. Development is happening- it's just much slower.
Have a great idea for your own XDA-based application? I'll be releasing LibXDA soon, a .NET library that will allow you to interface with the XDA-developers forum. Check the forums directly from your app, or make a post from your application. Support for .NET and COM inter-ops, so it's extremely easy to use .NET applications, and usable from C++.
(Of course, if you're going to run the application from C++, the library will still suffer that 'managed overhead' that C# programs suffer from.)
---
I'm releasing 'nightly' builds whenever I have time for development. They're pretty much in-progress snapshots, and they're open to the public. I'll be releasing a 'more official' Alpha tomorrow, which means a lot of people will be getting e-mails with passwords. For those of you who want to see the app but don't get an e-mail, you can still run the next nightly (which will probably be further along in development than the Alpha), even though you won't be able to help right away with testing.
Here's the build number scheme, if you want to know:
VXBBB
V- Released Version- the last released major (integer) version at the time of the release.
X- Development 'branch'; 0- Backend Development (utilizing the lite version as a frontend); 1- XDApp Lite; 2- XDApp Professional; 3- Alternate Build (i.e. for testing an extension)
BBB- the build number, which starts from 0 in the version or branch and increments each time I hit the 'build' button
Features:
Complete Features:
-Dynamic multi-screen rendering library supports any screen of any size, shape, and DPI. Tested and works on QVGA, WVGA, VGA, and Square VGA. Theoretically should work with much larger screens, including large-screen RedFly devices/software.
-GZIP compression, which decreases load times by more than 80%. That's more efficient than Opera Mini! See below for compression statistics.
-Full, automatic authentication protocols mean you never have to waste time logging in again!
-Automatic server-side thumbnailing of images for much reduced image transfer.
-Unique 'superheader' view organizes forums, making it easier to navigate the forums!
Features in testing (otherwise polished):
-Full finger-friendly kinetic scrolling in all applicable views.
-Ability to 'filter' the super-headers view, showing only relevant devices.
-Fast encryption for storing user information.
-Non-touchscreen device operability.
Working features (may require polish):
-Complete user-skinability via text-based theme files.
-Finger gestures (on touchscreen devices.)
-View fora (plural forums) including post previews, with much faster rendering times than using a traditional broswer, finger friendly controls, and views optimized for mobile devices.
-Lightning-fast post rendering, both in fully formatted mode and plain-text mode.
-'Lite version' for devices using native controls for slower/older devices.
-Reply to threads and posts, and start new threads from your mobile!
Near-complete features:
-Edit your posts.
-Pre-fetching allows commonly viewed threads to load when you first start the app, completely eliminating load times later.
-Extensible external framework will allow other applications to utilize its features: e.g. allow a user to directly post a bug-report, complete with attached memdump, to a developer's thread.
In Progress:
-Download files and attachments instantly, without even opening a browser.
-Bookmarks!
Pending development:
-Lose connection while typing a post? XDApp has an option to automatically queue your post and finish sending it next time you have a connection!
-Private message handling.
Future releases:
-Wiki view.
-Upload a picture or file directly from the phone.
-Take a screenshot of one's phone, and upload it directly as an attachment.
-Update threads via psuedo-push: trigger notification/update of thread upon recipet of subscription e-mail.
-Real-time update checking; i.e. no need to constantly refresh the thread you're on.
-Full WYSIWYG editing of BB-code post formatting.
-Push-style notifications on private messages and subscribed threads.
-Interconnections with my sensor control project which will allow use of the g-sensor, light sensor, capacitive button sensors, stylus sensor and camera to support various types of gestures and inter activities. For example, use the light sensor to automatically switch to a theatre or meeting-friendly 'night mode'.
[APP] XDApp- XDA-Devs on your phone! Releasing 'Nightly' pre-Alphas. (Latest V:00230)
Most Recent Screenshots:
Rhodium/manila like theme:
(Rhodium Manila-like theme.)
Original XDA Theme:
iPhone-like Theme:
Bounty:
Currently at: $176
jmckeejr: paid! for a fully functioning app with at least abilty to reply to posts without waiting for 5 minutes and trying to chase Opera around to see what I'm typing.
dnieman13: $10
apreichner: $5
codybear: $5 Around $5 if it works with Windows Mobile 6.5 and works better than using the Opera browser
uniqueboy: paid!
krook6023: $15 for a working version with all the bells and whistles described
akp99: $10
Bijdehandje: $35 Exact: € 25 For a working Kaiser version that is a quality and complete app
greeneyemonstruo: paid!
acidbath5546: $10
sinoo: $7 Exact: 5€ for a reliable and fully functional tool
jor3l: $10
x|Lukas|x: $14 Exact: €10
If you'd like to, you can add to the bounty. It's completely optional, as I write applications because I enjoy programming, not for money.
Also, if you'd like, you can donate using the link in my signature (via PayPal). The money will be used to pay for the server I currently use for testing and soon will be using to provide an optimizing, compressing, streamlining proxy to reduce your forum load-times.
Many thanks for generous donations from: ljinsane, uniqueboy, greeneyemonstruo, jmckeejr, mostberg, SoundMind.us
Compression Statistics:
These compression statistics are without any server-side streamlining. (Compression is server-side.)
This page:
Original (uncompressed) size: 129,071 bytes (126.0 KiB)
GZIP Compressed size: 22, 816 bytes (22.3 KiB)
Compression Ratio: 82.3%
Forum index:
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GZIP Compressed size: 34,894 bytes (34.1 KiB)
Compression Ratio: 88.5%
Many thanks to:
Those who have pledged to the bounty. At the time of your donation, you will be thanked here.
ace10134- who started this whole movement, and is thus responsible for bringing this app to you guys in the first place.
Jenn, who has been unendingly patient while I sit here coding instead of paying attention to her.
Preview Releases:
First Feature Preview (password protected ZIP file, not for general public)
If you're interested in testing 'feature previews', go ahead and shoot me an e-mail ([email protected]) with the subject line "feature tester". Debugging experience helps, but isn't necessary.
Showing a bit of interest here (Plus Im not too bad at reverse engineering )
Good to see progress being made . I'll be sending you an email soon(hope I can help) and I'll get that donation ready
Ok, I got the old thread all set up to be locked.
No one make a post on the old thread!!! I'm waiting for it to be locked, and I want the thread re-direction to be the last post. Thanks to everyone who showed interest/donated/motivated/etc. And the biggest thanks to the developer.
Now keep this thread up to date!!! And a working version to test would be awesome.
Thanks everyone,
Andrew
ktemkin said:
Bounty:
Currently at: $135
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Can't believe it. I've been lurking around this site for over a year and this is the first time I saw the XDA 'bounty' (I've only recently heard about it at all).
Anyway, this is an interesting concept. I'm pretty much fine with using Opera Mini to browse XDA, but this could potentially turn out great. I hope all the best to you and your work, Ktemkin!
+5€ for a reliable and fully functional tool!
Can't wait to try it!
Looking very good.
I closed the old thread, and stickied this one instead of the old one.
I found this, what you are doing is what they have done.
3Gtan---A great web Browser for forum
unfortunately its in Chinese
Looks promising, well done!
sinoo said:
+5€ for a reliable and fully functional tool!
Can't wait to try it!
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5 Euros is about $7 USD, (7.11540 USD), when you update the bounty.
l3v5y said:
Looking very good.
I closed the old thread, and stickied this one instead of the old one.
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Thanks!
topsign said:
I found this, what you are doing is what they have done.
3Gtan---A great web Browser for forum
unfortunately its in Chinese
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That seems to work pretty well, but, unfortunately:
-is Completely in Chinese.
-is Closed Source
-takes up a lot of the screen with useless icons and buttons.
-doesn't support downloads/uploads, or most of the advanced features planned for the XDApp project.
Might be useful for people to use in the interim- if they can figure out how to use it.
---
On a more XDApp-related note, I have a few questions for the end-user:
1) Icons: are they worth the screen space? They would only be 5-6 pixels wide (10-12 on double VGA systems), and they'd appear in the following places:
-In front of posts, displaying the the 'new', 'popular', 'you replied here', etc. icons.
-Real icons for things like quote and edit. Right now, the design is that you quote, edit, reply, etc. by right clicking (click and hold) and selecting that option from a menu. Would finger-sized icons in each post be better?
2) Mobile posts- when posting from the a mobile phone, should the XDApp (have an option to) auto-insert a small icon on each post it makes? For example, a post from a mobile phone might look like:
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Just checking up on the status of the project. Looking forward to your next ROM release!
is planed a multilang interface? would be cool and i can help with translations if needed
ktemkin said:
That seems to work pretty well, but, unfortunately:
-is Completely in Chinese.
-is Closed Source
-takes up a lot of the screen with useless icons and buttons.
-doesn't support downloads/uploads, or most of the advanced features planned for the XDApp project.
Might be useful for people to use in the interim- if they can figure out how to use it.
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On a more XDApp-related note, I have a few questions for the end-user:
1) Icons: are they worth the screen space? They would only be 5-6 pixels wide (10-12 on double VGA systems), and they'd appear in the following places:
-In front of posts, displaying the the 'new', 'popular', 'you replied here', etc. icons.
-Real icons for things like quote and edit. Right now, the design is that you quote, edit, reply, etc. by right clicking (click and hold) and selecting that option from a menu. Would finger-sized icons in each post be better?
2) Mobile posts- when posting from the a mobile phone, should the XDApp (have an option to) auto-insert a small icon on each post it makes? For example, a post from a mobile phone might look like:
--
Just checking up on the status of the project. Looking forward to your next ROM release!
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I for one like the Icon for mobile post. +1 for the right click option as it will not take as long to load on older devices without the icons.
ktemkin said:
On a more XDApp-related note, I have a few questions for the end-user:
1) Icons: are they worth the screen space? They would only be 5-6 pixels wide (10-12 on double VGA systems), and they'd appear in the following places:
-In front of posts, displaying the the 'new', 'popular', 'you replied here', etc. icons.
-Real icons for things like quote and edit. Right now, the design is that you quote, edit, reply, etc. by right clicking (click and hold) and selecting that option from a menu. Would finger-sized icons in each post be better?
2) Mobile posts- when posting from the a mobile phone, should the XDApp (have an option to) auto-insert a small icon on each post it makes? For example, a post from a mobile phone might look like:
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Just checking up on the status of the project. Looking forward to your next ROM release!
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1) - Icons in front of the posts aren't exactly necessary. I guess they could be nice, but I'd rather be able to read more text on the screen instead. The icons are rather small, though, so it's no big deal.
- About the "Quote" and "Edit" buttons...I say that the right clicking method is awesome! Otherwise seeing all of those "Quote" and "Edit" buttons on every single post is repetative. I like your right-clicking method. 1 vote for that.
2) the Mobile post thing is a cool idea, and you might as well have the option. But, a better location for the icon...You know how you can pick an icon for your reply? Such as how I picked the Cool Sunglasses Smiley? If we could somehow replace that with a mobile phone icon, that would be perfectly ideal. But, we'd have to get the Admins to do that. So...I'm for having the option of putting the "Mobile" icon, just like how you showed in the example.
hmm 2 qstions, 1. will have multilang support? and 2. you are doing a server side work or the app donwload the page and then fix it for the phone?
Good to see this is moving right along!!
Icons....are a good question...is pushing a icon that much more functional than right clicking? Icons for for things like quote and edit might give a more ascetic or native look but IMO they would add little to the usability. Icons in front of posts...I really don't care either way...and the Mobile Post thing is a very cool idea....ktemkin...I like the way you think...this app is going to be awesome!
This just keeps getting better and better. Up my pledge to $25 for a little extra motivation.
greeneyemonstruo said:
This just keeps getting better and better. Up my pledge to $25 for a little extra motivation.
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Ktemin should be putting your bounty in the pot soon.
Ktemin (or however you spell that), you should put the bounty in the Thread Title, like it used to be. Well, actually, the bounty doesn't matter anymore, nvm then.
But, everyone, should we have buttons for "Quote", "Edit", etc? Or do you want to access those features by right clicking on the post, and then clicking them? By using the right-click method, we save space. By using the buttons method, we have quicker access. What do you think? (just repeating Ktemin's question).
Hello
We are at the very beginning stage of development of new FaceBook app for WinMo.
If any developer/graphic designer wants to join, please feel free to do so
Please reffer to this google code project site:
http://code.google.com/p/xda-winmo-facebook/
To join the group, PM xda member: joe_coolish
Donations:
Promised Fullfilled
sinoo - $10 + $10
thekrautdog - $5
PS: The poll is from the old post. You can still vote on whether you want a new FB app.
Follow updates on Twitter! Use the #xdafb hashtag to spread the word!
Here is an article on what kinds of feedback we're looking for when helping test the public beta: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=9227274
[UPDATED 12/7/10]
BETA 4.1!
**update** If you were caught in the infinite automatic-update, things should be fixed now. Also, I forgot to disable the Compose button in the inbox. It will crash the app if clicked on. Hopefully by friday I can have another version that has this part working
Photo Albums! Pictures can now be viewed in XDAFacebook.
Big pictures will open up in the default browser for the time being. Once I make a good photo viewer, I'll replace that.
Also, the settings menu has a whole section dedicated to photos. Feel free to play with the settings, but numerical values == 0 or <0 will cause the app to crash! There is no safty net for this!
There is a number for concurrent image downloads. This number should be between 6-10. Any more can cause slow down, and less and the effect seems non-existant. I've gone as high as 25 and felt pretty good about it. But I haven't dared push it to the limit!
New albums had a few bugs so I held back on this release. It will be coming soon!
Older Posts! Feel free to browse the older posts I've successfully gone about a days worth of posts back w/o any lag.
Searchable Friends List! I added a search box at the top of the friends search list
Memory Management! Special Thanks goes out to Corwin9S. He helped me look at the memory usage. I reduced the CPU cycles by ~30%. It still takes up about 3-6 mbs of RAM. This is caused by Form Allocations, DLL imports, etc. Most of the space is just allocated space that I can't get rid of. I will try to find more ways to make the RAM usage go down, but from what I've been told by some people at MSFT, this numer isn't uncommon or bad. CPU cycles are what count and that's what I'm trying to optimize
GUI fixes! I finished the drop-downs, so they look a little more professional. I also added the numerical counters. There are still more that can be done on them, so I will continue improving their apperance and performance.
Rollup of bug fixes
And finally SPEED!! This version should be the fastest yet. Rendering times are super quick and load times seem to be back to where they belong.
Instructions for Localization:
Please create a blank language file (instructions are above) and edit ONLY the text in between the quote marks "". The quotes need to remain!
Verify that your text doesn't fly off the screen. Anywhere that the text is too long for the graphic, try shortening the word or pick a different one (if that's possible) if not, let me know (via picture) and I'll make the necessary changes.
Once you have a translated file, save it as <Language>.txt and upload it to your device. Place it in the same directory where you got the Blank.txt.
Please share your translations!
ALSO! Since the app will be transforming and new features will be being added, the translation process will be ongoing.
If you click "Create Blank Language File" and you already had an alternate translation loaded and working, the Blank.txt will only have the new strings in english, so you will only need to translate the changes.
Unfortunately, after a couple of hours searching the web and looking at platform SDKs, I have learned that poking is not supported by the Graph or REST APIs (what I use to interact with facebook). I've been looking, and I might be able to hack something that might work, or I could have the option to support Pokes via SMS. I need your feedback. Which option (or both) sounds the best? Does anyone even Poke anymore?!
Wall posting is very basic at the moment. I will be making an advanced text editor that has more options for posting links, privacy settings, etc.
I also changed the road map a little. Let me know if that works for everyone!
Hope everyone likes the new updates!
I also wanted to make a road map of releases leading up to the final release of Version 1.0:
BETA 4.X
This beta release will focus on posting data to Facebook and making sure everything works well.
This beta release will also include newer GUI pieces, such as Inbox!
BETA 5.X
This beta release will focus on Chat!
BETA 6.X
This beta release will focus on App Completeness! Or making sure all the functionality of a full Mobile Client have been implemented
RC 1
This release candidate will focus on Bullet-Proofing! All minor bugs should be worked out
RC 2
This release candidate will only happen if major bugs are discovered in RC 1
Release 1.0
Hopefully all is well!
That is the road map I have planned. I don't anticipate Beta 3 to be out very long (unless there are major bugs). I want to get to beta 4.X as soon as possible. I also might mix and match But that is the proposed roadmap to Release 1.0!
Devices that this beta has been tested on:
HD2 WVGA
BUGS!!!
Authorization should be working, but using the new URL is a lot cleaner (I think). Go here to authorize directly. Once you see the browser transfered to "Success" then try the application again
Friend names that are really long hang off the edge.
I've fixed this bug for the next release, long names will be clipped with Ellipsis
And the status of this beta is:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
ENJOY!
Skinning instructions
Design instructions:
Download screenshots.zip
modifiy images in favorite image editor (that supports .psd and layers)
post concept image in thread/send us the .psd file
(OPTIONAL) Make skin with concept
Skin the XDAFacebook app instructions:
Download zip file
extract all images and place them in the \Program Files\XDAFacebook\Resources folder
launch application
enjoy!
Ok, instructions on how to skin the app are as follows:
Find the image that you want to replace.
Create new image and give it the specific name.
Special "tags" at the end of the name give the image special features.
copy the images to the \Program Files\XDAFacebook\Resources directory
list of tags:
_alpha this will take the first pixel of the image and make it the images "Alpha Channel". Make sure that the image is solid in that color and that there are no artifacts!
_trans_### where ### is a number (ie 200, 100, 10. Not 001). This number represents the total opacity for the image. The higher the number, the more opaque. Range 255-0.
_trans_png. This only works with 24 bit PNG files!!!! This is also very resource intensive, so make this a last option. This will preserve the images alpha channel. It is the only way to make partial transparencies.
List of files: This list will increase and until final release is up for change!
header 480x50
house 50x50
XFPanelHome 480x552
alphabar 50x648
the dimensions are based on 800x480 res screen. If someone wants to experiment and give me dimensions for other resolutions, please do so!
If you have any questions about where these images are, let me know and I'll tell you
Good luck and send me the zip with your skins and I'll post the best ones here
One more expecting a decente facebook app
At this time I just use opera or skyfire cose the MS app is realy useless for me ....
Happy to see someone here. The worst in official facebook app is there is no event for video or apps.
This would be great. I'm really missing a good Facebook app on my lovely HD2.
+1 for a new Facebook app!
+1
im mortified when Blackberry users asked me about FB applications for WM
+1
Any word on developement?
+1 too
+1
new FB application for WM
New apps FB
+1
the current ms FB not worth to use
I could be a waste of time because the microsoft is developing the app too. If they manage to make the app more usable than the coding of the "new" app was useless.
Guys
Didn't you read my post?
I am not the one developing the app. I am not a developer at all.
I jsut wrote appubator an email asking them to make a new FB app for WinMo (since there was a possibility like this). They have not replied ever since though Maybe they did not like the idea.
Maybe we could something to convince them do do the app OR!
Try to make our own application. This place is crowded with talented and awesome coders and graphics so I think we can definitely put something together. What do you people think?
I am graphic myself - If there are coders who decide to do go for it, I would like to help with visage of the app and the overall design and UI.
Who's in the NewFB_Boat? Any coders?
Introduction to development
Hi,
I've start research on the net and found this.
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/mobile/
Actually there is no SDK for Windows Mobile provide by Facebook only for iphone and android.
But there is a lot of explication about how facebook work.
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api
So the first thing is to wrote ourself a SDK we can use as a library for our program.
I'm going to search if we can exploit official Facebook library instead.
Dude, you are genius
I wonder why FB guys dont include WinMo...maybe they do not find winmo very profitable?
Maybe somone with good marketing knowledge could shed some light on FB management to make understand why WinMo FB app would be great lol
I ve download everything need to start development. Tomorow i ll take a look at this and post some comment.
i have a funny feeling the only reason they show the APIs for Iphone and Android is because the SDKs are open source.
but i would love a fully functional facebook app that would let me do everything, without the limitations of sense or the WM facebook app
Sopis said:
Guys
Didn't you read my post?
I am not the one developing the app. I am not a developer at all.
I jsut wrote appubator an email asking them to make a new FB app for WinMo (since there was a possibility like this). They have not replied ever since though Maybe they did not like the idea.
Maybe we could something to convince them do do the app OR!
Try to make our own application. This place is crowded with talented and awesome coders and graphics so I think we can definitely put something together. What do you people think?
I am graphic myself - If there are coders who decide to do go for it, I would like to help with visage of the app and the overall design and UI.
Who's in the NewFB_Boat? Any coders?
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Hi;
I'm one of the founders of appubator.
I really appreciate your interest in our company. Sorry about not responding to your e-mail. We haven't see it come through - which address did you send it to?
We've been following this thread for a while. In short, a deep, detailed app like FB isn't something that we would do. First of all, we likely couldn't charge for it. If we did, its likely that FB or Microsoft would do one better than us and then we're out the time and money to develop it.
We're more about developing many apps (perhaps 100/year), that are smaller and easier to code, and selling them on multiple smartphone platforms.
If you have any ideas for apps you'd like to see - please visit the site at www.appubator.com. Register and submit your ideas. We're reviewing them more quickly and should be able to get back to you pretty quickly with a go/no-go.
Hello igolfchip
I am glad you have responded.
I have sent my APP idea to this address: [email protected] as it was written in the article about your company.
I fully understand you. Well, at least I gave it a shot
I have only one note though - If MS (or FB) would do a better app than you would, why they still havent made it yet?
Hopefully, we will be able to do something.
@Fredz - glad to hear that This all seems it is moving somewhere
Hi all!
This is the PocketPC Version (Viewer) of PVD the very best program to organize your movies.
You can download the PC version from http://www.videodb.info/forum_en/.
My thoughts were: what is the best movie managing and cataloging software worth while in the movie store and searching for a title... or sitting in front of the TV and trying to remember what cool movie I could watch...
That, and enjoying to write software for my mobile phone, were the reasons for mobilePVD.
The software is published at PVD's home and at xda-developers place.
How it works
First of all, you have to get PVD and enter your movies. After that, make a XML export. This writes a file containing the movie information and a directory containing the pictures. Take both and copy them onto your device. I recommend to copy them onto the SD card in a sub directory PVD.
Download mobilePVD and install it on your device. When starting, you will have to select the XML file by clicking Menu->Open DB. Your can select other languages and other skins (if someone makes them ).
When going to a sublist in mobilePVD (i.e. viewing the movie details or selecting directories) and you want to get back, just slide with your finger over the list from left to right...
How to translate
In the program directory on the device is a sub directory called "Languages". Within you find the language files. I deployed English and German so far. To make own translations just copy a file to your desktop, open it with any text editor and translate. Please publish your translation on either forum, so I can build the next version with more supported languages.
How to skin
also in the program directory you will find a sub directory "Skin" with all the images I use. The images in "Manila WVGA" are for a resolution of 800x480. If you like you can take those bitmaps and change them to fit other resolutions and other colors. Don't forget to adapt the settings in the skin.ini file.
And please share your work with us and publish your skins on either forum. I will put them in the download section.
Have fun!
Obelix
Changelog:
2.1 Filtering is back and actors are grouped by first letter.
2.0 uses virtual mode to load more movies before reaching end of memory
1.1 out of memory problem fixed
1.0 Initial release
If you like my work, you can buy me a glass of wine
Version 2.1 of mobilePVD
I was hoping this allows you to enter movie info directly on mobilePVD. A desktop entry method is rather inconvenient. Would that be possible?
Does this also mean I have to re-export everytime I add movies? I took a look at the desktop version and it is very good. I can see why it is more practical using the desktop for entry of movie info.
Obelix_A, I have exported some movies and I must say it looks really nice on my HD2 although it is still not very stable, sometime I get an error that quits the program. It's only 3 movies so I am wondering if it may sow down when I have much more (2,800 in my collection). I would love to have Ratings and duration. It is missing after export. Thanks, this is great for movie lovers just like IMDB Mobile. I am just surprised that there is not much feedback yet.
I like it to a while to sort all my movies and still didnt get all the pictures from IMDB, hey ho did it manually, i need to change the skins to VGA how do i go about that im a bit of a noobie when it comes to skins?
The Actor list is huge and is close to impossible to scroll all the way down to "T" etc. Can we have a sort of filter to search actor names? trev666, use IMP plugin for movie posters. It's excellent.
@Kensong cheers mate
it works well after i restarted my phone, without changing anything from wvga to vga so im happy, thanks man not looking forward to adding all my movies though lol
Ok so i now have a HD2.... works great
great app, thanks for sharing it
here we go with Version 2.0 of mobilePVD. It now uses a virtual mode of the SliderList, what means, that it can load more movies before running out of memory.
If it runs on your devices as stable as it does on mine, we can start adding new features...
Really nice work mate
Really nice work
If you don't mind, i have share it HERE.
Please feel free to drop me a comment if you have anything else to add or in case i have missed anything. Cheers~
just released version 2.1
Filtering is back now and actors are grouped by first letter
I have installed v2.1 right now.
If I click on one of the "-" e.g. "- Actors" I get an exception:
"RemoveItem in virtual mode not allowed"
I am very interested in the development of mobilePVD since I would love to have my movie list on my phone (TD2).
Is mobilePVD a "one man show" or are you planing to involve more developers?
I will check this and fix it...
Yes mPVD is a one-man-show. you can ask my friend amirdt (here on XDA) if he wants to join the project...
Actually I wanted to ask if I could help you with mPVD
what exactly do you want to add?
the only thing I could imagine right now, is another way to read the data.
play around with PVD and the exported data (XML) and how fast you can read it.
currently I am reading with XmlReader.Read and evaluate the nodes. If you can read faster, this would help. other proposals welcome
Here is just a spontaneous list:
- WM 6.5.5 Problem with menus. The black background (when menues are displayed) does not cover the whole screen. Above there is some space visible. This is because the top bar (where the clock is) is smaller and the windows task bar is bigger in WM 6.5.5 (Sorry, cant supply a picture now how it looks like)
- Filter Actors: Add a search field also
- Add a clear button to the search fields to clear the field easily
- Add (Readd?) a ">" to the Movie list to open the movie details (I think the ">" was already there in an earlier version.
- Maybe make the UI somehow less sensitive. At least on my device it moves very quickly. E.g. I cant open the details view without moving the movie list view up or down accidentally.
- Add "Reset all Filters" menu item to the Filter Menu.
- Remove the search field in the detailed movie view to get more space to view the details.
- Maybe make the "letter lines" (+A, +B, ..) in the actors view a little bit thicker so that it is easier to open/close them with a larger thumb
- Maybe add the "letter lines" (+A, +B, ..) to the movie list also. Dont know, how large collections will be handled right now.
- Add more filters like rating (stars...)
- Add movie trailer support (e.g. prepare trailers on PC (conversion etc.) and copy them to device. Link from within mPVD to start media player on device)
- ...
So where can I get the source code to get started with it?
Regards
Al
ok, ok
I will prepare the sources and make it available for you via SVN, so we can handle developing both.
By now, the list won't move when clicking. I changed that... (but all other things from your list can/need to be done)
so, drop me a PM with your wished user name and password for SVN and give me little time to prepare...
alfish2000 now officially joined the development of mobilePVD. So let's welcome him
thanks for your support!
http://www.videodb.info/forum_en/index.php?topic=1755.40
After a long delay, I wanted to see if anyone wanted to do some Beta testing. Sab Watch has been changed quite significantly, and before it heads to the Marketplace, I thought it could use a little more real world testing.
If you're interested, Ill send you a XAP which you can use with no limitations... Just post here with your email. Note that the unofficial contract in the deal is that you provide a little bit of your experience. (Errors that you see, language translation errors, etc). Without further adeu, here's the changelog:
3/20/2011 - Version 2.0
Layout change. Quite a few things have moved around. I am interested in hearing what you think: [email protected]
Trial version added. The trial version is the same as full version, except for ads on main screen and a nag when loading the app.
Multi-Language support. Sab Watch will now identify your language, and change text to work for your language. This is experimental, but testing did not show any problems. If you would like to help translate, please contact me at [email protected]. If Sab Watch doesn't recgonize your language automatically, you can change to a language of your choice by going to App Settings.
Supported Languages:
English
English (United States)
Spanish
German
Japanese
Dutch
French
Quite a few UI improvements.
Much more input validation.
Sab Watch will now save your search history. You can clear the history in app settings.
HTTPS support. Note that you will need a valid certificate, or you'll need to add your server certificate onto your phone.
A great tutorial can be found here:
http://davesimm.blogspot.com/2011/03/using-openssl-to-secure-and-encrypt.html
Price Drop - Sab Watch will now sell for 99 Cents (USD)
Please email me for any requests, support, and questions at [email protected].
http://www.williammelani.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/changelog.html
It also should completely support landscape mode.
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"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Bought the app, looks great but its a bit difficult to setup. Can you post some sort of guide.
serialtoon said:
Bought the app, looks great but its a bit difficult to setup. Can you post some sort of guide.
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I can't currently post links, but I made a post about it on williammelani.com which has some pictures which may be helpful in setting up Sab Watch. Alternatively, you can try reading the information below for more help.
Yep, sorry about it, I actually just changed it to a Pivot/AppBar application which makes the configuration much easier.
On the configuration Page, click on the + Icon to add your first server (or a new one, etc)
From here, enter your Sabnzbd Credentials. You can click the blue 'Config Help...' for more detailed information, but the idea is this:
Server Name is a way for you to identify the server. For example, if you want to communicate on your local network when you're at home, you might call it 'home', and another server with a remote IP you might call 'away'.
Then, enter the IP you use to connect to Sabnzbd, as well as the port and API.
You can find the API key for sabnzbd by going to the 'Config' header and clicking on General. It should be a ~30 character long string.
The IP/host is something like 192.168.1.201, or if you have a domain name attached, it might be something like myhomeserver .com.
Back on the configuration page, you can directly enter your NZBMatrix details. You will need the username you use to login, as well as your API key. The API key can be found by clicking on Your Account at the top of the page after you've logged in.
Finally, you can set a server to be your 'default' by clicking the 'check' button. This server will be the one the application tries to automatically connect with when the application is launched.
When you've done all that, you need to connect to the server for the first time.
To select a server, click on the name until it highlights in your accented color. Then the 'Edit Server', 'Delete Server', 'Default Server', and 'Connect (PLAY icon)' will become available to use.
Your queue and history should show up after the first refresh, and continuously refresh based on the value you set on the 'status' page.
The application fully supports Context menus, meaning that in the three large lists (Queue, History, and Search), you can press and hold for a second to bring up a context menu to perform actions on the selected item.
Single clicking any item brings the 'detailed' view, which shows more information about the particular item you clicked on. On the queue page, you're presented with a few buttons to pause/resume the item, delete it, or move it to the top of the queue.
You can also change the category by clicking on either the Category header or the category itself.
History lets you view slightly more detailed history information, as well as delete the item from the history.
Search lets you view detailed results from NZBMatrix, and gives you a button to download to the server. This button, as well as the one from the context menu, will attempt to automatically sort downloads to their respective category.
I will add some pictures soon to help with the configuration. Sorry about that, Version 1.3 in ~ a week will make configuration and layout much easier.
Thanks again for the purchase
In the version currently in the app store, Newzbin is not available, although It was submitted 2 days ago so you should expect it soon.
Gotcha! Looks like i successfully added my Sab server. Thanks! Fantastic app so far!
Thanks I've just spent the last couple hours making the app use the pivot/appbar design, and I can't wait to release it It's much more intuitive and responsive, and the app seems more fluid in general.
williammel said:
Thanks I've just spent the last couple hours making the app use the pivot/appbar design, and I can't wait to release it It's much more intuitive and responsive, and the app seems more fluid in general.
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Im looking forward to it!
Check out a preview of Sab Watch 1.3 here: youtube.com/watch?v=VYJpHDeQCyo
New version looks great! Do you know if Sab Watch will work with https, I tried it real quick on my machine and it didn't appear to work. Could easily be a problem on my end though.
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New version looks great! Do you know if Sab Watch will work with https, I tried it real quick on my machine and it didn't appear to work. Could easily be a problem on my end though.
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Thanks !
It doesnt support https yet, but only because I have hard-coded it to use http. Ill try to add it into 1.3 however. NZBMatrix is already using https.
Sab Watch 1.2 Is now in the marketplace!
Sab Watch 1.3 has been submitted to the marketplace. There was a weird goof/bug/something that happened in the 1.2 submission that renamed the app to 'sab watch (app)'.
I have been talking to support, and they advised me that it would be fixed if I submit a new app with the 'Sab Watch' name. If it doesn't fix it, ill just submit the app updates to each
Anyway, since 1.3 is considered a 'new' application, it goes through a more strenuous testing than if it was an update; therefore it might take a couple more days. Expect it by 12/9.
VERSION 1.3
NEW FEATURES
Entire App switched to Pivot/AppBar design. Makes performance on the main page better as it isn't always trying to display every list at once.
Added ability to set Pause Timer for SabNZBd server.
'Status' page renamed to extra. Still not quite sure what to do with it yet, as seems like less important information than anything else. Would appreciate suggestions.
Removed config page. This has been replaced by options on the Application Bar.
You may now set a custom amount of items to display for the Queue, History, and Newzbin Results. This will persist throughout application launches.
You may now set a custom refresh rate for the application. This will persist throughout application launches.
When entering the list of servers with no servers defined, you will now get prompted on how to begin adding your first server.
Clicking on a Warnings on the Detailed Server Information page shows the actual warnings received.
Trying to change the NZBMatrix category should be a little easier to bring up the category selector list. In addition, the selector list should load a little faster.
Added Turnstile transitions to pages.
You can now pick from a list of times to pause the server if you wish. This will make it much easier in most situations. Selectable times are 0 (off), 15 min, 30 min, 1 hour, 3 hours. You can still enter a number instead if you wish.
BUGFIXES
Certain Help dialogs contained outdated information from old versions, this is corrected and updated now.
Fixed numerous misspellings of the word occurred.
Fixed a bug where if the user left out their port on the server setup page, the port would be changed to 80, and then tell the user 80 is not a valid number.
Fixed some text placement inconsistencies on the Newzbin detailed post page.
Sab Watch now properly urlencodes search queries. I haven't observed any changes in search results, but YMMV.
Category on queue page should now stay at the line below the rest. This should prevent the 'jumpy' behavior you might have experienced, where as soon as it could fit on the previous line, it moved.
Made error messages that show when you attempt to use NZBMatrix or Newzbin without entering login information actually state that there is no information saved.
NOTES
Newzbin only supports 500 results returned. Any number higher than 500 will still return, at max, 500.
Setting the amount of items to display higher not only causes the application to lag while displaying them, but also uses considerably more data downloading the results, and CPU time to format the results. Keep the display amount reasonable to see good performance.
Here's an look at the upcoming Sab Watch 1.4, Which will feature RSS feeds of NZBMatrix, and possibly Newzbin. You can browse the categories in the same way as you can when select a search category.
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NZBMatrix feeds have been completed.
I bought it, thanks for your work so far.
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I bought it, thanks for your work so far.
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Thanks Goatmaster. I sent you a pm about HTTPS; but the problem is basically this:
Windows Phone 7 requires a valid certificate to use https, which means that:
1. You must have a valid certificate on your server.
or
2. You must jump through quite a few hoops to copy a your invalid certificate to special file format, email it, and open the email in IE, verify it, etc.
I don't mind adding it, its not much work, but just getting your opinion on if you'd do step (2). I asked some of the SabNZBd developers what they thought and they told me probably no one has a valid certificate.
Microsoft said:
If I understand correctly you want to communicate with a Web Service that is running on your own computer using SSL over HTTP (HTTPS). If the certificate of the Certificate Authority (CA) that signed the SSL certificate used by the server hosting your Web Service is not in the certificate store of your Windows Phone 7 device you could do the following:
Export the CA certificate to a Base64-encoded or DER-encoded X.509 .CER file.
Send the .CER file as an email attachment to yourself or put it on a Web server so that you can open and install it from the email application or Internet Explorer Mobile on the device .
If there are any intermediate certificates used do the same for those since a .CER file can only install one certificate.
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Edit: Sab Watch 1.3 is going to be skipped, and 1.4 was sent to the marketplace last night.
This may be a dumb question but would this allow me to start downloads from my phone? I use newsbin currently and I am sure I can figure out sabNzb if it would allow me to search and add things to my download queue. Or is this app just to watch and make priority changes to your queue?
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This may be a dumb question but would this allow me to start downloads from my phone? I use newsbin currently and I am sure I can figure out sabNzb if it would allow me to search and add things to my download queue. Or is this app just to watch and make priority changes to your queue?
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Yep, you can download things onto your sabnzbd server from within the app.
You setup the server to have your NZBMatrix/Newzbin credentials, and then this app have your credentials too.
It works like this: You search for new content on Newzbin/NZBMatrix, or browse feeds in the new version (comes out today!).
Once you find what you need, you click download in the app, which 'sends' the link to sabnzbd, and it begins the download.
There's a video on youtube in the first page which shows how you'd use the app. It's the closest version to the version that should be out today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYJpHDeQCyo
ok that is awesome, looks like I may be buying this asap becuse this takes care of my remote issues the only time I remote into my pc from the phone is to queue stuff on Newzbin
Cool! I just got the "Approved Marketplace Submission" email a couple hours ago, should the new version should be in there today or at latest tomorrow.
Right now there is a version which works for newzbin currently in the marketplace however. There was a goof with the name so it's called
sab watch (app) in the marketplace, but the new version should fix it.
Cool got it working and it kicks ass thanks for saving me money and being really awesome and updating this thread to answer my questions, also works great with dyndns!!
*NEWS* Version 1.12 is up on Marketplace! Version 1.13 with social goodies is coming real soon!
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Howdy! I need some feedbacks from you guys
At the time I was coding this app, there wasn't any decent shows tracking app out there, so I decided to give back the WP community a little, hence the born of Prime TV.
[Functionalities wise...]
What's new (in version 1.12)?
65% faster load and resume time
Shake to change tile image (paid users only)
Image gallery for shows
More screen captures/images for episodes
Change default genre for shows grouping
Much more stable saving and loading mechanism
Fail safe mechanism to detect missing shows and automatically re-add them
Grouping options and alphabetical sorting option for tv shows
Live tile notification (paid users only, for now)
News feeds integration (general news on main page, show specific news on show page)
Auto mobilized browser for reading news (faster load time and to conserve bandwidth)
Search for missing high quality background on show page (see video)
The core is pretty similar to other apps.
You can follow shows (US, UK, Anime etc) as long as it's in thetvdb.com database.
My efforts in this app are to make it lighting fast and smooth transitions between pages.
It also supports auto timezone correction, so if you're in Australia but following US series, you'll know when it will air on local time.
In the future releases, I've planned to include
Notification system (Graduated)
Mark as watched (Graduated)
Preview trailer (In current version - beta)
JumpList to group episodes by Season number and/or air date (Graduated)
Support more languages (I only know 5 so I might need help from you guys
Social integration (twitter/facebook)
News integration from tv.com etc. (Graduated)
[So the questions are...]
I'd like to hear some feedback from you guys
What do you think about this app?
As a developer or user, what do you like to see in this app?
Don't be shy, request any features you like! I listen to everyone that has something to say!
You can find version 1.10 on Marketplace, and version 1.11 has been submitted for certification just a moment ago (26 April).
App is fast and the layout is pretty sharp, so points for that.
Some negatives: you need "feedback" to let you know you've added a show after you searched it. Right now you tap it and it adds, but you don't know that till you backed out of the search.
The app crashes in trial on a second launch, erasing my 2 saved shows--not sure if that's a limitation or not.
At $0.99, it's not yet there. You might be better offering a "lite" free version with basics (what you have now) and then a paid $0.99 with notifications, etc. Right now though, TVShow Lite is more stable, useful and free even if yours seems a tad faster and nicer (background image).
Hey malatesta, thanks for the feedback.
Sorry about the crash, I investigated into that and it's a bug.
Version 1.2.1 has been submitted with tons of bug fixes, even faster (framerate from 45 to 58) and better transitions.
I'm thinking of making an ad-supported free version with all current functionalities. And ad-free version with notification, mark as watched etc this week. I'm revamping the search page, adding something like "top shows", and of course the "feedback" you mentioned, thanks!
Also I'm thinking of removing the "aired" section, what do you think?
I played with the trial as well
The overall design is nice and pleasing and i like the backgrounds. I cannot comment on the loading since I could only load 2 shows and that's certainly not enough to say anything about loading time/transitions.
I agree with malatesta, when adding from search, you need some sort of way to let me know I have added it - also I would do away with the tap-add, just have a button that specifically adds, because you can imagine the accidental tapping would add a show and that would be annoying.
Panorama view is fine so far. I would personally expect to have only the most important things in pan view: my tv shows - upcoming - missed/aired (although only useful if i can track/check off episodes) - and maybe new/upcoming tv shows
I would also leave adding and news to the bottom as visible buttons and every other function should be hidden in the ... slideout menu
i like clean panoramas that contain only whats really and immediately useful, so that ^ is why i would not prefer to have a panorama page for every function
also the calendar-type view of the date is fine and i would say 24hr format is better, and it would get rid of the am-pm that sits off to the right
and last, i'm personally against ads i avoid apps with ads (except perhaps only to test and then buy or not), they destroy the whole design of the app, so if you want you can make a trial app with very basic functionality (have a look at other apps to see what is considered basic)
this is especially true since your layout is great and pleasing, any ads would make it look horrible
cheers
@nick109, hey thanks a lot for the comment! I'd like to invite you to be official tester of upcoming releases, what do you think? I develop this everyday it's just the annoying certification process that's slowing it down. But having said that you'd have to have a developer account or jailbroken phone to sideload the app though.
I too avoid apps with ads, I don't think putting ads is the way to go. So I'll consider putting ads seriously, at most it'll only appear in trial mode, definitely no way in paid mode.
Currently I'm implementing "mark as watched" feature, so that aired section could be useful. And also JumpList (like in People app you can select the alphabet and quickly jumping to a group) to group episodes by season number and by air date.
Time formatting is really troublesome here, I'm also changing the format according to user preference, e.g. what you set on your phone (region and languages), so this app will have a consistent look and feel.
Lastly, these days seems like social integration is the only way to make app popular, sadly But I'll make the app more solid before adding news/twitter etc.
Again thanks for your reply.
sure i'll gladly test it as best i can and inform you of any bugs i come across
and yes i will have to sideload it
and speaking of ads, i noticed google has released their sdk for wp7, and their design is actually quite great and fits well with the metro ui
news here
I bought the app (1.0) but it's still telling me i am using the trial version and i am unable to add multiple shows... already tried reinstalling/re-buying, no luck. any suggestions?
General suggestions:
- live-tile support as the "all-white" tile does not look so great (would have payed even more for the app with live-tile)
- fix for the "trial mode not being removable"
- maybe a link to "buy app" from within the app to fix the issue?
- as I have a LOT of shows i follow, maybe some way to rate shows or prioritize these
- confirmation once a show was successfully added
really looking forward to some updates and hopefully a fix to my issue!
cheers!
@nick109, thanks! I saw that as well, will definitely experiment it when critical features have been implemented/improved.
@pencilcase, I'm so sorry! I just investigated into that issue and it was totally my fault, an update (1.2.1) is on the way, i think it'll be approved tomorrow. Fortunately I revamped the trial system, it's still only 2 shows allowed on trial, but it won't have that nasty paid version issue. Again I'm sorry.
Good suggestions @pencilcase, I was thinking of using the settings page to allow collection sorting, like according to added time or rating. I have tested adding 20 shows, including America's Next Top Model which has 15 seasons, and it doesn't slow down version 1.2.1 at all.
I'm working on version 1.3.0, which has "Mark as Watched" and grouping system. Today I even bought a $149 developer library (from telerik) just to improve this app! Hopefully you guys will like it!
i gave the 1.2 version another go, i added simpsons which has a lot of seasons and episodes, and it did not lag, so very good on that
i also added Terra Nova, or tried to, but the app didn't respond by adding it, give it a try and see if it happens to you as well
yes, focus on the critical stuff for now, and in the future if you could keep in mind to have a setting to refresh background on each launch, that would be a nice eye candy
@nick109, currently my implementation is to cross reference thetvdb.com and tvrage.com database to find matching series. So that I could pull information from both databases and integrate them together.
That's actually why some series appearing on the selection couldn't actually be added, e.g. if information couldn't be matched.
I'm thinking to go with tvrage.com, they have more solid database, almost 99.99% uptime. And updating mechanism is simpler, plus I could actually implement video trailer for each episode with that database.
I'm implementing this on version 1.3, and a major UI overhaul is coming!
By the way, what do you mean that refreshing background on each launch? Currently it's getting the background of latest upcoming episode. E.g. if The Vampire Diaries has the latest upcoming episode it'll be the background of that, so at first glance you'll instantly know the latest upcoming episode. And if you delete that show (by tap and holding on "collection"), the background will be refreshed to the next upcoming episode.
ah i see now : )
and yes if from tvrage you could implement trailers that would be really nice!
looking forward to it
hey nick109, check out the preview video below, what do you think?
aha now you've done it! good work. have you sent this for approval yet?
thanks! no i haven't. there's still a couple of things i need to do, like manual timezone adjustment, because i don't live in a country with daylight saving, so i don't understand time property as well as others.
as a user, it'll be very frustrating that a tv show tracking app shows all kind of incorrect time, so i'm working on a page for "settings" to manually adjust each tv show.
at the same time i'm also working on live tile notification what do you think of the mockup live tile image below?
good idea for the time part, should help with non local TV series
The live tile looks great - I suppose it will update the picture too? Else I think the today part is unnecessary since it's understood
The new interface looks quite a lot to TVShow !
I bought 'Prime TV'and 'TVShow' and I prefer TVShow largely because he has already 'live tile' (which are updated every night without restarting the application) and converting local times for foreign TV shows. And it has more feature like : subtitles, translation, recaps, pictures
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Howdy! I need some feedbacks from you guys
At the time I was coding this app, there wasn't any decent shows tracking app out there, so I decided to give back the WP community a little, hence the born of Prime TV.
[Functionalities wise...]
The core is pretty similar to other apps.
You can follow shows (US, UK, Anime etc) as long as it's in thetvdb.com database.
My efforts in this app are to make it lighting fast and smooth transitions between pages.
It also supports auto timezone correction, so if you're in Australia but following US series, you'll know when it will air on local time.
In the future releases, I've planned to include
Notification system
Mark as watched
Preview trailer
JumpList to group episodes by Season number and/or air date
Support more languages (I only know 5 so I might need help from you guys
Social integration (twitter/facebook)
News integration from tv.com etc.
[So the questions are...]
I'd like to hear some feedback from you guys
What do you think about this app?
As a developer or user, what do you like to see in this app?
Also do you like thetvdb.com database better or tvrage.com?
[Special treatments for XDA...]
If you guys like, I can probably release beta versions to some testers before it hits Marketplace, working on this alone I just can't seem to catch every bug
Don't be shy, request any features you like! I listen to everyone that has something to say!
You can find version 1.0 on Marketplace, and version 1.2.1 has been submitted for certification yesterday (even faster and more reliable).
I've set up a static website just for viewing pleasure, check it out at http://nineverse.com/.
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You interested in making an app release thread in the Apps and Games section?
mine seems to not be saving shows i add anymore (FIXED by reinstalling)
any news on the new version with live-tile support? really looking forward to that
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hey nick109, check out the preview video below, what do you think?
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Thanks guys to steal the design of TVShow...