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Unofficial Eurogamer Android App V2 • Page 6
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freakybun 642 posts
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freakybun 642 posts
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Registered 18 years agoHere's where I'm at..
API is in, working nicely against their dev environment. One of the benefits of using it, apart from the app surviving a re-brand, is that its quite acceptable to use when you're back down on a 2.5g connection. Seems to take about 5-10 secs per page on a low gprs connection.
Most of the bugs are fixed, most notable of which are the front page out of sync links and all the weird extra lines in the text editor.
I'm currently writing an image gallery that swipes full screen images, caches to SD card and downsizes images to your screen width. Almost done on that one, Been quite fun to write. Oh and I've ripped up and re-written the image loaders, so hopefully no more random temporary broken images on the video page.
I'm off on holibobs tomorrow, back Monday so its not impossible to think i'll have something for you all by the end of next week. Live API access permitting. -
MrWorf 64,187 posts
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Registered 20 years agoAwesome! Can't wait. .gif)
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freakybun 642 posts
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Registered 18 years agoRazz wrote:
Nothing exotic.... berham on sea!
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MrWorf 64,187 posts
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Registered 20 years agoIt has the shortest pier in Britain! Not too shabby 
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HoriZon 14,351 posts
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Registered 19 years agoNo video to see it in action yet? come on get on with it! -
freakybun 642 posts
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Registered 18 years agoRazz wrote:
Blimey, wouldn't want to try kinect in that pier.
It has the shortest pier in Britain! Not too shabby
We had a great time and my car even survived those naughty monkeys at longleat enroute to home.
So I've had a chance to try out the image loading improvements over the last day and the app is definately using less memory. Averaging around 28m rather than 40-50, handling bitmaps is quite annoying.
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kadooosh 3,239 posts
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Registered 11 years agoIs there anyway to have a section in the forum that shows threads youve posted in?
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freakybun 642 posts
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Registered 18 years agokadooosh wrote:
Not a silly request at all. There is an API call that allegedly provides this but it doesn't seem.to work. Perhaps I could track any posts you make in the app, but I'll have to file than away for a future release.
Is there anyway to have a section in the forum that shows threads youve posted in?
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kadooosh 3,239 posts
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Registered 11 years agofreakybun wrote:
Sounds like a plan, if its pos would be wicked. Still, im using this app all the time now so wud just help track my posts easier. Im happy none the less
kadooosh wrote:
Not a silly request at all. There is an API call that allegedly provides this but it doesn't seem.to work. Perhaps I could track any posts you make in the app, but I'll have to
Is there anyway to have a section in the forum that shows threads youve posted in?
Not sure if thats a ridiculous request..
file than away for a future release.
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theguy 1,040 posts
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Registered 11 years agoSometimes loads up the wrong article when clicking on some recently uploaded article.otherwise, its great! -
freakybun 642 posts
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Registered 18 years agotheguy wrote:
Cheers! Yeah I've fixed up that bug, it'll be gone when I release the next version.
Sometimes loads up the wrong article when clicking on some recently uploaded article.otherwise, its great! -
mrpon 37,366 posts
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Registered 15 years agoI presume any updates are going to be an .apk/dropbox type affair? -
Great app so far.
Have a quick question. When I use the app on my Asus Transformer tablet it's all in portrait, the sensor orientation makes no difference. However once I'm in the forum - having chose a topic or all-forums - the device can switch to landscape. I just wondered if that was the intended behaviour? -
freakybun 642 posts
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Registered 18 years agomrpon wrote:
That's the plan. I'm going to release the API version with the bug fixes then see what happens. Once everyone's happy its headed for the marketplace.
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freakybun 642 posts
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Registered 18 years agoMaturin wrote:
I fixed the landing screen with the tabs to portrait. I intended to make scrolling through the indexes consistent, mostly due to the fact that the page content flows better that way. Seemed like a more natural fit.
Great app so far.
Have a quick question. When I use the app on my Asus Transformer tablet it's all in portrait, the sensor orientation makes no difference. However once I'm in the forum - having chose a topic or all-forums - the device can switch to landscape. I just wondered if that was the intended behaviour?
For the articles and forums I opened things up a bit because there's more text that could span to fill a landscape space.
Not sure if I described that well enough but as an example.. imagine those 5 tabs at the bottom spread out on a landscape screen with headlines that ran a 1/4 of the screen. Its by my, perhaps, crazy design
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Thanks for clarifying. I think you've gone for the right approach. I just wanted to let you know what was happening unless it wasn't expected behaviour.
An option for an alternate theme for tablets would be excellent yes please. -
freakybun 642 posts
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Registered 18 years agoMaturin wrote:
I tried it a month ago on a tablet, everything was massive! The problem with most tablets running froyo or gingerbread is that the screen is just bigger, no bump in resolution or dpi. So I figured out how to do themes. Its a bit long winded but possible.
Thanks for clarifying. I think you've gone for the right approach. I just wanted to let you know what was happening unless it wasn't expected behaviour.
An option for an alternate theme for tablets would be excellent yes please.
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freakybun 642 posts
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Registered 18 years agoHi chaps,
Here's an update on where I am.
Over the last couple of weeks I've been fixing things and adding new features that you can see listed below.
All I'm waiting for now is the go ahead to use the live API.
I'm chuffed that the bug list is low which has afforded me the time to get on with things.
Everything's been fixed, if there's anything I have missed in the list below, let me know...
Bugs
- Fixed home page list out of sync after refresh.
Forums
- Editor rewritten, no more line break weirdness
- Preview and Post buttons now fit above virtual keyboard.
- Handled broken markup on posts better, no more FC at random.
- Picked greyscale values for forum quote backgrounds that look less pink on certain HTC amoled screens! HTC desire, I'm looking at you!
- Fixed spoiler rendering and clicking randomness.
- Posting new threads work.
- Added My Groups and My Interesting threads.
- Long press on forum threads to mark them as interesting.
- Added All Gaming and All Non-Gaming threads.
- Added option to scroll to the bottom of threads when opening and navigating backwards.
- Added page picker for navigating large threads.
- Long press on page number in footer navigation to choose page.
Videos
- Support for HD video and other resolutions.
- Long press on video to choose alternate size if the video won't play.
Peformance
- Image handling rewritten, uses less memory and can scale large screenshots.
- Less CPU time means better battery life. No longer needs to crunch 50-150k of HTML source for each article.
- API access means its useable on slow GPRS connections. -
freakybun 642 posts
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Registered 18 years agoBilly_Sastard wrote:
... When I get an account on the live API, its running against their dev environment at present. Shouldn't be too long.
Added My Groups and My Interesting threads.
Added page picker for navigating large threads.
Long press on page number in footer navigation to choose page.
\o/ Legend
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Kill_Crazy 2,552 posts
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Registered 15 years agofreakybun wrote:
Superb stuff. Are you going to release on market place to get a few pennies? If not then can we donate somehow? Def worth the cost of a pint for all your hard work
Hi chaps,
Here's an update on where I am.
Over the last couple of weeks I've been fixing things and adding new features that you can see listed below.
All I'm waiting for now is the go ahead to use the live API.
I'm chuffed that the bug list is low which has afforded me the time to get on with things.
Everything's been fixed, if there's anything I have missed in the list below, let me know...
Bugs
- Fixed home page list out of sync after refresh.
Forums
- Editor rewritten, no more line break weirdness
- Preview and Post buttons now fit above virtual keyboard.
- Handled broken markup on posts better, no more FC at random.
- Picked greyscale values for forum quote backgrounds that look less pink on certain HTC amoled screens! HTC desire, I'm looking at you!
- Fixed spoiler rendering and clicking randomness.
- Posting new threads work.
- Added My Groups and My Interesting threads.
- Long press on forum threads to mark them as interesting.
- Added All Gaming and All Non-Gaming threads.
- Added option to scroll to the bottom of threads when opening and navigating backwards.
- Added page picker for navigating large threads.
- Long press on page number in footer navigation to choose page.
Videos
- Support for HD video and other resolutions.
- Long press on video to choose alternate size if the video won't play.
Peformance
- Image handling rewritten, uses less memory and can scale large screenshots.
- Less CPU time means better battery life. No longer needs to crunch 50-150k of HTML source for each article.
- API access means its useable on slow GPRS connections.
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Excellent well done.
Have spotted a slight bug. On my tablet there's never an option to edit a forum post, only to quote one's own post. Whereas on my phone if it's one of my own posts the button says "edit" rather than "quote". -
freakybun 642 posts
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Registered 18 years agoKill_Crazy wrote:
Cheers! Not planning on making cash, I started this to learn android and besides, it keeps me busy on the morning commute.
Superb stuff. Are you going to release on market place to get a few pennies? If not then can we donate somehow? Def worth the cost of a pint for all your hard work
Maybe if I visit the expo next year I'll call in a few pints -
freakybun 642 posts
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Registered 18 years agoMaturin wrote:
Total weirdness, what tablet have you got and what android version is it running?
Excellent well done.
Have spotted a slight bug. On my tablet there's never an option to edit a forum post, only to quote one's own post. Whereas on my phone if it's one of my own posts the button says "edit" rather than "quote".
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freakybun wrote:
Asus Eee Pad Transformer 16GB. Running Android 3.2.1.
Maturin wrote:
Total weirdness, what tablet have you got and what android version is it running?
Excellent well done.
Have spotted a slight bug. On my tablet there's never an option to edit a forum post, only to quote one's own post. Whereas on my phone if it's one of my own posts the button says "edit" rather than "quote".
Can you try hitting quote on your post and see what it does....
Hitting quote button on my own post above did indeed quote rather than edit. -
freakybun 642 posts
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Registered 18 years agoMaturin wrote:
I just downloaded 3.2 and tried it in the emulator and it works fine. That's really strange but not the first time the emulator behaves differently from real devices.
freakybun wrote:
Asus Eee Pad Transformer 16GB. Running Android 3.2.1.
Maturin wrote:
Total weirdness, what tablet have you got and what android version is it running?
Excellent well done.
Have spotted a slight bug. On my tablet there's never an option to edit a forum post, only to quote one's own post. Whereas on my phone if it's one of my own posts the button says "edit" rather than "quote".
Can you try hitting quote on your post and see what it does....
Hitting quote button on my own post above did indeed quote rather than edit.
I'm curious now so I'll see if we've got any 3.2 tablets at work..
Actually I'm surprised how reasonable it looks on 3.2 though, a testiment to how well designed android is. -
freakybun 642 posts
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Registered 18 years agoMaturin wrote:
I think I have an explanation and I can reproduce it on my phone.
Excellent well done.
Have spotted a slight bug. On my tablet there's never an option to edit a forum post, only to quote one's own post. Whereas on my phone if it's one of my own posts the button says "edit" rather than "quote".
Your username begins with a capital letter... but eg don't care about case when logging in, I bet when you put your username in on your tablet, it's all in lowercase....
So easy for us both to fix if that's it... I'll lower case the usernames when comparing. -
freakybun wrote:
That's a deal. See you at the bar
Kill_Crazy wrote:
Cheers! Not planning on making cash, I started this to learn android and besides, it keeps me busy on the morning commute.
Superb stuff. Are you going to release on market place to get a few pennies? If not then can we donate somehow? Def worth the cost of a pint for all your hard work
Maybe if I visit the expo next year I'll call in a few pints
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