Android Yatse - Full featured Xbmc Remote and Widgets for Android & Eden/Frodo

Hey Tolriq! Yatzee is progressing well!

Nice to see that you've solved the crash on JB, I've had it a few times.

A couple of things I'd like to see is

(this I'd really like to see!)
* Swipe gestures on the remote, it's easy to strike the wrong key or miss when you're looking at the TV when you're navigating, having gestures would eliminate this
(again screenshot taken from xbmc commmander, sorry, but it works very well!

https://www.sugarsync.com/pf/D6085304_8215135_391138

* Shortcuts from the different views to the other views including remote ( I know there's a shortcut to "Playing now" but you can't do everything from there, like bring the menu up and that kind of stuff.


Thanks a lot for your hard work!

You can swipe left / right between home / remote / now playing already.

For gesture it's on todo list since you're not the only one to ask but one day as usual

(2012-07-27 21:29)Tolriq Wrote:  Ok so the track are correctly tagged with cd number and track number ?

If yes the order should be CD 1 track 1 --- x CD 2 track 1 --- x CD 3 track 1 --- x ?

For the moment I don"t handle the CD tag part but this i can add it won't blow up the database and should correct your problem.

Yes, that's correct. The tracks are all correctly tagged with CD and track number as well. If you can correct this, I would be very appreciative. Thanks again!

(2012-07-30 00:28)Tolriq Wrote:  Playlist are on the todo list

If you don't have songs then there's a sync problem. How many songs do you have ? Can you send me a log cat ? or PM me a mail so I can send you debug builds to find out more.

For the remote part, adding text in multiple languages would be quite ugly, there's very little not ultra clear buttons and they are all explained on the wiki, after 10 min using the remote and seeing the wiki you can't forgot what is the button use.

What I can do is change icons if you provide me betters one in PSD free of rights.

Thanks for the quick response.

Good to hear about the playlist (actually if I'm not mistaken the now playing list is something different than a playlist xbmc-wise).

Indeed there seems to be a sync problem. The orange YATSE symbol in the upper left corner greys out during syncing. I have 2,186 artists and 17,912 songs in my library. YATSE also reported a problem and I sent you a report. How can I provide you with more information? I have to admit I don't know what a log cat is.

Concerning the remote part, personally I actually like the simplicity of the remote part of the official android remote (it lacks other features of YATSE though and seems to be abandoned). Just small dots with a little text underneath.

Yes if Yatse icon becomes black it means that xbmc does not answer to yatse 3 consecutive times

I received more than one report so I don't know witch one is yours but there was one with appletv xbmc that is known to be really slow in big json request since not enough cpu power.
If it's your case until Frodo that handle correctly sub requests (well with correct perfs), I'm afraid that it will never work with the way I currently work

For the remoting part, I'm sorry but even if I had more theme changing the design and adding multi language text is clearly not in the plans.

Is it just me, or did the text size for video information get a little bigger? (good thing). My one idea (like the playlist option being requested) is a button to show your video queue through the app itself.

Another idea is to have a simple slideshow tutorial of how to use the app when first installed. Showing where to set up your xbmc IP setup, and the different menus (remote, video info, main menu) It may eliminate repeated questions, and also may make it easier for new XBMC users who don't visit the forums to learn how to use the app. Or just a link to your site with all the info on first startup. Although they can just hit the yatse icon to get your website info)

Some things may have changed yes.

Video queue is like music queue it's current playlist, it's planned as real xbmc playlist.

For slideshow this is a good idea but quite hard to make something multi language and easy to understand for users And I prefer spend time on getting a better app than that.

But I'm still looking for someone to help me maintain the Wiki on this part

And 2.2.2 is uploaded that also correct some crashes, users have really lot's of imagination on how to use android apps

If after upgrading to 2.2.2 you still have crashes that talk about recycled bitmap I'll really need detailed informations on how you produce this and the reports.

(2012-07-30 23:01)Tolriq Wrote:  Yes if Yatse icon becomes black it means that xbmc does not answer to yatse 3 consecutive times

I received more than one report so I don't know witch one is yours but there was one with appletv xbmc that is known to be really slow in big json request since not enough cpu power.
If it's your case until Frodo that handle correctly sub requests (well with correct perfs), I'm afraid that it will never work with the way I currently work

For the remoting part, I'm sorry but even if I had more theme changing the design and adding multi language text is clearly not in the plans.

Yes, I believe that was my report. I'm using an appletv 2. Sad to hear. Please don't get this the wrong way, but other android remotes do not time out.

I'll get used to the symbols. No worries. Thanks for the effort and the quick responses.

Others remote does not work like me

I do full local sync and target speed, so the choice was made to get a big chunk of data from XBMC in one time since until Frodo this is the fastest way (and by a quite bit amount).
Others often request only songs from albums at runtime and / or gets only small parts of data.

Xbmc remote official use old deprecated direct SQL queries so even if it's slow there's no JSON encoding after the long query and that's this part that kill ATV. Check Json dev thread for more informations.

Doing subqueries would correct the problem specific for ATV but would make synchronization much longer (way much) so I decided to go this way with the side effect of some problems on ATV users with very big songs or tv episodes library.

When Frodo is out I'll implement small chunk sync since it should take the same global time, and I'll surely back port the code as an option to Eden users, but I'm sorry I'll wait at least Beta / RC of Frodo to implement things very specific to it.

Wondering... how exactly do I change the icons of the grid view of the TV-shows (on the screen which lists the different series)? Atm it shows the shows' banners resized to something like 150x150, which isn't that pretty. I've seen a screenshot on googleplay where TV-shows are represented by their artwork. How do I get this?