GinSoakedBoy Wrote:I'm really loving the beta of this. I was skeptical about the gestures at first, but having the controls and gestures on one screen feels really natural and it just plain fun to use.
Cudos to Ultima for requesting the gesture feature a few pages ago.
Ultima, you'll be included in the beta when i upload the next update.
Quote:I have a question/request about the way the app looks.
I currently use the Alaska Revisited skin which is stunning. I have my TV shows with landscape banners. Alaska can store banners and landscape images alongside regular posters. The files stored are as follows.
landscape.jpg - landscape poster images
banner.jpg - banners
folder.jpg - regular poster
Is there any way to either have a choice of views like in Aeon/Alaska? Or a way for the app to look for a banner.jpg to use for TV shows and use the regular folder.jpg if not?
If it's not possible or not easy to implement I understand. I can go through and download banners and label them 'folder.jpg' so they look right on XBMC Commander.
Theoretically posible, but far from easy:
Skinners have the advantage of direct filesystem access. I could do the same with a few http api calls per tv show, but i'll rather stick to the thumbnails / banners i get "for free" when querying the json api for the tv show list.
These are the thumbnails you get when scanning your library: Either folder.jpg or whatever you get by online scraping.
I'ts all about speed.
Rather than messing with the filesystem i'll include a switch in the settings to support posters for tv shows.
Watched badges for Season:
Thats also a performance question.
Right now i do
- one json call to get all tvshows
- one call per show to get all seasons (so far no watched info can be retrieved with this call)
- one call to get recently added episodes (including show id / season)
Finding out which seasons are watched would require an additional call per season to get all episodes including watched count, which would drop loading performance considerably.
Same thing for quality badges (SD/HD) in movie list:
Right now i get the whole movie list with one fast json call. Getting quality info on list level would require additional call(s) to the slow and soon-to-be-deprecated http api.
Theres no problem in doing these requests during the flip animation, so quality info in detail view will be absolutely possible.
More details in list view will have to wait until the json api supports a wider range of details (which it will do sooner or later).
Quote:Your app is totally great though, as it is now it's better than Ultimote which I had downloaded previously. Have you had any thoughts on a price for the app yet?
Don't know, think i'll go for ~3$/€ (aka 2.99)