XBMC Commander - Yet another unofficial third-party XBMC remote for iPad

Ooohhhh...that looks really nice - and I dont' even have a ipad. (I had my first play with one a couple of weeks ago and immediately thought how great it would be to access xbmc :cool

So...you will be able to start the movies / TVshows from it?

Will it handle a lot more movies than 200?? More than a 1000? How many TV shows?

If this was on itunes, I would buy it in a second.... Unless it costs €100,- then I would pass

Updated the first post.

It looks spot on !
Hope it works as well as it looks

Your new design layout has some potential. I'm just not a fan of the brown iBooks bookself background for a controller for a modern HTPC. I hope you've designed it to easily support different skins down the road?

Of course functionality, performance and stability should come first!

To answer a few questions:

- Real skinning won't be implemented. Coding a full skinning engine is way to much work, and personally i don't think this would get past apples approval mechanism (they are very strict when it comes to their human interface guidelines. Skinning would completely bypass these). But i did have the possibility of having different kind of "views" in mind while coding, so it shouldn't be a problem for me (for example) to create an alternative flat list layout.

- performance / database size:
Right now the app loads my ~200+ movies in the blink of an eye. Covers are loaded as needed and cached. Cached covers are loaded from the filesystem which is horribly fast. 1000+ movies shouldn't be a problem.
Sadly this filesystem access has a minor impact on the display update, so the scrolling seems to stutter a little bit when doing it fast. But this is display only, otherwise the performance is great.
- tv shows:
I've got 26 tv shows on my system, 100+ seasons combined, e few thousand episodes.
Loading the initial show list takes about 1.5 secs, but thats mainly to the fact that i do a thetvdb query because i have posters instead of banners on my xbmc. This is a feature i call "external banners" and can be switched on and off. So normally loading the tv show database should take <1s.
Browsing is completely realtime.
- music:
2500+ albums of 250+ artists load in ~1s.

- playing items:
Sure, you can start / enqueue any item by tapping a button on the back of it's cover. This way you can easily create playlist with tv show episodes.

By the way:
Anyone interested in an interface to the picture library (i'm not using it...)?

I would only be interested in an interface to the picture library if the pictures would also be fullscreen viewable on the ipad

Just wanted to let you know that I'll be buying this the minute it hits iTunes!!

Really fantastic work and (if working correctly) will blow all the alternatives out of the water!

is it possible to add a gesture input mode, like the XBMC remote (by Collect 3) has it?

Looks great. Can't wait for it to hit iTunes.