Android app - Luchadeer

Hey folks,

(If this isn't an okay place to post this, go ahead and nuke this post)

I built a new Android app I'm calling Luchadeer to watch Giant Bomb videos and browse through games from the wiki:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dforsyth.android.luchadeer

It is completely free and supports Android 4.1 and up. If the demand is there, I'll work on some backwards compatibility. Right now, the app lets you:

• Stream any Giant Bomb video to phones, tablets, or Chromecast
• Search and browse through the extensive library of games on the Giant Bomb wiki
• Receive push notifications when new videos are posted for your favourite video categories, or when the Giant Bomb chat goes live
• Save your favourite videos and games so you can always find them easily
• Download videos so you can watch them later
• Link your Giant Bomb account -- subscribers get access to all of their exclusive and HD content, normal users get off the shared rate limit.

And I've got a bunch more that I want to add.

I've also open sourced the whole thing (Android app and backend). If people are interested in this app, I want them to be able to see whats going on with it as well as be able to make their own contributions. Or better yet, maybe someone will learn something from it. The repositories are here:

Android app: https://github.com/dforsyth/Luchadeer

Backend: https://github.com/dforsyth/luchadeer-backend

If you try the app out and find problems with it, have a feature request, or anything like that, you can PM here, post in this thread, or make an issue on Github. If you have code or a feature to contribute, I'll happily take a look at pull requests.

Also, a huge thanks to supernormalstep for giving me permission to use his work as the icon for the app.

Finally, here are some current screens:

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This is the best Giantbomb app I've ever used.

This excellent app is excellent.

Hi, awesome app so far, just wondering where the downloaded videos are stored in the Android file structure, did a quick search and came up empty handed.

Hope you can help, keep up the good work.

Only just installed it but it looks good so far.

Seems like it isn't saving where I left off with a streaming video, but otherwise looks well put together!

@skullpanda1: Yeah it doesn't resume for me either.

Also, some videos won't play. It look like it's only with videos that have a runtime of 00:00:00 listed.

Oh, and a feature request: filtering by runtime would be cool. Sometimes I just want to watch a short video but it's hard to find one. But honestly, I think the site itself should just have something like that as well.

@kazona: I think the 00:00:00 issue is on GB's end because the same thing happens in the GB video buddy app.

Ah yes, remember when QL were quick? xD

This was posted a year ago, FYI in case you guys don't get replies.

Necro time! I know this thread is old, but let's try anyway. Does anyone know what happened to this app? It was my favorite GB app on Android, but looks like it recently just vanished, the play store page is gone as is the github repo.

@rautapalli: @ha1f

Isn't showing up on the play store

Very strange, I have it installed and a big update was pushed to it just a week or so ago. I still have it installed on my phone but it's disappeared from my app list on the store. Wondering if I should uninstall it if it's been pulled by Google.