Giant Bomb Android Application, now in Beta!

Drew, poserdonut, and I (Harris) are proud to announce that the Giant Bomb Android application is now in beta. The beta includes many improvements, including video search/filtering, vast performance enhancements, and much more. 
 

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NOTE: These screenshots are from version 1.3.  (OLD)
     

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• Experimental Forum Reading Support
• Barcode Scanning for game lookup
  

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Drew and Harris are the real heroes of this release. 
 
Great work guys

I'm heading to an Android Developer Labs Conference now, so perhaps I'll get to show off the app a little :P 
 
Also, it looks like they're giving out free phones this year, so hopefully I'll have a new device to debug and optimize for :D
 
The error logging is already helping us out, quite a few crash reports have already been sent to us, so we'll be able to fix those issues now. Also, be sure to launch the app again after a crash, so the crash data is sent. (It's sent on the next launch after a crash)

Im still hoping on the Symbian version that will never come.

I really want community features or some sort of update to the iPhone app.

Oh boy oh boy oh boy. 
 
Updating apps is like Christmas for me!  Thanks duder.

Bump for this thread, Android users should be all over this! :)

Thanks for that bump, JW! I just got my Droid in the mail today, and this is going to be my first Android app.
 
:o It's really nice having Giant Bomb in my pocket. There went all of my productivity during off hours.

Good update. Very stable, and the name looks good on my Nexus One. One thing though, that icon looks horrible. Not the design, but the quality of the picture. Definitely needs to be cleaned up.

Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  
 
Thank you all very much for your hard work dooders! :D 

awesome, i get a new phone in a week and i'm trying to decide between a droid eris and chocolate touch.  This is pushing me towards the droid.

Not sure if it's worth much, but I'm running a 2.1 rom on my myTouch 3G, and the video is just black (I do get great audio though!). 
 
Not sure that my rooted experience is of any help (on second thought, you should probably just ignore this, because others running 2.1 aren't having any issues), but just thought I'd throw it in there; keep up the good work! 

Yeah, I'd love to see some new updates to the GB iPhone app.  One problem i've had is the release section seems to be inaccurate with games released last year saying they are coming out this month.

I love this app, one question though, I can only get videos, except for one random time where I could change from video, to news or reviews. Is it something up with my phone? Am I thinking of something else or is it user error?

Is there anyway you can make it so we can read comments on videos and news stories? 
 
Thanks!

Great, I Will check it out now.

I'm gonna definitely download it. Any chance that the iPhone version will soon have forum support? 

I will literally pay 20 gzillion dollars if there is soon to be forum support.

Checking it out right now. Great work guys!

Checked it out extensively last night after I updated.  No crashes so far on my Droid, streaming feels good, video searching is A-W-E-S-O-M-E...man, you guys are goddamn champions!!!  Thank you so much for keeping up on this as well as making it in the first place.  You've done a great community one hell of a great service, gents.

YAAAY! My phone will love this.

Forum reading support is coming along nicely... got most of the hard work done. May have a release with some basic forum reading out this weekend.

Here's the terrible looking interface for it so far (this will improve GREATLY soon):

Wonderful updates. Would it be possible to hide the Notification slide on 2.0.1 during video playback? It's a little distracting, but by no means a big deal. I'm honestly just happy this app exists.

" Wonderful updates. Would it be possible to hide the Notification slide on 2.0.1 during video playback? It's a little distracting, but by no means a big deal. I'm honestly just happy this app exists. "

" @RoyaleWifCheese said:

" Wonderful updates. Would it be possible to hide the Notification slide on 2.0.1 during video playback? It's a little distracting, but by no means a big deal. I'm honestly just happy this app exists. "

I did this at one point, but the aspect ratio is such that it just leaves more blank space at the bottom of the screen, at least on the G1. We could add code to detect if the your screen's aspect ratio is such that it would utilize the extra space. We might do this in the next release. "

Next release has a MUCH nicer icon.

I've been using it for the last few weeks and it's pretty sweet. I usually listen to the Bombcast while I'm opening up work in the morning and watch various videos on my break. The only issue I've come across is that you can't jump around in the Bombcast or on videos. So, you have to start it up and just ride it out.

I still do not have the tab at the top to change between news, videos, reviews, or bombcast. It starts and says on videos.

Found a major bug thanks to bug reporting. App will usually crash when you change screen orientations during a loading dialog. This should be fixed by next release.

Fantastic now maybe they will, I don't know, update the iPhone app sometime? That thing is still kind of janky.

Finally bough the glorious HTC Magic (MyTouch 3G with 288MB of RAM for US folks) and the app is great! One thing that is not-so-great is that the video gets out of sync, looks like it's not able to keep up.. I tried killing all the processes but not much has changed. I'm streaming via my own Wifi. My rom is slightly modified 1.5 with Sense Ui (cursorsense if anyone's curious). Anyone know how i could i fix it?

thanks for the response! Anroid at this moment isn't the most optimized system in the world, but i got youtube hd  playing pretty smoothly so i think it's possible. Right now i cannot test it on 3G due to outrageous prices in my country (paid 30$ for 30megabytes by mistake) but will get 2GB plan in a week so i'll test again then. Thank you very much for your hard work!

Would it be possible to add Low, Medium and High video options like the ones in the site's player?

" I really want community features or some sort of update to the iPhone app. "

This reaaaaallly has me yearning for an update for the iPhone app. Get some new features on there. Maybe a video search function, Bombcast tab, forum support... Well, the Bombcast is on iTunes, so I could do without that, but an update would still be extremely welcome.

got a droid and like the app, kind of messed up when trying to watch videos and when i switch between vertical and horizontal views the app stops working about half the time.