Giant Bomb Android Application, now in Beta!

" @jakob187 said:

" I'm still on 2.1, but I only get one news story on the news page nowadays.  The other stuff is working just fine, though.  However, like I said, I'm on 2.1 right now.  Whenever 2.2 finally gets an official release for Droid, I'm stuck here. "

Do you know when Droid gets the Froyo update?  "

Everything is working fine for me now. (EVO)

Do you know when Droid gets the Froyo update?  "  

Must say, great app. It's nice to see an Android app that's equal to the same iPhone app. Keep up the good work gang!
 
One thing though... Would it be possible to get video in higher quality? I'm assuming it's an API thing, but the in-house videos look like ass on the Evo. It'd be nice to have a higher quality option for the high res devices. But, that's a minor quibble.
 
Otherwise, great great job guys!!

Sweet! I'm DLing this right now!

" @jakob187 said:

" I'm still on 2.1, but I only get one news story on the news page nowadays.  The other stuff is working just fine, though.  However, like I said, I'm on 2.1 right now.  Whenever 2.2 finally gets an official release for Droid, I'm stuck here. "

Do you know when Droid gets the Froyo update?  "

" @The_Laughing_Man said:

" @jakob187 said:

" I'm still on 2.1, but I only get one news story on the news page nowadays.  The other stuff is working just fine, though.  However, like I said, I'm on 2.1 right now.  Whenever 2.2 finally gets an official release for Droid, I'm stuck here. "

Do you know when Droid gets the Froyo update?  "

Right now, you can get the ROM for it over here at Tested.  I already installed the Froyo update.  It's fucking great.  Seriously, it feels like a completely new phone now!!! UNFORTUNATELY, the Bombcast portion of the app won't work with the Froyo update on the Droid apparently.  I've started listening to the Bombcast on Google Listen anyways, as I've got all the Whiskey Media stuff on subscription with that now.  Other than that, it's working fine still. "

" @jakob187 said:

" @The_Laughing_Man said:

" @jakob187 said:

" I'm still on 2.1, but I only get one news story on the news page nowadays.  The other stuff is working just fine, though.  However, like I said, I'm on 2.1 right now.  Whenever 2.2 finally gets an official release for Droid, I'm stuck here. "

Do you know when Droid gets the Froyo update?  "

Right now, you can get the ROM for it over here at Tested.  I already installed the Froyo update.  It's fucking great.  Seriously, it feels like a completely new phone now!!! UNFORTUNATELY, the Bombcast portion of the app won't work with the Froyo update on the Droid apparently.  I've started listening to the Bombcast on Google Listen anyways, as I've got all the Whiskey Media stuff on subscription with that now.  Other than that, it's working fine still. "

But I am to lazy lol. Any idea when it will be fully released?  "

Need Froyo & App2SD Support and Their a Bug where it Cuase My Phone To Reboot and Cant Control The Video No More Alway Force Close (Nexus One 2.2 & Mytouch 3g 1.6)

Version 1.9 is released! 
   
Due to the announcement of the mobile site, this will probably be the last release for a while unless any major bugs come up.

My girlfriend is getting a droid in like a day and I'm definitely stealing it installing the app and hiding in a corner with it for hours now mwahahahaha

Getting it Tuesday as soon as my Desire arrives.

I too vouch for this apps awesomeness. All I could recommended is adding some profile integration in there. 

Thank y'all very much for this app, I'm  with my phone way more then at a pc, and even with the droid 2 the site doesn't get along too well with the phones.
 
I have a droid x, family member has the droid 2 and so far been working okay. Only things that have come up is search doesn't search video, which means I get to scroll by hand.  Other thing is as of about an hour ago any video I try to load gives me the error "sorry, this video cannot be played."  
 
I 've rebooted and tried reinstalling the app even, but videos are still not working. Everything else does, just video is giving me issues :/ 

The videos not working is a side effect of the changes made to the site for the subscription service. The iPhone app is borked, too. I think I saw that it should be fixed next week.

I have commited a fix to use the new mobile version of the videos instead, haven't tested it much but I'll tell Harris to check it out and publish a new version to Market if it seems to work.

Hope the video is fixed soon.

I don't know if Harris has published a new version.

@harris Downloading it now. Thank you, sir.

Very nice! I have a problem getting the bombcast to stream, but I'll keep shouting at it and maybe it'll correct it self. I'm on a HTC Desire 2.2
Everything else about this app is stellar, and I prefer it to the mobile site

Nevermind. I figured it out. Great app!

Sweet.  Mine didn't pop up and say an update was available, though.  Nonetheless, I had just figured that some stuff wouldn't be available anymore because of the membership stuff with the mobile site.  Guess that was not the case.  = D 
 
EDIT:  OH WOW!  I wonder how long this thing has looked this way!!!

I did not know you could long press videos to dl them. That is awesome. This app still continues to impress :)

I'm having issues with the Bombcast streaming on my Atrix.

Just when you thought it was dead forever... another update!

This time, high quality video support has been added. You can toggle it off (it's on by default) in preferences if you wish. Enjoy!

sick app five stars

@harris: Both my HTC Evo 4G (various roms) and my Nook Color (CM7.1) have problems running the high quality videos. They will run fine for a bit, but eventually start to stutter. I'm not sure if it is buffering or something going on with the actual video processing. They are both overclocked, optimized to shit, and streaming over wifi, so I feel like I should be able to run them fine. :(

So long as this app functions enough to let me watch GB videos in mobile quality ITS NOT DEAD :)

edit: Going to attempt streaming the HQ video via the Whiskey Media Buddy app and watching on my Nook and report how that goes.

double edit: I'm a filthy liar. I just ran it fine in HQ on my Nook with both the Whiskey Media Video Buddy app and your app. I really thought I had this problem in the past though... If anything comes up I'll mention it, but until then you still have a great app :)

Thread revival time!!!

Anyway, just got a galaxy nexus (my first android phone), and was wondering if development on this thing was still going. It works pretty well from what I can tell (although high quality videos have problems from time to time) and I would love to see it advance more.

You can play premium videos on this thing. Even if you're not a subscriber.

#narc

Hey,

In case anyone except me still uses this, I've fixed the videos to work with the new API. Bombcasts probably work but are untested. Source is available at https://github.com/jncr/GB-android and you can get the apk from github at https://github.com/jncr/GB-android/raw/master/giantbomb.apk . You'll probably need to uninstall the old version before installing this one, and it only streams in HQ.

I'm only a PHP developer so probably won't be doing any ongoing work on this, but if it breaks again I'll probably fix it again :)