GiantBomb Android Application [ALPHA]

THE APP IS NOW IN BETA. SEE THE NEW THREAD.

IMPORTANT:

Get it on the Android Market!

Testing

 UPDATE: Please submit bugs/issues here:   

Screen Shots

  
 

Source code

Changelog 

• Touch to pause
• Displays video title while playing
• Fixed small bugs including two icon bug

• Media controls
• Greatly improved interface, including video thumbnails
• No autostart, to allow for buffering
• Code optimizations

•  Icon Caching
• News
• Reviews
• Several bug fixes 
• Load 25 more for videos and reviews

  This application is being coded by me (Harris), poserdonut, and drew.

Just curious, do you have any video of the application doing its thing? Also, glad somebody decided to step up to the plate and try the Android platform. Sadly, can't test this for you.

" @Karmum: No.. sadly the only video camera I have is my android device -_- "

hats to you for attempting this. good luck 

So when I hit install, you aren't going to be deleting all my SD card shit and stealing my identity, is you?  LOL  If so, I'm going to have to hunt you down and kill you.

" @jakob187: No, it won't :P  Feel free to backup if you're concerned. "

• Lots of force closes so far.  Don't know why, just is. 
• Can you set the videos up to be centered? 
• Is this only for the videos on the site, because that's all I'm getting to come up so far.
• My first time stated it was a failed installation, but the second time worked
• Videos are only occasionally working

" @Eisen: Hmm... that's bad. I'll work on it.  
 
@jakob187:  What device are you running it on? I'll work on the videos being centered. Also, what kind of connection do you have? (3g, edge, wifi?)   Also, screenshots are up. "

" @harris:  Can you scroll through all of the videos. I mean, are there multiple pages, and how many videos are held in each hypothetical page? "

I don't have an android phone but I like seeing this. :)

Thats awesome man, if I had a phone to install this I would be all for it.

Woah, alright. Jeff donated the remaining $20, so I suppose that means the staff approves of this application :) 
 
Working on getting it up on the market now.

" Woah, alright. Jeff donated the remaining $20, so I suppose that means the staff approves of this application :)  Working on getting it up on the market now. "

Nice job dude

" Woah, alright. Jeff donated the remaining $20, so I suppose that means the staff approves of this application :)  Working on getting it up on the market now. "

Wow, that was fast! The app is now up on the market, thanks again to Jeff! It's called "GiantBomb Alpha", search for it! Leave a nice review if you'd like, too.

Looking good! If I had an android phone, I'd try to help with this project :)
 
Also, if you're going to add search, something that you can build leading into a full search feature, is pre-formated searches, such as Quick Look, QOTW, etc. Since all their videos adhere to the same naming conventions, creating code to filter videos by specific words at the beginning of their text string, and sorted by date added, will help users find the videos they're looking for without having to initiate a search. Should be a lot shorter to code than the search anyway, and removes a need to manually sort and tag anything.

Cool. Keep up the good work.

Oh, also, add their Bombcast if it's easily accessible. That would be the other major draw for anyone "discovering" this app on the marketplace. You also wouldn't need to do anything fancy with it, such as searches, etc, since the chronological order is pretty much the only needed feature.

Screenshots are up on Android Marketplace as well as the first page of this thread. 
 
I also agree that Bombcast support would be epic.  However, baby steps.  = D

Figured out the two icon issue, fixing.

1.01 update released to market! Please update your app. Please test this and give some feedback. Thanks.
 
Changes:  
1.01 - small update 

• Touch to pause
• Displays video title while playing
• Fixed small bugs including two icon bug

Nice work. If I had an Android based phone I would definitely download this but I don't so I'll just wish you good luck with the project.

" Nice work. If I had an Android based phone I would definitely download this but I don't so I'll just wish you good luck with the project. "

For update 1.01: 

• Some of the videos aren't loading
• Some that load are freezing
• Couple of force closes trying to back out to video menu

I ran that .apk file you originally had on the android emulator.
It worked. Although I didn't seem to have any video controls or anything.

" @jakob187: Do you have access to wifi? If so, can you try it out on that and see if it's any better? "

" @p4ddym1607: Yea, in 1.0 there were no video controls. 1.01 has a pause function. "

Nice.

" @jakob187: Do you have a wireless router? If you do then you probably have a wifi network :P You can connect to it by going to Settings > Wireless Controls > Wifi/Wifi settings  "

" @harris said:

" @jakob187: Do you have a wireless router? If you do then you probably have a wifi network :P You can connect to it by going to Settings > Wireless Controls > Wifi/Wifi settings  "

Don't have one of those either.  We don't have WiFi at work, and I don't have it at home.  What would I need WiFi for?  lol "