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#1  Edited By TheFaxman

I'm putting up the finishing touches on the 1.1 update - if anyone else has any feedback they want to see implemented now's the time to let me know.  My plan is to submit this for testing on Thursday provided I don't find any additional bugs.


What's new:
  • Data caching bug fixes - this will increase performance on slow cellular connections
  • A ton of HTML rendering fixes - text layout will now update when rotating allowing you to use more space on landscape orientation
  • Search filters by type + a note next to each search item as to what type of result it is
  • Image size adjustments - should better take advantage of the screen space
  • Bug Fixes for the embedded video player
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#2  Edited By TheFaxman
@Lights_Up_The_Shaft: I can't do forums, comments, and member login currently (no APIs for this) - I tend to agree they're missing features I'd love to add if I can figure out a way to make it happen.

Your search feedback is a good idea - I'll see what I can do in a future update.  It should be easy enough to add a data type pivot plus maybe something visually to indicate what type of object you're seeing when you're looking at the entire list.
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#3  Edited By TheFaxman

Have a Windows Phone?  Addicted to Giant Bomb?  I've got the app for you -
Giant Bomb WP7 - the Giant Bomb experience designed for the Windows Phone UI

Features:

  • It's completely free - no ads and I'd rather you send Whiskey Media your subscription money than me so we keep getting great content
  • Hub like view of feature items on the site - quickly see what's new
  • Browse reviews, videos, bombcasts, & news - great for watching quick looks on the go
  • Support for videos in news stories - no more frustration that your mobile browser can't handle embedded video
  • Full wiki support - search the entire database and view data on games, concepts, and everything else that GB catalogs
To get the app you can either click the link above or search the marketplace for keyword "Duder".  

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If you have any questions / feedback / etc you can hit me up via PM or email me via the "about" page in the app.


Thanks to everyone that provided feedback during the development and to all the Whiskey staffers who provided a great API to use and kindly let me use the Giant Bomb logos & name.
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#5  Edited By TheFaxman
@LordAndrew:  I should have included this in my original post - I sent an email off to that address earlier in the week but haven't had any luck w/ a response which is part of why I'm trying the forum route as well.
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#6  Edited By TheFaxman
This is only tangentially related to the API but this seems like the best place to ask - 

I'm getting ready to submit my Windows Phone 7 Giant Bomb app to the marketplace and had some questions about usage of the Giant Bomb name & logo.  Specifically I'm trying to figure out if it's ok to use the Giant Bomb logo (the one in the upper left of the site) & Giant Bomb name in my app and if there's any guidelines on usage.  If any Whiskey staff is reading this and could help / point towards who to talk to about this I'd appreciate it.

Thanks


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#7  Edited By TheFaxman
@Phyle22: I've gone back and forth as to whether or not to hide the tray - the design guidelines basically say "Don't do it unless you have a really good reason".  I may still hide it before submitting but I'm not 100% sold it's the right thing to do.

What specific filtering do you want?  My options are fairly limited here in terms of what the GB API will do but I'm willing to consider anything I can get working.
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#8  Edited By TheFaxman
For anyone that has the developer tools emulator or an unlocked phone and wants to try the near-complete version you can get the bits here:  http://gb.thefaxman.net/GiantBomb.xap  The current plan is to submit this to the marketplace on or around May 1st - hopefully it'll be available for everyone shortly after.

I've also made some new screenshots showing off the details page, theme / video aware news articles, and the new main screen that focuses on quick browsing and featured items.

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#9  Edited By TheFaxman

It looks like there's an encoding problem somewhere for certain requests, for instance:


http://api.giantbomb.com/search/?api_key=xxx&limit=25&query=health

I've tried this with a couple different XML parsing libraries and they all complain about the following:

error on line 48 at column 3449: Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding ! Bytes: 0x10 0x30 0x20 0x66 


Is it safe to assume we'll always get UTF-8 back like the XML returned indicates or should I be overriding the encoding type w/ something else?
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#10  Edited By TheFaxman
@petedee: I've been trying to put the finishing touches on things at this point - I spent a lot of time fighting with performance w/ large entries in the wiki like Nintendo so this project has been a lot slower than what I wanted.  That being said I'm hoping to have a completed test version done either this weekend or next weekend depending on how long it takes to pull out all my ugly debug code.  Once that's done I'll post a link to the XAP for anyone that wants to test it before I submit it to the marketplace.  I've been testing on a Focus (and rarely a HD7) so getting more handset coverage would be great.