Droid Nerds in HERE!

[Chris Ludington]

So I started tinkering with developing an android app last week. At first I wanted to make a little card game that I can't find on the market. But then I thought of a different app that was useful (to me). I started messing with making an app that gives me quick access to ALL of the MTS videos. Without having to load the 10thplanetjj site (no offense to the webhost I just don't want to wait). So now I have an app on my phone and my android tablet that is fast and effective. I'm still working on it but I thought I'd share the progress.

So far I have the EULA for first run - mainly explaining that you can't expect much from me and that you need the MX Player. Then I have 4 lists. Each list contains 10 MTS vids.
I use the MX player to open the videos (.mp4 format) and the program remembers my progress. So it will resume where I left off. And the great thing, it remembers ALL the vids. So if I watch a little of 1 and little of 2 it will remember both. Also the skip feature, rewind feature are all instant. No buffer, no lag. Of course the vids are pulling from the web (not stored locally that's a few gig - too much )

Anyway, I thought I would share the progress for the droid nerds in here. Maybe one day it will be available to everyone. I still have some login issues I have to address.

Anybody else dev apps?

[Chris Ludington]

**crickets**

[DanConway]

Nice, Im doing some mobile development myself both android and iOS, currently working on a project in a similar category (not the MTS, but involves card game). Hit me up maybe we can pool resources like game assets such as card sprites etc...

[Chris Ludington]

I'm fairly new to this. I did web programming years ago and still toy around in PHP. The logic behind the programming is all pretty much the same so it's not that different but I'll admit, I've had to dig in examples to make heads or tails of some of the things. The problem with the app is anybody can watch the videos, not just paid members. So obviously I wouldn't want to put that out there until I can figure out some auth method. The problem is I the vids themselves aren't hosted in a permission specific environment. So basically if you have the link you have the vid. It doesn't appear to have much interest here anyway so I'll keep this gem for me. My next project is to find a way to skip to specific times, then link them based on the MTS episode guides. Then if there is a specific technique I'd like to review I can go to the index and skip right to it.

But so far I've found no way to do it. I know in youtube you can jump to specific times in the video but I haven't found that functionality in videopress vids.

I haven't messed with ios yet, but I don't have any apple products to do testing even if I wanted to.

[Jason 'J-Faz' Farren]

For the record I think that's cool as shit.

[DanConway]

Chris, that's dope. Im a PHP developer myself. I have been using a third party tool for cross platform development, it makes it much easier to write one code base and it be portable across all mobile devices. The best one out there is probably unity, but its licensing comes out to like 3000$ for ios and android support, so the one I settled on was CORONA, which is like 300$ for both iOS and android support.

Corona uses LUA which is a SUPER simple scripting language, it's a million times easier and quicker to work with than objective C to the point reaching the same output takes 1/8th the codespace, and the same code compiles on both android or iOS and you can dev on a windows or Mac computer. Corona also has a free trial thatch fully functional you just can't release teh applications, so it gives you something to dev in without any purchase until your ready to release your applications,

Also as I said, Im working on a game in the same category as yours, so i've already coded card/deck logic and been working on some card and card table/chip sprites etc, so just let me know if you would be interested in using them in your project -- good game graphics are hard to find for free and burdensome to make so Id be happy to share. And if your not too far into your project, consider checking out Corona, if you do switch to using it(which Im sure you'll be pleased with the ease of development in overall, combine with being able to produce both android and iOS) I can share my code and libraries with you related to card functions etc to save you some dev time.

[Chris Ludington]

That's awesome Dan. I'll check out CORONA as soon as I get a sec. We had a lot of storms over the weekend so I'm sure I'll be getting a shit ton of calls today.
Thanks!

[Nosaj]

I like the idea a lot. Watching the vids through the site on my droidX is doable but the controls suck(on the phone). The app you designed sounds great. I dont watch on my phone much, but I have a few times show the vids to other people. I also download every MTS (yes Im a paying member and no I dont share them) and have put the vids on the phone which play better and give me more control, but your app would save me the trouble of putting them on my phone.

Are you sure the app doesnt ask for a login becuase your tablet has already logged in through the browser and its using that cookie? Have you tried putting the app on another phone or tablet that hasnt logged in or just clearing your cookie/cache on the device?

Add the forum to the app and you will have a sweet thing going on!

[Chris Ludington]

Nosaj, yes, I'm sure. The winner will be when I figure out how to jump to bookmarks!