Archive for June, 2009

v1.3.5 Out now

Friday, June 19th, 2009

I just put 1.3.5 on the market. The release just fixes a few little bugs and adds more ui polish including menus for everything , confirmations on remove and remove and delete data and progress indicators for actions so you can see when things are happening. Thanks to everyone who gave suggestions and reported bugs!

More beta testers wanted for a quick round

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

I have a new release I want to put on the market this week with a couple of usability updates (progress dialogs, comfirmation for remove/remove and delete, made a new add from browser dialog, etc.) If you’re interested post a comment below and I’ll pass on a QR code to download the beta. I just want a quick beta to make sure nothing breaks so I can post the update officially as quickly as possible.

v1.3 Released, Transmission support!

Sunday, June 14th, 2009

I just published Torrent-fu 1.3 to the android market. While the biggest change is support for Transmission, here’s a few other notables:

  • Torrent management view adds upload/download rates
  • webui.token_auth support for uTorrent for better security
  • SingleTask on activities (so cycling through UI is smoother)
  • friendly error messages on failure to connect to torrent client.

I’m working on reorganizing the site and adding/updating tutorials today.

Phonedog.com (quickly) compares Torrent-fu, Transdroid, Torrent-Droid, BarTor

Friday, June 12th, 2009

I stumbled on this review of the 4 torrent controllers on android market, by Phonedog.com today, Torrent-fu did pretty good on the review. The reviewer really took a liking to Transdroid, and ended out giving the win to both Transdroid and Torrent-fu. It’s not an in depth review, but it was interesting to see someone showing all apps head to head, especially the non-free ones. He didn’t say that Torrent-fu had a controller to stop/start/pause/resume/remove torrents though :( , but like he said “it’s not an in depth review”.

Transmission support complete, beta anyone?

Monday, June 8th, 2009

I finished up Transmission support today, but I’d like to beta it before the official market release. I’ll be testing over the next couple days, if you are a brave soul and want to test it out reply to this post and I will send you a QR code. Otherwise expect the official release with transmission support in the next few days. I’ll start looking into adding support for other clients over the next week.

Torrent-fu 1.2.1 released, 1.3 almost done!?!?

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

I released version1.2.1 yesterday and then started on 1.3. Version 1.2.1 added multiple profile support and sorting, as well as a major rewrite that resulted in faster speeds searching and connecting to uTorrent. In the code rewrite, I also laid the framework to add other torrent clients, that framework enabled me to write support for Transmission in a very short period of time. I’m going to bed tonight with Transmission  98% working (adding torrents from search, all management, url interception from browser are all working already). The only thing left on it is integrating the file from browser portion (I did a first shot at it, but the last test didn’t work, and I’m tired).

Thanks for all the great feedback on 1.2.1, 1.3 is right around the corner!