Torrent-Fu

I just published the latest update to Torent-fu to the Android Market. I already went over the features in my last post so here’s a quick list of notables:

• Custom search providers – If your favorite torrent site offers RSS searching, you can now add it to the sites that Torrent-fu searches.
• New barcode database – Torrent-fu now has a dedicated database of UPC/EAN codes. Since it is less complete than the previous provider, it is community powered. If a scan produces no results, you can type keywords that will be added to the central database, and when others scan the same barcode later your keywords will be used.
• torrentmonkeys.com in the built-in searches ( isohunt and mininova are still included as well)
• fix for incorrect progress reporting in transmission
• green progress bars (i never liked the orange)

If you find any problems let me know here or via email in the market.

After a bit of work this week, there is a new version of Torrent-fu. The new release is mostly a UI update, most notably the “Manage Torrents” screen now has progress bars and automatically refreshes at 5 second intervals so you don’t have to keep refreshing to track progress.

The other big update was browser integration support. Torrent-fu now uses 2 methods to get files to your computer: passing the URL to uTorrent and Uploading a .torrent file to uTorrent. The noticable difference between the two is how android handles them. If Torrent-fu can, it intercepts the URL of a .torrent file when you tap a link and sends it away to uTorrent. However, a lot of the time the browser was not passing mime type information on clicks that had redirects to torrents, the browser would download the file locally, but Torrent-fu could not use it. Now it can, after download, the file should associate with Torrent-fu, so tapping on it should start Torrent-fu and prompt you to send the file.

Other than that there are new icons, a more descriptive UI, and better barcode scanning.

The target for v1.2 is 2 weeks from now.

Features planned so far are:

• Better preferences with more options such as: number of results to return from each provider and multiple uTorrent profiles.
• Sorting and better filtering in search results and torrent management views.
• More UI updates.

Please report any bugs you find in the new verison, and thanks for using Torrent-fu.

When I put Torrent-fu in the Android market 22 hours ago I had no idea it would reach 1425 downloads this quickly.

I want to thank everyone that tried out the app and left comments and suggestions. I put this site together in a rush to help support the app, and hopefully the Getting Started section will serve as help to those who were asking questions about WebUI setup and help on the preferences.

I’ll be working to more on this site in the next few days, and putting together a roadmap based on user suggestions for the next version of  Torrent-fu.