Torrent Funnel

Exactly one year has passed since I release the last version of this android application and I’ve temporarily removed Torrent Funnel from the market to make some necessary changes to it. You can still access the current version (1.0.1) from here: http://android.tonoli.co.za/TorrentFunnel-1.0.1.apk

I’m looking at doing the following changes:

• Sizing the fonts correctly.
• Changing the way the background scheduler works to not be continuously loaded in memory but rather triggered as necessary.
• Changes to icons to correctly size for different phone types.
• … more?

I’m currently busy with another project though (http://inboxspy.ricktonoli.com) and until that is released this project will be on the back burner. Feel free to recommend any other changes you think would be nice.

If you’re getting errors when adding Feeds it’s due to the locale you’re in (specifically date formatting in your locale). I’ve identified the problem and am working on a solution. In the meantime, however,  someone has come up with this workaround, which you can use for now (see original comment here):

“Adding RSS problem fix: Just change too US keyboard and you can add feeds then change it back once you’re done.”

I will post a proper release with fix as soon as I’m happy I haven’t introduced more issues.

UPDATE: I think I fixed the problem and the app seems to behave in various locales now, going to stress test it for a while and, if everything works fine, will release it. If anyone would like to try the release, get it here: http://android.tonoli.co.za/build/TorrentFunnel-1.0.1.apk, would appreciate feedback of any problems before I push it to the market.

Please note this release will reset all your existing feeds next run time to the current time on the first run of the service, after that it should work fine.

I’m getting strange behavior using the application so I’ve pulled it from the Android Market for now, you can still get it here but be warned it does not behave as should, time to do some more testing and iron out these issues:

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Bug fix:

• Seems I introduced a bug, you couldn’t load new feeds. It’s fixed in this release.

Available here (or on the Android Market):

http://android.tonoli.co.za/TorrentFunnel-0.0.18.apk

I guess writing code without test cases is bad practice, bad developer!

This is the upcoming site of an Android product I’m working on called Torrent Watch (name changed to Torrent Funnel because of similarities to another product of similar name)….

Watch this space for more details, alpha release coming soon.