Hi Folks,

Thank you to all of you defending my work. As I told you, I made it in my free time and distribute it freely. I have not enough money toi buy many devices of different brands to check compatibilites, and I don't own a tablet.

Also note that I had very few (3) feedback from alpha for the PC plugin version. I must admit that I released it very late, and maybe I should have waited more before releasing it. I wanted to give you this as gift for Xmas. Now I'm counting on the commiunity to help me and other users to make it work on all devices.

It works fine on my system, and it it works with other people's system, thats fine. For the people for which it does not work, I'm sorry. I'm new to android (I have a device for only 4 month), and it's the first app I'm writing for android.

The android application is working fine so far, event if there are some improvements to to and new functionalities to develop. The main problem is the connection between PC & Device. Next week, I'll try to work on a copy when the device is connected as usb storage. I know some devices are incompatible with this mode, that's why I preferred to try the actual sync method. Also, when the device is in usb mode, the sd card cannot be accessed by android apps, so you could not run droid_dvdp when connected this way.

I will also write a tool on the plugin so I'll can debug the connections and launching adb commands and get a log from users.

For those having sync problems, copy the files manually (there are some hints in some previous posts).

I wish you a Merry Christmas, and if you drink, please don't d(r)ive

Just spent most of a day to transfer the needed (and more) image files to the Android device. However, worth the effort, since now I can test the app on a tablet, and it looks good!

In the "Covers" mode, the images overlap partially (left/right). I am not sure if this is intentional, but it works. I think the app looks best in Portrait mode (not surprisingly), and in Landscape mode there would be room to show front and back cover next to each other in the profile.

But altogether, I don't think a lot needs to be done to accommodate tablets. If you have ideas for additional functionality for the app, I would focus on that first. I'm thinking of a search function, or collections. Also, the credits in TV series with episodes could be handled differently.

And there is an unnecessary "empty" message if the number of cast/crew in a particular profile is less than the maximum allowed amount for synching, but still larger than zero.

Thanks for a great effort, and showing Invelos that it can be done, and in less than three years.

Ok here is a little windows bat file that Olivier made for when we were using the xml files. Thisis how I was getting covers to to sync when it was broken :

DVDP-Robocopy

Open the file in notepad and read the rem lines, just need to make sure drive letters and paths are kosher and it will copy all the images over for you, This will also do a nice job just coping new or updated image files over to the device later if you are having some issues with the sync.

If you can get everything to run ok, the DB file will be in your C:\Users\<username>\Documents\Droid_DVDP

That needs to be copied to the SD card storage area the app makes on your android device

/sdcard/Droid_DVDP/database

then you should be set if you are having device issues.

We knew bout some tablet issues but Olivier wanted to get the app out for the holidays, there are a few easy things a user can do to get around any of these issues. I will try to help out as much as I can with general support stuff. I broke this several times while testing :D

Right now I am off to work i'll try to check in but working retail today, so might not get any free time today.

-Robert

Quoting RobAGD:

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Ok here is a little windows bat file that Olivier made for when we were using the xml files. Thisis how I was getting covers to to sync when it was broken :

DVDP-Robocopy
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Thanks Robert!

One thing: with USB cable or  via WiFi?  Or will either work?
Between all of us, we'll beat this program into submission yet (literally!) ! 
Dave

The Robocopy batch file dates from the .xml period and will need to be updated, but the idea is clear.

It does help only if you can make your Android device appear with a drive letter. Fortunately, other ways of connecting also work, but then you may miss the convenience of only updating changed or new image files.

Thanks. I am not using this, but it may help avoid confusion for future users.

A modification may be required above in the "if not exist" lines, and that is to remove the ":" in case the "dev" does not point to a drive letter. In most cases, the required directory will exist and this error will be ignored.

Don't worry too much about the display on tablets, it is a minor issue in my opinion. Even switching landscape/portrait looks good, and at least you are using the full screen and not just a window.

Syncing is a more serious issue, but there are workarounds, even if they are not so convenient.

Hans