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MichaelApproved 10-31-2016 12:56 PM

Beta test the Android app
 
The app is in pretty good shape but there are a few little bugs we need to squash before releasing. There's a public download available for it but you have to follow some instructions on installing the app because it's not in the Play store yet.

You can download the app here
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/boccr2p75...GA4vx9PTa?dl=0

Follow the instructions for ANDROID on this page to allow your device to install a beta app that isn't in the Google Play store
https://support.hockeyapp.net/kb/app...to-test-an-app

Piscean 10-31-2016 03:23 PM

You can download the app here
https://rink.hockeyapp.net/apps/66bc...af40a28754dd58

Reports app not found. And chance we can just get the .apk file and sideload it?

MichaelApproved 11-01-2016 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Piscean (Post 856412)
You can download the app here
https://rink.hockeyapp.net/apps/66bc...af40a28754dd58

Reports app not found. And chance we can just get the .apk file and sideload it?

Sorry about that. Here's a Dropbox folder where you'll find the latest build.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/boccr2p75...GA4vx9PTa?dl=0

Piscean 11-01-2016 10:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MichaelApproved (Post 856423)
Sorry about that. Here's a Dropbox folder where you'll find the latest build.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/boccr2p75...GA4vx9PTa?dl=0

Much easier! Thank you.

MichaelApproved 11-01-2016 05:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Piscean (Post 856424)
Much easier! Thank you.

Great! Looking forward to hearing what you think.

Piscean 11-01-2016 05:24 PM

Issues and Questions
 
Two bugs with the app.
1. I have push notification turned on, but didn't receive a notification in the hour leading up to today's live show.

2. The Live Show tab counted down to the live show start time. The last I saw was 4 minutes, and then I got tied up with work stuff. I came back to the app 20 minutes later (~15 minutes into the show) and the Live Show page shows next live show in 0 0 0 0. I expected to be able to join the current live show in progress.

I checked the Shows tab to see if I could join there, but it's not there yet, presumably because it's still being recorded.

Lastly, a suggestion. I logged into the app with my forum creds. When I follow the Comment link from a past show, it takes me to a web view of the forum for that show. But it doesn't log me in. Any chance of passing my creds to that page so I can immediately participate, rather than needing to log in?

Piscean 11-01-2016 07:56 PM

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For the last several hours the Shows page never refreshes. All I see are spinning circles for each of the shows listed.

MichaelApproved 11-02-2016 10:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Piscean (Post 856430)
For the last several hours the Shows page never refreshes. All I see are spinning circles for each of the shows listed.

What happens if you pull-to-refresh that screen?

Piscean 11-02-2016 10:18 AM

Can't download
 
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The Shows button eventually updated overnight. So the problem mentioned above doesn't repro this morning.

Now I can't download the current show to the phone. I've tried on WiFi and on cell data, "Download only on Wifi" switch turned on and off. No combination gets content to download.

I am able to stream the episode.

Also, the Pause button doesn't do anything. I expect it to switch from Pause to Resume/Continue, but it doesn't change when I click it. (Maybe it would if the download were working, so this might be a non-issue.)

Changing the Playback Rate has no effect on actual playback rate.

Piscean 11-02-2016 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by MichaelApproved (Post 856439)
What happens if you pull-to-refresh that screen?

Nothing. I tried pull to refresh a few times but it didn't change the spinning circles.

MichaelApproved 11-02-2016 03:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Piscean (Post 856440)
The Shows button eventually updated overnight. So the problem mentioned above doesn't repro this morning.

Now I can't download the current show to the phone. I've tried on WiFi and on cell data, "Download only on Wifi" switch turned on and off. No combination gets content to download.

I am able to stream the episode.

Also, the Pause button doesn't do anything. I expect it to switch from Pause to Resume/Continue, but it doesn't change when I click it. (Maybe it would if the download were working, so this might be a non-issue.)

Changing the Playback Rate has no effect on actual playback rate.

Downloads are one of the hardest parts of this app. I have a pending gut-this-code-and-rewrite-it task. I wrote my part of that task and now I'm waiting for a developer to give me theirs. I should have that next week, in time for the next update. That new code will fix all these download issues.

Regarding playback rate, it only works on Android v6+. What version are you using?

Piscean 11-03-2016 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by MichaelApproved (Post 856445)
Regarding playback rate, it only works on Android v6+. What version are you using?

I'm on 6.0, Security patch level 2016-09-01

MichaelApproved 11-03-2016 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Piscean (Post 856461)
I'm on 6.0, Security patch level 2016-09-01

That should work then. I've only tested it in the emulator though. Can you please try using the Mixergy app and letting me know if the playback rate works there? I'm sharing a lot of code between those apps.

https://mixergy.com/app/android/

Piscean 11-03-2016 05:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MichaelApproved (Post 856470)
That should work then. I've only tested it in the emulator though. Can you please try using the Mixergy app and letting me know if the playback rate works there? I'm sharing a lot of code between those apps.

https://mixergy.com/app/android/

Playback doesn't work for me in Mixergy either.

But it does work with other podcast apps.

MichaelApproved 11-05-2016 02:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Piscean (Post 856474)
Playback doesn't work for me in Mixergy either.

But it does work with other podcast apps.

That's really strange. I'm going to need to get my hands on a real device to debug this issue.

Piscean 11-05-2016 03:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MichaelApproved (Post 856546)
That's really strange. I'm going to need to get my hands on a real device to debug this issue.

Keep in mind, download doesn't work at all. I'm trying to speed up on the streaming, not on a downloaded episode. So it's possible that doesn't work by design.

MichaelApproved 12-26-2016 10:49 AM

New build! katg-app-debug-2016.12.26.apk. This is a release candidate. Everything should be working. I completely rewrote the download process, so that should fix previous issues.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/boccr2p75...GA4vx9PTa?dl=0

Piscean 12-26-2016 03:02 PM

Episode downloads and playback are working.

Playback Rates still don't work. Tested on a Galaxy Tab S2 and LG G4 phone.

MichaelApproved 12-27-2016 08:42 AM

That's great to hear about the downloads.

I just released another build that has changes to how the playback rate is set. Let's see if this makes a difference.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/boccr2p75...GA4vx9PTa?dl=0

Piscean 12-27-2016 12:05 PM

Version 2016.12.27
Fixes the playback speed issue! Good job!

One thing I notice, which would only show up during a holiday. For the last week and a half, there have been free VIP shows in the main feed. The app doesn't show those. And if you go to the specific VIP feed, you can't download the show which is free in the main feed. (Danny's 12.22 show, for instance.)

MichaelApproved 12-27-2016 12:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Piscean (Post 857297)
Version 2016.12.27
Fixes the playback speed issue! Good job!

Hot damn! That's awesome :) Thanks for working with me while I got that figured out.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Piscean (Post 857297)
One thing I notice, which would only show up during a holiday. For the last week and a half, there have been free VIP shows in the main feed. The app doesn't show those. And if you go to the specific VIP feed, you can't download the show which is free in the main feed. (Danny's 12.22 show, for instance.)

That's a larger problem for our infrastructure. The main feed gets content from the main show and I added code that allows it to pipe in special shows, when needed.

Plus, in the holiday example, we have the VIP episodes with special bumpers that Keith and Chemda added to them. Because of those bumpers, it wouldn't make sense to make the VIP episode free because the bumper changes the content.

The app has the shows segmented and each of them follow a numbering system. It becomes harder to slip a few extra episodes into the KATG list because of that.

In the long run, I think we'll have a "specials" high-level item that appears during holiday breaks. We can have it show up first in the list and put the special shows in there.

Piscean 01-02-2017 11:24 AM

Version 2016.12.27

Live Show bug.

When there is a live show going on, go to the Live show tab.

Click Stream Audio. Audio streams beautifully.

Click Watch Video. That takes you to a small video player where you can watch the live feed.

Click Close in the Video Player. That takes you back to the Live show tab. Now the top entry in the list is "Stream Audio >". But nothing is playing.

If you click Stream Audio, it changes to a square instead of the Play symbol after the "Stream Audio" text.

Regardless of how many times you press "Stream Audio", it never plays again until you kill the app and start fresh.

Piscean 01-02-2017 11:32 AM

Version 2016.12.27

Live Show Video bug.

While there is a live show going on, click on the Live show tab.

Click Watch Video. That takes you to the streaming video page.

Click Start to start the video.

Click the Back button on your phone to go back to the main Live show page.

At this point you have Live video streaming to the phone, but there's no way to get back to it to watch it. The back arrow took you back to the Live show tab on the KATG app. If you press Watch Video, it launches a second instance of the video playback. If you press play, you can hear them both streaming slightly out of sync.

If you bring up the list of running apps, you see the KATG app, but not a separate app for the video stream.

The only way to fix this is to kill the app and start over.

Piscean 01-02-2017 11:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Piscean (Post 857324)
Version 2016.12.27

Live Show bug.

When there is a live show going on, go to the Live show tab.

Click Stream Audio. Audio streams beautifully.

Click Watch Video. That takes you to a small video player where you can watch the live feed.

Click Close in the Video Player. That takes you back to the Live show tab. Now the top entry in the list is "Stream Audio >". But nothing is playing.

If you click Stream Audio, it changes to a square instead of the Play symbol after the "Stream Audio" text.

Regardless of how many times you press "Stream Audio", it never plays again until you kill the app and start fresh.

Actually, this repro can be simplified.
1. Click "Stream Audio >".
2. After it streams for a few seconds, click Stream Audio to stop streaming
--> Now you can't restart if you click "Stream Audio >" again.

MichaelApproved 01-12-2017 04:35 PM

I'm not sure what's causing the live audio stream bug. There might be a problem with how we're stopping the stream but I haven't found it yet. I'll keep looking into it.

MichaelApproved 01-12-2017 04:36 PM

I submitted the app to the Play store. I'm waiting on their approval now. We're trying to resolve an issue with the content rating, so it'll take a few days.

Meanwhile, here's the build that I'm publishing https://www.dropbox.com/sh/boccr2p75...GA4vx9PTa?dl=0

Todd 01-19-2017 07:23 PM

Google Play issue:

When I went to get the app by searching for "keith and the girl", the version that shows up first in results is version 1.0-beta-2.2 (Oct 27, 2014 update). I didn't notice this at first and wondered why I couldn't tell it my VIP ID.

Version 2017.1.17 doesn't even appear on the list until a little farther down, so I didn't know there were two versions until I poked around a bit.

Obviously this isn't a problem if smart people use a direct link. But if you need to troubleshoot, be aware that people may have grabbed the beta by mistake.

Piscean 01-19-2017 09:07 PM

I just searched for KATG and Version 2017.1.17 shows up 2nd in a list of 3. The old 2014 app is still first in the list. How do you get old apps removed? Does the original author need to do that?

MichaelApproved 01-24-2017 11:06 AM

Thanks for the reminder about the old app. I removed it from the store.

I also just published an app update that allows you to watch VIP videos from the app.

It's version 2017.01.24 and should already be published in the store.

Get it here: https://katg.com/app/android


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