Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Android - NetQ/NetQFree - 2.6.1

2.6.1

  • FIX: People search not working
  • FIX: Image too large in FWI queue (reported by Tom). If you have movies in your FWI queue with his issue, you will have to remove and re-add them
  • NEW: View Netflix webpage for a movie. You can do this by either selecting the box art on the details screen or using the long-press menu in a list view (suggested by Chip)

2.6.0

  • FIX: Long press of movie in Instant Titles search does not allow you to add to queue
  • FIX: FC when using empty value with Move To..
  • NEW: Add movies that will be available for Instant streaming to Future Watch Instantly Queue. This queue is stored on the device and movies are added from this queue to your Instant queue by Menu->Check Availability when viewing the FWI queue. In the future you will have the option for this check to happen automatically every day (suggested by Brian)
  • NEW: Sort Instant Queue by instant expiration date (suggested by Kurt)
  • NEW: Removed HD icon; now using BluRay and new Instant HD icons
  • NEW: Uses Facebook single sign-on

2.5.5

  • FIX: Error when setting rating (reported by Jeff)

2.5.4

  • FIX: Empty Feeds on Android 2.1 (reported by Stan)
  • NEW: Set default tab (suggested by Raans)

2.5.3

  • FIX: FC with empty search term
  • FIX: FC on search
  • FIX: FC when adding widget before authenticating with Netfix
  • FIX: Removed unnecessary OAuth signing from most Feeds

2.5.2

  • NEW: Using different OAuth library to reduce FCs
  • ENHANCEMENT: Movie details loads slightly faster

2.5.0

  • FIX: ANR on getting authentication URL from Netflix
  • FIX: FC when selecting item in search results
  • FIX: FC when sharing with Facebook
  • FIX: FC with In Theaters
  • NEW: Added barcode button to Search page to highlight function
  • NEW: Expanded Genres
  • ENHANCEMENT: Improved scrolling performance in list views when images are enabled
  • ENHANCEMENT: Browse tab remembers your scroll position when pressing back

2.4.3.3

  • FIX: Random FCs
  • NEW: Sort by Instant release in Feeds and Genres

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Android - NetQ/NetQFree - 2.4.3.2

  • FIX: FCs when signing requests

Android - MerchantMobile - 1.3.0

  • New tab interface
  • Cleaner preferences
  • Better error reporting for Google Merchant authentication
Please email me or comment here with any problems or suggestions

Monday, October 25, 2010

Android - NetQ/NetQFree - 2.4.3.1

2.4.3.1

  • FIX: FCs with new Instant search

2.4.3

  • FIX: Couple of fixes to image loading and list displays
  • NEW: Sort Disc and Instant queues alphabetically and by date added to queue. When using one of these sorts, some queue management options are disabled
  • NEW: When viewing movie details if the movie is in the Disc or Instant queue, you can now press the In Queue button to choose Queue Management options for that movie (Remove, Move, Change Format). Please note that when viewing a season that is in your disc queue the button is disabled
  • ENHANCEMENT: Genre is displayed in list views
  • NEW: The search selection now inludes an Instant Titles option to only search titles available to watch instantly
  • ENHANCEMENT: Cleaned up prefrences by moving WiFi, 3G, and Edge options to their own preference screen

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Android - NetQFree - 2.4.1

  • FIX: FC with new image loading when loading too many images
  • FIX: FC with "NYT Critics' Picks (theaters)" feed
  • ENHANCEMENT: Faster loading of images in list views
  • ENHANCEMENT: Images instead of text to indicate DVD, BluRay and/or Watch Instantly
  • NEW: Option to show predicted and/or user rating in list views (suggested by Dave). Increases the time it takes to process movies
  • NEW: Queue Cleaner available from Queues->Menu button. Finds movies in both disc and instant queues and removes them from your disc queue (suggested by Matt)
  • NEW: Rating bar now in 3 different colors: green->Netflix average rating; blue->Netflix predicted rating; red->User rating
  • NEW: Added "Copy Title" action to long-press menu (suggested by Dave)
  • FUTURE: Sort options for Queues (suggested by Dave, others)

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Android - NetQ - 2.4.0

  • FIX: FC with new image loading when loading too many images
  • FIX: FC with "NYT Critics' Picks (theaters)" feed
  • ENHANCEMENT: Faster loading of images in list views
  • ENHANCEMENT: Images instead of text to indicate DVD, BluRay and/or Watch Instantly
  • NEW: Option to show predicted and/or user rating in list views (suggested by Dave). Increases the time it takes to process movies
  • NEW: Queue Cleaner available from Queues->Menu button. Finds movies in both disc and instant queues and removes them from your disc queue (suggested by Matt)
  • NEW: Rating bar now in 3 different colors: green->Netflix average rating; blue->Netflix predicted rating; red->User rating
  • NEW: Added "Copy Title" action to long-press menu (suggested by Dave)
  • FUTURE: Sort options for Queues (suggested by Dave, others)

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Android - NetQ/NetQFree - 2.3.0

  • FIX: FC with new image loading when refreshing list, applying filters and changing sort order
  • NEW: Widget now offers choice of background and text color
  • NEW: Changelog now displayed on first run of a new version. Changelog is also accessible in Preferences
  • FUTURE: Queue Cleaner to remove entries from your disc queue that exist in your instant queue (suggested by Matt)
  • FUTURE: Movie box art in widget (suggested by William)

Monday, October 4, 2010

Android - MerchantMobile - 1.2.0

  • Layout fixes
  • AdMob stat retrieval fix. When viewing your sites data is pulled for the past 180 days which is the max that AdMob allows. Selecting a site will display the last 30 days of data
  • Added stats for AdMob ads. When viewing AdMob sites press the menu button and select Ads

Android - NetQ/NetQFree - 2.2.2

Fix for FC when moving/deleting/changing format of an item in queue with images enabled

Android - NetQFree - 2.2.1

NetQFree as been updated to 2.2.1 with the same new features as NetQ.

NetQ gets social! Visit NetQ's preferences to link with your Facebook account. In Preferences you can also elect to automatically share a movie on Facebook when you rate it. Once your account is linked, you can share a movie in 2 ways:



  1. In a list of movies long press the movie and select the 'Share on Facebook' option
  2. When viewing movie details you can press the 'Share' button
Either way you will then be prompted to enter a short message to be posted with the link to the movie.

Also included in this release:
  • Larger list images
  • Faster loading of movie lists (Queues, Feeds, etc) when you've elected to 'Load Images' in Preferences. Images will now load after the list of movies has loaded
  • Widget fix: widget update service kept running even though it didn't need to

Friday, October 1, 2010

Android - NetQ - 2.2.0

NetQ gets social! Visit NetQ's preferences to link with your Facebook account. In Preferences you can also elect to automatically share a movie on Facebook when you rate it. Once your account is linked, you can share a movie in 2 ways:

  1. In a list of movies long press the movie and select the 'Share on Facebook' option
  2. When viewing movie details you can press the 'Share' button
Either way you will then be prompted to enter a short message to be posted with the link to the movie.

Also included in this release:
  • Larger list images
  • Faster loading of movie lists (Queues, Feeds, etc) when you've elected to 'Load Images' in Preferences. Images will now load after the list of movies has loaded
  • Widget fix: widget update service kept running even though it didn't need to

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Android - Headsetter - 1.3

On my N1 the volume would re-adjust to my profile settings even though I had not unplugged/plugged anything. So, Headsetter now remembers the last profile and does not adjust the volume if it is called with the same profile. The current profile is reset on boot and if you use the application to stop the service.

Android - NetQ/NetQFree - 2.0.1

FC fix for Widget

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Android - NetQ/NetQFree - 2.0.0

  • Fixes galore. Some you may have encountered many you didn't
  • Configurable widget: choose the queue to display and the refresh interval
Please comment/email regarding any problems or feature suggestions.

Anyone interested in Facebook and/or Twitter integration? I was thinking of an update getting posted when you rate a movie.

Also, NO you cannot watch Instant movies using NetQ/NetQFree. If it could be added it would be but that is being done by Netflix. Once the Netflix app is launched NetQ/NetQFree will be updated to allow you to use NetQ/NetQFree to play a movie through Netflix's app.

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Android - NetQ - 1.9.8

NetQ now supports multiple accounts! These accounts can be truly separate or just separate profiles.
To use multiple accounts:

  1. From any of the 3 tabs pres your phone's menu button and then select Accounts
  2. On first run you wil be prompted to fetch account information for your default account
  3. To add a new account press your phone's menu button and select Add Account
  4. Read the dialog and press Continue
  5. Log into Netflix with the new account and select to link to NetQ
  6. You will return to the Accounts list which will proceed to fetch the account info for the new account
  7. Select an account to use and you will be returned to NetQ's main tab-interface
  8. You can delete an account from the Accounts list by long pressing the account and selecting Delete User
Please report or email any FCs or other problems you encounter.

Android - MerchantMobile - 1.1.0

  • Improved progress dialogs
  • Active network detection and warning
  • Fix: AdMob stat retrieval after leaving app with AdMob open

Monday, September 20, 2010

Android - MerchantMobile - 1.0

MerchantMobile is now live in the Market! This app is strictly for fellow Android developers.


  1. View order notifications from your Google Merchant account. Requires Google Merchant ID and Key which can be found on your Merchant page under Settings->Integration
  2. Filter your Merchant data in based on date and order status
  3. App stats and review/comments from Market. Password is required for initial retrieval but then a token is saved for future uses.
  4. AdMob stats. Requires an AdMob API key which can be created by visiting Tools->API on your AdMob stats page.
Depending on your sales volume, the loading of Merchant data can be a bit slow (uses SSL). I recommend you perform initial and older notification retrieval while on WiFi.

MerchantMobile is considered beta as I have only one app to test with for Merchant and AdMob data. Please report all FCs and any other errors you encounter. All feature suggestions are welcome!

Android - NetQ/NetQFree - 1.9.1

  1. Fix for FC with feeds and images
  2. Updated user ratings to include rating descriptions and "Not Interested" option. Please note that Netflix does not report that a user has set "Not Interested" on a title but you will notice that the rating will change from user or predicated rating to the average rating.
If you ever get an FC please report it as I cannot fix the issue if you don't. Thanks!

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Android - NetQFree - 1.9.0

NetQFree has now been updated to 1.9.0. It has the same features as NetQ 1.9.0 as detailed in the post below.

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Android - NetQ - 1.9.0

NetQ 1.9.0 is now in the market. Along with a few random fixes, the new features are:

1. Scan a barcode to search Netflix
   While in the search tab, press the menu button and select Barcode Search. If the Barcode Scanner app is not installed, you will be prompted to install it first. After installation, or if the app is already present, you will be presented with the barcoding scanning window. Maneuver your phone so that the barcode is in the window. Once the barcode image is recognized the resulting barcode string is forwarded to Google to be translated into the product name. The product name (if found) is then placed into NetQ's search box and a Netflix title search is started. Barcode search was only tested using UPC codes found on DVDs and BluRays.

2. At Home widget
   You can now place a widget on your home screen to display the movies that Netflix reports as either being at your house or in transit to/from your home. When adding the widget, choose the widget that corresponds to the number of movies you are allowed to receive at one time from Netflix (Netflix currently offers 1-4 movies out at a time). So, if you have 2 movies at a time, choose the NetQ (2x2) widget. Similarly, if you have 4 movies out a time, choose the NetQ (2x4) widget.

Both of these features are considered beta as barcode search cannot be tested in the emulator (and therefore has only been tested on my Nexus One running Android 2.2) and the widget is the first I have developed. Please report any issues encountered.

These features will be coming to NetQFree very soon.

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Android - NetQ/NetQFree - 1.7.9.1

Refusing to jump to 1.8.0 for:

Fix FC on Add To Queue from search

Fix FC during initial sign in

Fix FC when download images

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Android - NetQ/NetQFree - 1.7.6

Fix for FC on deleting from queue. If you still experience problems, please use the market to email me the title of the movie you are trying to delete.

Monday, August 30, 2010

Android - NetQ/NetQFree - 1.7.5

NY Times Critic’s Picks now available in the Browse menu. After loading either list, short press an item to search Netflix or long press an item to either search IMDb or read the NY Times review in a browser window.

Monday, August 23, 2010

Android - NetQ/NetQFree - 1.7.0

Refresh menu
Faster search
Updated similar and filmography lists
Removed hd feed as Netflix has still not fixed their preview API
Fix delete from queue for seasons and series in movie details activity
Separate add-to-top preference for disc and instant queues
IMDb search to lists (browse, queues, search, similar titles, etc)

Android - Headsetter - 1.0

Service thats runs at boot that allows you to set volumes for 3 different profiles: headset, headphones & phone. This way you do not have to adjust the volume each time you plug in/out your gear. Start service after installing.
Headsetter was tested on the HTC N1. If Headsetter does not work on your device, please email me or post a comment here. Feature suggestions are welcome.

Monday, August 16, 2010

Android - NetQ/NetQFree - 1.6.1

box art fix
missing ratings fix

If the application closes while adding, deleting or selecting a movie, please email me the name of the movie as it is highly likely that something unique to that movie is causing the problem.