Pocket AMC Reader for Android 2.3.2 available [29.9.2020]

[elman]

Pocket AMC Reader version 2.3.2 is now available.

This application will allow you to read catalogs created by Ant Movie Catalog on your Android phone. It will read XML catalog and import it into its own database which is done for performance reasons. On each start the application will check size of the XML file and when it changes, database is updated. Depending on size of your catalog and speed of your phone, it might take several minutes to import all movies and to start up.

Enjoy.


Screenshots




Requirements

- Android 4.1 or later
- AMC database saved as XML
- AMC database saved with relative links to pictures (if you want to see pictures)
- Application needs approximately twice as much disk space as is the size of XML file


Installation

Install the application via Google Play https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... tamcreader or download from GitHub https://github.com/elman22/pocket-amc-reader/releases.


Converting AMC to XML

If you keep your database in AMC format, you will have to export it to XML to be able to use this application. You can easily do that in 5 steps:
1. Open your AMC database in Ant Movie Catalog
2. Select File -> Save as...
3. Select type XML and click Save
4. When asked about pictures answer OK
5. Copy XML and all pictures to your Android device and start Pocket AMC Reader


Settings explained

CATALOG
Catalog - Pick your catalog from file browser. It might take some time to display available catalogs in folders with thousands of files.
Catalog encoding - Select encoding on your PC to ensure correct import of special characters.
Remove bad characters - If import crashes leaving you with only some movies imported, check this option to fix it. It has the same functionality as AMC script RemoveBadChars viewtopic.php?p=33221#33221.

APPLICATION
Theme - Select color theme for the application.
Color tag - If checked, movie title will be colored according to the color tag, just as in older 1.x versions. If disabled, colored line will be used.

LIST
Fields shown in list - You can choose fields to be displayed in movie list.
Fields separator - If you select two or more fields in any of the lines, values will be separated by text entered here.
Show sorted field - If you sort your list by field which is not displayed, it will be shown in third line.
Show thumbnails - Show thumbnails in movie list.
Show title in grid view - When you use grid view, title is by default displayed. This gives you the option to hide movie title.

DETAILS
Multi field separator - Define your separators in multi value fields (such as Country, Category, Actors, Producer ...). This allows you to filter specific values from details. If you use more separators (e.g. comma for Producer and slash for Category) you can input both as ",/" (without quotes).
Fit picture - Show pictures in details either resized to full screen or with their original size.
File path link - If checked, file path will be clickable and Pocket AMC Reader will try to open corresponding application. However be aware that some links can't be opened on mobile device and you will be notified about that. If this features doesn't work for you and you believe it should, please, report a bug on GitHub.


Known bugs

See https://github.com/elman22/pocket-amc-reader/issues. This is also the place to report any found bugs.


History

29.09.2020 Version 2.3.2
- FIXED Revert file picker changes for Android 11 compatibility

21.09.2020 Version 2.3.1
- ADDED App loading progress bar
- ADDED Navigation bar color is set to app background color
- ADDED Some logging for better bug finding

23.04.2020 Version 2.3
- ADDED Application color themes
- ADDED Swipe down in movie details to show whole picture
- ADDED File path can be clickable (go to Settings to activate and report on GitHub if it doesn't work for you)
- ADDED Movie is considered watched either when checkbox is checked or when date watched is set
- ADDED Option to show color tags as colored movie title as in previous 1.x versions
- UPDATED Third party libraries
- FIXED Various application optimizations and fixes

12.08.2018 Version 2.2
- ADDED Thumbnail view with option to hide titles
- ADDED List fast scroll with section names
- ADDED Slovak translation
- ADDED Polish translation
- ADDED Filters are persisted when device is rotated
- FIXED Some small visual glitches

29.08.2017 Version 2.1
- ADDED Custom fields are now shown on details page

05.07.2017 Version 2.0.1
- FIXED FC on Android 4.4 with list fields configuration
- FIXED FC when changing sorting on fields that are not displayed by default

29.06.2017 Version 2.0
- ADDED Complete rewrite and redesign of the app
- ADDED Android Material design
- ADDED Redesigned details page
- ADDED Swiping left and right in movie details now switches movies
- ADDED New file picker works on Android 5+ with SD card
- ADDED Quick return header in movie list
- ADDED Full screen image viewer with zooming
- ADDED Integrated RemoveBadChars script into import
- ADDED Faster file import with updated progress bar
- ADDED Landscape layout for movie details
- ADDED Easier arrangement of fields in list
- ADDED Default handling of IMDb links with IMDb app
- ADDED Automatic support for picture extras
- ADDED New default font

28.09.2013 Version 1.9.1
- FIXED FC on opening details on Android 2 and 3

28.09.2013 Version 1.9
- ADDED Support for new fields introduced by AMC 4.2
- ADDED Support for extras introduced by AMC 4.2. Only picture extras are supported. Extras are displayed in Pictures tab and details can be seen when tapping on a picture. Switch images by sideways sliding
- ADDED Small images are enlarged to fit screen
- ADDED Empty fields in details can be hidden (go to Settings to activate)
- ADDED Option to selectively remove list filters
- ADDED New font size especially for tablets
- ADDED Small improvements to increase speed of the app
- FIXED Pictures in subfolder not being displayed
- FIXED Scroll to the top of screen when switching movies
- FIXED Some bugs when rotating device
- REMOVED Multiple covers option. Use extras instead

21.04.2013 Version 1.8.4
- ADDED French translation (thanks to Xavier Muller)

03.03.2013 Version 1.8.3
- ADDED Date added field can be used in list, sorting and filtering
- ADDED Catalog can now be picked from any location, not just from a SD card
- CHANGED Slightly changed layouts
- FIXED Bug where user could filter on values in details even if they were empty
- FIXED Small bug with summary in basic tab
- FIXED Some other minor bugs

30.09.2012 Version 1.8.2
- CHANGED Optimized performance and memory usage with very large lists (4000+ movies)

08.09.2012 Version 1.8.1
- FIXED Problem when bringing app to front and search text was entered
- FIXED Problem when bringing app to front and using next / previous in details
- FIXED 2 problems when starting the app
- FIXED Some other small bugs

12.08.2012 Version 1.8
- ADDED Support for Android 4.0 and higher
- ADDED Font size can be changed
- ADDED File manager for selecting XML file
- ADDED Multivalue search (see Settings and web page for details)
- ADDED Preview of movie's description can be displayed in details
- ADDED Better support for devices with high resolution displays
- CHANGED Swiping in details is replaced with action bar in Android 4.0
- UPDATED German translation
- FIXED Bug with encoding of the catalog
- FIXED Couple of other minor bugs

28.04.2012 Version 1.7.1
- ADDED German translation (thanks to Klaus Oed)

17.04.2012 Version 1.7
- ADDED Support for Color Tag introduced by AMC 4.0
- ADDED Russian translation (thanks to migver)
- ADDED New permission to prevent phone from sleeping during import
- ADDED Visual indication that button "clear filters" was clicked
- ADDED Title URL is shown in different color
- CHANGED Some info and error messages to be more helpful
- FIXED Keyboard is now shown when adding filter value
- FIXED Small bug during import

05.11.2011 Version 1.6.1
- ADDED Original title and Translated title fields to list, sorting, filtering and details
- CHANGED Some tweaks with movies swiping in details
- FIXED Small issue with displaying fields separator in settings

23.10.2011 Version 1.6
- ADDED Swiping right to left and left to right in movie details goes to next / previous movie
- ADDED Customizable fields in movie lists
- ADDED Customizable values separator in movie list
- ADDED Switch to always show sorted field
- ADDED New filter - movies with no picture
- ADDED Automatic app restart or list refresh if needed
- CHANGED Reorganized settings
- FIXED Several minor bugs

06.08.2011 Version 1.5.1
- CHANGED Thumbnails loading order in movies list with some optimizations to make scrolling more fluent
- CHANGED Labels in sorting and IMDb options
- FIXED Error when clicking on IMDb link and IMDb app is not installed
- FIXED Occasional crashes regarding thumbnails when browsing movies list
- FIXED Incorrectly displayed import dialog when import file was not found

10.07.2011 Version 1.5
- ADDED Sorting by Rating, Label, Length, Year and Borrower
- ADDED Filter option to select all empty or not empty values
- ADDED Official IMDb application can be used to display additional info about movies
- ADDED Slightly increased font in movie list
- ADDED Application supports "Move to SD" feature. Not very useful though since only application itself is moved to SD (about 350 kB) and all data remains in main memory
- ADDED Rating to movie list
- ADDED Hints in Settings now show actual selected value
- ADDED If movie database is empty, user is redirected to Settings
- FIXED Pictures not being shown if backslash is used instead of slash in path to catalog setting
- FIXED Filter fields order
- FIXED Crashing and some dialogs during import

30.05.2011 Version 1.4.2
- ADDED Import performance tweaks. Import is now up to 25% faster
- ADDED Optimizations when creating thumbnails
- FIXED Bug with import dialog being shown when actual import is skipped

01.04.2011 Version 1.4.1
- FIXED Some crashes with thumbnails enabled

20.03.2011 Version 1.4
- ADDED Thumbnails in all movie lists. Thumbnails can be turned off in settings
- ADDED Correct screen rotation handling
- ADDED Support for PNG pictures
- ADDED Text filtering in lists
- FIXED Rotating screen in details view will always reset the view to first movie
- FIXED Rotating screen during import will crash the application

09.01.2011 Version 1.3.1
- ADDED More code pages (catalog encodings) to choose from
- FIXED Crashing with some non standard characters in catalog. However import is canceled, so catalog needs to be fixed manually in Ant Movie Catalog. Read error message for more information

31.12.2010 Version 1.3
- ADDED Filtering for movie lists which can be done either from menu by a wizard or from details view by clicking on underlined text
- ADDED Possibility to redirect IMDb links to English mobile version
- ADDED Information on how much movies have been imported so far during import
- ADDED Welcome info for users who have troubles setting up catalog
- ADDED Several indexes to database which result in faster list loading but somewhat slower import
- FIXED Sorting of movies is now case insensitive
- FIXED Correct new lines display on Android 1.6
- FIXED Better compatibility with Android 1.6

28.11.2010 Version 1.2
- FIXED Crash when audio rate was empty
- FIXED Displaying cached data if some fields were empty
- ADDED Fast scroll to lists
- CHANGED Some styles in movie list

08.11.2010 Version 1.1
- ADDED Sorting in movies list
- ADDED Movie number to movies list
- ADDED Next, previous and random movie menu in movie details

04.11.2010 Version 1.0
- Initial release


Older versions

https://forum.antp.be/users/elman/Pocke ... v1.9.1.zip
https://forum.antp.be/users/elman/Pocke ... r_v1.9.zip
https://forum.antp.be/users/elman/Pocke ... v1.8.4.zip

[antp]

Nice

[elman]

Still waiting for my new Android phone so that I can test it on real device. Sure takes a lot longer than I expected...

[ATT]

Need !!! :-)

A port to Android would be very nice

[dolphinBoy]

Hi. I have an Archos 70 - Archos is not a member of open handset alliance and cannot access the market place, would it be possible for the author to post the apk file here please?

[elman]

Hi. I have an Archos 70 - Archos is not a member of open handset alliance and cannot access the market place, would it be possible for the author to post the apk file here please?

Sure. Added link to RapidShare in main post.

[dolphinBoy]

THANKS!!!

[vetusto]

I have a database of 2.000 films but it recognizes only 861. Do you know what can I do?

[vincez]

Hi,
I have the same problem than Vetusto. I have a database of 350 films but I can't see more than 198 films with Pocket AMC reader. I have all my films in the xml file.

I have an other problem : I can't see pictures.
I have try differents names for the pictures :
- 'name of film'.jpg
- 'name of database'_'number of film in database'.jpg

I have an ARCHOs 101 with android froyo 2.2

do you have any solution for those problems ?

Thank's

[ATT]

The Problem that only a part of the hole Database is shown seems to be that some films have special Charakters in their titel. For example ´ or '
After I renamed these titles in the xml-File, now the hole database is shown.

But I still have the problem, that no pictures are shown in the Mod.

Greeting

ATT

[vincez]

thank you for your reply, I find special characters in comments.
Import fail on those characters.
now I see all my films in the mod

For the pictures, maybe we must import pictures with specific resolution.

Vincez

[vincez]

Hi, Goog news,

When I made my last export, I didn't copy all images on my ARCHOS.

I copy all the files and now it's good I have all the images.

Thank's ATT

PS : I made an export from AMC with pictures

[elman]

I have a database of 2.000 films but it recognizes only 861. Do you know what can I do?

Hi, import loads movies step by step, so if 861 movies are imported, it means that there is something wrong with 862nd movie.

Is is possible to send me a sample of that movie? Or if you used script to import data, just give me name of the movie and I will try to fix it.

[elman]

The Problem that only a part of the hole Database is shown seems to be that some films have special Charakters in their titel. For example ´ or '
After I renamed these titles in the xml-File, now the hole database is shown.

But I still have the problem, that no pictures are shown in the Mod.

Greeting

ATT

Hi, there are no special rules for image sizes or anything like that. You just have to copy XML and all images must be in the same directory structure as described in XML.

For example you have your XML located in /sdcard/amc/catalog.xml and this XML contains link to image Picture="Conan the Barbarian.jpg". Application loads XML, sets default folder to /sdcard/amc/ and looks for /sdcard/amc/Conan the Barbarian.jpg.

"Save as" option in Ant Movie Catalog will place all images in the same folder as XML. Just as described in example above.

To be honest I haven't tried linked pictures, so I really don't know whether they will work or not.

[elman]

New version available. Check it out.

[elman]

New version available.

[sheeper]

Thank you for new version. It's good to see developing apps for android.

I use Samsung Galaxy S, when i import xml file everything works, pictures seems fine. But after restarting phone or kill amc reader, i start app again and pics have gone. I have +2000 movies in catalog and i can't re-import everytime for it.

ps: xml files and pictures are in same folder, no problem at first import.

[elman]

Thank you for new version. It's good to see developing apps for android.

I use Samsung Galaxy S, when i import xml file everything works, pictures seems fine. But after restarting phone or kill amc reader, i start app again and pics have gone. I have +2000 movies in catalog and i can't re-import everytime for it.

ps: xml files and pictures are in same folder, no problem at first import.

After restart, do you see stub image (the one with movie reel) instead of thumbnails? Do you see pictures in movie details page? Maybe you could try turning thumbnails off, then rotate screen (layout without thumbnails will be loaded), then turn thumbnails on and rotate screen again.

[sheeper]

I can only see stub image in movie list and movie picture page. After rotating screen nothing changes.

[elman]

I can only see stub image in movie list and movie picture page. After rotating screen nothing changes.

Weird. It doesn't seem to be problem with thumbnails. It looks like app can't open images at all. Do you use sdcard for xml and images? Would you be willing to send me a sample of your catalog + some pictures to investigate further?