Pocket AMC Reader for Android 2.3.2 available [29.9.2020]

[elman]

You can try to clean project (Build -> Clean Project) and then rebuild (Build -> Rebuild Project). If it doesn't work PM me screenshot of the error and I will check it out.

[sts85]

Hi Elman,

About the V 2.0 beta 1 version:

When you do a title search (icon with the magnifying glass), the result is hidden by the keyboard. No way to remove it.

With the filter function it does not do so, the keyboard is removed well.

@ Ant316
When can we have customised colors?

[Ant316]

Hi Elman,

About the V 2.0 beta 1 version:

When you do a title search (icon with the magnifying glass), the result is hidden by the keyboard. No way to remove it. fire

With the filter function it does not do so, the keyboard is removed well.

@ Ant316
When can we have customised colors? grin kind

Hi Sts85

You can easily use the arrow buttom on most devices to hide the device keyboards so that the resuts list is fully viewable. Im not sure when Colors will be available as elman is still working on some tidying up finishes touches for the app so I would say after that maybe the color themes may be the next stage.

[sts85]

@ant316

Thank you that works with the Back button of Android device.
I don't use often that touch because you risk going out the application.

Whith the old version when you touch enter touch of the keyboard, the key board disappear like in the filter option.

I love you customised colors.

[Ant316]

@ant316

Thank you that works with the Back button of Android device. grin kind
I don't use often that touch because you risk going out the application.

Whith the old version when you touch enter touch of the keyboard, the key board disappear like in the filter option.

I love you customised colors.

Thanks sts85, I use them for myself and members of my family who are movie collectors so we ll have a peronsilsed version of the app each with a fav color. It means we can also runn different version on the same device loaded with each others Collection so when buying pressies ect it limits the chances of buying something they already own. Elman has done a great job with this app and its a brillant side project from the main Ant Movie Cat software.

[elman]

As Ant316 says, you can easily use the arrow buttom on most devices to hide the device keyboards so that the resuts list is fully viewable.

I don't so anything special with that window, so it's all Android. But I will try to something about it.

As for color themes, I will not implement then in upcoming version. You will have to wait for version 2.1.

[mariareese]

App is fair enough but make it more light as possible ..

[Ant316]

App is fair enough but make it more light as possible .. grin

I dont think it can be made any more lightweight than what it is to be honest is pretty much fantastic in terms of apk size fr what it does

[elman]

App is fair enough but make it more light as possible ..

What do you mean by "more light"?

[elman]

New version is almost ready. All that remains to do is update documentation and make code compliant with GPLv3. So it means the app is feature complete and I have started beta testing program at Google Play so that you can try it.

If you are interested in testing new version, you can do so by joining beta testing at https://play.google.com/apps/testing/co ... tamcreader .

If you have any older alpha/beta version installed, uninstall it first.

And report any bugs you might find

[Altober]

Hi elman!

Thank you for Pocket AMC Reader!
It is very useful for me, I am an old user of AMC PC version.
First of all, for users who complain about the update system ...
It is not necessary to "Save As/XML FIle" the complete XML file, just need to select the new movies, and EXPORT in XML format, then open this XML with a good text edit, select and copy the new movies to the clipboard.
Then now open the old XML (the one that contains all the movies), and edit it with a program like Ultraedit (a good text editor is needed, to avoid memory problems), and now paste the new movies at the end of the file.
Finally save the file, and copy the edited XML to their smartphones.
Now, it only remains to copy the jpg files of the new movies.
Ready! This way of working avoid the "Save As" that takes a lot of time.

Now a bug report for elman :-)
The only problem that I detected is that absolutely all the films appear to me as "Watched", and I have only seen 30% of my 3200+ movies.

POcket AMC Reader considers "Watched" my "Unticked" movies.
Pocket AMC Reader really considers ALL my movies "Watched".
My "Ticked" movies, and my "Unticked" too.
That is obviously an error (bug).

Is it possible to solve that?
Many thanks!

On Google Play I rated your application with 5 stars, my name is Alberto Fernández

[elman]

It is not necessary to "Save As/XML FIle" the complete XML file, just need to select the new movies, and EXPORT in XML format, then open this XML with a good text edit, select and copy the new movies to the clipboard.

Or another good way is to simply use XML as default format. In that case all images will be stored as separate files and you can use syncing app to transfer new/changed files to your phone. You can use cloud like Nextcloud or you can use Syncthing for wifi sync. Just make sure that files on your phone are located where the app can read them.

POcket AMC Reader considers "Watched" my "Unticked" movies.
Pocket AMC Reader really considers ALL my movies "Watched".
My "Ticked" movies, and my "Unticked" too.
That is obviously an error (bug).

This indeed looks like a bug, but I have not been able to reproduce it. Do you use AMC in different language than English? Could you provide a sample of your database. Just couple of movies, some checked and some unchecked. Thanks.

Elman

[fulvio53s03]

Thank you for your astonishing work!
I would like to use your app in my smartphone to catalog music or books but, obviousely, it should be necessary to change descriptions of fields showed.
An example: I would like to show "traduzione di" instead of "Director" and so on.
Is it possible?
How can i do?
Thanks!!!!

[elman]

I would like to use your app in my smartphone to catalog music or books but, obviousely, it should be necessary to change descriptions of fields showed.
An example: I would like to show "traduzione di" instead of "Director" and so on.
Is it possible?

Hi. Yes, it is possible if you build your own app. All text resources are located in /src/main/res/values/. There you have file strings_all_locales.xml which contains resources common to all languages and file strings.xml which contains English language. If you wish to change different language (e.g. French), then go to folder /src/main/res/values-fr/ where you will find strings.xml containing French translation. Android Studio will help you with translations.

Also I would recommend to change package from com.holdingscythe.pocketamcreader to something else so that both apps can be used on one phone.

Elman

[sts85]

Hi Elman,

I was with the V 2.0 beta 1 version and in Google Play no Update for this apk...

I have downloaded the V 2.2 signed, uninstall V 2.0 beta and install V 2.2 signed.

Very good job Elman.

Thank You

[cheezburger]

hello guys,
it's some years that i use AMC and i found today this app to open xml AMC archives within android.

I have a problem: the problem is that i putted my xml archive on Google Drive, and with Google Drive (on Android 10) there's no way to easily send the xml file to Pocket AMC Reader: Google Drive opens it as text file.
So i must download the file, then open Pocket AMC Reader and select the file within the app. It's a little clunky.

I think that Pocket AMC Reader, during install, should tell to android that he can open xml files, so maybe when someone taps on a xml file, android could ask to open it as document or as AMC archive, and the user selects.

But the real deal IMHO is that the AMC XML archive should have another dedicated extension, as AMCXML or idk, AXML...

(I'm a .net/php/java programmer, just to make you know that i understand technical stuff)

[elman]

Hi,

thanks for your ideas.

I think that Pocket AMC Reader, during install, should tell to android that he can open xml files, so maybe when someone taps on a xml file, android could ask to open it as document or as AMC archive, and the user selects.

I'm not sure that this is the best solution. Pocket AMC Reader is not generic XML viewer so it should not be associated with .xml extension. I do agree that custom extension would be better in this situation, but then again it is an XML file so should be treated as such.

I already have request to read XML file from Google Drive, but I don't use it so development would be somehow cumbersome. But since you are Java developer, you are more than welcome to make pull request

Elman

[xlv600]

Hi,
I wonder what I should use as a file path to run a movie with Pocket AMC Reader 2.3.3 when my movies are located on a Samba share ?
I'm running Pocket AMC Reader on a rooted HTC10 with Android 8.0 and VLC3.5.1 is my media player. I can play the movies located on the the Samba volume with VLC, and looking into /data/data/org.videolan.vlc/app_db/vlc_media.db , where playlist and history are saved, I found that in that case, VLC uses this syntax :
smb://MyDevice/MyVolume/MyPath/MyMovie.mkv
where "MyDevice" is it's mDNS designation. I suppose that using it's IP address would work the same, and even faster.

In the XML Catalog I tried several protocols but nothing seems to work...

• file://MyDevice/MyVolume/MyPath/MyMovie.mkv

• smb://MyDevice/MyVolume/MyPath/MyMovie.mkv

• ///LAN/MyDevice/MyVolume/MyPath/MyMovie.mkv

• //MyDevice/MyVolume/MyPath/MyMovie.mkv

Maybe the issue is due to the fact that nor VLC nor AMC knows the samba credentials (ID+PW) for the device. At first, I usually establish a communication with the samba device using TotalCommander and it's LAN plugin that retain the credentials and VLC can browse the samba volume by it's own.

I face the same issue on windows with AMC

Any clue?

[xlv600]

Finally I made some other tests and file://MyDevice/MyVolume/MyPath/MyMovie.mkv in the file path field works with AMC on windows when using the HTML viewer [F12]. It's just a feature I was not using till now