Unfortunately the last DroidCatcher release, while fixing a few issues, introduced a major bug. The player screen would occasionally freeze up, forcing users to take drastic actions to reset the app. I’ve spent the last two days fixing this and a few other obscure bugs. I’m also proud to say that I’ve also got the Alex Jones
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In a prior release I modified the service code in an attempt to make the applications more battery friendly, but I inadvertently changed the way playback state was persisted to the disk. This was a major bug, that resulted in the playstate not being saved at the appropriate times, so when you restarted a podcast,
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I’m preparing the next release of DroidCatcher, and if you’re running the most recent version of Survive you’re getting a sneak peek at it. It’s primarily a bug fix release, but I did manage to reduce the install size greatly. By converting all the background images from PNG to JPG, the app sizes shrunk
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Every now and then I get a nasty review or email citing the permissions of one of the DroidCatcher branded apps. I thought it would be worth some time to go through each of them ( currently 8 ) and explain a little about why each is needed. android.permission.INTERNET – This should be obvious, but
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Two more releases, bringing both apps up to date on the latest DroidCatcher platform. Starcast 1.19 && Survive 1.31 Seek Button Improvements : tapping the seek buttons will now instant skip 30 seconds, long press behavior remains the same. Background Service Improvements : The background services should now shut themselves down after idling for a small amount of
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The Alex Jones RSS feed is currently broken! If you visit the itunes podcast page you’ll see the dates are all set to the current date : Because of this, I had to cobble together a workaround and release it with very little testing! Look for version 1.16 on Google play. I’m hoping that the
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