Database Develop

[App] Flix - It's like Cinemo but for the UK, France and Germany :)

*********************************************************
2009-07-13 PLEASE USE THE NEW MAIN THREAD FOR FLIX HERE!!!
Flix has been updated today to 1.0.7.0
*********************************************************
Hi all.
I've decided to upload the first public release of "Flix". It's a movie listings app i've written, inspired by Cinemo, but for a UK audience. Be gentle with the comments, as it's my first foray into the Compact Framework!
First off, the features:
- Yahoo based
- Search based on Postcode or town
- GPS "Where am I" lookup
- Google Maps link from Cinema Info screen
- Call cinema direct from the app.
- Movies list cast info, Synopsis, runtime, and (optionally) a poster if Yahoo has one.
There is a little more detail on my blog (along with instructions) as I've just added it on there too.
I'm contemplating changing from Yahoo as their postcode lookups seeem to be getting more vague by the day. My own (PE8) has yielded nothing for the past couple of days even though it did previously - so if you find nothing matches up, check the Yahoo page to see what it does at that end.
You'll need to have CF3.5 installed for Flix to work.
Anyway, I'm happy to hear of any comments you have - if you have problems then let me know and I will try and help of course, and suggestions are always welcome too. As ever, if you find it useful then please consider donating!
Thanks
****UPDATE 2009-06-28****
Flix has just been updated! Changes:
-Now supports France and Germany
-Google Maps loading should work if it's installed in non-std locations
-Where Am I function now uses online Geocoding to work in the new countries
-Some improvements to parsing behind the scenes
I do still plan to update it to work in North America, however the Yahoo page is quite different so it's more work. Lots of Euro countries use the same layout as the UK so it's pretty quick to adapt. Expect Spain and Italy next...
As ever, if you find this free app of use, a small donation is appreciated (link above!)

This works really well for me. Nice one!

hey
this works very well..
in fact you need to say that its for more than uk. I am in west of ireland and it picked up one cinema. So it works for me too. I would like it to pick up the other major cinema though but still its very good... well done

Hi jmbilings, nice to see this hitting the streets, Great job so far.
Working well on my Diamond.
Oh and why not in dev and hacking?

Hi James, put a heads up over in the diamond forum.

uniqueboy said:
Hi James, put a heads up over in the diamond forum.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ah, thanks for that... I guess I could have posted it somewhere more helpful in the first place of course!

hey thanks very much this app will make life a little easier for me im always at the movies

i am using a diamond and for some reason it doesn't pick up my postcode. i am EN2 and it only recognises E10?
anyone have any ideas

jonyid said:
i am using a diamond and for some reason it doesn't pick up my postcode. i am EN2 and it only recognises E10?
anyone have any ideas
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
same and im in N13, yet it still finds the nearest one (cineworld enfield)...
an idea: For future releases would it be possilble to have multiple cinemas saved, for example, it will find one near me, but not another near me, thus i have to go through the update process and lose the first cinemas results.
other than that, great app man, really useful

jonyid said:
i am using a diamond and for some reason it doesn't pick up my postcode. i am EN2 and it only recognises E10?
anyone have any ideas
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I think it is a problem on yahoos end, try going to their website and entering your postcode there and see what it returns, I seem to get better results if I configure flix using the name of my city rather than my postcode.

great app but unfortunately I'm in the usa, cinemo is alright but it feels like a first step and daniel gary is great for filling the gap in the app market with a needed app like this, but his is limited so far.
would it be very hard for you to tweek this a little to make it work in the states here. I really like your interface and features.
thanks

I installed this last night. What a great app! Works a treat. Many thanks for a very useful and easy to use application!!

Hi all - sorry i've not been back to check on this thread, I'm stupid busy at work and my home-time is currently spent sorting a website for a mate who was made redundant
Anyway - I still have plans for Flix ,including support for other countries. I didn't do the US out of the box because Cinemo existed, but if it's not too hard to add I will do, as it gives folk the choice.
Thanks to all who have tried it so far!

Problem with listing by cinema
First of all: great and very useful app.
One problem though: when I click on 'cinemas' and then 'Odeon Wimbledon' and then the clock icon for listings the software just crashes. Any idea why?
Thanks for looking into this issue, Alex.

alexnathan345 said:
First of all: great and very useful app.
One problem though: when I click on 'cinemas' and then 'Odeon Wimbledon' and then the clock icon for listings the software just crashes. Any idea why?
Thanks for looking into this issue, Alex.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hi Alex - i've not seen it crash at that point before! Can you let me know what location you entered so I can try and recreate the problem for myself?
Thanks!

jmbillings said:
Hi Alex - i've not seen it crash at that point before! Can you let me know what location you entered so I can try and recreate the problem for myself?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hi, I entered "SW19 2DX" as post code and it happened, but also when entering just "Wimbledon". I'm using this app on a HTC Touch HD by the way...
I also tried updating all data because I thought it might have been a problem with the data download - but unfortunately the crash still happens...

OK, i've just tested that here and it works fine.
I think it's not a data problem but something else.
What resolution is the HD offhand? There is a little bit of code that makes the button "bounce" bigger and smaller when tapped for UI feedback and I wonder if that does something odd on a different resolution... do you get any details of the actual error? (it may have a button at the bottom for more info; although you might need to install an extra .NET cab to give full details)
Have you tried going the other way as well? i.e. look up a movie and click the clock; does the same happen?
Cheers, and sorry you're having trouble!

jmbillings said:
OK, i've just tested that here and it works fine.
I think it's not a data problem but something else.
What resolution is the HD offhand? There is a little bit of code that makes the button "bounce" bigger and smaller when tapped for UI feedback and I wonder if that does something odd on a different resolution... do you get any details of the actual error? (it may have a button at the bottom for more info; although you might need to install an extra .NET cab to give full details)
Have you tried going the other way as well? i.e. look up a movie and click the clock; does the same happen?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks so much for looking into this for me. The Touch HD has a native resolution of 480x800 pixels. When I go to a movie and then click on the clock it shows the times at Odeon Wimbledon just fine.
And very interestingly it now WORKS via the cinema route as well - how odd is that? Maybe because 'Wimbledon' only uses 1 cinema, whereas the post code found quite a few?
I'm just trying the post code again just to be sure...downloading data as we speak...

That is odd; I used the postcode as you mentioned and I get several cinemas:
Cineworld Wandsworth
Odeon Streatham
Empire Sutton
Odeon Wimbledon
However they all list showtimes without problem...
If it still happens, see if you can get any details on the error, otherwise i'm a bit stumped!

All good now, data download finally finished (b****y GPRS here at work) and no crashes anymore...
Maybe me restarting the device in the morning helped.
Sorry for troubling you and thanks again for trying to help. Keep up the good work as this is a great app!!!

problem with wallpaper

hey everyone, i have a problem and its been bugging me.
When i change the wallpaper on my touch viva (running Evo.2) the wallpaper never fits the screen properly, i use the correct resolution but the wallpaper seems to be in something similar to "tile" mode on pc, what would be the bottom of the picture ends up in the middle.
i use the correct resolution of 320*240.
thanks guys.

shafiq265 said:
hey everyone, i have a problem and its been bugging me.
When i change the wallpaper on my touch viva (running Evo.2) the wallpaper never fits the screen properly, i use the correct resolution but the wallpaper seems to be in something similar to "tile" mode on pc, what would be the bottom of the picture ends up in the middle.
i use the correct resolution of 320*240.
thanks guys.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The wallpaper your are using, did you put into your phone through an activesynce Connection?

i use resco photo manager to setup wallpaper
u can find it useful im sure

shaffaf said:
u can find it useful im sure
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You have to remember that this isn't a Free App.

Try using the A_C S2V program, it's a freeware.. Give it a try.
If it doesn't work for you, I suggest taking this problem to the Evo2 thread and ask the author about it.
Good luck.

GFX said:
Try using the A_C S2V program, it's a freeware.. Give it a try.
If it doesn't work for you, I suggest taking this problem to the Evo2 thread and ask the author about it.
Good luck.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Haha I forgot about this...Yeah this is a good recommend Freeware App
Link

Add Cities to HTC Weather Widget

Hi Everyone, SuperSport here;
Unfortunately, I don't know how to write software, so I'm posting a Semi-Auto/Manual way of adding cities to HTC Sense Weather Widget. This works in cmylxgo's NAND build 1.4 (My Favorite Build and Favorite Chef), so I'm not sure what other builds it works in. I'm guessing any Android Build that stores the Weather DB in /data/data/com.htc.provider.weather/files/WP_0409WWE.db
The Video Below will show you exactly how it works and the Attached ZIP file includes Everything you will need. It really should only take a couple minutes, even for beginners that don't know how to do this stuff, but please use at your own risk. If it does not work on your build, I apologize in advance. I will recommend you backup your build BEFORE trying this, just in case you need to re-flash.
After the video starts to play, you can click it again to open it on the YouTube site where you can see it in Fullscreen 720p HD.
Included in the zip file is SQLite Database Browser from THIS page. I just wanted to be sure that tabuleiro gets credit for his/her work.

Great tutorial and bat script, I got my hometown cities detected now and you made it really simple!
Thanks!

iwin2000 said:
Great tutorial and bat script, I got my hometown cities detected now and you made it really simple!
Thanks!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thank you for the reply. I was hoping to hear it worked for someone else. Glad it helped!

Very easy and works great. Thank you.

Great video. Very easy process. It was very exciting to see my city when I searched for it within the app. Thanks for doing this!

cmrobinson19 said:
Great video. Very easy process. It was very exciting to see my city when I searched for it within the app. Thanks for doing this!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No problem, I'm glad it's still helping someone.

Excellent! Just ran this on my rooted stock Thunderbolt & it worked like a charm -- I also noticed that there is a SQL Lite app available for $3 so I suppose you could do this entirely on the phone with it -- but no need, this method is simple, quick & functional -- many thanks!

[Q] help me plllz

i had sgs and rom miui i want to change shown icon and more way effect station in page i want help in this problem i search in every where to find some thing or app to help me but i dont find any thing can any one help me pleas

Theres an app called Themes for that. you just navigate and download the theme then click apply, no rocket science.
I don't have that app, well, you better get it googlin' around or reflash MIUI...
This question can be solved searching the forum (yellow magnif glass, top right corner, you see it?)
Doing so you can save a some bytes in the xda servers, saving threes and all that stuff. I already killed some by answering you.
(I also don't like your username... its like emo, but... whatevs.)

ohhh u should respect the fourm ruls don't get so angry he had only ask a quistion and he need help could u be helpfull for 1 time on whole ur live ^___^ hope u learn

Hi Guys,
Im using MIUI (excatly now MIUI Mint Berry 1.10.28) and i would like to use pattern screen unlock security, but it doesnt work. :/ Every time when i set a pattern variation and unlock the screen, my phone lost this setting. I mean the pattern unlock appear once and after that i have to set it again.
And this problem also was in another MIUI roms.
Thanks Ur helps and sorry for my english

[Q] Bad textures

Hi guys.
I've noticed that practicaly every custom rom based on stock have problem with textures in topbar.
Yes, I know that 99% people don't see any problem, but I see them every time I take the phone in hands.
See this two screenshots.
Problems:
Background under career name (Image: public.egerev.me/1.png)
Background in the center of topbar (look at the location icon) (Image: public.egerev.me/2.png)
How to fix it?

it's not really a "problem" as all ROMS are based off of the stock ROM and so it's HTC's fault and therefore doesn't need fixing, nor do I know if this can even be changed.
Actually it can be fixed by someone who is good at themes but I'm not sure if anyone is going to put forth the effort.

EmSeeMAC said:
it's not really a "problem" as all ROMS are based off of the stock ROM and so it's HTC's fault and therefore doesn't need fixing, nor do I know if this can even be changed.
Actually it can be fixed by someone who is good at themes but I'm not sure if anyone is going to put forth the effort.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
But in official rom everything is ok. Problem appears only in ROM's with modded UI.
UPD: Original ROM bottom bar: public.egerev.me/3.png

Dmit3Y said:
But in official rom everything is ok. Problem appears only in ROM's with modded UI.
UPD: Original ROM bottom bar: public.egerev.me/3.png
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I see. Good luck finding a fix for that because I've no idea how to go about this.

Invite Bad Boyz Sprint ONE ROMz and Rage One developers to thread.
May be others too. But I've tested both ROM's and noticed this problem. (Couldn't reply in their threads because of restrictions)