Share My Creation Torrent Alarm

Hello

i just uploaded my first program in the Android market
It's called Torrent alarm.
Basically you add alarms in the program that contain keywords.
My server searches the torrent sites and when a new torrent is found
,that match your keywords ,you get a notification via google C2DM.

market link:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.torrentalarm.client

Any ideas and suggestions and criticism are welcome :)

Thank you
 

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Inman

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Sounds like a great app for torrent downloaders.

One doubt though. You said the app uses Google C2DM to deliver push notifications. I believe C2DM works only on devices running Android 2.2 and above. Yet, based on your Android Market listing, the app supports Android 1.6 and up. Do you have any alternate mechanism to deliver notifications for devices running Android versions under 2.2?
 
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This looks like a very good idea to me.
What happens with the .torrent files? Does it save it to the sdcard?
Is it possible to email the torrent files or upload them to dropbox (so that utorrent can kick off automatic downloads)...okay i am getting a bit ahead of myself, but its looking like a good idea.

One UI improvement: The Alarms list contains the white dividing lines. On my SGS the bottom divider is very large.

Also how does it work? I havent received a notification yet.
 
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aggelos

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Hello

@inman yes C2DM is for android 2.2.if the user is running 2.1 or lower he cannot
receive notifications.But if he open the app he will see the torrents found
in the list.
Everything works for 2.1 and lower except the notifications.
i check the android version when he click the enable button and if he has 2.1 and lower i explain to him this limitation

@thedesolatesoul
i do not save torrent files or cache them.
i only keep link to the torrent page and the torrent files in my DB.
i thought the user would like to check the page for seeders,comments and to
see if the torrent is not fake.

next version will add "send the results to my email"
and the version after will add subtitle alarms
i am already in the process or speaking with some sites that have subtitles.

notifications come only for new torrents.
one alarm is one torrent searching
try to add hdtv to an alarm.or mp3 or dvd and prepare for a lot of notifications :)

i currently scan over 8.000 torrents per day

thank you!
 
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aggelos said:
notifications come only for new torrents.
one alarm is one torrent searching
try to add hdtv to an alarm.or mp3 or dvd and prepare for a lot of notifications :)

i currently scan over 8.000 torrents per day
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i put linux as a keyword at tpb and received no notifications.
Then i put dvdrip as an alarm at kat.ph and received only 3 notifications.

So how long does it take to get the notifications? Is there a script in your website that scans for the torrents?
I mean, you could potentially just run a query on kat.ph?search=dvd
to get the results immediately instead of the delay.

Anyways, nice work!
 
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aggelos

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There is a script that runs every 10 mins
i did some tests initially and i thought "send notifications every 10 mins" is a good idea.

server scans for new torrents every 10 mins and tries to match them with the user alarms.if he finds anything it sends a notification.

The notification has the concept of "something new is found".
so if at that 10 mins we find 1 or 1000 torrents you get only 1 notification.
it's not practical to send as many notifications as the torrents found.
also that would be annoying for the user.

also remember that you get notifications for the new torrents.
not the old ones.

i am waiting for ghost protocol to be released.so i setup and alarm
keyword 1 ghost
keyword 2 protocol
keyword 3 dvdrip

when the day comes and the movie is out,i don't think 10 mins will matter

thank you for your ideas! always welcome! ;)
 
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ah...yes...this is so cool :)
since nothing is running on the phone, no power consumption!
although i do think 10 minutes is too frequent...i would probably do once a day, but maybe you can set the frequency in the app

i have a few ideas how you can maybe create a desktop app as well and maybe automate the file download (but i know you said you want to confirm with comments and whether it is fake etc)
 
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