[Android Apps and Games] muspel:
Feedback

Hey,

I wanted to say this app is really cool, has a great concept and I really like it, but there's also still a bit to be done in the android app

and I thought I'd drop by for some feedback. I'll probably get the paid version some time in the future, but those are some points I'd love to see fixed first.

- video player

Playing videos itself works well enough and I was actually surprised there's even subtitle support. A problem here though is how subtitles that are too long will just get cut off instead of breaking into multiple lines.

Now the biggest problem I have is how the video player interface is buggy as hell. I hope I'll be able to describe this well enough..

Whenever you bring up the UI by tapping the screen, it'll hide again after a few seconds, seemingly unaffacted by the fact I'm using it at the moment. This'll mostly happen when setting volume using the interface (granted, I don't do that a whole lot) and especially when trying to skip in the video file. Which already brings us to the next point.. trying to get to a specific point in the video is almost impossible. One factor is of course the fact the ui hides while you're trying to find the right point, but the progress bar also jumps around pretty weirdly on it's own.

- Unicode support

The video player already does this well enough when streaming, so no problems here, but the music player and image viewer both can't handle files with non-ascii characters in file / path names.

Trying to download these files also breaks silently, including videos. I'd really love to have this fixed.

- User interface

The overall interface is good enough and works well for this app, no huge problems here. The problems I have concern details and consistency.

Whenever I use long press on a file there's a toast telling me I can also tap the icon. Firstly, this is extremely annoying, especially since on smaller screens or in landscape the toast will oftentimes hide the menu entry I was going to use, making me wait until it's gone. Showing this toast the first time would be ok I guess, but on the other hand a lot of non tech savvy (or android poweruser?) people I know would rather need to be told there's a context menu in the first place instead.

Next, I go to my downloaded videos and try tapping the icon the way I just learned but it turns out NOW I have to use the context menu to delete a file, because it'll just start playing when I tap the icon.

Same with editing a server on the start screen, or other types of list entries that don't have context menus at all like folders.

Of course, after using the app a bit you can get used to this, but it would be a lot better to make this more consistent by showing the user when a menu is available or not and always make both ways work if there is.

Also, one more small thing: when scrolling down some way in a folder and going to the next it seems like the scroll position is being "kept", meaning I'll also be some way down in the new folder instead of at the top as expected.

For reference, I ran this app on ICS 4.0.4 on a samsung galaxy s2, and on ICS 4.2 on a nexus4

I know those were a whole lot of complaints and I'm aware how especially the UI impressions might just be some personal opinion, but the bugs really are points that I wouldn't want to seee in a paid app.

Before winding up, I saw a feature request for "recent folders", in the support forums, something like that (or maybe just plain bookmarks) would be cool.

Thanks for listening, thanks for making a great app and thanks for hopefully keeping on polishing it!