What's new in CLZ Games Mobile?

Fixed:

• Sync with CLZ Cloud: Updates: Custom covers did not download correctly
• Details view not fully visible in some cases
• “Downloading images” bar could appear when nothing was downloading

Fixed:

• Further tweaks to the down-syncing from CLZ Cloud
• Add, Edit and Action buttons could sometimes not be used if images were still downloading in the background

New:

• More optimizations for down-syncing with CLZ Cloud

A handy update for CLZ Games! YouTube trailers for games typically come straight from our Core database, but now you can replace the standard Core YouTube trailer with a trailer of your own choice, or add one if we Core didn’t provide one.

Just paste any YouTube URL into your the YouTube trailer link section (Edit Game, then go to the Links tab) and CLZ Gamesautomatically grabs the thumbnail image and video description for you.

Add as many as you like per game, then drag them into your preferred order.

Fixed:

• Sync: Custom covers weren’t downloaded

No new features here, but an important improvement to an existing one: the CLZ Cloud syncing. Our mobile developers Pim and Bernard have implemented three changes that will make the down-syncing of new items from the CLZ Cloud to your app a LOT faster!

1. The syncing now down-syncs the *data* first, while queuing the *image* downloads. This will make the data sync super fast.
2. Downloading the images is much quicker too, especially on fast connections, as it downloads multiple images at the same time.
3. As soon as the data download has completed, you can close the Sync screen and start using the app. The image downloads will continue at the bottom of the main screen, prioritising images that are “in view”.

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Fixed:

• Edit Game: Links tab: Tapping next/previous game when waiting for link description could crash the app
• iPad: Edit Game: Tab titles weren’t always shown in full

Fixed:

• Crash: When a game couldn’t be located/selected on start-up or after editing the app could crash
• iPad: games sometimes wouldn’t be scrolled to after picking it from a search in your own collection
• Collection bar at the bottom could disappear on closing the sync screen
• Collection bar didn’t appear immediately when adding a new collection for the first time

Fixed for iOS:

• The scroll position in the list could be wrong after searching in own collection and tapping a result from the suggestions
• Images view: Pinch to zoom in images view was broken
• Edit screen: tapping “next” or “previous” on the Links tab would crash the app

Fixed for Android:

• Scrolling lists / tapping buttons / selecting items in a list / removing items could suddenly stop working
• Covers stayed zoomed in if you navigated out of an item and into another
• Edit screen: Taking a picture for your cover could sometimes remove all other information from that item
• Selecting: Tapping “Select All” in didn’t show items being selected in images view

Fixed:

• A crash could occur in the Add screen

Fixed:

• A couple of navigation issues

Fixed:

• The app crashed on Android 7 and lower
• Scroll position could be wrong when navigating through folders and lists

This one is for the Android users!

Our Android developer Pim was working on the app’s main screen and he saw some opportunities for improvement. Mainly to reduce slowness and stuttery behaviour when navigating back and forth between the folder list, the game list and game details page.
So instead of starting on the next new feature, we gave him a few days to refactor the code and improve existing functionality.

The result of Pim’s work is live now, in version 10.2.3 of the CLZ Games app.
We have been testing the new update quite a bit and we think it feels a lot snappier and smoother, especially noticeable on larger collections.

We hope you will notice the improvements too and that it will make you enjoy the app even more!

How to update your app to the new version:

1. On your device, open the Play Store app.
2. Search for “CLZ” and select the CLZ Games app.
3. Tap “Update” to update the app.

Fixed:

• On iPad devices the add screen would crash upon opening

Adding games by scanning barcodes is one of the most popular features of the CLZ Games app. Just scan barcodes, bleep, bleep, bleep, and the scanned games are added to a “queue”. Then use the Add button at the bottom to add all queued games to your database in one go. Quick and efficient.

However, we always like to keep improving the app, or at least give users multiple options. So today we have added a new “One-by-One” mode to the Add by Barcode screen, that is, without a queue.

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Fixed:

• The app could crash on startup

You may have already read about this when we introduced the eBay link in the CLZ Games Web software, but… today we are introducing the same feature in the CLZ Games mobile app:
the app now includes automatically generated eBay search links, that let you find eBay listings for that particular game.

These eBay links can be useful to:

• easily get a feel for a game’s value, by finding its’ Completed/Sold listings on eBay.
• easily find available copies on eBay (e.g. for your wish list items)

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Various fixes and improvements

Improved:

• More robust image downloading during downsync: failed image downloads will now retry automatically

Fixed:

• Barcode scanner would sometimes stop picking up barcodes until you exited and re-opened the Add screen
• Going back from a details page to the images view sometimes jumped frantically to the top
• Update Values now also works for unlinked games that do have a PriceCharting ID filled in

New:

• New sort options for Toys: When browsing your list of toys, tap the AZ button top right to select one of these 3 new sorting options:
  • Toy Type, then Title
  • Toy Type, then Subtype, then Title
  • Toy Type, then Series, then Title
• Sort order is now remembered per collection type (games, hardware or toys)
• A small text link to “Add Manually” has been added on the Title tab in the Add Games / Add Hardware screens
• Add Hardware Manually is now accessible again for “grandfathered” users. Just choose Add Hardware from the menu

Fixed:

• Completeness field was not set correctly when adding/editing items
• Toys: barcodes with multiple results didn’t work
• Updated messaging/wording
• Toys: Updated Values screen didn’t show the “total” (iOS only)

It’s live, CLZ Games v10.0! You can now finally use the app to catalog your Toys-to-Life figures! The app comes with full support for:

• amiibo
• Skylanders
• Disney Infinity
• Lego Dimensions
• Starlink
• Rumble U
• UB Funkeys

This has been quite a project. First, our content team has worked for many months to create our own Toys-to-Life database in Core, including images of both the loose figures and the boxes. Nicely grouped into series for easy cataloging and browsing. When that Core database was close to completion, the development team started on the online search engine, the Web software and the mobile apps. And today, we can finally release the big new updates and show it to you all!

If you are into amiibo figures, or Skylanders or any other toy type, I am sure you will love this update.

Here’s what’s new:

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Coming up soon: CLZ Games 10.0, with support for cataloging amiibo, Skylanders, Disney Infinity, etc…

For amiibo (and possibly Skylanders on Android only), we are introducing a super cool new way to add your figures:
Just scan their NFC with your phone!

Check out the Sneak Preview video below:

As announced earlier, a big update is coming for both the mobile and web editions of CLZ Games, in which we will introduce the ability to catalog your “toys to life” figures. That is:

• amiibo
• Skylanders
• Disney Infinity
• Lego Dimensions
• Starlink
• Rumble U
• UB Funkeys

Today, we can finally show you the first sneak preview screenshots of the CLZ Games 10.0 mobile app!

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