What's new in CLZ Movies Mobile?
New:
- More optimizations for down-syncing with CLZ Cloud
A little bit of fun news today: We were thrilled to hear CLZ Movies mentioned by actor and playwright Tracy Letts on the latest episode of Blank Check with Griffin & David called The Year of Living Dangerously with Tracy Letts.
Tracy talks about owning movies on disc, so it’s especially nice to hear that he uses CLZ Movies to keep his collection neatly organized!
Tip: You can listen to The Year of Living Dangerously with Tracy Letts right here.
Or check out Blank Check with Griffin & David on your favorite Podcast player app!
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!
- The syncing now down-syncs the *data* first, while queuing the *image* downloads. This will make the data sync super fast.
- Downloading the images is much quicker too, especially on fast connections, as it downloads multiple images at the same time.
- 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”.
The improvement in speed will be most noticeable when re-downloading your complete CLZ Cloud database, e.g.
- After installing the app on a new device
- After removing and re-installing the app
- After Clearing the Database
However, even during normal use, e.g. when syncing between devices, or between the app and the CLZ Web software, you will find the down-syncing to be much faster than before.
Fixed for Android:
- Pre-fill: Watched now has a “Watched/Not Watched” toggle
- Edit screen: New big blue “Mark as Watched” button on the Personal tab for unwatched movies
Fixed:
- Pre-fill: Watched now has a “Watched/Not Watched” toggle
- Edit: Personal: New big blue “Mark as Watched” button on the Personal tab for unwatched movies
- Edit: Links: Tapping next/previous movie while waiting for link description could crash the app
- Trailers weren’t downloaded for the separate entries when adding a box set
Fixed:
- Crash: When a movie couldn’t be located/selected on start-up or after editing the app could crash
- iPad: movies 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 couple of navigation issues
Fixed:
- The app crashed on Android 7 and lower
- Scroll position could be wrong when navigating through folders and lists
v10.2.3: (Android only) Smoother navigation between folders, movie list and movie details
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 movie list and movie 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 Movies 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:
- On your device, open the Play Store app.
- Search for “CLZ” and select the CLZ Movies app.
- Tap “Update” to update the app.
Fixed:
- When selecting movies in Card View the cards didn’t appear to be selected (with a blue color)
Fixed:
- Unrecognized barcode screen didn’t add the movie to your collection when scanned in 1-by-1 mode
Adding movies by scanning barcodes is one of the most popular features of the CLZ Movies app. Just scan barcodes, bleep, bleep, bleep, and the scanned movies are added to a “queue”. Then use the Add button at the bottom to add all queued movies 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.
New:
Fixed:
- Details: The data at the bottom could be hidden behind the navigation buttons
Fixed:
- Details: The data at the bottom could be hidden behind the navigation buttons
- Details: When disabling “Show Watched icon” it would still show in details
- Edit screen: For some fields the keyboard would appear over them
- Edit Screen: Edit box set popup didn’t save data correctly when opened from inside the Edit screen
- Watched date folders didn’t sort correctly
You may have already read about this when we introduced the eBay link in the CLZ Movies Web software, but… today we are introducing the same feature in the CLZ Movies mobile app:
the app now includes automatically generated eBay search links, that let you find eBay listings for that particular movie.
These eBay links can be useful to:
- easily get a feel for a movie’s value, by finding its’ Completed/Sold listings on eBay.
- easily find available copies on eBay (e.g. for your wish list items)
Fixed:
- Adding “Watched” to the Pre-fill popup crashed the app
Fixed for iOS:
- Edit: Keyboard was placed over the Box Set Notes field
- Details: Box Set Notes didn’t show correctly
- Details: Formats without an icon didn’t show correctly as text
- Sync: Box Set Purchase Date wasn’t syncing down correctly
New:
- Statistics: Now has a line showing the total purchase price of both movies and box sets together
Fixed for Android:
- Details: Dark Mode: Format icons didn’t show correctly
- Details: Formats without an icon didn’t show correctly as text
- Details: Links didn’t show when “Hide Trailers” was switched on
- Details: Box Set Notes didn’t show correctly
- List view: the Watched eye always showed as “not watched”
- Sync: Box Set Purchase Date wasn’t syncing down correctly
New:
- Statistics: Now has a line showing the total purchase price of both movies and box sets together
Most of the dev team (Pim, Bernard, Michiel and AJ) have been working on upcoming updates for CLZ Movies, both mobile and web.
And we can finally release both today.
Here’s what’s new for your CLZ Movies mobile app.
It started out as a relatively small update in which we would add some new fields (just like we did for the books and music apps recently). However, the update has grown into a huge major upgrade, with several big new features that have been on our “to do” list for many years.
- Editable episode lists for TV Series
- Watch history: track multiple watch dates for your movies
- Add your own YouTube trailer links
- Extra fields for Box Sets: Purchase Price/Date/Store and Notes
- A new “Features” fields, to track available features for DVD/BR/4K
- The HDR field now allows multiple values, e.g. HDR10 *and* Dolby Vision
Check out some screenshots below!
Fixed:
- Edit Movie: Main tab didn’t show any fields when using next/previous buttons
Most of the dev team (Pim, Bernard, Michiel and AJ) have been working on upcoming updates for CLZ Movies, both mobile and web.
It started out as a relatively small update in which we would add some new fields (just like we did for the books and music apps recently). However, the update has grown into a huge major upgrade, with several big new features that have been on our “to do” list for many years.
Check out the Sneak Preview of CLZ Movies Web below:
Editable episode lists for TV Series!
Add or edit episodes, set titles, episode numbers, runtimes, first airdates:
Separate episodes by moving them to other discs:
Add Discs to your movies, set their Title, Format and add Features
Watch history: track multiple watch dates
Add your own YouTube trailer links
Extra fields for Box Sets
Purchase Price, Date, Store and Notes:
HDR field will allow multiple values
E.g. HDR10 and Dolby Vision.
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