I released 1.5.4 this weekend. It’s mostly a maintenance update that corrected an fc when the “opening torrent” dialog was canceled and a fix for calculating the number of pieces on large torrents. I also had to do some version number shuffling to correct some devices getting the wrong versions of the apk.
A few users reported force closes yesterday, even after the 1.5.2 update. It turns out that there was a bug in displaying torrent errors that caused the UI to crash. I fixed the issue and published version 1.5.3 last night.
I released v1.5.1 yesterday, which was somehow corrupted in the process. After being contacted by users, I re-uploaded the app with the new version number of 1.5.2 and all was well again. Thanks to Robert and Scott for making sure the new update worked properly.
The update contains some fixes for magnets and processing content:// uris passed by the downloads app.
I released Swarm 1.5 last night across all supported platforms (Android 1.6+, phones, tablets, and gtv) The update brings some visual changes: a slide out menu, a more android 4.2 styled “action bar”. It also has a lot of changes in peer cacheing, incoming connection handling, and a ton of small tweaks almost everywhere in the app. As usual, send me any comments/concerns or reply below.
I released Swarm 1.4 on Saturday evening. The release included retooled peer communication code, several optimizations to increase download speeds, and a updated UI. The update spans all devices and TVs that were previously supported. As always, if you have any issues or find any bugs, let me know.
-Matt
Hello All,
It’s been some time since my last post. A lot of stuff outside of swarm development has been going on including my return to college and my wedding. During the down time I hadn’t entirely abandoned work and have just released Swarm v1.3.12 which brings native i/o operations that allow for files > 2GB to be downloaded on devices with Android < 3.0 that run arm or x86 processors. Also I’ve added a few things like a clear cache button in the settings and pushed several bugfixes.
-Matt
The last few releases of Swarm have basically been maintenance, no huge feature additions. I keep tweaking piece gathering and optimizing to remove lag and other nasties like screen lock sleep of death (when you hit the power button, but the screen doesn’t come back for a few seconds,) fixing up the media notifications (to get downloaded audio/video/etc in their respective apps after download,) tweaking dht communications, etc, etc. I am also working on magnet link support (pouring over the specs trying to properly implement extended features needed to implement it.) I wanted to get magnet support out faster but there are still a few things holding it up that I’m working out. That’s about it for now. Thanks for reading/using swarm.
I released Swarm 1.3.5 this week which brings the following stuff:
As always, comment here or use the email developer button in the market to let me know if you have any issues.
The next version of swarm will support Tor by means of an app available in the Android market called Orbot. Orbot creates a local proxy on your device which tunnels traffic through many nodes (other computers) to make web traffic more private and less traceable. If your device is already rooted, you can route your bittorrent traffic through the Tor network using only Orbot. After the 1.4 release of Swarm, even unrooted users will be able to take advantage of Tor.
I’ll let post more on features of version 1.4 of swarm soon!
I just pushed a new version with a bugfix that would cause the service to restart trying to run the media scanner after a single file torrent was downloaded. The error did not have an effect on the actual downloads but would cause the background service to cycle. It’s now working properly.
