[Announce] AlloCine unofficial application for MeeGo Harmattan
 

Important information

I am currently in discussion with AlloCine to see how an official release of this app could be achieved (maybe tuned/modified a little to match the brand guidelines). Of course I cannot commit to anything at the moment.

During the time of this discussion, I will not keep the current app available as a download. I hope you understand that and I will of course let you know what are the outcomes of this discussion.

Application Details

The goal of this application for MeeGo Harmattan is to access to popular french website AlloCine with a native application. It is somewhat comparable in functionnalities to Android or iPhone official applications. Unfortunately, there is no official application for MeeGo Harmattan, so I chose to develop one.

Note that this is not an official application, and we are in no way related to AlloCine company.

Application will support other websites from AlloCine group which share the same API.

• 0.9.4: AlloCiné
• 0.9.5: Screenrush

Functionnalities:

Look for a theater
Find a theater nearby
Show theaters on a map
Find showtimes for a given theater
Look for a movie
Watch trailers for a movie
Casting details for a movie
Person details
Filmography of a person
Look for a person
Share a movie or a person (via sms, twitter, email, ...)
Look for incoming movies
Read reviews

Screenshots:

http://tigre-bleu.github.com/allocin...ns/tn/main.png http://tigre-bleu.github.com/allocin...ens/tn/map.png http://tigre-bleu.github.com/allocin...s/tn/movie.png

Download

The application is not yet released on Nokia Store. In the meantime, you can get the code from Github or download the attached following package.

License

Source code is released under BSD-2 license.

Report a bug

The project uses GitHub bug tracking system

Project homepage

The homepage is hosted on GitHub but due to some stupid rules, as a new member I'm not allowed to put a link on my post, so I will try to add it as a comment...

Roadmap

We plan first to get a stable version with the current perimeter. Then we will port the application for Symbian, which should not be too painfull because it is almost only QML.

In a second time, we will cover the complete AlloCine API.

Updates
Version 0.9.5

• Add basic support for english translation and Screenrush english service in replacement of AlloCine french service. I believe this may help the non french speakers testers for the Maemo.org coding competition.

Version 0.9.6

• Correct english translation that was not working on 0.9.5

Version 0.9.7

• Add press and public review page
• New global search functionnality (flick down the main page to make search field appear)

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Project webpage: http://tigre-bleu.github.com/allocine-harmattan/

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Nickel!

http://tigre-bleu.github.com/allocine-harmattan/

Re: [Announce] AlloCine unofficial application for MeeGo Harmattan
 

super! this is one of the apps i've been missing on the N9!
i will have a look on it and share my feedback.
merci!

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Elle est vraiment superbe, j'ai pas eu le temps d'observer le code mais c'est exactement le genre d'application qui me plait à développer, en plus vous respectez les couleurs d'allociné... Bref, vraiment bien faite :)

BTW, is it your first qml app ?

Re: [Announce] AlloCine unofficial application for MeeGo Harmattan
 

Thanks.

Yes this is my first QML app - even my first mobile app. Not exactly a small project to start learning but I really wanted an AlloCine app so just had to start coding it :-)

By the way, I find QML very simple and interesting!

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nice app ...the precious is still alive ^^

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Merci ;) ...

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I'll post an article soon at nokians.fr ...thanks for your great job and keep it up for the happiness of the french community and more ;)

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Any intentions of sending it on apps.formeego ? Would facilitate distribution of the app.

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Hey, such great App indeed! Congrats!

But just to let you know that Allociné is not a French service only: The UK version can be found here : http://www.screenrush.co.uk/ or the german here http://www.filmstarts.de/ for example as also present in Spain, Russia, China, Turkey and Brazil under different names. Should you offer traductions of your app via Transifex?

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First priority is to put it on Nokia Store. When it will be done, then why not. I will check how to publish it on app.formeego.

Re: [Announce] AlloCine unofficial application for MeeGo Harmattan
 

Thanks for the tip, I didn't know that. I will check if the API is similar. If it is the case then sure I will consider traductions!

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I would be interested if you success to get a valid api key for maps...

I tried to publish an app on the store with maps plugin, but seems that there's a bug with the map api... :/ So nokia doesn't want to valid it.. :/

Exactly, the problem described here : https://bugreports.qt-project.org/br...TMOBILITY-1922

BTW, you fragmented your code quite well ! :)

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I checked and indeed it is the same API.

I quickly coded some english translations in version 0.9.5. From the main page, we can switch between AlloCine french service and Screenrush english service. (Download in first post)

I am not very happy about how it is integrated at the moment but I will figure a clean solution later. In the meantime I think it is good for non french speakers to have an english version for the maemo.org coding competition review. (submitted version is 0.9.4 but same funcionalities as 0.9.5 - only language translation added)

As my N9 is in french and I do not really want to change it to english, I couldn't test the correct translation. If anyone could confirm to me if it works or not, that would be good, thanks!

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Mmm, I'll let you know about the map thing.

I just received today a Nokia Store rejection because there is a suspected IPR violation on the AlloCiné logo. I don't really know how to handle that because of course it is the AlloCine logo but that would be even worse not to quote AlloCine at all and use their API...

Maybe I should try to reach AlloCine and ask for an official persmission but I'm not sure about their reaction...

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Tigre-Bleu, great job on that application :) !!!!

I would love coding to bring some great applications like you've done ... I really need to put my hand in.

Bien joué :)

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Just updated version 0.9.6 because english translations were not working with 0.9.5

I don't know what should be taken into account for the coding competition, I let the "authorities" decide :-)

- 0.9.4 was released in time but french only (Only FR API used - No translations)
- 0.9.6 was released after end date but the only change is english translation and choice between FR or UK API. No other functionnal change.

Both packages are available here.

I wouldn't have made that 0.9.6 update if I was not sure that it would help most of english speakers here understanding what the application is doing

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Looking at your code I would be interested by your background in computer programming ?

Many parts of your code are really interesting to me, I've few apps and I didn't know how to implements some functions and I see how I could do, thank to your code :)

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Mmm, if I start from scratch I should come back to QBasic :D

But more recently I learnt C/Java programming in my engineering school and I made also a few website projects learning css, php, python and javascript.

I spent quite a lot of time understanding how to do QML but hopefully I find QML by itself very simple (good QT documentation, helpfull forum answers, close to CSS/JS which I knew from web, SDK very easy to set up...)

More difficult for me was the C++ part but as you have seen if you took a look at the code, the app is almost pure QML (with the exception of what is not availble through QML like share-ui for instance). I made it by looking at examples on the internet and I'm glad I have a C++ programmer colleague which gave me a hand a few times when I was stuck.

The good thing is that I had started looking at all this QT/QML stuff before the begining of the competition so I could go fast during.

I'm really happy if by looking at some of the code you get solutions from your projects. That's exactly what I've done with other projects while developping mine and that's the beauty of open source ;)

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Nice !!! And how many hours did you spend on this project ? (approx)

That's a great job you did !

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Yes a very good job. My only complaint is about the time your application takes to start. On my phone, it is very long compare to other apps.

Anyway great jobs :)

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Thanks for your feedback. I am surprised though because on mine it is very comparable to other app

What phone and PR is it? What language?

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Pfiouu, no idea really but a lot! Most of it learning...

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Language is the best one :) ... la tienne évidemment :p !!!

PR1.3

What do you mean by phone?

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Hi. For me, white 64 N9, PR 1.3, the app opens immediately.

Re: [Announce] AlloCine unofficial application for MeeGo Harmattan
 

I meant N9 or N950?

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N9. Maybe I m gonna try to re install it. I will let you know.

thanks keep up the good work :)

Re: [Announce] AlloCine unofficial application for MeeGo Harmattan
 

Ok, thanks to let me know.

And of course if anybody else run into the problem, please tell :-)

Re: [Announce] AlloCine unofficial application for MeeGo Harmattan
 

Ok sorry I take my time to be back. I just re installed and ... now it is working fine :) !!!

Thanks a lot :)

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Great! No fix to be done :)

Re: [Announce] AlloCine unofficial application for MeeGo Harmattan
 

I uploaded new version 0.9.7 (not yet on the project website, but already on this thread - see first post)

New functionnalities:

• Add press and public review page
• New global search functionnality (flick down the main page to make search field appear)

And some small UI enhancements

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Great, it's been a while since the last update :) !!!!

Thanks :)

Re: [Announce] AlloCine unofficial application for MeeGo Harmattan
 

I am currently in discussion with AlloCine to see how an official release of this app could be achieved (maybe tuned/modified a little to match the brand guidelines). Of course I cannot commit to anything at the moment.

During the time of this discussion, I will not keep the current app available as a download. I hope you understand that and I will of course let you know what are the outcomes of this discussion.

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GL ! I'll be waiting for the new release :)