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Imdb App?

I find it surprising there's no Imdb app. Is there a reason for this? It would be really useful...

Would love to see an Imdb app!

It would be really nice to have the IMDB app on my phone. It isn't too bad in the browser, but always much better to have the app.

Me too, come on devs!

There should be some kind of 'Devs for hire' forum.
I wish I had the ability myself. If someone gets a half decent Imdb app, even for 50p or something, they'll probably make a tidy little sum...

If only IMDB had an API....
Anyway, their site terms don't allow you to scrape data from their site:
Robots and Screen Scraping: You may not use data mining, robots, screen scraping, or similar data gathering and extraction tools on this site, except with our express written consent as noted below.
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If anyone did make an app, IMDB would get it removed from the market pretty quick I reckon.

zer0day said:
If only IMDB had an API....
Anyway, their site terms don't allow you to scrape data from their site:
If anyone did make an app, IMDB would get it removed from the market pretty quick I reckon.
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But then you would still be able to get the data. I once saw a friend doing it on a desktop app for his movie library. He had the scores, summary, genre, cover in 1 app. But yeah for personal use only. so It would get pulled from the market fast.

If you are a swedish user I suggest "Filmtipset" app.
It shows many nice info about films, and also the IMDB score.

Tbh, the score is the least useful item on the page, next to any adverts...
For me it's looking people up an seeing what else they've been in, maybe with pictures of them.

zer0day said:
If anyone did make an app, IMDB would get it removed from the market pretty quick I reckon.
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Iphone has had an IMDB app (which is really good btw) on their appstore for several months so I guess they don't care that much...

mrfreddan said:
Iphone has had an IMDB app (which is really good btw) on their appstore for several months so I guess they don't care that much...
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Unless it's official?

Winmo has one. Allowed or not its quite possible.

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Quite possible, and if so, let's hope they release one for android aswell

http://www.imdb.com/licensing/ and http://www.imdb.com/licensing/noncommercial is why it won't happen.
I was going to start on it until i saw that.

The Movies app in the Market (Flixster) used to pull IMDb's info for individual movies. If you scrolled to the bottom of the movie details it linked to IMDb, but it looks like they've pulled it. It still links to Flixster and Rotten Tomatoes though.

I can remember pausing my vcr to get film credits to enter into IMDB. Now they have taken all of the data they got for free from users, studios, and artists and license it for a minimum of $15,000 per year. Nice business model, you give me yours and you can pay to see mine.

Most movie/DVD catalog software I have come across (Extreme Movie Manager, Med's, etc..) all scrape from IMDB and other sites without problems. I have owned Extreme MM for years now, and with periodic script updates there has never been a problem. I have yet to hear IMDB ever complaining or going after someone fro scraping.

Come on
I'd like to see the application too. I'm using it on my WinMo

Finally! Woo Hoo!
http://hemorrdroids.net/?p=471

Does it have a feature where you can scan dvd bar codes to build a film list, and a feature like urban spoon for films where you can lock genres and do a random search so my girlfriend cab figure out what movie to watch by herself?
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[App] Subsonic Desktop Music Streamer

I found this awesome Media server today. Don't know if it has been posted here so i thought i would share with everyone. Supports Android as well as other platforms and is super easy to setup. Check it out!!
http://www.subsonic.org

nice find. Good idea to consolidate all my music to one server and play them on my phone

I skimmed through the forums a bit and it seems like some users are working on a Video streaming add on. I would love to have something like that implemented into an already great piece of software.

darn it, the android client app is only usable for 30 days before you have to donate.
Please note that most of the apps are made by third-party developers, and are not maintained by the Subsonic project. Some apps are commercial, while some are available for free.
Also note that after a 30-day trial period you need a license key to use the apps. You get a license key by giving a donation to the Subsonic project. The license never expires and is valid for all current and future apps. By donating you also get other benefits; see info box on the right.
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cant find a free android app using their API anywhere

I think $12 is a small price to pay considering all of the available features. Sucks that its not totally free but for people that have a very colorful and vast music collection like myself could benefit from this especially while traveling.

britoso said:
darn it, the android client app is only usable for 30 days before you have to donate.
cant find a free android app using their API anywhere
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I do agree $12 is pretty high considering the server itself is open source therefore the $12 is only for the android app. I'd say $5 would be a better fit for the app as it would draw more downloads.
I suppose it takes someone familiar with marketing and business to understand how best to leverage your product with pricing. Not everyone needs a media streamer, therefore the cost of $12 vs other apps that people use a lot more (generally in the $5 range) makes it not worth it. If your product is not in high demand you charge less to catch the people who wouldn't necessarily need it but don't mind spending the lower amount for something "cool to have".
Just my $0.02

An alternative would be OrbLive, but it's $9.99 in the market, so not a whole lot cheaper. The PC server is free. Haven't tried it but navigating/playing your media through the web browser is free, so there's a chance you could avoid getting the android app and use the browser instead.
It'll let you serve music, video, photos and documents ... seems to work fairly well.

I actually found Subsonic a few months ago while looking for a way to stream my music via a browser on a PC. Then I found they had an Android app. One of the big selling points for me was that you can create different users based on whether you're using Wifi or 3G/EDGE. Lowering the bitrate minimizes stuttering over a slow connection. Also, when songs are playing in the queue, the rest of the queue is saved for smooth playback.
I've tried Orb & other similar apps and I found that Subsonic was much more versatile. I tend to listen more to music that I've recently added to my library and Subsonic gives options to listen to recently added, random, highest rated, recently played or most played songs. Only thing it's missing right now is an option to shuffle playback.

The $12 is well worth it. I use this app more then anything, and I use it everyday. Never tried any of the other apps, as I tried subsonic first and have no complaints about the server or the client apps.

It will only be worth it for me if I can stream all my zunepass songs. which I really doubt is the case.

I'm not sure you have to pay 12$, in the help page in the app it says "the suggested donation is 20 euros but you can give any amount you like". So I guess you can donate 5$ if you want to.
Anyway, this donation system is better than orblive's one since I can pay through paypal (I can't use my credit card with google checkout), and the app seems way better than orblive from what I saw.
Still waiting for SqueezeCommander to be able to act as a squeezebox client though, since I already have squeezebox server running on my PC, I'd like to avoid running several music servers if I can.

BlueScreenJunky said:
Still waiting for SqueezeCommander to be able to act as a squeezebox client though, since I already have squeezebox server running on my PC, I'd like to avoid running several music servers if I can.
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I feel your pain but we'll see at the rate SqueezeCommander is being updated. For the time being, running both streaming services hasn't put much of a strain on my server with 2GB RAM.

this seems like it would be an incredible app but I cant get it to work.

Found this: Five
http://code.google.com/p/five/
No binaries on both code.google and github though...

britoso said:
Found this: Five
http://code.google.com/p/five/
No binaries on both code.google and github though...
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Looks pretty Beta still. Not as polished as Subsonic but def a free alternative. The lowest donation amount for subsonic is $12.97 (10 BP) and is def worth it. I have had zero problems streaming music over 3g even on Tmobiles crappy network. Also, i love how subsonic uses very low resources considering it run as a service. Been looking for something like this for sooooooooooo long.

is there an optware alternative similar to this. I would like to stream music from my buffalo NAS to my nexus if it's possible.

I think i've set this up correctly, except I'm unsure how to connect to this computer (Part of a lan). So for example, from outside of a network how do you connect to 192.168.1.1:8080? I've forwarded the ports etc but don't know what the address should be.

Has anyone compared this side by side with Orb? I have Orb and while it does the job, the interface blows and it's buggier than ANY software I paid $9.99 ever should be. Sigh.

stibbs said:
I think i've set this up correctly, except I'm unsure how to connect to this computer (Part of a lan). So for example, from outside of a network how do you connect to 192.168.1.1:8080? I've forwarded the ports etc but don't know what the address should be.
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If you are connecting from within a lan/router, get your ip address from http://www.whatismyip.com/ and then add the port to that number.

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If you are connecting from within a lan/router, get your ip address from http://www.whatismyip.com/ and then add the port to that number.
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Correct but, make sure when your connecting you add the /music to the end of your url for example. hXXp://yourip:8080/music

[APP REQUEST] Tablet-to-Phone integration (see post)

There's been similar App requests before but mine is a little different.
I want my phone to seemlessly with one app (ideally):
- Tether my phone's 3g with my tablet
- Allow me to browse my phones files with my tablet:
- See photos in the gallery off my phone​- Listen to music files on my phone's SD card on my tablet​- Be able to make phone calls off my tablet through my phone including contacts integration​- Have documents written on my phone or tablet be saved on both, so if I only have my phone on me I still have all my important documents/homework with me.​
I could go on and on, but I think this tight integration with smartphone and tablet is the future, especially with the Transformer since its more of workhorse and the phone is more of a personal organizer.

I want my phone to seemlessly with one app (ideally):
- Tether my phone's 3g with my tablet​
Enable Wifi Tethering on your phone. Easy.
- See photos in the gallery off my phone​
Easy, make sure you sync/upload all your camera pictures to Picasa Web Albums (All Google account come with it) And it'll show up on the Transformer in the stock Gallery app. You can use a program like Pixelpipe to auto upload every picture you take on your phone to upload to Picasa. Or you can do it yourself, check mark all your photos, share, select Picasa.
- Listen to music files on my phone's SD card on my tablet​
Why store music to your sd card? Get Amazon Cloud Drive (Free 2 gigs, buy an album and you get 20gigs free), upload your music to Cloud Drive, and use the Amazon MP3 app to listen to your music! Or, run AudioGalaxy on your computer, point it to your mp3 folder, and use AudioGalaxy to listen to your computer's music on your tablet/phone.
- Be able to make phone calls off my tablet through my phone including contacts integration​
Contacts integration is already done with Google Contacts, auto syncs as long as your Google account is logged in. Making phone calls on your tablet? Seriously? Just grab your phone. This is sorry, but a stupid request
- Have documents written on my phone or tablet be saved on both, so if I only have my phone on me I still have all my important documents/homework with me.​
Keep your documents on Google Docs. Download the Google Docs app on your phone/tablet and you can have it on both.
Or better yet, Get DropBox also free. works on phone/tablet/pc/mac/everything. Modify one, and it comes across EVERYWHERE.
I could go on and on, but I think this tight integration with smartphone and tablet is the future, especially with the Transformer since its more of workhorse and the phone is more of a personal organizer.
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All the stuff you want to do is already doable and easy to do. Most important thing is moving away from local storage to cloud storage, that's the future and we're seeing already with Amazon/Google/DropBox.

What I'd like is to be able to control the tablet with my phone. Especially now that I have Plex, as being able to link my tablet to the tv and stream video with plex but sit on the sofa with my phone as a remote would be awesome.

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What I'd like is to be able to control the tablet with my phone. Especially now that I have Pled, as being able to link my tablet to the tv and stream video with plex but sit on the sofa with my phone as a remote would be awesome.
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This would be a very useful function...

What I'd like is an application to send/receive SMS/MMS from my tablet through my phone.
YES, I have Google Voice, but using that sends from your GV number. I'd actually like the sending and receiving to be done by my Droid X, but have a client application on the tablet that can interface with the SMS client on my phone.

FrayAdjacent said:
What I'd like is an application to send/receive SMS/MMS from my tablet through my phone.
YES, I have Google Voice, but using that sends from your GV number. I'd actually like the sending and receiving to be done by my Droid X, but have a client application on the tablet that can interface with the SMS client on my phone.
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Port your number to Google Voice. I did, love it. Also no contract line with T-Mobile.

I suggest that you might have more luck posting this request in the general Android apps forum here.
You might also give an indication of how much you'd be prepared to pay for such an application!
Regards,
Dave

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Port your number to Google Voice. I did, love it. Also no contract line with T-Mobile.
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Those of us not in the US have issues with that though :-(
It should be easy for Google to do though, as they could route all SMS as data to a phone on your Google account, then send it as SMS from there using the phone's regular contract.
An SMS app for the tablet that meant I could recieve texts on it and reply whilst keeping the phone in sync with what's being sent and received would easily be worth a fiver. And that's Stirling, too

nxt said:
All the stuff you want to do is already doable and easy to do. Most important thing is moving away from local storage to cloud storage, that's the future and we're seeing already with Amazon/Google/DropBox.​
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The thing with your suggestions is that its a ton of different apps and lots of hoops to jump through.
I want one. single. app.​

nxt said:
Port your number to Google Voice. I did, love it. Also no contract line with T-Mobile.
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That only circumvents the problem partially... then if I want everyone who has my (current) cell number to txt me directly to my phone (I can't hear the notifications I set in GV on my DX worth a crap!), I'd need to give them another number.
I think a client/server type thing that would let me interact remotely with the SMS app on my phone would be ideal.

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I think a client/server type thing that would let me interact remotely with the SMS app on my phone would be ideal.
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Try this out.
I think what the OP wants is definitely coming. But, read all of the posts by the OP on the thread I posted for the Sync SMS app and you will see some of the difficulties placed on the devs for such a project. Add in the large number of device manufacturers(custom software implementation b/c they refuse to use vanilla android)/different hardware (DroidX for example doesn't support infrastructure Wifi - only ad hoc) and types of connectivity (BT/WiFi/Cellular/USB) and it will become a very complicated project. I'm not saying it won't be done... I think it will be done. But, it is just a little ways farther off from happening. It'll take awhile for the software devs to work out the kinks and with Android/Honeycomb constantly evolving/constant hardware changes.... It makes this a daunting project for a single dev/small group.
Also, when it does come battery drain (constant polling for change in data) and data usage (carriers moving to tiered data plans) issues will have to be addressed. Many of the push API's are being figured out by devs so that will decrease the polling - but, data usage is only going to go up. I only had my TF for one day and I was having to watch my data over 3G because I knew if I continued to use it without worrying about getting onto Wifi I would go over my 2GB cap.....
The Sync SMS app dev has some good ideas and has been hard at work. I suggest reading his posts to better understand the difficulties.
@OP - it'll come with a little patience. In the meanwhile you can do what the second post suggested and use multiple solutions.

Drop Box, how is this a solution??

Now I could be missing something really obvious here but I can't seem to stream an album off drop box?
I uploaded a few last night so went into the folders on my One S today and could see all the music. Only problem is I can only play one song at a time?? Where is the option to stream an album? If this isn't possible how can this be a solution to internal expandable storage??

Why not use Google Music?
Edit: Ah, guessing its not available in your country. Yeah that sucks then. This phone really needed 32GB onboard if they were going to remove the Micro SD.

Because I have dropbox and though it would work where I drop music in a file (which I own) and then I can play it from the devices its installed on. Which I can, but only one file at a time.

The best solution is Google music; even if it is not available in your country, it's not that hard to get it.
If you are bent on using Dropbox for your music, then try ES File Explorer. It has an option to browse online storage such as Box and Dropbox. You can then long press on each file and add it to the now playing play list. Not the elegant solution you are looking for, I know, but better than nothing.
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Damn cloud storage is taking over the world..
I would have liked more than 16GB in my One S (receiving tomo ) But il just have to live with it
I do however like dropbox i use it alot since i made an account.. I guess i could just download my albums on the go, If memory gets full, delete it and download something else..
But yeah, Its not a perfect solution, A damn SD card slot isnt very big, Surely theres room for it somewhere ? ive got a collection of SD cards, from 2gb to 32gb - Pretty much useless now

When they said it has ropbox integrated I assumed they meant it was actually integrated to function as storage and not just as an app.

Google are releasing there own cloud storage soon..
They'll take over the world soon...providing they kick Microsoft's ass. Apple is slowly losing the phone war. Still...the ipods are amazing. I'm still using a 5g video
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I've been using Subsonic to stream my music for a while and it works like a charm. It was really easy (for me) to setup but I've heard some people have a hard time with it. I would suggest checking it out, could solve your problem. Just be aware that the first month is free to stream and then its a one-time, $15 fee to license the server. Well worth it imo.
http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp

As everyone says use Google Music.
If you cant get it, VPN to america and goto music.google.com and signup, then itll work in the UK there after.
Been using it on my old Samsung Nexus, and the One-S awesome app.

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As everyone says use Google Music.
If you cant get it, VPN to america and goto music.google.com and signup, then itll work in the UK there after.
Been using it on my old Samsung Nexus, and the One-S awesome app.
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I decided to give google music a go, and I succesfully signed up for it and got it up and running fine via VPN from the netherlands. However, how do I install the app on my phone? play.google.com says it can't install the app cause of the country my phone is in...

I like Amazon Cloud (Music) better.....same as Google Music though

if you have an always on PC at home, there is nothing better than this.
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I've been using Subsonic to stream my music for a while and it works like a charm. It was really easy (for me) to setup but I've heard some people have a hard time with it. I would suggest checking it out, could solve your problem. Just be aware that the first month is free to stream and then its a one-time, $15 fee to license the server. Well worth it imo.
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I decided to give google music a go, and I succesfully signed up for it and got it up and running fine via VPN from the netherlands. However, how do I install the app on my phone? play.google.com says it can't install the app cause of the country my phone is in...
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Market enabler
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Find the apk (not so difficult) and sideload it. Afterwards even the updates in Google Play Store will work (at least for me they do).
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Do you guys all have a data plan with endless hig speed.
In Germany i can only use 500MB on full speed (7200kbit/s) and after that i can only use download speed like 64kbit/s for the rest of the month... if i would use the dropbox as my music storage i would blow the 500 MB limit during the first week =D

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Do you guys all have a data plan with endless hig speed.
In Germany i can only use 500MB on full speed (7200kbit/s) and after that i can only use download speed like 64kbit/s for the rest of the month... if i would use the dropbox as my music storage i would blow the 500 MB limit during the first week =D
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Sounds about right.... I love my unlimited data plan. A bit costly, but averaging 2+Gb /month it's worth it

a high data plan / unlimited is now becoming a must !! especially with all this cloud storage and the amount of apps that require internet.
its not soo bad for people who can use BT hotspots (me) or have wifi almost everywhere..
i reckon i could survive on a contract that only had unlimited internet and 0 mins and 0 texts lol
i could just use 3rd party apps to make calls and send texts via the internet... so its more important to have internet package than calls and texts lol
crazy!

Best comic book reader?

Anyone going to be using this to read comics/manga? Any recommendations on comic book reader apps?
I want one that can read from a cloud drive. The only one i've seen that can do this is the Challenger comics viewer app.

there also is CatComic which cost money but is worth it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=meanlabs.comicat&hl=de

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there also is CatComic which cost money but is worth it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=meanlabs.comicat&hl=de
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I tried it and its almost perfect, but seems to be missing one feature that I'm looking for.
I want to be able to tap to scroll, where the comic will scroll for me down the page when i tap the screen. And after it reaches the bottom, the next tap will turn the page. Do you know if Comicat has this feature?

unsure if it does, most of the time i just use the volume keys.
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i just know of one viewer which does it for sure and that is Perfect Viewer but this one doesnt support cloud storages.

I would go with ComicRack. Though it costs money for the fully featured version, it is by far the best reader I have used. It also has a PC counterpart that will sync everything with it, like info, and where in the books you are.
http://comicrack.cyolito.com/

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Anyone going to be using this to read comics/manga? Any recommendations on comic book reader apps?
I want one that can read from a cloud drive. The only one i've seen that can do this is the Challenger comics viewer app.
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for manga's i would go with mango http://mango.leetsoft.net/ been using this for years ! :good:

I've been using Perfect Viewer for years now. Will do the 'tap to scroll' that you like.
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ComicRack has the most robust features of all. However, Astonishing Comic Reader https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aerilys.acr.android has some Material Design, has no ads, and only has donations if you so choose.
ComicRack is awesome, but it is just too ugly for me!

I've always used this and found it very good.
Has been removed some time ago from play store, but developer keep working on it and you can download it from his website
http://www.manga-watcher.com/

I have been a long time user of ComicRack, but I just tried out the Astonishing Reader, and ... It's pretty good, but not enough to sway me away from ComicRack.
The ability to automatically group and sort by series, as well as other variables for a large collection is invaluable.
And when i loaded up a comic and paged through, while nice, it wasn't quite as silky smooth as I can get on ComicRack, there seemed to be a flash of loading with each page change.
Just my 2 cents, it might work great for you, thanks for the recommendation though, always worth checking out what else is out there, rather than getting complacent with "what I've always used"

moon+ reader is good

edru said:
I would go with ComicRack. Though it costs money for the fully featured version, it is by far the best reader I have used. It also has a PC counterpart that will sync everything with it, like info, and where in the books you are.
http://comicrack.cyolito.com/
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:good: +1. BY FAR THE BEST!

Buka HD(ibuka.cn) seems perfect for this 4:3 screen (it has been optimized for Xiaomi MiPad, also 4:3), but it is only available in Chinese Language. The HD version can use the whole screen of N9, instead of having black bar on both sides). The online sources on Buka are also plenty enough.

Does ComicRack let you read comics from cloud services like CatComic?

I am also interested in this. It would be good experience for me.

ComicRack for offline comics and MangaWatcher for online (not available on google play but maintained) hands down the best of each world.

Comiccat is hands down the best. Syncs with the cloud as all and auto caches next issue from Dropbox so you can read through your whole library from the cloud. You can even set it to delete locally cached copies after reading.
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cmscritic said:
Comiccat is hands down the best. Syncs with the cloud as all and auto caches next issue from Dropbox so you can read through your whole library from the cloud. You can even set it to delete locally cached copies after reading.
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I use both ComicRack and Comicat. One thing that I really don't like about Comicat is that when you sync to issues in the cloud, you get no cover art. That bugs me beyond belief.

mkygod said:
Anyone going to be using this to read comics/manga? Any recommendations on comic book reader apps?
I want one that can read from a cloud drive. The only one i've seen that can do this is the Challenger comics viewer app.
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ComiCat is the best and u can read of google drive

another vote for comicrack. i had already paid for the desktop version so getting the the android version was a no-brainer. love the sync and the ability to sort titles. i got them sorted by published date so i can go through my old stuff chronologically like when i used to buy them as a kid.