I’m very excited to announce that finally XBMC Remote Control for iPad now supports movie library browsing too! Version 1.5.0 is now available for download on the App Store.
I’ve spent a lot of time optimizing the new movie thumbnail view for all iPad models, including the original iPad 1, to work smoothly even with large libraries. The browser works in both portrait as well as landscape mode, just like the music and TV shows browsers. For large enough libraries a section index is included automatically for jumping quickly through different sections of your library. I’ve also updated the dedicated page here on my blog too with fresh screenshots. Enjoy!
March 17, 2012 – 11:08 pm
Unfortunately I haven’t (yet) laid my hands on a new iPad, but I hope to do so soon. I’m really interested to see Apple’s Retina display on a 9.7″ device, and of course I’d love to see my own XBMC Remote Control for iPad on it! I immediately updated it with Retina display support after Apple’s latest update of Xcode with a Retina iPad simulator and I’m happy to announce that this update has landed on the App Store. For everyone that can already try it on a new iPad: enjoy!
A few days ago the XBMC team released XBMC Eden release candidate 1. In there, the JSON-RPC protocol version has been updated to version 4, which causes problems with XBMC Remote Control for iPad. That’s my bad; I thought the version number would only be increased at the official release, but it seems that I should have accounted for the new version number in the RC cycles already. For everyone that updated to RC1 and having problems connecting, this morning I submitted XBMC Remote Control for iPad 1.4.3 for review by Apple, which fixes the problem. I hope it will be available in the App Store in a few days.
By the way, movie support is going forward, my goal is to release it around the time that XBMC Eden is officially released as well.
Update: 1.4.3 which fixes this problem has been approved by Apple and is available as of March 2.