Transdroid 3

[erickok]

I am planning to start on Transdroid 3. It will be a full rewrite and redesign.

• The networking stack of Transdroid 2 is ancient and still uses the legacy Apache http client API (via org.apache.http.legacy).
• The UI is showing age and uses layers of patches upon old appcompat components that frequency break (such as the app bars recently).
• We rely on unsupported and unmaintained libraries such as androidannotations, ormlite and very old UI components.
• We still use deprecated XML layouts which get no love, and Java which no-one loves.
• There are many features poorly which might or might not work any more (search module content provider, broken tablet layout, several totally untested torrent client adapters).

A fresh start should:

• Use modern language, tooling, libraries (Kotlin, Compose UI, okhttp...)
• Focus again on most-used, most-loved, most-wanted features and clients
• Have proper CI/CD, releases probably on F-Droid
• Make it fun to work in the code base

I hope to do this together with the community. It will stay 100% open-source (GPL). I would love your feedback. What torrent clients should we support? Which features really need to stay (or can we do without)? Should be keep the Play Store-friendly version?

[erickok]

Feel free to participate in the poll on https://transdroid.org/ which torrent client you use to connect remotely to with Transdroid.

[evilgenius79]

https://github.com/evilgenius79/transdroid/tree/claude/torrent-client-rebuild-c25xv9

[evilgenius79]

Better link sorry. Use what ya want

https://github.com/evilgenius79/transdroid

[erickok]

That's a big chunk of the work done already! I'm on holiday right now, and also wanted to give some time for people to respond, but I'll take a concrete look and test it when I'm back home.

[evilgenius79]

Yeah I been using it the last few days. Works pretty well so far.

[evilgenius79]

Also obviously feel free to use however much you want to of it, if any. Was just trying to help. All the code is your to do what you want with.

[duttondj]

I'd absolutely love if you could fix this in Transdrone 3

#654

[evilgenius79]

I'd absolutely love if you could fix this in Transdrone 3

#654

I can probably take a look on my fork if ya like

[erickok]

@evilgenius79 I've taken a first look at the Claude-generated app in your branch and there are a bunch I things I really like and other that need work (besides missing features). I will do some more research on the UI now to see where I want to go with that.

[erickok]

I have just release a Transdroid 3 alpha 1. It has the new UI, with fully new code base. It builds on the code that @evilgenius79 made with Claude and I build a new UI on top of this (full disclosure: also using Claude). Give it a try! Leave your feedback!

You can download and install via https://github.com/erickok/transdroid/releases/tag/v3.0.0-alpha1

[TrilIiard]

Looks great. There is one thing i would allways love to see with the old Client. The new one has the same behavior, when you go into the Details of an active torrent the ui doesnt Update. You need to leave the torrent Details Page and reenter it to see Updated data there. Would be great if the torrent details Page of the ui could also get Auto Updates. Maybe also make the peers which are connected visible? Just some Nerd needs haha

[erickok]

@TrilIiard Yes very much so. I actually added that just after the test version I released. d4ac3a0 So it will be in the next alpha. Thanks for the feedback! Keep it going.

[evilgenius79]

Nice! I'll give it a go soon as I get back home from vacation this weekend.

Edit: I'll also make my repo private