I just packaged the latest version of my app and the corresponding skins @
http://dvr-security.net/mobile/zmc/ .
Please make sure that you follow the instructions and install the new skins, otherwise the app will not work.
I still have not added event playback. Instead, I have focused on cleaning up my code and optimizing the way the app communicates with the server. At least for me, the app runs alot faster and loads the monitor feeds much quicker.
New features(or maybe just fixed, I lost track):
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Override Streaming Mode: This is found in the settings for montage or watch. When checked, the app will detect if you are on wi-fi or mobile network. It will automatically switch you from jpeg streaming to single image refresh which will give you more control over how much bandwidth is used.
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Monitor Cycling: This was combined with the watch view. Just press the cycle button and your monitor feeds will change at your set interval. It now waits to receive the first frame and then activates the countdown timer to load the next monitor.
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Montage Monitor Loading: Originally, each monitor feed used to make a request to the server to find out the url to use for the video feed, then start the video feed. I overhauled and changed alot of internal code. Now the monitors start faster because only 1 call is made to the server to find out the latest hash(if needed) and then immediately start the video feeds.
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Button Icons Look Better: I converted the button icons from png to svg so that they can scale without losing resolution.
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Custom User-Agent: Check your server logs and your will have more detailed info about your mobile device.
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SSL Support: SSL using https:// does work just fine if you have a trusted certificate. If you have a self-signed or free cert, then the flash player popups up a warning each time you first connect. After that point, I test the connection using a secureSocket function and see if I can termporarily add the cert as trusted. If your have a expired cert or principaMismatch, then you will be unable to do jpeg stream, only single image refresh can work. I have no other ways of bypassing flash because you have a bad cert, so please don't complain. I know that some native java apps just simply override everything and tell your phone that it is a trusted connection without warning.
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Other tweaks that I can't remember right now: I did alot of code changes over the past months and I lost track of them.
Everything runs good for me on the 5 devices that I test with. Let me know if any problems arise. And please be specific. Thanks.
Upcoming plans:
I do plan on adding the event feature. Also, I just paid my 105$ yearly fee to be an iOS developer. I am going to start testing the current version of my app on some ios devices.
p.s. I just started testing my app on an ipod(after spending an hour setting up and signing certs) for the first time and have some results:
-When using ssl, the ipod will not let me even try to connect when it is a self-signed cert. But when I use a free cert issued from StartCom, it gave me no trouble. My android complained about the StartCom cert, but ipod did not. Weird. Sadly, jpeg streaming will not work on ssl because the global variable in iOS is telling me that secureSocket is not supported. Maybe just because this is an old ipod 4. I will have to test more devices to confirm this.
-The app was unable to detect the network device(wifi, etc.) using my existing code. I will have to further develop that feature to make it iOS compatible.
-The username, password, and url text boxes on the login view were a little buggy. After typing the first letter, it became highlighted and then deleted when I typed the 2nd letter. This does not sound too hard to fix.
It was still pretty cool to see that the app I developed for android worked almost 100% for iOS. After I make these tweaks to catch my iOS app up with the android version, I will most likely start working on the event viewing feature.
