[rschiks]

HI,

Thx for testing.

Perhaps it's an idea a setting is being introduced that local artwork stored is used. One side affect is that when the fan art option is used and a new background, poster, etc is set... local artwork is ignored. Kodi/XBMC stores the url and doesn't download it locally.
In your scenario you will see that when you select a new poster, background, etc it will be shown in the app.

When the Kodi/XBMC library is read within the app I made a design decision that when a movie/series is selected I will retrieve the most up-to-date information from the internet. Getting the latest info from internet has a lot of advantages. With series you will immediately see if new episodes are available, screenshots, air time, etc. Kodi/XBMC only retrieves the information for the items you have in your library at the time you imported the items in the database, so you could miss entire seasons. This is also why you see the overview in english again. I am getting it from themoviedb.org/thetvdb.com. With series theoretically it could be possible that old info will be in German (because you have changed it) and new added items in English (because it's not translated yet). I think you can guess why I have chosen one language.

The looks of an app are always personally. It will be very boring if all apps look the same :-)

The configurable menu is on my to do list. You were not the only one who asked for this feature :-)

Richard

Hi there,
thanks for the testflight invitation and the app looks quite nice.
my main problem here is:
as i mentioned the kodi lib is quite big, everything is scrapped with mediaelch, poster, extraarts etc. are stored locally incl. the nfo files.
plot & outline is scrapped in german.

and here is the problem:
Kodi Control center connects to Kodi, but display the english content for plot & outline (inside kodi everthing is in german!)
Poster and artworks stuck on downloading, no image where displayed, i keep the ipad running (turn of automatic logoff) over night with a 200Mbit internetconnection, today in the morning, still no images

I would propose that you take the content for the app from the local kodi installation and NOT from the internet, startup is too slow, display of images might be different what the user choose with tools like Mediaelch and user settings aka languages will be respected.

Comments to the GUI:
the menue items should be part of configuration, so all menue items could be hidden or shown. Many people do not want albums or episodes, or files to be displayed.
Overall: the app looks quite different from the usual once (falt design), i know thats very personal question of taste, but i would vote for a smoother integration into the overall ios8 gui.

Thats all so far :-)
Best Regards