2015-03-09, 19:57
For the last couple of days I have been playing around with the new trakt tv api.....I really miss the old one :-)
Anyway. Some challenges for me.
The objective is of course to integrate the whole trakt thing in the app. Otherwise you can just start another app (or go to the trakt website).
With the old api you can just give your username/password and api key and start asking questions. Now you have to login and receive a token. With that token you can start asking questions, like give me all the movies in my collection.
Of course the login can be done automatically and this is my first challenge.
An idea is to make a setting to do this automatically at startup. You will see a small pop-up for a few seconds.
Ok....done. The alternative is to do this when clicking the Trakt option in the menu. I will leave this up to the user.
I find it very handy that when using the search function it will tell me if a movie is on my watchlist, in my collection or watched. The same for series. It should also have the possibility to change that status from within search. Of course I have no idea what the status is if I don't ask trakt.
So? start the inventory when using search?
And this is where I miss the old api. Now I have to do a query for the movies in my collection, a query for watched movies and a query for movies in my watchlist. Earlier it was more efficient. Now, the results I have to combine myself. The same for series. You can't search for a movie/series on trakt and get the status.
I have been playing with the thought to make an option that when the app is started, the whole inventory thing is done and the data can be used throughout the whole app. At startup it will take some seconds, but that's it.
The data can then also be used in the search function.
When you don't want that, I will add an option to integrate trakt in the search option yes or no.
Just wondering what you guys think how trakt should be integrated.
Is it ok to search for movies/series, but not know the trakt status?
Is it ok to login at startup?
Is it ok to retrieve all data at startup? Or do it later?
Anyway. Some challenges for me.
The objective is of course to integrate the whole trakt thing in the app. Otherwise you can just start another app (or go to the trakt website).
With the old api you can just give your username/password and api key and start asking questions. Now you have to login and receive a token. With that token you can start asking questions, like give me all the movies in my collection.
Of course the login can be done automatically and this is my first challenge.
An idea is to make a setting to do this automatically at startup. You will see a small pop-up for a few seconds.
Ok....done. The alternative is to do this when clicking the Trakt option in the menu. I will leave this up to the user.
I find it very handy that when using the search function it will tell me if a movie is on my watchlist, in my collection or watched. The same for series. It should also have the possibility to change that status from within search. Of course I have no idea what the status is if I don't ask trakt.
So? start the inventory when using search?
And this is where I miss the old api. Now I have to do a query for the movies in my collection, a query for watched movies and a query for movies in my watchlist. Earlier it was more efficient. Now, the results I have to combine myself. The same for series. You can't search for a movie/series on trakt and get the status.
I have been playing with the thought to make an option that when the app is started, the whole inventory thing is done and the data can be used throughout the whole app. At startup it will take some seconds, but that's it.
The data can then also be used in the search function.
When you don't want that, I will add an option to integrate trakt in the search option yes or no.
Just wondering what you guys think how trakt should be integrated.
Is it ok to search for movies/series, but not know the trakt status?
Is it ok to login at startup?
Is it ok to retrieve all data at startup? Or do it later?
