Year: 2009

µTorrent users, meet Android

Sure, I always use Transmission myself. But there are so many happy Windows users as well and by far their most popular BitTorrent client is µTorrent. Happily enough, it has a web interface and just like Transmission, it supports remote calls. Well, then why can’t Transdroid support the µTorrent app as well?

Just released, Transdroid version 0.4.0, with beta support for µTorrent! It currently supports just the features that were already there for Transmission: viewing, pausing, resuming and removing of torrents on your server and, of course, direct adding of new torrents via URL or isoHunt-powered search.

Also good news for Transmission users: several fixes were made, including working pausing and resuming of torrents.

Please feel free to give it a try by downloading and installing the new beta on your Android-powered phone. And let me know what you think of it, of course.

Meet Transdroid

This is the blog for Transdroid: a Transmission bittorrent client for Android. What?

Transmission
Transmission is a bittorrent application that is easy, fast and free. It runs on Linux and Mac, and is the default torrent client on Ubuntu. It can run as stand-alone application, but more interesting as a daemon on a server that allows access via a web interface and other remote applications.

Android
Google Android is an open platform for mobile devices. Currently the T-Mobile G1 is the only publically available Andforid-powered phone (apart from the ADP for developers), but more are coming. It is a direct competitor to Apple’s iPhone.

Meet Transdroid
Transdroid is a remote client for your Transmission daemon running on a server. It can show the active torrents, pause, resume or remove them and new torrents can be added via URL or as an extra via an isoHunt-powered search.

The application is currently in development. It is open-source and free. The developer website is at http://code.google.com/p/transdroid At the moment a beta version can be downloaded, but expect bugs to pop up.

For now, let’s conclude with some screen shots: