Justin.tv support coming to Mizuu

Web videos was launched just a few days ago as a third section of Mizuu, joining local movies and TV shows with popular online content. It’s been a great success so far!

Currently only YouTube is supported in the new Web videos section, but I’m happy to announce that Justin.tv / Twitch.tv will be added in the next update with near real-time screenshot previews of all the streams.

Justin.tv has been getting a lot of attention lately, especially from the e-sports scene. Being a big fan of e-sports I’m going to use this upcoming functionality almost every day to check the most popular streams and see if there’s anything of interest. Entertainment streams are usually the ones with the highest viewer counts.

Again, if you’ve got a favourite video service that you’d like to see implemented in Mizuu, don’t hesitate to suggest it. If the service offers an open API, there’s a good chance it’ll be possible.

Anyway, the update will be out within a few days and will come with some other stuff as well. More on that later!

By the way - Mizuu reached 96% active installs for the paid version today. That means that 96 percent of everyone who has bought the application has it installed on their device and that it is being actively used. Wow!

Version 1.7.1 is out, adds web videos

The first minor update for version 1.7 is out. The new update fixes a couple of minor bugs from the previous version, and adds two new things:

  • Web videos
    I’ve got some cool visions for this new section of the application. I’ll be adding support for more video sites in upcoming updates. Hopefully Mizuu will one day be able to collect all the most interesting video content from the web in one place.
  • Google Analytics tracking
    Tracking may sound like a bad thing, but it’s actually not. Google Analytics allows me to get a look at how the application is being used - which parts of the application are more used than others, and hopefully it’ll help me find areas that need improvement. By the way - the tracking is completely anonymous, so don’t worry about that. No user-specific data or data about your movies / TV shows is collected. It’s solely for the purpose of making the application better.

Get it on Android Market now! The Lite version update is available from here.

Update! Just noticed a bug when launching the app in portrait mode - it crashes. Fixed it and uploaded version 1.7.1.1.

Mizuu to support web videos

Mizuu now supports both movies and TV shows, so what more can we add to that? How about popular videos from the most awesome services on the web?

The next version of Mizuu will do just that, kicking off with support for YouTube and possibly also Vimeo. The content will change every few hours, so it’s constantly updated with all the latest from the intertubes.

Feel free to suggest any video services you’d like to see in the app.

You’ll find a quick look at how it’ll look in the above screenshot. It may come sooner than you’d think… :)

What’s Mizuu?

Mizuu is a movie and TV show management application for Android devices.

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What users say

I love this app. Had it about a month now and wouldnt live without it. Great job! — Mr Bear

Great app. By far my favorite app on my ASUS Transformer! Love the info on each movie when you touch the movie poster. Gives options to watch trailer on YouTube, read reviews and play movie. Works great on my HDTV!! — Lou

Wonderful - Xbmc for Android! — Andreas

Best app on my Xoom. The greatest app for honeycomb. This is a must have. — Gomez

Great app. Easily one of my favorite apps on my Xoom. Very nice app. — Luke

One of the prime Honeyomb apps. It's an amazing feat that a lone developer can do better work than most dev teams. I've followed this guy since his beta on XDA, and look at him and his app now. Perfectly showcases Android's ability to provide indie devs to show their talent by offering powerful tools and near-complete freedom to generate an incredible app such as this. Excellent support, fast and accurate movie/TV listing, beautiful interface, support for multiple codecs. Highly recommended. — JJ

Beautiful looking and highly functional! Great looking app, automatically found and stored all my show info, downloaded posters and summaries. I contacted the developer and got a very quick and helpful response. — Michael

Amazing App. Great app!! I thought I would get just another normal poorly programmed app this one is awesome! I highly recommend it! — Marc

Awesome Movie app on Prime. Works amazing, love the box art and look of this app. I point this to my cifs network drive mount on my transformer Prime and have my terabyte hard drive media right on my tablet! Great job dev! — W. Scott

Great. A great app with a motivated developer and very frequent updates. Superb interface — Thibaut

Really good. Makes my crap thumbnails look like gold. — Matthew

Best App For Managing Movies and TV Shows. The interface is intuitive and fast. Adding movie/show information is automatic and relatively accurate. The developer is quick to respond to emails and eager to ensure customers needs are met. Well worth the price! Great app and a great dev. — James

Great. Working great on galaxy nexus. — Jassim

Excellent App! This is a great looking and very functional movies and tv organising app. Thank you for the good support and regular new features and updates. — Kenneth

Awesome app! Loving this app on my tab, beautiful & fast UI. Great support from dev! — Johanna

Relly nice A cool GUI and fully featured xbm like for tablets. — macgyver

Amazing!!! Looks great on my Transformer Prime!!! — Shawn

Best Movie Manager. It's like having Boxee on my tablet! Mizuu makes browsing my movie collection fast and easy. I love the layout and the ability to use my favorite movie player. It is visually appealing and it works like it should. A great app indeed! — akkidy

How movies should look! I was disappointed with the android native movie application. Where is the cover-art? The movie/tv information? This app is what the android movie application should have been and more. It linked everything in my movie library with no issues. The app looks great too! Awesome! Great Work! — DavidGuy

Awesome!! I have a media PC running XBMC and was looking for a similiar setup for my tablet when I found this. As far as I'm concerned this is one of the best apps I have. Works great and looks fantastic. Theres not another video library that even comes close. — Wosto

Gooooooood! Works really great. — Matthias Gerold

The best at what it does. Haven't yet found an app similar to this, for me it's the best one at what it does. Of course there are still things that could be added, but the application is being worked upon heavily and the developer listens and responds to questions or requests very quickly, so I'm sure it'll get even better. Definitely five stars from me :) — Natan Žabkar

Great layout and features. Really nice way to collect and organize your movies and tv-shows. Like the UI a lot. — Ermias

great Been waiting for an app like this for managing media on my tablet since I got it — Matt

Wow, I'm truly amazed!! Would recommend this app to anyone and everyone — Nevall

Excellent! Solid, well designed app, great customer support, a true gem! — Steve

Fantastic. A truly awesome app for showcasing movies. Who wants to use a file browser, when your mp4 videos can be represented by large, beautiful photos with integrated information? Plus, frequent updates. Keep up the great work. — Gregor

Great app - Works great on both my Galaxy Nexus and my Galaxy tab 10.1 — Jens

Sweet app Excellent app. Well worth buying if you watch movies on your tablet. — John

Excellent App. This app is great for portable movie watching! Worth every penny once you name your files correctly. I highly recommend this app, but for playing the videos use MX player! Keep up the great work on developing this app! — Demetrius

Exactly what I was looking for and a bit more..... All the video players I've tried on my Lenovo K1 Ideapad just give you an ugly list with a screenshots of the video files. This separates movies and TV shows, adds cover art and uses IMDb for reviews and backdrops. When you hit play just select your favorite video player as default and you're set. — SaDiin

Beautiful! I've dreamed of an app like this. — Khaled

Essential for Entertainment. Love this app so much! — Ram

Fantastic app. If you are looking for the best media center app for Android 3.0+, look no further. — Doug

Five stars for constant updates....this app has come a long way — Darish

Should be 10 out of 5! This app defines what an app should be on Honeycomb, it is the kind of thing that makes having a tablet awesome! Also, the developer was fantastic in helping me resolve a problem, he responded within minutes (seconds?) of me sending him an email. Buy this app and tell your friends to do the same, you won't regret it! — amruthwo

Fantastic! A fantastic and great looking app. Works really well, and with the upcoming changes in 1.8 with DLNA support will undoubtedly become even better. Works great on the Transformer Prime running ICS. — Spiros

Truly Amazing — Joris

This app is stupendous and is a must have for any movie/tv buffs or people who store content locally. Good work! — Daniel

a must buy. an awesome app. the dev is also very responsive — Joseph

OUTSTANDING APP!!!!!!! This app really ROCKS! I love everything about it and can't wait to see what's coming. The developer helped me out via email when I was having setup issues and had my problem fixed in no time. Best Customer Service Award goes out to Michell. — Laurence

Best video app ever. This app really shows how great android is. TV shows support works even better than movies. Such an amazing developer — Tom

The best movie/tv library app for android. Very beautiful and user friendly library app for your movies and television shows. Looks especially great on tablets or high resolution smartphones. — Christarius

This app has come a long way in a short amount of time. Its matured into an XBMC style interface to showcase my movies/TV shows beautifully and easily. Great app! — Patrick

Best paid app I purchased I had the free version for 15 minutes before I upgraded. Updates are often and good. — festmaster

Perfect AAA — Roaster