Category: android

FrostWire for Android 0.5.6 with more filesharing controls

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We heard your feedback on 0.5.5, we understood that it was too hard to share on 0.5.4 but it was our priority to make sure that you were not sharing files by mistake, therefore the policy of having things not shared as default when you first install.

Now we’ve included controls to let you share and unshare equally easy.

Starting on 0.5.6 you will notice a new icon on the bottom of the screen when you are browsing your own files

Pressing this icon will automatically load the rest of the files and check them all (or uncheck them if they were checked). Once you have a bunch of files checked you can Long press on any of the files and a range of possible actions will be available to you.

Now you will be able to Share selected files, Unshare selected files, Toggle sharing state of the selected files and more.

We’ve also made available the option to Enable or Disable sharing (without having to select all) on an entire category of files. The same result can also be achieved from the Settings page.

You can now intuitively know wether sharing is enabled or disabled for a file type by looking at the color of the padlocks. You can enable/disable sharing, and FrostWire will remember what individual files you had shared in the past.

If the file category was disabled for sharing whenever you try to share a file FrostWire will ask you if you want to enable sharing for a category.

If the category is disabled and you still unlocked the file, it won’t be shared since the category as a whole as been disabled for sharing. To understand it easily, grayed out files and locked padlocks tell you that the file will not be shared.

We hope you can make use of these changes, there’s still a lot more to come in the coming releases, stay tuned, give us feedback and share safely.

New FrostWire for Android 0.5.5 with improved file sharing controls

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We urge all FrostWire for Android users to install this latest update which addresses some stability issues and introduces improved sharing controls so that you are always aware of exactly what files you are sharing from your Android device when connected to the FrostWire for Android P2P network.

Here’s how sharing works after this update.

Now by default you decide on what file categories you will enable file sharing.

By default you will be sharing 0 files. This way you’ll avoid sharing the wrong files by mistake.

Now, there are clear instructions on how to enable sharing file categories and how to share individual files.

At first you won’t be sharing any files to better protect your privacy.

Long Press on a Category Icon at the top (e.g. Pictures), this will show an action to Enable file sharing on that category

After enabling Sharing on a category, you will see Padlock buttons.
A closed padlock means the file is private,

An open padlock means the file is shared with the network.

If you wish to disable file sharing for a particular category, again, Long Press on that category icon at the top of the screen.

All padlock buttons will be gone.

Now share safely and responsibly with FrostWire for Android.
A lot more changes coming in the weeks to come in regards to network performance.

Update: We are aware of file availability dropping now that the rules have gone in favor of making files harder to share. We are working on a few solutions to make sharing and un-sharing equally accesible.

However we’re strong on our decision to having files not shared by default when you first install the app. People have very personal files on their phones that they might not want to share with others and we prefer to keep everyone safe so that they’re not deterred from installing the app and we all have a great experience using it.

FrostWire for Android is still in its infancy but we like to release early, release often so hang in there, the app will get better and better as updates arrive so be sure to upgrade when you see the next notice for 0.5.6.

FrostWire for Android 0.5.1, now with 3G/4G support

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The top request by the FrostWire for Android community was being able to use the application outside a WiFi network, wel the first version with 3G/4G support is finally available.

This new release brings a few new Features like “Send File To Chat”, you will also notice subtle but useful changes to the User Interface and User Experience.

After FrostWire 0.5.x, we’ll be dropping support for older Androids still running 1.6. According to our stats only 4% of the network was running 1.6 and this 4% was holding back the rest from some great ideas we had in the beginning on how to use multitouch, gestures and other features of Android +2.1. Other than that we believe Androids running newer versions of the operating system will handle the p2p networking technology a lot better.

Many more to come during the 0.5.x series, please report all bugs, crashes and give us your feedback on how to make the application better.

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Here’s the full changelog for 0.5.1:

FrostWire 0.5.0:
– New Feature: 3G/4G support. Use FrostWire outside your Wi-Fi network.
– New Feature: Send file(s) to chat. Long press on a file or select many, then send to the chatroom.
– UI-love: Updated look of Screen Headers. Tabs and Headers have new gradient looks and look well across all devices.
Better looking buttons on Transfers screen.
– UI-fix: Updated “Love FrostWire” section. No more donations until we integrate payment system.
Please rate us 5 stars on the Android Market if you like the app instead.
– UX-upgrade: Distances to peers now shown in both miles and kilometers (by popular demand)
– UX-upgrade: Peer Browsing is more frugal in screen real-state. Good for small screens.
– Drops support for Android 1.6 to favor health of the network with faster/better peers.
– Bug-fix: Fixes several reported (NPE) crashes.

Warning
Make sure you know your carrier rules regarding the use of P2P applications since you might be breaching your carrier contract by using this app in some countries. Also make sure you don’t leave FrostWire for Android running for a long time if you have a limited data transfer plan since you might exceed your plan limits.

FrostWire condemns Piracy

Since the FrostWire project started the FrostWire Team and community have worked hard to show the potential of p2p file-sharing as a legitimate and convenient mechanism of content delivery that can level the playing field for content creators all over the world who are willing to share some of their content for free.

We designed and built FrostWire for Android thinking of how the world should be, before FrostWire for Android the most social device by nature (your phone) was crippled when it came to connecting with people near you, it was a great device for remote interaction (email, phone, web browsing, tweeting, blogging) but not for close range interaction. Now you can connect and share one of the most precious assets in your mobile device with those around you, your files.

P2P filesharing will evolve as a content distribution model, we think there’s been plenty of schooling about illegal downloading over the world, we want to school the world on what legal file sharing is, specially in regards to music when you have over 8 million bands and singers in sites like myspace willing to share their music and be discovered, p2p is perfect for them.

We created FrostWire for Android initially for close range file sharing having in mind use cases like:

  • Groups of Friends and family sitting at the dinner table in a restaurant who are usually “texting”, tweeting and being disconnected from what’s in front of them. Now they have another way to interact with the people in front of them, they can exchange pictures, videos of earlier in the day and not be so technologically alienated. No need to have a rain check on that video you recorded of your friends hours earlier in the club, you can exchange the recently recorded memories while you’re having a slice of pizza at 3am on that open Wi-Fi of the pizzeria
  • Conferences and classrooms. Speakers can now share materials with the audience right from the phone, no need to give an URL for later, just grab the presentation, or the video, or the pictures, or the podcast related to the talk from my phone, right now.
  • Parents with smartphones usually have hundreds (if not thousands) of pictures and videos of their kids. You can now easily send in a short amount of time all those pictures and videos to your friends and family, more over, you can now share these files across all the android devices you have at home, think of tablets and tvs.
  • You’re part of an indie band and you want to share a few free tracks with your live audience, whip out your Android and tell the audience to start downloading those demo tracks right now, create buzz around your band after the show is over.
  • You are a shy person, you find yourself in a room full of hundreds of people, there’s an open Wi-Fi network, start FrostWire and see who’s around, the Chat is a great way to break the ice with other shy people around you.
  • Use FrostWire to promote your free Android Apps. FrostWire will only share Apps the user has installed and which are not copy protected (this also gives a level of protection against malware, you can’t just share malicious .apk files unless you have installed them on your own phone/device).
  • Search and Download thousands of Free Apps. You’ll actually see what people has installed on their phones, not some reviews or sketchy numbers on a website.
  • Sending files Wirelessly between your Android devices and PCs. FrostWire is a great way to transfer all the videos and pictures taken with your Smartphone into your computer without any hassle.

New FrostWire for Android 0.4.24

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On this new release you can expect better connectivity (even from behind some firewall configurations) and a more responsive UI due to better resource management and a rewrite of our connectivity management, which was re-architected to support 3G and 4G connections (After we test this version, we’ll be getting closer to a release that will be able to use your 3G/4G connection)

FrostWire 0.4.24
– Core-Upgrade: Socket management rewritten to connect behind most firewall configurations (almost ready for 3G/4G support)
– Core-Upgrade: Rewrite of Application Provider.
– UX-Upgrade: Internationalization: French Support (i18n).
– UX-Upgrade: When browsing your own apps you now see their corresponding icons.
– UX-Upgrade: New setting to control vibration notifications upon finished downloads.
– Bug-fix: Crash when opening an old notification if the app wasn’t running.
– Bug-fix: Copying .apk files from the phone to the desktop didn’t work.
– Bug-fix: Possible search result filtering Exception fixed. Better search results for the network.
– Bug-Fix: Fixes obscure FC when starting a batch download then hitting the Back button right away.
– Bug-Fix: Fixes I/O bug that should result in less “Waiting…” cases when browsing peers.
– UI-Fix: Smoother scrolling and updating of Peer list.

Get it now at frostwire.com/android or on the android market.

New FrostWire for Android out (0.4.23)

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This is a big one fellas.

This release fixes a nasty bug where Applications files were not being shared (relief)

The Peer list is now ordered by distance (closer peers appear on top, you should be always on top), other peers that don’t say where they are go towards the bottom sorted alphabetically.

4 nasty crashes were fixed.

Spanish Support. More translations are coming in further releases.

We added back the “Search” button to search since Android’s keyboards tend to behave differently and lots of people complained about not having an explicit Search button.

FrostWire for Desktop Compatible

If you update to this release you will be able to transfer files to your desktop without any cables.
(You will need FrostWire for Desktop +4.21.2 to be released anytime this week, stay tuned to our twitter feed if you want to try it before the rest)

Here’s the formal changelog:

FrostWire 0.4.23
– UX-Upgrade: Internationalization: Spanish Support (i18n).
– Bug-Fix: Issue where apps were not being shared.
– Core-Upgrade: Support for file transfers to FrostWire for Desktop > 4.21.2
– UI-Fix: Search results you started downloading appear in blue without having to scroll.
– UI-Upgrade: Peers appear sorted by Geo-Distance if available, otherwise alphabetically by nickname.
– UI-Upgrade: Core message handling optimizations for faster UI response.
– Bug-Fix: 4 commonly reported crashes fixed.

Also stay tuned also for some video faq’s to start washing aways any myths on how the application works. We’ll be putting this in our youtube channel and you’ll be able to get them easily from frostwire.com

Try FrostWire for Android in the Airport/Plane this holiday season

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Get FrostWire for your Android

That’s a picture of FrostWire for Android running on two phones and connected to the Open WiFi network near the gate at the airport.

Please give it a try on public networks and let us know what the experience will be like (it’s hard to find public networks that don’t isolate peers for security reasons and FrostWire won’t work in these cases).

If you’re in an airport and the WiFi is not free or it won’t work, please try creating your own android WiFi hotspot and testing how FrostWire will work when one phone is the hotspot.

What better time to share the pictures and videos of your holidays than during the wait for your flight back home or at 30,000 feet while you’re bored flying back? Wouldn’t it be cool to chat with other passengers and break the ice?

New FrostWire for Android 0.4.19

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The picture above shows how FrostWire for Android 0.4.19 addresses a privacy issue some users and critics pointed out last week. Now when FrostWire is installed and run for the first time you will get a simple configuration screen to let you know what you’ll be sharing from the start.

On this upgrade there’s been a lot of work to make Peer Browsing a lot faster than previous versions. It also adds a few new features of the file browser and fixes some bugs our users reported last week.

Expect more updates, we follow the “release early, release often” philosophy of software development.

Changelog

FrostWire 0.4.19
– UX-Upgrade: When Browsing a peer Long Pressing on it’s name shows possible actions on the peer.
– UX-Upgrade: Fresh installs ask user about nickname and what files to share from the beginning to do away with any privacy issues.
– UX-Upgrade: Set Audio file as ringtone on Long Press.
– UX-Upgrade: Set Picture as wallpaper.
– UX-Upgrade: Clicking on the connection bars brings out the Preference Menu, for users that are not familiar with Android and looking to connect.
– UX-Fix: Copying and sharing finished downloads on the Chat now links to the copy on your phone.
– Bug-fix: Fixes issue with UDP broadcasts not being received correctly.
– Bug-fix: Fixes force close when changing nickname during application startup.
– Bug-fix: Fixes issue with negative number of shared files.
– Core-Upgrade: Faster counting of Shared/Unshared files.
– Core-Upgrade: Faster Browse responses.
– Core-Upgrade: Faster startup.
– Core-Upgrade: Faster scanning of local peers.
– Core-Upgrade: Faster shutdown.

Related Links
ZeroPaid: FrostWire for Android App Offers P2P to go

Download Squad: FrostWire for Android brings quick, slick P2P file sharing to your phone

FrostWire for Android hits the Market

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The Best BitTorrent client for Android Tablets, Phones and TV is here and in over 16 languages, free.

Get it now from the Android Market

What’s New?
– BitTorrent Support on WiFi, 3G, 4G.
– Browse and share with other Android devices on the WiFi network.
– Stream music to FrostWire for Desktop 5.3+
– Share files with FrostWire for Desktop 5.3+
– Smart BitTorrent search powered by several torrent search engines.

FrostWire for Android 0.4.16 out – getting ready for 0.5.x

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We’re proud to announce tonight a new update of FrostWire for Android version 0.4.16.

Today we fixed a bug that was hidden inside one of the most important (and most used) function in our networking core, it was causing things like
the Chat showing messages said by others under your name, or you trying to browse somebody and then browsing somebody else, or trying to browse someone and never getting a response.

Unless you guys can find new “Force Close” issues tonight, we’ve decided that it’s finally time to move to the 0.5.x series, and these will be a very exciting and challenging series of releases before we make it to the Android Market.

Hopefully after tonight we think we can classify further updates as “beta” releases.

0.5.x !!!
The next series will be all about having FrostWire for Android talk to other devices. We hope 0.5.x not only will make the software better, but make your Android device more useful as a whole.

With FrostWire and the ability to transfer files via Wi-Fi to your computer you won’t have any excuses like “I don’t know where my USB cable is”, or “I’m to lazy to mount my phone right now”. Hopefully this will bring a lot of new amazing content to both mobile network and to the gnutella network.

As you might have guessed by now, we’ll first connect to your Mac/Windows/Linux Desktop/Laptop via FrostWire for Desktop (our BitTorrent/Gnutella client for desktops). But it’s in our early plans to connect FrostWire to the PS3 and the Xbox (or any device that supports UPnP/DLNA browsing and streaming) .

As we do this we’ll also try to make the appearance of the software look a little better. If you can suggest any great UI/UX people we should talk to we’d appreciate it.

Without revealing anymore than we should at this point, I leave you with the entire changelog.

Thank you for all the support and keep spreading the word, the more the merrier.

FrostWire 0.4.16
– UX-Upgrade: After typing a search for the wrong file type, changing the file type will start another search for the same keywords.
No need to bring up the keyboard out.
– Core-Upgrade: Revised time outs for persistent connections. Better maintenance and reuse of persistent connections.
– Core-Upgrade: Better management of unresponsive peers.
– Bug-Fix: Fixes core issue that was causing Chat messages to appear as coming from somebody else and browsing someone you didn’t click on.
– Bug-Fix: Possible Force closes on application Shutdown and in other situations.

FrostWire 0.4.15
– UX-Upgrade: New option to navigate to downloads from FrostWire Logo’s Menu (only present if there are any Downloads [active or finished])
– UX-Upgrade: Hitting “Back” on Chat or Search tabs won’t get you back to the Desktop, you’ll be taken to the Browse screen. Too many users getting lost.
– UX-Fix: Tab heights should now look the same across all devices [slimmer] (Thanks Dan Jackson for screenshot)
– UX-Fix: When submitting a search, File Type selectors are automatically hidden to have more space for search results.
– UX-Fix: When typing a search with the virtual keyboard, hitting ‘Return’ now hides the virtual keyboard.
– UX-Fix: Focus bug when trying to long press on yourself in Browse Peer Screen.
– Core-Upgrade: Rewrote delivery mechanism of ‘Browse Host’ messages. Browsing now works 99% of the time.
– Core-Upgrade: FrostWire can now be _configured_ to send messages via TCP or UDP as need be.
– Bug-Fix: Possible Force Close when search results arrived.

FrostWire 0.4.12
– New Feature: Delete files from the “Downloads” screen. (featured invented by Travis Rhodes, thanks)
– New Feature: “Cancel all Downloads”. Stops and removes ALL unfinished transfers, no matter what their state is.
– New Feature: The first time the application runs the user must accept the terms of use or else the application won’t continue.
– UX-Upgrade: Search is now friendlier and more obvious to use for the new user.
– UX-Upgrade: When browsing a peer the last clicked file type button will appear selected (like in Search)
– UX-Upgrade: D-Pad can now be used to click on items.
– UX-Upgrade: Visual Feedback upon List Item Touch.
– UX-Upgrade: Pressing ‘Done’ on search virtual keyboard starts a search.
– UX-Fix: Manual Listening Port couldn’t be set higher than 65000 (thanks votaguz)
– Core-Upgrade: Flood control mechanisms to reduce message forwarding.
– Core-Upgrade: Smarter search algorithm, improved result accuracy, reduces network load.
– Bug-Fix: Searches with single quotes would yield no results.
– Bug-Fix: Now the application shuts down properly.

FrostWire 0.4.11
– Core-Upgrade: Revised Peer crawling strategy when FrostWire finds itself almost alone.
– Bug-Fix: A lagged Browse response from another peer could interfere when browsing a new peer.

FrostWire 0.4.10
– Bug-Fix: Chat issues fixed.

FrostWire 0.4.9
– Upgrade: FrostWire will find better quality peers based on both Geo Location and Network Distance. Better experience when browsing.
– Bug-Fix: FrostWire should not display chat messages from unknown peers (issue with empty chat messages)
– Bug-Fix: FrostWire would return negative numbers of shared files if users would delete Unshared files outside FrostWire.

FrostWire 0.4.8
– New Feature: Remove Peer. It will remove the peer from your list and black list it during the session’s lifetime.9
– UX-Upgrade: Typos and updates in the UI’s text (thanks James W. Wilson)
– UX-Upgrade: Warning on disconnect if there are any active transfers.
– Bug-Fix: Issue with shared file count if user unshared all files one by one and then unshared all in bulk.
– Bug-Fix: Generic socket errors caused by older clients in the network.
– Bug-Fix: Issues with GPS and Network location providers. Location updates will only be requested every 5 minutes if location providers are available.

FrostWire 0.4.7
– Installer size reduced to 357K
– New Feature: “/me” in the Chat room is replaced with your nickname. IRC old school 3rd person.
– UX-Upgrade: Peer list shows the version number. If your FrostWire is old, it will appear in red.
– UX-Upgrade: Search and Chat tabs are disabled when disconnected.
– UX-Upgrade: Context aware display of Go to: Home | My Files.
– UX-Upgrade: Offer to change nickname for first time users will re-appear if the user tilts the phone to use keyboard.
– Core-Upgrade: Improved port handling for LAN interaction.
– Core-Upgrade: Better maintenance of Peer List and revisited ping heuristics.
– Bug-Fix: Force Close when trying to browse yourself if disconnected.
– Bug-Fix: Force Closes when trying to manage incoming and outgoing candidate peer lists.

FrostWire 0.4.6
– New Feature: Go to My Files
– New Feature: Clear Chat. Long press on the text box to make this appear.
– New Feature: Share your Documents,Pictures,Photos and Audio via email, android’s bluetooth service, sms and via web services (e.g. twitter, facebook, flickr)
– New Feature: “Copy” search a result (to share it via private message or to everyone in the chat).
– Upgrade: Considerable optimization of object management when displaying peers, files, transfers and chat messages.
– Bug-fix: Deleting too many individually unshared files could cause a bug where no files of that type would be shared.
– Bug-fix: Cleans all temporary files on exit.
– Installer size reduced 16%.

FrostWire 0.4.5
– Networking-Upgrade: Fixes in search routing algorithm to avoid redundant message forwarding.
– UX-Upgrade: Touching the FrostWire logo shows a menu to Go Home, See About or Show FrostWire some love.
– UX-Upgrade: Several optimizations for smoother scrolling and better resource management.
– UX-Upgrade: Tapping on someone’s nickname on the Chat will autotype @Nickname on the text box.
– UX-Upgrade: New icons for Settings, Home and Love.
– UX-Fix: Private messages take you to the Chat tab, not the Chat Activity by itself.
– UX-Fix: When a file’s shared state is changed using the padlod icon the number of shared files of its kind gets updated.
– UX-Fix: Padlock icons are not shown on search results.
– Bug-fix: Downloading the same file twice from the same peer would fail. Memory referencing issues fixed.

FrostWire 0.4.4
– New Feature: Auto update.
– New Feature: Change your nickname by long pressing on your own name on the Browse Peers screen.
– New Feature: “Padlock” button when browsing your shared files to toggle sharing status without much hassle.
– Networking-Upgrade: New Peer Exchange policies result in considerable bandwidth.
– Search/Transfer-Upgrade: All peers involved in a file transfer are now keeping a metafrost file when finished, thus announcing themselves in search results as confirmed sources for that file. Metafrost files are now kept in folders by type to not put a strain on the file system as more and more files are shared.
– UX-Upgrade: Chat tab now shows the number of unread messages.
– UX-Upgrade: When starting up FrostWire will ask new users to change their nickname.
– UX-Upgrade: When disconnected you are taken to the home screen so you won’t be confused by things not working.
– UX-Upgrade: Application search results now include version number.
– UX-Upgrade: Search Result Batch Downloads (using checkboxes)
– UX-Upgrade: Search results are cleared before new results are in.
– UX-Upgrade: Checkboxes auto-clear when you start a batch download.
– UX-Upgrade: Failed, Out of sources and Timed out transfers can now be individually deleted from the list of transfers.
– Bug Fix: Fixes SQLite ‘where’ clause bug with multiple keyword queries. Search will yield more results as everyone updates.
– Bug Fix: Incoming repeated Search responses are short circuited. Distinct results are forwarded only once. Traffic savings.
– Bug Fix: Fixes logic issues for optimal LAN packet delivery. You should feel faster peer browsing and discovery.
– Bug Fix: Audio player when browsing yourself works as expected.
– Bug Fix: Possible Force Close when pinging peer list and a peer says good bye.

FrostWire 0.4.3
– UX-Upgrade: Chat window should receive messages even if you’re not looking at it. Layout updates.
– UX-Upgrade: Transfer screen will autoscroll to the bottom to show the newest additions.
– UX-Upgrade: When files are downloaded file names are marked in a different color.
– UX-Upgrade: No more multiple FrostWire icons on the notification bar. A number will display how many finished transfers you have.
– UX-Upgrade: Download indicator now stays after all downloads are finished if transfers have not been cleared. It will display in orange the number of finished transfers so you can go back to your finished downloads even if disconnected.
– UX-Fix: Fixed size of “Delete” icon.
– Bug Fix: Internet Discovery toggle bug fix.
– Bug Fix: Force Close when starting a download of more than 15 checked files.
– Bug Fix: Force Close when setting Simultaneous Uploads to 0. (thanks Steven Peterson, Eric O’Brian)

FrostWire 0.4.2
– New Feature: New Setting to discover (or not) peers over the internet. Limit your searching to your LAN only if you need to.
– UX-Upgrade: Thumbnails are shown when browsing your own pictures and videos.
– UX-Upgrade: New search controls.
– UX-Upgrade: Batched downloads start faster.
– UX-Bug Fix: Force close when changing manual listening port fixed.
– UX-Bug Fix: Clicking on the Active Downloads button won’t reload the Transfer’s screens if you’re already standing on it.
– UX-Bug Fix: About screen can be scrolled down. Includes Thanks to alpha testers.
– Bug Fix: Search results outside local Wi-Fi network couldn’t start a download.

FrostWire 0.4.1
– Bug Fix: NPE when changing simultaneous upload setting.
– Bug Fix: Multiple NPEs when handling Search Requests and Search Responses.
– Bug Fix: Chat messages and Private Messages back to work.

FrostWire 0.4.0
– New Feature: Search.
– Bug Fix: Completed,Failed,Cancelled,Timed Out file transfers won’t change status to “Out of Sources” if peer leaves.

FrostWire 0.3.10 (file transfer breaks backwards compatibility)
– New Feature: New Setting to limit the number of concurrent uploads.
– Upgrade: Better rendering of active download(s) progress.
– Upgrade: File transfer management optimizations (which break compatibility)
– Bug Fix: Correct display of concurrent uploads and downloads.
– Bug Fix: ‘Application’ Download bug fixed.
– Bug Fix: Multiple Force Close issues fixed.

FrostWire 0.3.9 (breaks backwards compatibility):
– Upgrade: Rewrite File transfer. Considerably faster transfer startup, progressive file validation,
Minimizes Disk/IO and Garbage Collection. Swarming friendly algorithm.
– Upgrade: New File Transfer state: ‘Waiting…’ at start of transfer. (Cancellable state)
– Upgrade: Improves robustness of Message delivery.
– Upgrade: Automatic Peer Browse retries, updates peer list when peer is unreachable.
– Upgrade: Faster internal messaging between network core and UI.
– Upgrade: Protocol Message Types re-arranged for new message queue management strategies.
– Upgrade: About page shows name of current Wi-Fi network
– Bug Fix: Peers leaving won’t appear again on Peer List.
– Bug Fix: Multiple NPEs on Browse Peer when a responses would arrive too soon.

FrostWire 0.3.8:
– Upgrade: Improved Peer Discovery and Peer List maintenance.
– Upgrade: Adds new ‘failed’ state to downloads. We were abusing the ‘timeout’ state.
– Upgrade: Smarter caching of file counts by kind should yield faster browsing responses.
– Upgrade: Fixes potential IO (Index Out of Bounds) errors when reading the last part of a file from the socket.
– Upgrade: When user is leaving it will also be asked if it’s ok to leave while UPLOADs are going on.
– Bug Fix: When user is leaving now there’s a negative option on the dialog. (thanks Phase3d)
– Bug Fix: Patches a NPE when fecthing Application info from .apks that have not been installed. Still to be fixed.

FrostWire 0.3.7:
– Update: Longer TCP timeouts (20 seconds)
– Bug Fix: Found NPE when fetching Application info on some phones.
– Bug Fix: Misc. NPEs handled.

FrostWire 0.3.6:
– New Feature: Sharing Android Package Files (.apk)
– New Feature: Configuring an arbitrary manual port when UPnP is not an option (between 1000 and 65535 inclusive)
– Bug Fix: Several force close issues fixed.

FrostWire 0.3.5:
– New Feature: Show number of active Uploads.
– New Feature: Delete multiple (checked) files.
– Upgrade: Refactors on File Transfer, leaner code.
– Upgrade: Faster Ping message creation (battery savings)
– Bug Fix: Right text coloring, Numbering on Shared/Unshared files.
– Bug Fix: File transfer errors and time outs are displayed correctly.
– Bug Fix: Tilting the phone while browsing remote files recovers state as expected.
– Bug Fix: No more repeated files when browsing peer.

FrostWire 0.3.4
– Bug Fix: Private messages and “Copy & Share” over the internet work

FrostWire 0.3.3
– New Feature: Fine grained sharing.
– Upgrade: Faster retrieval of shared files.
– Upgrade: Faster browsing of your own files.
– Upgrade: P2P Peer List Exchange on ‘handshake’ and when you have few Peers available.
– Upgrade: Support for remote chat, remote private message, remote “copy & share” file.
– Upgrade: Audio playback is now done through a much simpler audio player inside the application (works for now)

FrostWire 0.3.2
– Bug Fix: Internal and Visible Peer lists are cleared upon disconnection.
– Bug Fix: FrostWire says good bye properly to all peers and to altamira.
– Bug Fix: Memory Leaks fixed in Altamira.
– Upgrade: Altamira keeps track of the last time a peer received a peer list for smarter behaviour.
– Upgrade: FrostWire now says hello back to unknown peers (pong upon first encounter)

FrostWire 0.3.1
– Bug Fix: Android XML Parsing patch for all phones running < Froyo. UPnP should work on all pre-Froyo phones.
– Bug Fix: Fixes issue where UPnP map attempt would happen only the first time FrostWire opened.
– Update: Distances between peers shown in meter,meters,Km.,Kms.
– Update: About screen now shows information about internal & external ports.

FrostWire 0.3.0
– New Feature: NAT-UPnP support to connect to other FrostWire's over the Internet (via Wi-Fi only)
– New Feature: Ability to select multiple files and perform other actions on them.
– New Feature: Ability to rename files. This will make it easier to search images and videos taken with Android phones.
– Bug Fix: Fixes WiFi auto connect/disconnect issues.
– Bug Fix: Fixes WiFi connectivity issues when switching to other hotspots.
– Bug Fix: Fixes intermittent (double connected message) connection issues.
– Bug Fix: When disconnected FrostWire won't try to connect if you tilt the device.

FrostWire 0.2.0
– Bug Fix: Fixes crash when sending a message to the chat if user is not connected (thanks adwin)
– Bug Fix: When the phone was tilted during file browsing the current list of files got lost.
– Upgrade: Avoids possible situation where FrostWire cannot know about itself. Faster startup.
– Upgrade: Custom looking checkboxes. (FrostWire.Theme in place)
– Upgrade: Multiple UI/Text corrections.
– New Feature: Select multiple files from another user to perform batched downloads. (download enquement pending, so take it easy)

FrostWire 0.1.0 – code name "Von Neumann"
– New Feature: Peer auto discovery on the Wi-Fi network.
– New Feature: Wi-Fi network availability awareness.
– New Feature: Introducing MetaFrost Mobile P2P protocol version 1
– New Feature: Setting to send Geo-Location information to other peers.
– New Feature: Displays distance to other peers if available.
– New Feature: Settings to Share/Unshare files by file type.
– New Feature: Users can be identified by nickname.
– New Feature: Community Chatroom over Wi-Fi.
– New Feature: Sends private chatroom message to another user.
– New Feature: "Copy & Share" your own files in the Community Chatroom to all participants.
– New Feature: "Copy & Share" other user's files in the Community Chatroom to all participants.
– New Feature: "Copy & Share" files with another user via Private Message.
– New Feature: Community Chatroom has 'history' support if user presses D-pad up or down.
– New Feature: Community Chatroom has 'history' support if user gestures up or down on the text field.
– New Feature: Community Chatroom messages can be cleaned with commands "/cls","/clear" and "clear screen".
– New Feature: Browse, Filter, Open and Delete your own shared files.
– New Feature: Browse, Filter and Open other user's files.
– New Feature: Download other user's files when browsing.
– New Feature: Download shared files from chat.
– New Feature: Download multiple files at the same time.
– New Feature: Open downloaded files.
– New Feature: Context menues are available upon Long Click on almost every user interface element.
– New Feature: Screen orientation awareness on every screen.
– New Feature: FrostWire Status bar indicates number of ongoing downloads.
– New Feature: Share picture files.
– New Feature: Share video files.
– New Feature: Share document files.
– New Feature: Share audio files.
– New Feature: Connect/Disconnect from local p2p network.
– New Feature: "Love FrostWire?" Tip/Donation support to development team.
– Pending Feature: Share application files (.apk)