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Title: Bitcoin Android Released
Post by: Mahkul on July 06, 2011, 11:09:57 AM
Just noticed that there are some big news in the mobile apps department and it got on Hacker News again:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2732708


Title: Re: Bitcoin Android Released
Post by: realnowhereman on July 06, 2011, 01:18:58 PM
Seems nice; got a nice simple interface.

Haven't actually transferred any money with it yet of course :)

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.bitcoinandroid


Title: Re: Bitcoin Android Released
Post by: Andrew Vorobyov on July 06, 2011, 03:18:27 PM
Do we have creator of this app here on forum?


Title: Re: Bitcoin Android Released
Post by: Stephen Gornick on July 06, 2011, 04:17:34 PM
The project page on GitHub:
 - https://github.com/barmstrong/bitcoin-android


Title: Re: Bitcoin Android Released
Post by: lulzplzkthx on July 06, 2011, 05:06:45 PM
Isn't there a huge bounty for this man somewhere?


Title: Re: Bitcoin Android Released
Post by: Mike Moceri on July 06, 2011, 10:08:48 PM
Works! Absolutely awesome. It would be great if it went out to eight decimal places, though.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Android Released
Post by: TheRandomGuy on July 07, 2011, 12:02:49 AM
I don't have access to the market. Could someone put up the .APK?


Title: Re: Bitcoin Android Released
Post by: semyazza on July 07, 2011, 02:47:42 PM
I don't have access to the market. Could someone put up the .APK?

This would be great.  Could we also get hashes from multiple people to compare to the APK provided.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Android Released
Post by: Nefario on July 07, 2011, 05:05:37 PM
I don't have access to the market. Could someone put up the .APK?

This would be great.  Could we also get hashes from multiple people to compare to the APK provided.

I love the paranoia of this community.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Android Released
Post by: hugolp on July 07, 2011, 05:14:08 PM
I don't have access to the market. Could someone put up the .APK?

This would be great.  Could we also get hashes from multiple people to compare to the APK provided.

I love the paranoia of this community.

Being paranoic does not mean that THEY are not after you.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Android Released
Post by: Nefario on July 07, 2011, 05:17:19 PM
I don't have access to the market. Could someone put up the .APK?

This would be great.  Could we also get hashes from multiple people to compare to the APK provided.

I love the paranoia of this community.

Being paranoic does not mean that THEY are not after you.

I'm really only half joking, In the bitcoin community I've finally found someone as paranoid or more so than me, most of my btc contacts use GPG, it's great.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Android Released
Post by: hugolp on July 07, 2011, 05:39:00 PM
BTW, does this implement the thin client idea or is just a "normal" bitcoin client running on Android?


Title: Re: Bitcoin Android Released
Post by: TheRandomGuy on July 07, 2011, 07:54:04 PM
I can't wait till someone puts out the APK! :D :D



Title: Re: Bitcoin Android Released
Post by: Cusipzzz on July 08, 2011, 01:33:43 AM
I've waited 6 confirms and balance is still showing 0.00 on the phone client...anyone else having issues? Only sent a coin to test.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Android Released
Post by: TheRandomGuy on July 08, 2011, 01:37:46 PM
 I think I found an alternative to this app:
https://github.com/warpi/BitPay/bitpay-0.1.apk/qr_code  ;D  ;D


Title: Re: Bitcoin Android Released
Post by: Cusipzzz on July 08, 2011, 02:35:49 PM
I've waited 6 confirms and balance is still showing 0.00 on the phone client...anyone else having issues? Only sent a coin to test.

Never got it...Seems like it only downloaded 2MB, said successful - and installed. Not the 22MB listed on Market.

It apparently tries to get more data after install when running but total size on both phone and SD card never passes 2.01MB. I have let it run for a long time.

Anyone see the same issue/have any ideas? Thanks!


Title: Re: Bitcoin Android Released
Post by: Mike Hearn on July 09, 2011, 12:25:24 PM
The problem is the Bitcoin network is generally kind of broken right now. You need to wait until people have upgraded to 0.3.24, or until the Android apps are updated to forcibly connect to only those clients. You'd have the same issues bringing up the regular Satoshi client from scratch.

Whatever you do, don't delete the wallet or uninstall the apps (same thing). Otherwise you will lose the keys and thus the coins you sent to it.