Changes

• When there is more than 60 seconds difference between a timestamp of teh last shown comment and the current time, the next comment will be shown immediately to try catching up the current time.
• When there are more than 100 comments, in the version 1.7, the application skips Twitter comments AFTER the application reads ALL Twitter comments. In the version 1.8, the application SKIPS READING Twitter comments. By doing this, when there are too many comments, network load will be dramatically reduced.

Fixes

• Fixed a problem that there is a case that lists of Countries, Areas, and TV Stations becomes an empty when they are shown by a “Back” button.
• Dramatically reduced a possibility that the application will crash when there are too many Twitter comments which cause lack of system memory.

Changes

• Comments posted from TV Friends will be shown first even when many Twitter comments are Unread status.

Fixes

• Fixed a problem that the app’s behaviour was not correct when more than 100 Twitter comments are stacked.

Changes

• A message will be shown when others entered a chat room.
  
• Twitter comment polling will be stopped when TV Friends is not active. By this change, battery consumption will be reduced.
• Avatar’s transparency became 0.
• Changed a rule and speed of displaying comments. Readability of comments is increased when the stacked comments are relatively few. The app tries chatchng up the current time by displaying comments quickly when there are too many stacked comments. More information is the following.

Fixes

• Fixed a problem that the last letter of a handle name was cut off when you entered the handle name.

Changes

• Only Twitter comments written in a selected language will be shown.

Fixes

• Fixed a problem that the client will crash when it recieved more than 100 Twitter comments at once.

Changes

Supported the World Cup

• Added “2014 FIFA World Cup” on Country/Region Selection Screen. By selection “Match Date” and a “Match” on Area Selection Screen and TV Station Selection Screen, you can chat about a specific match no matter which country/region or TV Station you live or watches. (Fans of oponents will be in the same chat room.)
  
  When you second or more booted TV Friends, you will start from TV Station Selection Screen. To change “Match Date,” please always push “Back” button of your smart phone.
• A special wall paper will be displayed only when you enter a chat room for “2014 FIFA World Cup.”
  

Event Date: 2014/6/12 – 2014/7/14
On the same day of the World Cup’s end, the above functions will be closed.

Changes

• Now supports Australia and New Zeeland TV Channels(*)
  
  (*) Until version 1.0 and under, it took long time to support a country, although “TV Frends” supported many TV channels in the country. We’ve changed our policy so that we can increase supported countries easily, although less channels (mainly “free to air” majour channels) per one country will be supported at the first (more will come later).
  

  (*) If you select a language which is not English or a public language of a certain country, the country won’t be displayed on the Country Selection Screen. The language selection screen is shown when you first boot “TV Friends.” You can also change the language from “Settings” menu.

For the information about hash tag, please refer FAQ page.

Changes

• Now supports UK TV Channels(*)
  (*) Currently, “TV Friends” supports 168 channelswhich is listed a major TV Guide web site  in UK. More to come later.

  (*) If you select “日本語 (Japanese)” on Language selection screen, “United Kingdom” won’t be listed when you select country. Please select “English” to go into UK TV channels’ chat rooms. (The language selection screen is shown when you first boot “TV Friends.” You can also change the language from “Settings” menu.)

  About Hash Tags for UK TV Stations
  On Twitter, in most cases, there is no hash tag difference between one area and others of a world wide TV Station. As a result, comments against two different TV programs are shown on the same time line.

  Example: “#AnimalPlanet”, “#Discovery”

  As “TV Friends” is an application to chat among people who watch the same TV program, it is not proper to mix up comments from two different TV programs even though the same TV Station broadcasts them.  Therefore, “TV Friends” imports and exports Twitter comments with hash tags that look like “#TV_Station_name #Area” or “TV_Station_nameArea”.

  Example: “#AnimalPlanet #UK” “#DiscoveryUK”

  This means TV Friends will show less comments in UK compared to in USA; however, the application will provide you more meaningful Twitter comments for UK people when they watch TV. You can automatically put the TV Station and the area tag using “TV Friends” when you post comments from “TV Friends.” If you find improper has tags, please report to the Forum.

Fixes

• A problem that the application on Android version 3.0 and less crashes when it recieved a Twitter comment is fixed.

Changes

• Now supports USA TV Channels(*)
  (*) Currently, “TV Friends” supports 100 channels by 6 time zones (i.e. there are 600 chat rooms) which is listed a major TV Guide web site. More to come later.

  (*) If you select “日本語 (Japanese)” on Language selection screen, “United States of America” won’t be listed when you select country. Please select “English” to go into USA TV channels’ chat rooms. (The language selection screen is shown when you first boot “TV Friends.” You can slso change the language from “Settings” menu.)

Changes

Twitter Functions
A video help explains the new Twitter functions in TV Friends.

• On each TV Station’s chat room screen, Twitter comments with hash tags for the TV Station will be displayed in blue chat bubbles.
  
  * To avoid spam comments, cometns with “http://” or “https://” won’t be displayed. Retweet won’t be displayed by the same reason.
  * Twitter comments for CATV stations can not be read and written now. The function will be available later.
• A function to post a same comment to Twitter when you post a chat comment to TV Friedns is added. This function is “Off” as default, and can be turned on by Settings menu.
  If you turn on the function, Twitter logo in Chat Input Screen will be lit and shows that your comment will be posted to Twitter as well. If you turn off the function the logo will be darkened showing your comment won’t be posted to Twitter.
  
  * To avoid displaying doubled comments, your comment posted to Twitter won’t be displayed in TV Friends, and only your comment to TV Friends will be displayed. * Twitter has 140 letter limitation for a comment, but as shown below, TV Friedn’s limitation is 255 letters. If your comment exceeds 140 letters, your comment to Twitter will be abbriviated.

Others

• New avatars are added.
  
  
  These avatars will be unlocked by posting a cheering TV Friends comment to Twitter.
• When a comment is too long, the comment will be paged and displayed every 6 seconds page by page. By this function, a comment length limitation is changed from 90 Bytes to 255 letters.
• A ticker comment length limitation is changed from 126 Bytes to 126 letters.
• A name length limitation is changed from 30 Bytes to a certain width. By this change, the name length increased from 10 to 12 in double width letters (like Japanese), and decreased from 30 to 26 in single width letters (like English). If Twitter commenter’s name length is too long, the name will be abbriviated.
• The End User License Agreement is updated. Even if you agreed with the previous version of EULA, you have to reagree with the new version.

Fixes

• A problem that cancel sound is not played when certain Settings menus are canceled.