Will you people be able to fix a BitComet Android App with Comet ID
And we need the extended version of your petition essay above, for peer review and stuff… and for us to understand why in the world would you need a BitTorrent client on a phone?
Cell networks are for voice and at the very most low quality video streaming, not to continuously share files with a protocol that can overload even a wired connection. Plus all cell networks don’t allow incoming connections, so that means you could never connect to and download form another phone.
All cell phone connections are firewalled. This means they can never be “connectable”, and will always be very slow.
Your cell phone’s battery lasts as long as it does because, most of the time, it’s not doing anything, not connected, not pushing a signal out to a tower. But if there were a bittorrent application, the phone would be using full power all the time. How long would the battery last then? Maybe 1-3 hours at best?
Widespread use of bittorrent on cell means that slots get taken up and held on to for long periods of time. The cell provider would need many more slots to take care of the same traffic. As a cell phone user you’d get frequent “network busy” outages. You’d also find that calls to you had been diverted to voice mail without ever ringing you, because the network was busy. Maybe your bills would go up to pay for that, maybe the providers would just ban bittorrent traffic. Maybe both.
Bittorrent on cell phones just isn’t a practical proposition.
I think the poster wants a bitcomet version that can run on an android based PC or Tablet. The Android OS is a linux based OS designed to run on very low spec machines, and some celular phones, therefore needs a specific app designed for it to do simple things a PC can do. I doubt bitcomet is going to design an android version, bitcomet is more of a powerful full featured tool that will need the resources of a real computer to run, but you might want to check with some other bittorrent clients, perhaps utorrent, or it’s parent company “bittorrent inc” would consider this. They’ve always favored a small less inclusive client, although their recent versions have incorporated many features bitcomet’s had for years, such as torrent streaming, comments, etc, but I’d say they would be more likely to venture into the Android platform, since they’ve recently expanded into MacOS and Linux. BitComet has never desired to develop outside of the Windows platform, but your request would be better posted if you put it in bitcomet feature requests, and clarified that you want an android version of bitcomet.
@vasy, many android products connect to the internet via local WiFi, not all are cellular broadband devices.
OIC, hadn’t thought about the tablet market.
Yep, but this still boils down to porting BitComet on Linux, eventually.
OTOH, what is a tablet without portability? If you’re going to stay in one place, where you don’t need batteries, why didn’t you buy a desktop and save a bunch?
So if you are using a tablet and taking it to and fro, the same battery-life problem reappears. Running bittorrent will just suck your battery life away.
I also think you’ll see a lack of willingness to seed tasks from such a portable device, ending in the versions of clients used not being allowed on some trackers. After all, who is going to keep their tablet running 24/7 for a week to share a file… these devices are built cheap and probably will tend to fail if used for extended periods, unlike a well build PC that actually lasts longer if kept running, with proper power and cooling for long periods.