Hack-e-Sta: July 2015

Friday, 24 July 2015

Torrent downloading on Android

Hi there,

After using torrents for downloading a lot of content for past few years on my PC, I decided to use my smartphone (Android) for the same.
I used a lot of torrent applications like  μTorrent & BitTorrent, I came across an app called Flud.











The app is pretty light and easy to use, it easily opens any magnet link you click on one using your browser. I also like its UI, its pretty cool.
Also, it has features like downloading files sequentially and Closing the app after all downloads finish and/or battery reaches a certain percentage.

Its light UI doesn't make my phone slow and also I can see my download status in the notification panel.

I have used it on my smartphone so I didn't get a chance to see its Tablet UI.

Pros:
* No speed limits on downloads/uploads
* Ability to select which files to download
* Ability to specify file/folder priorities
* RSS feed support with automatic downloading
* Magnet link support
* NAT-PMP, DHT, UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) support
* µTP (µTorrent Transport Protocol) , PeX (Peer Exchange) support
* Ability to download sequentially
* Ability to move files while downloading
* Supports torrents with large number of files
* Supports torrents with very big files (Note: 4GB is the limit for FAT32 formatted SD cards)
* Recognizes magnet links from the browser
* Encryption support, IP filtering support. Proxy Support for trackers and peers.
* Has option to download on WiFi only
* Ability to change theme (Light and Dark)
* Material design UI
* Tablet optimized UI

What can be improved:
* A widget for seeing the download status would be nice.
* Some more themes
* Controlling the torrent's remotely over local network




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