(Unofficial) Android/Win10 Rokujouma Reader. Nice Things status: can not be had.
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@sam-pinansky The only server-side filter I use is filter by uploading date to separate old/new records for better caching (old retain e-tag and get pulled from cache while new are pretty fast to update), so the app should be fine as long as that works. Expiration gets checked on client. I don't need expired parts that much, but things are pretty fast and cheap as they are now (except the part where request for all parts takes like 4 seconds on a server to complete - not perceivable at client's side but potentially bad for server if it actually takes 4 seconds of its resources).
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@_08 It's definitely getting a little heavy to return all parts. There's various optimizations I can do to improve the speed of that like not include all the part metadata by default or cache some of the dynamically generated properties, etc.
The easier solution for the short term is just split up the requests on the client into paginated chunks, and to prevent hammering the backend enforce some kind of part limit.
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@sam-pinansky Pagination won't work well because the point was to request the whole thing to be able to instantly return the list of parts and volumes for any given volume or serie as soon as user user clicks on it, without any network interaction.
If it ever becomes actually necessary I can increase time between "heavy" updates without hurting usability (it's set to whenever user navigates but only if 30min passed after previous update, "light" updates are after 30sec) but even now it won't request much more than official app and I'm like the only one who uses it anyway. -
Well, seems like I'm a bit late for the party.
I decided to finally finish and publish an unofficial JNC reader of my own and just finished it today 🤔
Oh well.
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@reyth No party here – stats from winstore and such are extremely low. Development is slow as well because I don't have time and app does most of things I needed.
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I uploaded the new version and android build to the google drive. It should available through windows store as well by now.
Added recent parts page and scrolling reader mode. Plus some minor performance improvements and bug fixes.
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First impression of the Android build is pretty positive, yay night mode!
It seems to keep track of the last read position better than the official app. I jumped back in the official app to see what part of VRMMO I was reading so it lost the place and I had to manually swipe to the percentage to get it back. This app however opened that part to where I was straight away.
Might be the web reader is better at that than the official Android app and this app is more directly using the web reader?
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@smashman42 Reading progress is stored as a number between 0 and 1 everywhere, but interpretation is different. In my app it corresponds to top paragraph (first character of first visible paragraph divided by total chars) while web reader and official app is something like page number divided by total pages (even in scrolling mode). Latter is obviously less precise and it also depends on page layout meaning your position will drift if you change font, reader's size or screen orientation.
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I see there's a newer Android build on the Google Drive folders than the one I started using.
Is there a changelog at all?
Is all bug squashing Windows only so the Android ports just get any new features if any?
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@smashman42 I silently uploaded 0.1.8 and listed most of changes in the first post. Android one had a bit more updates in the UI and Windows one got some fixes for actual crashes and memory leaks (the side effect was broken text alignment and I still haven't done anything about that so it never got uploaded anywhere).
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Sorry, I didn't see the changelog at the end of the post. Thanks a million for making this thing!
0.1.8 on Android is pretty nice, I especially like the browsing for parts of a volume page - for any volume over about 10 parts I used to have to switch to landscape to see all the part numbers & make sure I was choosing the right part, now it is much easier on the eyes to see what is what.
The actual reader part having a "next part" button at the bottom is fantastic, especially for binging on catch up months. No more jump back "crap, what part was I reading again?" then jumping in and out to check.
Got around to loading the Windows version on my laptop, but primarily use the phone to read so haven't done more than log in & jump around the UI to check it. Now I have a "dark mode" PC reader, I might find myself using it for the new parts as they come out & keep the phone for Rokujouma & catch up titles.
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Already posted to the "Report App Bugs Here!" section but I figured I would also put something here since it is relevant to the unofficial app.
First I want to say that I have been super happy with this app. Having a "Night mode" is amazing and is something that is sadly missing from the official app. I really appreciate that this app was made and am excited to see some more development on it.
Unfortunately, the unofficial app stopped updating with the latest parts that I noticed had already released on the official app. I hit the "wipe cache" option hoping that would reset any corrupted data and fix the issue. Now it won't load anything at all. I just get a "Loading... Please Wait." prompt just above the setting section. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling as well and I see the same thing. I can post a screenshot if necessary.
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@commandojones It's been broken for a while. API slightly changed and app can't handle that well. New version can still break because of most minor changes and that's one of the reasons it's not 0.2 yet.
Just uploaded fresh 0.1.9 version. In addition to API stuff it got options for full-screen, TTS and 90%+ -> 100% completion update (to compensate for old official app bug).
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Was the Windows version different to the Android version? Because it kept working & I never noticed it break like the Android version did. (I suppose it could have updated itself via that Windows store?)
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@smashman42 It's still at 0.1.2 because 0.1.8 was more about android stuff and it kinda broke text alignment on Windows. I uploaded 0.1.9 to google drive but I probably won't update the package in the store until 0.2.
0.1.2 still works because it's making simpler (and ~40% slower) requests to API.
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@_08 Thank you very much for uploading 0.1.9! It is working for now but if anything breaks in the future I'll roll back to the slower but stable 0.1.2.I always appreciate how quickly you guys respond!
I am also really happy with all of the updates to this app. Pretty much the only thing I see that's missing is an indicator of which parts you've already read on the volume/part selection screen. Thanks again!
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+1, its working great again.
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New subscriber here. First, I would like to thank you for creating this unofficial Android app. It works much better than the official app, at least in "vertical scrolling reader" mode.
There are two problems in "Horizontal single-paged reader" mode, though:
- Reading progress isn't tracked, and the progress bar at the bottom doesn't advance. However, an existing reading progress from vertical mode is restored also in Horizontal mode.
- The NEXT PART button is missing in vertical mode.
I'm using the latest version 0.1.9 on Android 6.0 and 4.4 (old phone used as dedicated book reader), and the problems occur on both, with multiple books.
For now I'm using vertical mode. As a frequent user of the Kindle app, I prefer Horizontal single-paged mode, though.
Thanks!
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The next part button worked for me in vertical mode in 0.1.9 on Android 7.1.1 - was with the most recent monthly Rokujouma volume I remember using it for sure.
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@chrisg said in (Unofficial) Windows Phone/Win10/Android Rokujouma Reader. Now in the faraway corner of Windows Store.:
There are two problems in "Horizontal single-paged reader" mode, though:
- Reading progress isn't tracked, and the progress bar at the bottom doesn't advance. However, an existing reading progress from vertical mode is restored also in Horizontal mode.
I don't use that mode so it may not get be updated that frequently.
Apparently I "temporarily" commented out that part when I was updating some things and then forgot to uncomment and or rewrite it. Unfortunately the overall code for horizontal-flipping reader is a big mess (both big and mess, it's like 3 times more code than a vertical one and I made it in earlier days) and I gave up after an hour of trying to make it work - new pages won't render properly, partially because of the bugs in the new versions of framework. Update isn't coming at least for a few weeks.@smashman42 they meant the horizontal one. It simply doesn't have that button.
