New Baka-Tsuki Android App: Development

[Nandaka]

I think this is the normal behaviour for Android, they only will release it when the memory is low. Maybe you can try to run another application which uses a lot of memory (games?) and see what it the behaviour?

You're right, the system releases the memory if it is needed by another app.
What I don't understand is why the system won't reuse the allocated memory even if the same chapter is opened multiple times.

Different context?

[Tidon]

No, I meant the following:

When I open a new chapter, the app/system caches the entire page in ram. When I exit the chapter, the system does not release the cached content. Bloodscythe found out that the app will allocate a new part of ram if I reopen the same chapter again. My question is, why can't the system reuse the old cache if the content is exactly the same as last time the chapter was opened.

[Weaknespase]

No, I meant the following:

When I open a new chapter, the app/system caches the entire page in ram. When I exit the chapter, the system does not release the cached content. Bloodscythe found out that the app will allocate a new part of ram if I reopen the same chapter again. My question is, why can't the system reuse the old cache if the content is exactly the same as last time the chapter was opened.

My guess - somewhere leaks Context. Context has references to all Views and Activity, so if it keep in memory, all loaded Activity will too. Memory will be freed only when process will be destroyed by Android's Memory Manager.

Also - in Java you always allocating new memory block for any new object, though it's right not only for Java. Memory leaks occurs when objects, that must be released didn't released.

[Erakk]

Ok, im half back...
Half, because i am going to keep at this while at work. My ISP said they were going to remake all the cable structure on my home in about 7 work days, so i am out of internets at home for now, aside from my phone's 3G which works when it wants.

Im going to get git stuff now and compile the new build. And also check the memory management, if i can.

[Nandaka]

Update:
- Update updateService to include new novel

Source in GitHub

[Erakk]

Update:
- Update updateService to include new novel

Source in GitHub

I'm updating with build 32 and ill get a link to it soon.
I had some cool UI updates but i cant upload them now because the source code is at home =/
So i have to bring it to work...

EDIT:
Build 32 With latest Updates as of this part of thread:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/w0j56z647njib ... 1-0-32.apk

EDIT2: I am having connection problems when attemping to update github with this apk...
If you can get this file and substitute build 31, Nandaka =)

[Glorfyboy]

Would it be possible to separate the invert colours setting between content reading and menus? For example I like a black background with white text for the page with the buttons: "Light Novels" "Watch List" "Jump to Last Read" etc as well as for the light novel and volume/chapter select screens, but for reading I like a white background with black text.

It isn't a huge deal switching them back and forth, but is somewhat annoying.

[Bloodscythe]

I didn't notice at first but the dialogue pop up when loading novel or watchlist is gone. Now it feels a lot smoother which is great.
Will you be doing the same when opening novel details and chapters?
Anyway, I might seem like an idiot for asking, no, I am an idiot, but what does the "Use Internal Webview for External Link" option do?
At first, I though it was to read chapters that were posted outside of Baka Tsuki but when I try to open an External Chapter, it just pops up with the box to open a specific web browser....

Notes: External Chapters aren't marked blue anymore but with an arrow.
Need to update settings to reflect this, haha.

I tested the clear image cache function but it still ended up deleting everything....
If this is too difficult to fix why not have Clear image cache do this:
Backup novel database then replace database with the backup as the backup contains no images.
I admit it's a weird workaround but if all else fails, you could try this.

Gekkou Short Stories is now confirned to appear. Thank you, Devs.

[Erakk]

I didn't notice at first but the dialogue pop up when loading novel or watchlist is gone. Now it feels a lot smoother which is great.
Will you be doing the same when opening novel details and chapters?
Anyway, I might seem like an idiot for asking, no, I am an idiot, but what does the "Use Internal Webview for External Link" option do?
At first, I though it was to read chapters that were posted outside of Baka Tsuki but when I try to open an External Chapter, it just pops up with the box to open a specific web browser....

Notes: External Chapters aren't marked blue anymore but with an arrow.
Need to update settings to reflect this, haha.

I tested the clear image cache function but it still ended up deleting everything....
If this is too difficult to fix why not have Clear image cache do this:
Backup novel database then replace database with the backup as the backup contains no images.
I admit it's a weird workaround but if all else fails, you could try this.

Gekkou Short Stories is now confirned to appear. Thank you, Devs.

@ Dialogs: Yes, we want to make the app more smooth and seamless. Dialogs are cool but only if you need to stop the user from doing another thing, (like for exmaple, when he backups/restores/clears the DB)

@ External WebView: gonna change the name. Thats basically experimental, its because, when reading an external novel, it will open in a browser, so we cant keep track of your scroll position and/or use next/previous/jump to features. By using our designated webview, we can.

@ External arrow change: Will do that.

@ Clear DB problem: we will have to look more into it maybe.

@ Gekkou =D

ALSO:

@ Separate Themes for reading/menu: Can be done, but i dont think will be done soon. I am checking as to what features to leave for a future patch, so we can release this one officially. but first we gotta fix some problems, as people have been complaining, the app os using too much memory.

[Flesher]

Whenever I press back and enter the chapter again it just starts at the beginning of the chapter instead of where i was.

it seems this problem happends when you use the zoom.

[Nandaka]

I didn't notice at first but the dialogue pop up when loading novel or watchlist is gone. Now it feels a lot smoother which is great.
Will you be doing the same when opening novel details and chapters?
Anyway, I might seem like an idiot for asking, no, I am an idiot, but what does the "Use Internal Webview for External Link" option do?
At first, I though it was to read chapters that were posted outside of Baka Tsuki but when I try to open an External Chapter, it just pops up with the box to open a specific web browser....

Can you give the chapter for testing?

@ External WebView: gonna change the name. Thats basically experimental, its because, when reading an external novel, it will open in a browser, so we cant keep track of your scroll position and/or use next/previous/jump to features. By using our designated webview, we can.

I won't promise you whether it can track the scrolling, as I'm using javascript to detect the scrolling event and I don't think I can inject a javascript to the external webpage (except after downloading the whole page, but this might break the external page javascript)

I tested the clear image cache function but it still ended up deleting everything....

Weird, I've put checking on the delete logic to skip db. I'll see it.

[Azyrion]

just wanted to know if the its volentery to have the notification not showing updates but chapters only. What I mean is when I pull down the bar to look it Shows xx new chapters but no longer the number of updates. You can still see the updates in the update history though.

[Nandaka]

just wanted to know if the its volentery to have the notification not showing updates but chapters only. What I mean is when I pull down the bar to look it Shows xx new chapters but no longer the number of updates. You can still see the updates in the update history though.

I can make the options for that, but don't blame me if you got 40++ notification (Sword Art Online is frequently updated)

[Azyrion]

What I meant is that in built 31 you had this when you pulled down the top bar:

BakaReader EX Updates
Found xx Updates, Found xx new chapters

now its only:

BakaReader EX Updates
Found xx new chapters

the part for updates(edits, new parts of chapters etc.) is missing. just wanted to know if that was your intention or not. Because I couldnt find it in you changelog (or missed it). You still see every change in the update history if you touch the notification so its ok.

[Nandaka]

What I meant is that in built 31 you had this when you pulled down the top bar:

BakaReader EX Updates
Found xx Updates, Found xx new chapters

now its only:

BakaReader EX Updates
Found xx new chapters

the part for updates(edits, new parts of chapters etc.) is missing. just wanted to know if that was your intention or not. Because I couldnt find it in you changelog (or missed it). You still see every change in the update history if you touch the notification so its ok.

Yap, it should only show each portion if there is any update, so if there is 1 updated chapter and 1 new chapter, it will show as "Found 1 new chapter(s) and 1 updated chapter(s)".

Is it show wrong information?