New Baka-Tsuki Android App: Development

[Nandaka]

I recently go the ap on my new Samsung Prevail 2 phone and I am liking the app. I have noticed a couple of things though when the app checks for updated it will do it for ALL the LN's on the site it would be nice if the app checked to see if you had any LN's marked in the favs and ONLY check those for updates when you have actually DL'd the volumes to your device.

It will check for:
1. TOS change.
2. New Novel.
3. New Chapter for Watched Novel (not marked, but in updates list)
4. Updated Chapter for downloaded chapter in Watched Novel (will be marked with "i" icon)

Also the app dose not seem to be able to handle when a LN has two versions in the same language. although currently only Infinate Stratos is the only LN here that I know of that has an 'original' and 'rewrite' version and in the app you can not switch between the version if you click the link @ the top for the rewrite you are actually sent to to the web site via the phones browser and do not switch in the app.

This is known and I trying to fix it. Most likely it is because of the '/' after the title.
EDIT: the real culprit is because of Network Task on UI Thread, which is forbidden in Android. This happen because the 'Rewrite' page is not listed in the Chapter List, so the assumption of the page is downloaded is incorrect. I can do some fix, but there will be a limitation on the Jump TO menu and the Prev/Next button, as the 'Rewrite' page is not in the book chapter list.

Another thing is that the app is ignoring the <noinclude></noinclude> wiki tags at the bottom of chapters which causes the links for Previous, main, and Next which are @ the bottom of each chapter to be visible and active.

I thought someone want to have the nav link to be active?

[coolxal]

One thing that would be nice is if you add an option in the settings to set a default font size for reading.

Currently have to zoom in for each chapter.

[KuroiHikari]

Is it possible to include a message to inform readers that a project is hosted and is thus not supported by the app?

[Azyrion]

Is it possible to include a message to inform readers that a project is hosted and is thus not supported by the app?

What do you mean not supported? As far as I know you can use the "in-app browser" to see those novels as long as they are correctly linked.

[JARSKY]

Sorry if this is the worng place to to say this but, in the app Toaru Majutsu no Index's vol NT8's last two chapters "Epilogue" and "Afterword" do not appear in the app despite trying to refresh update the contents. Have even tried deleting volume and redownloading. These chapters are up on the site though.

Also Ch4 is incorrectly marked as (6/19) even though all 19 parts are present.

[Nandaka]

Sorry if this is the worng place to to say this but, in the app Toaru Majutsu no Index's vol NT8's last two chapters "Epilogue" and "Afterword" do not appear in the app despite trying to refresh update the contents. Have even tried deleting volume and redownloading. These chapters are up on the site though.

Also Ch4 is incorrectly marked as (6/19) even though all 19 parts are present.

On the Details/Chapter List page, select Refresh from the option menu.

[Nandaka]

Change log for BakaReader-EX-1-1-11-beta2:
- Update SDK to API Level 19 (Android 4.4)
- Buttons now change color when clicked or focused.
- Updates Polish translation by Trollmen
- Add option to order bookmark by creation date.
- Fix Settings menu in bookmark activity.
- Fix issue #87: Infinite Stratos rewrite link, with limitation with TOC (prev/next button, jump list) and parent page model for setting the title doesn't work..
- Fix issue #88: Big image is not updated when refreshing the content.
- Fix issue #86: FC when refreshing big images.
- Update Relink Image logic.

download link in http://www.mediafire.com/?12d4rvkwdf61hut or if you apply for beta testing, it will be updated automatically.

[Taper]

Few things I'd like to comment about:

1. I'm seeing grayed out volumes next to actual volumes but they contain nothing. Any way I can get rid of them?

2. For some of novels, all of chapters were listed as links - that is, each entry were "Chapter Title > ", which means they can't be downloaded for off-line reading. I know that Kikou Shoujo wa Kizutsukanai is one of them. - EDIT: Never mind, I found out why; they aren't hosted on BakaTsuki. Bummer.

3. Bookmark page does not list the volume the chapter is bookmarked from. So if I bookmark chapters from different volumes, I can't tell which they are from. I.e., bookmarked a chapter 3 from vol 1 and a chapter 2 of volume 2, but the bookmark page displays only chapter 3 and chapter 2 respectively so I could potentially mistake chapter 2 as preceding chapter 3 when that's not the case.

4. Can you add option to jump to novel index page to the Jump to menu? At least this way we'd have option to go directly to novel index anytime regardless of where we are within novel. I've noticed that if I go straight to chapter under "Resume Novel" option at main page, using "previous" command will send me right back to the main page so I can't jump to other volumes on whim.

[KuroiHikari]

Is it possible to include a message to inform readers that a project is hosted and is thus not supported by the app?

What do you mean not supported? As far as I know you can use the "in-app browser" to see those novels as long as they are correctly linked.

Hosted project have external links, which would open the browser app.

[Azyrion]

What do you mean not supported? As far as I know you can use the "in-app browser" to see those novels as long as they are correctly linked.

Hosted project have external links, which would open the browser app.

true it would normally open the standard browser app of your phone (chrome, dolphin, firefox etc.). But in the settings you can change that so that it uses Bakareader Ex' web-viewer/browser . It's in Settings>General>Use Internal webview. Like this its still inside the app that you can read the LN.

If it's not about that than I may be misunderstanding you. In that case I would like you to explain it a little more

[KuroiHikari]

The app isn't designed to handle non-BT links. Whether it works or not isn't related to whether it is supported. However, that above technically can't be said to be working, the app isn't doing anything but loading a browser.

@Nandaka, projects that are hosted are supposed to be tagged with a "Hosted Project" category tag.

[Nandaka]

Few things I'd like to comment about:

1. I'm seeing grayed out volumes next to actual volumes but they contain nothing. Any way I can get rid of them?

Long Press the volume and select delete.

2. For some of novels, all of chapters were listed as links - that is, each entry were "Chapter Title > ", which means they can't be downloaded for off-line reading. I know that Kikou Shoujo wa Kizutsukanai is one of them. - EDIT: Never mind, I found out why; they aren't hosted on BakaTsuki. Bummer.

Yap, external page is not supported, worst case, I can download only the text file, but without the updater support.

3. Bookmark page does not list the volume the chapter is bookmarked from. So if I bookmark chapters from different volumes, I can't tell which they are from. I.e., bookmarked a chapter 3 from vol 1 and a chapter 2 of volume 2, but the bookmark page displays only chapter 3 and chapter 2 respectively so I could potentially mistake chapter 2 as preceding chapter 3 when that's not the case.

Yap, can you put it to GitHub issue for the request: https://github.com/calvinaquino/LNReader-Android/issues

4. Can you add option to jump to novel index page to the Jump to menu? At least this way we'd have option to go directly to novel index anytime regardless of where we are within novel. I've noticed that if I go straight to chapter under "Resume Novel" option at main page, using "previous" command will send me right back to the main page so I can't jump to other volumes on whim.

If you press the bakareader ex icon when reading, it should return you to novels details (the one in the action bar).

@Nandaka, projects that are hosted are supposed to be tagged with a "Hosted Project" category tag.

I see, should I add status for the Hosted Project, similar like in Teaser/Stalled?

[seint]

nandaka, can i ask why i cant found oni-ai 'new novel' notification when i updateting?
i already try updating 4 times and still the same

and thanks for the amazing app

[Nandaka]

nandaka, can i ask why i cant found oni-ai 'new novel' notification when i updateting?
i already try updating 4 times and still the same

and thanks for the amazing app

It is not listed in either Sidebar Navigation (Main)/Teaser/Pending, so the application cannot get the references to the novel.

EDIT: it is listed, checking it now
EDIT2: Checking through Fiddler to get the actual page downloaded by the application, somehow it is not listed (http://imgur.com/NEti7GW). Most likely this is because of caching from the server. Wait until the cache expires and try again? (which is weird, from the response header, the expiration is set to 1 January 1970 and last modify is in 20 Oct 2013, see http://imgur.com/k0ubu2T)

[seint]

well, i just want to point that out,
its not to urgent for me to have it now xD

well, i will wait for the update in the playstore

and once again thank you