drutol/malclient

Not so small client app for Myanimelist.net - Windows 10 UWP & Android

malclient's Issues

What's going to happen over next few weeks?

I consider this point in development good to do a bit of behind the scenes work, so no major stuff for the time being :)

I'm currently in the process of converting solution to multiplatform one(tons of work), which means that 60-70% of current codebase will be able to run on other platforms i.e iOS and Android. I've managed to gather a few people for Android development and it's scheduled to start early October, iOS is not set in stone yet.

I'm also considering name change or at least changing mal to myanimelist or sth(any ideas? ^^). New logos is something I'm looking into too.

Content drought begins in 3...2...1...

Does not show pictures

And also when i click on " watch ads" from support option then it does not show ads.

No searches work

Searching for an anime or manga not in your list returns in a "No data received from MAL, try searching for something more specific. :(" error no matter what you search for.

Little update/refresh bug?

I think I found a bug where when you open the app (logged in), you're show the list of anime you're watching but the anime tiles don't have a weekly release day specified or the current ratings. Like this screenshot here:

I have to click on the anime (only a one time thing it seems) then when I pressed back or quit out of the app, the data is now visible:

I think this is only a problem if we add anime through other clients or on the website itself, and if it is through this app all is fine. Still, it was just a small bug, just letting you know.

Also a small question: Are these anime weekly release time Japan-based or U.S.? Some are way far off what I thought were release dates, for example the current Concrete Revolutio S2 come out every Friday, but on here it said Sunday?

And thank you for making such an awesome app :)

MALClient v5!

As you probably know I've been converting solution to multiplatform one meaning I can run the same code on Windows/Android/iOS. That's why we are going upper with major version!

Essentially everything (code-wise) is in different place or is more or less altered that's why bugs can appear anywhere, I wanted to test this more but this week turned out to be pretty busy for me and that's why I upload these first v5 builds today.

There are bugfixes from #53 and that's all what's new. No new logos yet as I'm finalizing them.

x64:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!Am1xQK-HVf_IkqReMbxevbGs2XSejw
ARM: (potentially buggier)
https://1drv.ms/u/s!Am1xQK-HVf_IkqRf3_jzL2Ie46tsMA

EDIT: iOS version is now possible

New profile page

So now profile page has landed on my workbench...

This is rough idea how I'm planning to lay everything out.

Thoughts ideas, requests?
There will be navigation through various profiles and comments. Everything read-only as there's no api for this stuff.

ideas for future updates

In an earlier thread you said you were running out of stuff to do
So...
I have some ideas for future updates to make it a full featured MALClient 😉

Common:

• Friend list with ability to visit friends profiles
• MAL notifications like new comments, friend requests
• Messages inbox
• Profile stats to show Total number of Entries, number of Rewatched, total number of Episodes, mean score
• Show more info about the user like gender, location, joined date, birthday
• Different accent colors for watching, completed, plan to watch, on hold, dropped (same colors as the site)
• Live tile (we talked about earlier)

Desktop only:

• Vertical reviews and recommendations like the mobile version
  
• Revamped profile page to make use of the large screen state (shows all the info in one page. no taps)
• Swipe to increment/decrement for tablet users ( I don't have a tablet :/ )

These are just ideas so it's totally up to you if you want to make them

Logos galore!

So I had my friend do some stuff with logo in actual graphics software called photoshop which is fundamentally different than me randomly pasting .pngs into GIMP hoping that it'll look any good.

There are some of his attempts:

Generally we've come to the conclusion to have store logo not in Windows accent colour in order to distinguish this app from others.

Splashscreens:

What do you think? These are already far better than my... let's pretend I din't do a thing here :D

Add volume count at manga when using MyAnimeList

When using the manga list with MyAnimeList, you can only update chapters and not the volume count on manga. I would like to have this feature so i can also edit the volume count from the client as well.

MAL Https fix is in certification....

MAL is going https, stuff will break. Update to be expected on friday. Over.

MAL Has gone https... stuff IS broken, will be unbroken in next update...

loading profile

The profile is loading without stopping. The background seems to have loaded normally, but because of the status of loading I can't move in my profile.

MAL user: WesleyFS/[email protected]

[Help me!]This page is atrocious... any ideas on how to improve the design?

No further explanation required...

[request] Sorting options

Hello, thank you fort this app. Its the reason why I switched from AniDB to MAL, but could you please add another sorting option by "date added to my list"?

App stats for August!

Time sure flies by... and...
we see slight decline in users but it's nothing major. ^^

I did not post on reddit because I have only one more opportunity to do so and I have to choose this moment wisely. Tbh there was no promotion at all except mal forum thread.

Development progresses at "meh" rate, mainly due to my internship (oh the drama) and tons of behind the scenes work that results only in new bugs... 🐛 The good thing is that I managed to create app that runs on Android and displays grid of show covers using non-java-magic™. iOS development may start soon too, the repo has already been forked by someone who doesn't dislike apple! Let's conquer all 3 platforms!

Users:

Sessions:

Donations:

🎉 We are also close to 500th commit! 🎉

[Question] Worried about mobile screen width.

I'm testing this app on Lumia 640 (1280x720), but there are phones with smaller screen. How does it look on them? Is everything scaling properly or there's some odd clipping?

Crashes in WP10 when updating status

Crashes whenever updating a title - adding a watched episode, changing status from plan to watch to watching, changing finish date, etc. problems seem to have started within the last week. Tried logging in/out, deleting caches, hard resetting phone - issue still persists. WP phone build 10586.338

Mobile crashes...

Hello, I'm getting crash reports with pretty vague error messages. If you happen to encounter them, could you please tell me what you were doing so I'll know where to look for solution?

There's no an awful lot of them but still it's annoying to see them :)

[Update 11.06] v4.3.17.0 preview - Articles&News + TopCategories x64+ARM

Update 11.06.2016

Hello!

Next preview version:

• Articles & News
• Top anime categories
• Hamburger menu now looks a bit better
• Setting to ensure selected item is visible after closing pane.

I feel that this almost everything I'll release next week.
x64 :
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=C8FF5587AF40716D!269457&authkey=!AB_IZN8fHhBTcdQ&ithint=file%2crar
ARM:
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=C8FF5587AF40716D!269458&authkey=!AK9mQzN8KeKlTzg&ithint=file%2crar

What settings would you like to see for articles?

[Live] BETA Forums mega(I hope so)thread.

This thread will serve for all forum related stuff once it's released next week.

What's in it?

• Latest fixes from #42.
• First iteration of forums implementation.

Important points:

• Which links I forgot to trigger in-app.
• What settings would you like to have there?
• Navigation.
• Topic page skin issues.
• What happens after creating new topic?

Updated 08.08.2016

Download links for non-store versions:

• x64 v4.4.19
  https://1drv.ms/u/s!Am1xQK-HVf_Ikep68kd7BPybntXERA
• ARM (I've tested this much less thus far) v4.4.20
  https://1drv.ms/u/s!Am1xQK-HVf_Ikep7wrZBLWpPAPyPNA

"Recommendtion" typo

In the recommendation area. Searching through the code for 'recommendtion' will have it turn up. Love how the app is open source. Worth donating.

[Mobile][Lumia950]App crash (not logged in)

The app crashes when going to seasonal anime and not being logged in.
This works fine on the website itself, the app does not like it to much.

When you log in and log out again it is no problem to access seasonal anime.

Is Desktop version stable?

I'm encountering some odd crashes with extremely odd internal exceptions... Can anyone else relate?

App stats for July

Yet another month passes... stats time!

There is slight increase in users:

Sessions:

Donations have "sky-rocketed" past week:

[suggestion] currently airing, not aired yet

it would be great to see the "currently airing" and "not aired yet" text in the anime list next to the picture in list view

[Stats] App stats for June

If you would like to see numbers, here they are :)
Desktop version has twice the users the mobile app has. (no wonder here...)
Sessions:

Users:

Donations:

Call To Arms: Notifications!

I'm gonna do notifications now but I need your help!
In order to get them I'll have to parse html and I don't have all notifications definitions yet:
I'm missing:

If you happen to have any of the underlined ones I'd be grateful for their html.
How to?
Step 1:

Step 2:
EDIT : To my surprise there JSON string in the html code! It's gonna be much easier now! Find this script and copy it's contents.

Step 3:
Paste the thing here in this issue.

Thanks!

[Bugs] Another list with stuff

I know you are working hard on something complicated, so I prepared a little list for you so you can take a little break :p

• Calendar: Reload doesn't respect "Start on Summary" when you reload - http://puu.sh/qPzjo.gif
  • ✔️ Fixed + fixed building calendar bug.
• Scrollbar in Calendar isn't at the edge (this has nothing to do with that previous scrollbar bug)
  • ✔️ Never ending story ね？
• Top manga always shows amount of volumes even if you have chapters selected - http://puu.sh/qJb0e.png
  • ✔️ As it turns out I wast too quick with copy pasting and forgot that I don't really have volume data from top anime so they are always going to display this value. + details will now switch volumes/chapters purely for consistency as these values are already visible ^^
• In manga details, "7" - http://puu.sh/qPyKo.png is the amount of Volumes, not Chapters
  • ✔️ Oh, and I thought I spotted someting...
• No stock photo for Recoms in Manga details - http://puu.sh/qJbyR.png
  • ✔️ I was wondering how long will this one take you to notice ^^. They had malformed html there but things seem to be okay now.
• If you click on Seasonal Anime, then on Recommendations, then on Settings & More (or on anime in Recomms), and close it with that swipe, "Recommendations" changes to "Summer 2016 - All" - http://puu.sh/qJgfW.gif
  • ✔️ This was interesting one :)
• Ok, since you figured out that one above this one, I will give you similar - After a fresh start, if you click in profile or history on anime and then in "Related" on manga, it will change Profile - name/History - name to name - Watching - http://puu.sh/qTHUJ.gif
  • ✔️ Fixed
• When you first click on "Seasonal Anime", it shows "Summer 2016 - All", but if you click on it again later, it will show "Airing - All"
  • ✔️ Fixed
• You shouldn't show "Index" in Seasonal Anime / Top anime, because you can't sort that list, so it is pointless
  • ✔️ Fixed
• Typo - "Decsending" should be "Descending" - http://puu.sh/qJia3.png
  • ✔️ Fixed
• When I enter number and click on Enter (on keyboard), it says "Wrong Input!", could you change this so it will click on that checkmark or is this some kind of element limitation? - http://puu.sh/qJiza.gif
  • ✔️ Fixed
• "Airing" in that menu should be 'All' - http://puu.sh/qJjaf.png
  • ✔️ Fixed
• Select season doesn't work? - http://puu.sh/qPz0V.gif
  • 💮 Guess what! Microsoft has bugged combobox in anniversary update, you can use scroll wheel to select item but not mouse. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ I'd have to make anniversary update minimum targeted version of sdk in order to fix this and I don't really want to this yet. I don't know what to do with this.https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ae9d0b92-5c97-40cf-9c39-fa940121b2b7/uwp14393combobox-within-flyout-loss-mouse-touch-interaction-after-target-the-uwp-project-to?forum=wpdevelop
  • ✔️ After some hacking I got this working but I;m still annoyed by this behavior.
• Episodes: "0" should be '?' in recoms - http://puu.sh/qJjst.jpg
  • ✔️ Fixed
• Should I report all Synopsis things or just don't bother with them? - http://puu.sh/qJkCJ.png
  • 💮 Yeah report them and eventually we will get rid of most of these ^^. I did some fixes here already.
• When you short shows by Score, could you then sort them by Title? ^^ So your 10/10 should go abc>, then your 9/10 should go abc> http://puu.sh/qPr3F.png
  • ✔️ Done
• One more Recommendations scaling bug - http://puu.sh/qPq97.gif
  • ✔️ Fixed
• When you click on friends profile, then on your friend's friend profile, then click on history (or anything else in hamburger menu that doesn't delete back button) and then press that back button, it goes to your friends profile, so it skips your friend's friend - http://puu.sh/qPqja.gif
  • ✔️ Fixed
• Search magnifier in Anime list disappears, if you click on "Account" in settings - http://puu.sh/qPqNs.gif
  • ✔️ Fixed
• I swear I only pinned it once… :D (pinned posts multiply in forums) - http://puu.sh/qPryG.gif
  • ✔️ It was very cleverly doubling xd
• If a person doesn't have Voiceacting/Production Roles, scrollbar is awkwardly small, it should be stretched and while we are at it, shouldn't there also be "No Voice acting roles found"? Or something like that? - http://puu.sh/qPs1X.gif
  • ✔️ Fixed
• Words "Voiceacting" and "Voiceactors" doesn't exist :D - http://puu.sh/qPscY.jpg
  • ✔️ Nah they do... really believe me...
• No scrollbar in character details - http://puu.sh/qPsAa.jpg
  • ✔️ Fixed
• If you try to delete entry you don't have in list, it crashes the app - http://puu.sh/qYBE5.gif
  • ✔️ Fixed
• Some shows have their airing day still after they are done airing - http://puu.sh/quioF.png , you could probably somehow check for "Status" and if it's Airing > show airing day and if it's Finished Airing > don't show it
• Arrow to top disappears after you click on a show - http://puu.sh/qz2Li.gif
  • ✔️ Fixed
• If you search for something in anime list, then if you click on "Anime search" it searches for it, but in "Character search" it doesn't search for it - http://puu.sh/qXkxN.gif
• Couldn't you chop the empty lines in character details? - http://puu.sh/qPx7M.gif
  • ✔️ Fixed
• There aren't any spaces between spoilers - http://puu.sh/qPxt3.png maybe have it start at a new line or just insert space?
  • ✔️ Fixed
• When you extended one review and then clicked on different show and went to reviews, it has one review extended - http://puu.sh/qAiJG.gif
• So in a lot of places if your internet doesn't work, it will crash the app, which is always a bad thing… Or you know, when MAL went https, it was the same thing, so instead of crashing, just create a dialog, that "Something went wrong™"?
  • ✔️ Fixed™
• If you click on a show in recommendations multiple times, it will create back arrow for each press - http://puu.sh/qSURS.gif
  • ✔️ Fixed
• You can't select/write text in "List source", it's unusable now :( - http://puu.sh/qSBRW.png
  • 💮 Same thing as with season selection, bugged anniversary update... I'll consider switching target to previous W10 version.
  • ✔️ After some hacking I got this working but I;m still annoyed by this behavior.
• If someone has comments disabled, it isn't apparent - http://puu.sh/qSUp4.png
  • ✔️ Fixed
• In profile, if you switch Focus chapters/volumes, then in "Recent manga" grid items will change the total amount of chapters/volumes only after app restart, whereas in manga list it changes immediately - http://puu.sh/qT7vA.gif
  • ✔️ Fixed

And since I didn't mention it anywhere, my main device is android, so when you will make something for it, I would like to be beta tester too ^^ You know… I like to find stuff :3

Just me wondering about a pinch of monetization...

I was lately thinking about getting something out of this app as over the course of 6 months I got $19 (after taxes, fees and such) from donations and I devote considerate amounts of time into this project.

I'm not sure whether ads with removal in app purchase is something I want to add but it may be the most viable, because what else can I monetize? Making forums read-only with iAP to unlock sounds pretty sketchy (just random idea).

I did once put video ads on demand as a form of donation/support, but the traffic was so small that after a month I got exactly $0 so this is not the way to go.

What do you think? What seems appropriate for you to put behind a paywall?

(I'm bad in making profit from my apps, and I don't want to bomb you with ads in some random update and that's the TL;DR of this post xd)

[Bugs] Another list with new bugs

Synopsis

• When in synopsis is [Written by MAL Rewrite], there is an extra line at the end and "[Written by MAL Rewrite]" is nowhere to be found, is it intentional that you are deleting "["and things in them"]" - http://puu.sh/r6MXQ.jpg and while I'm at it, do you plan to delete (source in normal brackets) too, or is deleting source in this brackets [] unintentional?
  • 💮 This data is from API response and not from HTML. I'm displaying what I get from this xml (which is often unparsable). I'm using Regex to remove BBcodes from this string(yes... BBcodes) and source is treated as bbcode.
• When there aren't synopsis, there is nothing - http://puu.sh/r6Npi.jpg
  • ✔️ Fixed
• "Weiß" is "Weiszlig;" in app - http://puu.sh/r6Q9p.jpg
  • ✔️ Fixed
• "ChäoS;Child" is "Chauml;oS;Child" in app - http://puu.sh/r6Oco.jpg
  • ✔️ Fixed
• "Glühen" is "Gluuml;hen" in app - http://puu.sh/r6Q6v.jpg
  • ✔️ Fixed
• didn't found any ö and ë, but it is probably "ouml;" and "euml;"
  • ✔️ auml buml cuml vuml buml numl.... xd

New stuff

• Manga still uses old parsing for titles? - http://puu.sh/r6Qk6.jpg (or something like that? I don't know what am I saying)
  • 💮 It's not about being manga or not. MAL sends unparsable data and I have to remove "&" symbol from it. If I have a source of title which is 100% good (like from anime list) I'm using it for title instead of one from details data. If you add this manga, restart the app and navigate there again you will see "&" in title.
• Shows that doesn't have Score - http://puu.sh/r6OpJ.jpg have score in details - http://puu.sh/r6Orq.jpg , could you remove that (scored by blah blah..?
  • ✔️ Fixed
• Should I consider this as a feature? - http://puu.sh/r6QyD.gif and while we are at it, couldn't you just say Volumes instead of Chapters? Because you can't pull the number of chapters in Top Manga?
  • ✔️ Fixed, and yes, this is a feature.
• When I click on '+' button on a show that I have in PTW multiple times, it will summon dialog asking to move it to Watching multiple times - http://puu.sh/r6QOf.gif (it will also happen in other places than PTW -> Watching, like in On-hold -> Watching or Dropped -> Watching and even Watching -> Completed)
  • ✔️ Should no longer happen.
• When I'm in someone's Anime List and click on Calendar, it will show theirs calendar - http://puu.sh/r6Rni.gif (now that I think about this, is this a feature? I was certainly confused when I discovered this...) happens only if you haven't clicked on Calendar before, so test this after fresh restart
  • 💮 The code lives on its own. I'll leave this be because it would be pretty complicated to fix.
• So you added this auto descending/ascending thing, but when it automaticly descends, it will not check descending in that shorthing flyout - http://puu.sh/r6RGX.gif So you have to click on descending 2 times before the list will ascend
  • ✔️ Because who needs this ancient button anymore? Fixed...
• http://puu.sh/r6S7X.jpg - When you click on '+' too quickly, it will sometimes send data to MAL in different order. This is a problem, because in history you can see I have 6 eps watched, but to MAL it was send 3 > 5 > 6 > 4 and for some reason it left my "Watched episodes" on not 6 or 4, but on 5... And please don't add cooldown/loading on '+' button, I love spamming it ^^
  • ✔️ Fixed(hopefully), no cooldown,no loading but semaphore!
• When you click on magnifier in anime list, type into it something and then click on Calendar/Recommendations (or other things that doesn't have search bar), it will have "Calendar/(different) Title" - http://puu.sh/r6Swr.gif
  • ✔️ Fixed
• http://puu.sh/r6SKl.png - Don't have that scrollbar in Recent Manga Discussion and just let it higher than other
  • 💮 Forums aren't finished and I'll come back to them later. I'm aware that these things down there are quite ugly.
• I feel like you could fit OVA/ONA in here - http://puu.sh/r6TKJ.png
  • ✔️ Who knows?
• If you click on '...' on grid item in Anime list it opens that right thingy, but if you click on it in Profile, it doesn't open it - http://puu.sh/r6Ugr.gif So have it act like in Profile?
  • ✔️ Fixed.
• Date on a comment and the actual comment are way too close - http://puu.sh/r6UyJ.png
  • ✔️ Fixed
• Character grids without picture have smaller width, which is equal to their name - http://puu.sh/r8LtB.jpg
  • ✔️ Fixed
• "Register!"s in Account are swapped, so if you click on Register! In MyAnimeList tab, it will link to humming bird and if you click on Register! In Hummingbird tab, it will link to MyAnimeList
  • ✔️ Fixed
• If you will load all details, then on the second load, it won't start from zero, but from the number the first finished - http://puu.sh/r8SIi.gif
  • ✔️ Fixed
• So if I have loaded all details, couldn't you then use the scores to be automatically loaded into the list without clicking on the show itself? - http://puu.sh/r8SV0.gif
  • ✔️ im dumb
  • shh bby is ok
• When I click on pinned topic on homepage of Forums and then go back with that back button, it goes through an empty list - http://puu.sh/qwuqn.gif
  • ✔️ Seems to fixed magically too...
  • ❎ I don't know why I didn't point this out earlier, but this isn't fixed for me
• Why :'( - http://puu.sh/r21br.png please, move the scrollbar in calendar 2 pixels to the right >_<
  • ✔️ Did you really count these pixels or did dig for "2" in code? Yes it was off by 2 pixels.
  • ❎ Still two pixels away... No I didn't go through code, counting pixels is easy when you are putting 2 pics together ^^ (no I can't code so I can't help you... Yes, I have a lot of free time, which is apparent when I have time putting these lists together... :D Why I don't watch more anime? Because Wow legion ^^)
  • Haha, I'm hyping myself for TBC right now :D
  • Playing on free servers? Well, even I started there... Is there some nostalgic thing about TBC, or you couldn't find any other server?
  • I'm planning to start playing when new TBC server launches (maybe December), tbh I didn't play on retail at all despite having played wow for thousands of hours on multiple servers. I somehow dislike direction of blizzard and I'm stuck with wotlk and TBC + sub is quite expensive.
  • Yup, sub is expensive, but it's ok if you can earn enough gold for Wow token. I understand your stance towards wotlk+, especialy when MoP brought pandas and WoD was total failure, but so far I'm having time of my life in Legion, can't wait for hating it because of lack of content :D
• And also that thing with reviews remaining extended and airing days remaining displayed after they are finished airing..........
  • .............................
• "Tokyo Ghoul √A" is "Tokyo Ghoul radiac;A" in app - http://puu.sh/r6Rcr.jpg
  • ✔️ Fixed
  • 🐈 It's "radic;" not "radiac;", I'm so sorry, my bad...
• Crash - sometimes when I click on profile, it will crash, I don't really know what is causing it, I'm assuming failing to load an image? Idk, here is me crashing it 2 times - http://puu.sh/rb8t3.gif http://puu.sh/rb8uz.gif
  • 🌠 See comment
• When you click on magnifier in anime list, type into it something, click on Character Search, then delete that something you just wrote, click on Anime search, Anime List and then on Anime search, it will search for something with empty search bar - http://puu.sh/r6RPH.gif (there is maybe an easier way to replicate this, but this works 100% for me, so just do this..)
  • ✔️ I did not even go through this process, I've just put there restriction for search query to be at least 2 characters long.
• If you are in somebody's list, click on button Go back to my list, and then click on that back button, it will skip their list - http://puu.sh/r8SE5.gif
  • 💮 : To be honest it works as intended, navigation mechanism was implemented much later in the development and I'm literally unable to add certain pages to navigation chain withou major code changes.
• In Anime search, shows with no score show 0.00 Score - http://puu.sh/raaSt.jpg (should show N/A)
  • ✔️
• And in Anime List, shows with no score show nothing - http://puu.sh/raaFi.png (should show N/A, but don't add N/A for everything that doesn't have score loaded)
  • ✔️ Fixed

Mobile

• You can't save anime cover art on mobile anymore
  • ✔️ I've ditched this view on mobile and made it work the same way as in desktop, now with only one option which will try to pull higher quality image.
• When I have settings in landscape mode, I can't reach past About, because you can't scroll in Settings main page - http://puu.sh/r8Ryl.jpg
  • ✔️ Fixed
• You can short in Seasonal anime... You can't on desktop.. I guess it works, so no problem here... But that auto descending on score doesn't work there tho
  • ✔️ Hmm you were always supposed to be able to sort in seasonal but I forgot to set column for season selection and it was hidden behind it... adjusted sorting.
• Could you add flyout for Anime/Manga list, so I can go to different category than watching from hamburger menu?
  • ✔️ No problem :)
• There isn't reload profile button, so for example my Recent updates was updated 5 days ago...
  • ✔️ Fixed

Desktop back navigation button.

Okay, I quite dislike how this thing presents but I'm clueless on how to make it look better. Any ideas? :D

Add "unranked" option to "My score" choice list.

It's really annoying, that when I need to delete my score for title, I must use web version. Can u improve that? Thx a lot.

[Question] Is this ad button in hamburger menu working?

I'm getting info that there are requests for ads and nothing else. It looks like Microsoft is unable to serve any ads... Did somebody managed to watch one?

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Brand old TODO list!

Go here for more specific details
https://github.com/Drutol/MALClient/projects/4

• Multiplatfrom solution with UWP restored to its former glory. 🏁
• Rewatching support 🏁 v5.0.18(19).0
• Finish forums 🏁 v5.0.18(19).0
• List comparing
• Notifications 🏁 v5.0.18(19).0
• Clubs
• Begin Android development 🏁
• New logo + optional name change 🏁 v5.0.10(11).0
• Watched topics 🏁 v5.0.25(24).0
• Social share
• Promotional Videos 🏁 v5.0.29(28).0
• Handy search (in off section) 🏁 v5.0.29(28).0
• Wallpapers 🏁 v5.1.4(5).0
• Promotional videos - most popular page 🏁 v5.1.4(5).0
• Notification page
• Recent Friend Updates
• Manga recoms 🏁 v5.1.7(6).0
• Articles&News live tiles 🏁 v5.1.7(6).0

(no order)

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Finished ( 🏁 )
In development ( 🚧 )

[Long list] Bugs / Small suggestions

First of all, I really love your app, like, really ^^
So after using it for a while I noticed a few things that bothered me, so I figured I would write them here, so they could get solved.

Bugs

• Shows show average MAL rating only after I clicked on them - http://puu.sh/q7pid.png
  • ✔️ Scores are cached and will populated if the value is known. Api limitation of sorts.
• When there is back button on top, and I make search bar available, like if I'm on someone's profile and search something, the search bar covers the back button http://puu.sh/q7pAm.png
  • ✔️ Fixed
• Top anime can't load more than 250 shows
  • ✅ Works as intended, explanation below
• Gender, Time I Joined and Location in profile shows information from different things - http://puu.sh/q7rgB.jpg
  • ✔️ Fixed
• When I click on the author of the Article, it opens his profile in browser
  • ✔️ Fixed
• When I browse the "Top Anime" page and click at show I don't have in my list and look at the amount of episodes it shows a "?"
  • ✔️ Fixed
• Show title is in rare cases overlaping the number of the show on the list - http://puu.sh/q7uVT.jpg
  • ✔️ Fixed, gave some love to those detailed grid items.
• If I click "Anime Search" more than one time and then go to the "Anime list", search bar remains open
  • ✔️ Fixed
• When I have selected one show and press "Select one at random", it does show random show on the right but it doesn't select it in the list
  • ✔️ Fixed, I did try to make it allow to use arrows to naviagte accross items but there's something with stock control and it will accept arrow movements after a few presses.
• Anime Search is different than that on the website, it shows the shows differently, http://puu.sh/q7wPo.jpg the app didn't even list on the list Space Dandy, which on MAL is first
  • ✅ This is what I get from MAL's API response nothing I can do here.
• In Settings, when you click on drop down list, it makes the whole list move to the right http://puu.sh/q7xxi.png
  • ❓ Umm, you mean that it hides originating combo box?

Mobile only bugs

• There isn't "All" category in "Anime list", when I click to the right of the hamburger menu
  • ✔️ Fixed
• When I click on magnifier in "Anime list" i can't immediately type, while on deskop I can
  • ✔️ Fixed
• When you are viewing show details, then in the "General" tab when you grab and drag it diagonaly on shows details, like the amount of episodes or type of the show, you can drag it, I recomend looking at the picture http://puu.sh/q7sgO.jpg , it's hard to describe it, this also happens in the "Details" with Genres and Episodes, also in Recommendations details
  • ✔️ Fixed

Suggestions

• In reviews when I right click the review (or long hold it, or click on name, whatever), I could view profile of the writer
• When I right click/long hold on Image in Article in "Articles", I would like an option to save it
  • Pretty hard and there are more urging matters, maybe someday... ^^
• Add a way to load more reviews
  • ✔️ Upped the default number of pulled ones.
• Add the show popularity and ranked number to anime details
  • 💭 Data is scarce here but I'll try...
• Add the episode length, so I would know how long the film is or how short the shorts are
  • 💭 Same as above
• A way to copy shows title, like I would like to make the title of the show selectable http://puu.sh/q7tOl.jpg
  • ✔️ Done.
• A way to don't show "Manga list", "Manga search" and "Top Manga" in hamburger menu (maybe pointless, but I would use it ^^)
  • ✔️ Added.
• Add the show "airing day in the week" / "number of the show on list" to the list view, it is already in detailed grid view
  • ✔️ Added.
• Add all seasons to the "Seasonal Anime" section, all are on the website
• In list view on desktop when I have selected one show and press the down / up arrow, it moves but to make sure the viewer on right gets updated I have to press Enter, I would like to do it without pressing Enter
• Add a way to view someones profile (now we can only view his list and even now I don't like that "List Source" button, I think it would be better in hamburger menu, but thats just my opinion ^^)
  • Moved this button deeper (in the "more" section of bottom app bar)
• Add producer of the anime to the details of the anime
  • 💭 Again... missing data. I'll probably take this from html(duh) and redo details page in details page ^^

I hope that at least some of those bug fixes / suggestions will get implemented, so I could enjoy your app even more ^^ and also I hope, that some of those pictures helped to describe, what I meant

[Disclaimer] Missing images? Seasonal/Top anime is not loading? Something stopped working?

So, if these things occur it generally means that MAL has changed something in html.
There's no api that provides this data so I have to parse html in order to obtain it. There's no external server that relays data to this app so each device parses html on its own so I have to push new build in case of this happening. Just FYI.

UI doesn't switch to Mobile view when resized low enough

The UI should switch to the mobile view when you resize the window low enough. Otherwise, the anime info pane overlaps the anime list.

[4.4.27.0] issues/gripes

4.4.23.0 stuff

• White theme log in page - http://puu.sh/qHf10.jpg
  • ✔️ Fixed
• We should be able to copy names of characters and voice actreses
  • ✔️ True
• Favorite button inconsistency - http://puu.sh/qHgIq.jpg (more visible on white theme)
  • ✔️ I think I've dealt with all theme inconsistencies. And on the staff page there were 2 favourite buttons... somehow...
• In profile, when you had anime opened and you click on character, wrong back arrow appears - http://puu.sh/qHmQ8.gif
  • ✔️ Should work properly now
• When you click on voice actor through character, then on anime and then on back arrow, it skips the voice actor - http://puu.sh/qHmRJ.gif
  • 💮 Because of how everything is implemented this will take some time so I'll skip it for now. (It'll happen if you navigate from character to anime too)
• If I click on manga, it doesn't create back arrow to the character that appears in it - http://puu.sh/qHmUk.gif
  • ✔️ Fixed
• If you click and drag, it doesn't select that character - http://puu.sh/qHmWp.gif
  • 💮 Are you some kind of QA Tester irl or something? I made it behave this way because different issue cropped up and I think I can live with this drag click bug :D
• When you click on different character in profile, it doesn't create that back arrow - http://puu.sh/qHmY1.gif
  • ✔️ Fixed
• "Website" is useless on every voice actor I found, it's shortened (with ... at the end), just like on mal website, so there is probably almost nothing you can do about this?
  • 💮 I can always hide it :D
• When you made it so +/- doesn't take up space when they are not needed caused index number to jump all over place - http://puu.sh/qHnns.png
  • ✔️ Moved this section to the left altogether
• Since we have open in browser in Anime details, could you add this to characters/voice actors? ^^
  • ✔️ Added
• Show the type of anime/manga on grid item in character details - http://puu.sh/qHmbx.png (TV, Manga, Novel)
  • 💮 No data, or no easily accessible data I should say.
• I want to know how many ppl have the same waifu as I have, so I would like to have Member Favorites on characters too ^^
  • ✔️ Added, It's 0 anyway :D
• Would it be possible to add search for characters/voice actors? Or is it something beyond your power?
  • 🚧 : Can do
  • I'm going to add character search only though, I don't feel like ppl are searching for staff that much.
  • ✔️ Done

Two things that are still present

• If you have subcategory in settings opened and then click on anime/manga, it does have that back arrow too - http://puu.sh/qz4iV.gif
  • ✔️ Fixed, literally typo
  • ❎ Still not fixed, another typo? :/
  • 🏁 Not a typo, idk what happend here.
• Favorites won't load if you spend some time (I reloaded, clicked on history, went back and then again reloaded profile) in a profile without favorites - http://puu.sh/qCsyd.gif (I pointed this out because you said "Profile page will no longer show empty favourites." in your changelog :D)
  • ✔️ Fixed
  • ❎ Not for me, did the same things in gif in .23, you can also go to that profile through Goto, no need to go though Articles
  • 🏁 Okay... now instead of using trickery with items arrangement I'm using effective yet simple bruteforce...

And don't forget mobile ^^ (from #42)

• I can't load somebody else's history, it shows empty every time
  • 💮 Cannot reproduce, maybe I have fixed this by accident.
• If you click in your "Profile" page on "Anime list" and then click back, it goes back to "Anime list", so nothing happens
  • ✔️ It worked differently for me but it was bugged nevertheless
• Clicking back in forums main page closes the app
  • 💮 Cannot reproduce
• In anime search, if you clicked on a show, went back and then tried to click on it again, it doesn't go to the show details
  • ✔️ Fixed earlier because I was fixing something eles.
• If you click on Anime stock photo in anime details the photo is in the middle verticaly, so if you are for example in reviews, it isn't visible right when you click on it, you have to scroll down and the save button is even lower
• In settings in Account if you click on back arrow, it closes the app
  • ✔️ Fixed
• Grids in history have different widths - http://puu.sh/qBvGE.png
  • 💮 Work fine for me... we'll see after next build

Calender

When I try to open the Calendar within the app it crashes and i have to restart the app. Am I the only one with this issue? I just want to know if I'm doing something wrong

Gridview width - Desktop

On W10 desktop, width of the gridview for anime is decreased if default hamburger state is collapsed.

[Bug + Suggestion] MALClient for PC

First of all, thank you very much for MALClient for both PC and mobile.

After using MALClient for a while I noticed that the grid view only shows The first 10 anime
like this:

The workaround is by opening one of the anime to show its content and the rest of grid loads properly
like this:

The other issue (not considered a bug)

The width of the details panel of the anime (by default) is a bit too wide at 1366x768 resolution
so reducing it a bit will be much appreciated

here is how it looks on grid view


and this is on list view

As for the suggestion:

There is a plenty of space at the top panel unlike mobile so the bottom bar buttons can be moved to the top to save the space taken by the bottom bar

Sorry for the long post

Where did the option to pin custom tiles go?

I don't know of you removed it in a update, but it just disappeared. I would like to pin a tile, just like the MAL url one, but that directs me to another website, example: KissAnime. I liked it, cause it gave me a nice look on the tile instead of that blue Edge tile.

Localization?

So there's a thing, I got a few emails where people were offering help translating this app. I made research and started implementing foundations but god, t's so mundane that my eyes started melting and I only extracted like 100 strings.

Yay or Nay for localization, is there even reason while most of the content is in English? Because the longer I'm thinking about it the less I want to have anything to do with it...

[Big!] Hummingbird support!

Because some lone soul requested Hummingbird support in reddit thread I decided to add it :D
And it's almost done (at least on basic functionality level). Their API is better but provides less information than I'd like to. Right now I have adapted as much as I could to current app.
Things missing:

• Profile page - they only give favourite anime + random stuff like avatar,name etc so skipped for now.
• Manga library is read only and there's no details because there's no manga support whatsoever.
• Proper logo/splashscreen image. I have done some placeholders with hummingbird in the background but I probably can do better.
• Various details weren't "ported" to hummingbird yet. If somebody could do list off those missing thing I'd be grateful (stuff like buttons in details page/ obsolote settings).
• Some old bugs ;d

New things:

• New profile page ofc.
• List caching now works properly and is enabled by default.
• A bit of optimizations, reduced amount of doubled data.
• Cleaned up code from like 1st day of development.

If you would like to test this thing out just to check whether MAL works as it should or maybe you want to jump ships to hummingbird there's x64 package below. If somebody wants x86 feel free to write here.

Download v4.0.3.0 x64
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=C8FF5587AF40716D!222772&authkey=!ALxzRmgZnet5zsI&ithint=file%2crar
Download v4.0.3.0 ARM
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=C8FF5587AF40716D!222771&authkey=!ACRbeXQxiDAV6rY&ithint=file%2crar

You can install this thing by running PowerShell script include or via device portal in case of arm.

[BUG & Suggestion]

Hello,
First, I think this app is great enough to gain a support (so I did).

Here a little bug :
If I add a new series and directly edit "my watched episodes" the popup that offer me the option to switch from "plan to watch" to "Watching" (great idea) come.

When I click "yes" this popup come :

As for the suggestion, I think you should replace the "X" button for removing a series from the collection by a Bin or something alike.

My written English is somewhat rusted, sorry.

Calendar & Tiles -> Next update

This week comes to an end... thank god!

Next update (which will probably go live next week depending on how my assignment goes) is going to feature:

• Calendar
  • Simple breakdown of airing/planned anime by day.
    
• Live Tiles
  • I have them working but I don't have screenshot and I don't want to switch branch now xd. They basically have 2 "sides" - one with image and second with title status and watched episodes + you can set url for them just like before. Sync mechanism and UI revamp is still waiting for its turn though.
• Probably working "support me button" ;d
  • Microsoft has literally no ads as it seems so I'm jumping ships to different provider, who knows how it'll work.

My question is: What do you want to add to Calendar and/or tiles?

Navigation issues

Just a list of places where back nav skips a page or restores page not as good as it could.
I'll focus on these in next update.

Mobile

• Series forum board -> detail ✔️ Fixed
• Details -> recommendations (pivot index) ✔️ Fixed

login option [request]

Facebook login

Emm... am I doing this correctly?

I've beenworking on countdown till next episode but the more I'm thinking about this the more confused I am...

(This is with timezone offset... it must be alright, right?)

I hate timezones btw xd

[Most recent stuff] TODO list

Easier but I don't really feel like doing them

• Calendar live tile
• Anime status color schemes
• Better Desktop UI for calendar 🏁 v4.3.125(126).0
• Better Log In page UI 🏁 v4.4.30(29).0

Biggies but I'm hyped to implement these: (in planned order)

• Messages - send&receive. 🏁 v4.3.126(125).0
• Favourites 🏁 v4.3.126(125).0
• Notifications ❓ Is this needed? I'm not sure
• Read-only forum... Big and distant 🏁 v4.4.22(21).0
• Forum with possibility to write posts. Even Bigger and more distant 🏁 v4.4.22(21).0
• Character&Staff Details pages 🏁 v4.4.30(29).0
• New anime/manga details tab. 🏁 v4.4.30(29).0
• List compare

Misc:

• How many days until anime airs info (next to grayed air day) 🏁 v4.3.124(123).0
• Random PTW chooser 🏁 v4.3.124(123).0
• Tags/Comments 🏁 v4.3.125(126).0
• Load more top anime 🏁 v4.3.124(123).0
• Fix status bar for top anime (mobile) - 🏁 v4.3.124(123).0
• Sort by Start/End dates 🏁 v4.3.125(126).0
• Manga volumes 🏁 v4.3.125(126).0
• Review scores 🏁 v4.3.125(126).0

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Bugs:

• Calendar crashes - v4.3.18.0
• Figure out what's up with those mobile crashes. 🏁 v4.3.124(3).0 Fixed a few, some are still unresolved...

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Finished ( 🏁 )
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