Devlog 8 (a huge two i am so funny hahahahaha)

What changed?

• epubs! (oh the horrors, this was so hard)
• three languages now: Polish, English and Russian
• i am in the process of adding my app to F-Droid (like it to help me!) Merge Request
• a lot of improvements to GitHub actions (caching, 4m build time reduced to ~30s!)
• reproducible builds and signing
• tasteful theme selection
• we don’t talk about the red cover.

What is going on next?

• improving epubs
• we talk about the red cover.
• adding it to F-Droid
• adding the app to google play store :)

Devlog 7 (a huge one )

What changed?

• a beautiful new vector logo!
• app info page and proper versioning
• tests on github actions on translation
• fix translation to properly use plurals
• working on polish translation
• Gradle build now bundles translation credits from Weblate
• settings on pdf reader and an abstraction layer before it (easier future coding)
• fix a lot of bugs and memory leaks (who said that?)
• added a bunch of customization options
• added a split page function for funky pdfs

What I will be working on next?

• Epubs
• Fixing visual bugs

Release v0.3.0
See you in the next one!

Devlog 6

What I changed?

• added a configurable reading layout option for PDFs
• added a new book info page (so pretty!)
• fixed bugs and i18n issues
• there will be English, Russian, Polish translations!
• fixed code quality (a lot!)

What am I doing next?

• Epubs
• More configurable options for PDFs and Epubs!

Thanks for reading!

Release v0.2.0

Devlog 5

(sorry for so little devlogs, hackatime was down )

What changed?

• Releases! Now the actions build and sign the app for releases (prereleases for now but yes)
• Pdf support!
• Full db rewrite
• More configurable options (and even more coming)
• A lot of bug fixes
• Got weblate set up for translating
• Bookmarks for PDFs
• A lot of metadata and info page!

What am I doing next?

• Epubs - it is confirmed and doable :)
• More custom features and themes
• Make the info page human?

Release: v0.1.0

See you in then next one!

Devlog 4

What have I changed?

• I created a Github actions builder that publishes the latest version to artifacts (releases later, as they are not ready XD)
• created lovely art and letterpaper (banner) also this tasty background changing depending on the theme)
• I am in the middle of completely changing the db structure to accommodate PDFs and EPUBs
• many code optimisations

I will focus on?

• PDFs for now
• more themes

See you in the next one!

Devlog 3

What have I done?

• full i18n-ation (every text is in strings file, so it can be translated), english as of now (russian and polish are coming)
• you can zoom the panels so you can adore all the details
• settings now has tabs so more options can be added
• settings popout extends all the way instead of a akward middleway
• settings are actually saved when pressing the “Save” button (yes they were discarded when saving, and saved when pressing somewhere else 🤭)

What I will be working on?

• hopefully epubs
• removing all the bugs 🐛
• making it even more customizable (custom backgrounds and themes are coming!)

See you in the next one!

Devlog 2

(omg I am writing this third time, I need to copy it this time)

What I changed?

• added bookmarks (auto remembering where you last read)
• added beautiful coffee theme
• added customization options
• added rereading (am I the only one to reread books/mangas all the time?)
• fixed bugs and memory leaks (memory leaks in an android app, I know)

On what I will focus now?

• writing more frequent devlogs
• I18N - aside from polish, english and probably russian
• maybe EPUBS 💀
• fix some annoying bugs (such as the cover sometimes not changing)

I created a Github repo!
See you in the next one!

Devlog 1, what it is?

ReadBear is a cute app for reading Comics (.cbz) and hopefully EPUB books! It is written in Jetpack Compose and will be Android only.

What have I done?

I made importing the comics/mangas through file, adding it to database and indexing for reading. You can click on the comic/manga and start to read it! There is some customising options but not that many as I would like in the finished product

This is my first Android app!

I really love the Material Design and UI so I am happy to use Compose! This is my first time in Kotlin (coming from Java) so it is a bit confusing, but I like it!

Ooopsies! I forgot to create a project and post devlogs on this app!