Devlog 19

What did I do?

• I created a fork of Reorderable (a kotlin compose library for easy reordering), and added custom hover events
• you can now a add books to folders
• you can now move books around (change order)
• there will be a custom animation on hover (now just a red box )
• I am in the process of adding ReadBear to google play! (it’s hard and they require a lot of data )

What will I do next?

• continue adding CRUD to folders
• add custom animations
• continue with the google process

We are getting closer and closer to a ship!

Thanks and see you in the next one!

Devlog 18

100H ON READBEAR! YUPIIIII

What did I do?

• FOLDERS WORK NOW! please see the video to give me some dopamine
• folders took:
  • 5 commits
  • 400 lines added, 1200 lines removed
  • adding whole file migration system
  • 15+ hours
• I am so happy the folders work (kinda)

What will I do now?

• continue with art
• customization
• finishing crud on folders

F-Droid: v0.8.1
GitHub: dev branch

Please spread the Beary News (100+ hours)
See you in the next one!

Devlog 17

I am so sorry for no devlogs!

What did I do?

• i am still working on folders! they require a whole ui rewrite unfortunately!
• i got in contact with an artist, we are preparing some new logos and backgrounds! check samples in the pictures
• a lot of files changed (and I mean a lot - see in pictures)
• got everyting i18n-ated (all changelogs etc)
• file migrations (and custom screen!)

What I will do next?

• folders. I will hopefully finish them to the next devlog!
• work on the custom logos and backgrounds!

F-Droid: v0.8.1
Github: v0.8.1

Logo author: Castellon Artz

Devlog 16

What did I do in all this time?

• a lot of in-between things - for example githooks with tests (I pushed a bad build to f-droid, I need to learn on my mistakes )
• a huge db migration - i am working on folders
• dates are in the ui (last read time, created at)
• you can now edit booktype-specific data
• working on folders! (a hugely big amount of work :<)

What am I doing next?

• folders, snippet folders
• probably more tests
• update languages
• add some icons (a nice artist reached out to me!)

See you in the next one!

Get it on GitHub or F-Droid

Devlog 15

What have I been cooking in this much time?

• snippets! they are so pretty, you can zoom, see them pinterest-style, edit (with validation) and the cherry on top - you can now edit the selection!
• a lot of code updates and refactors
• added dates to DB (will add to UI in a sec!)
• file rename (almost all files had to be changed )
• fixed a lot of random bugs
• fixed fdroid logo

What will I do next?

• some suggestions from my friends :>
• fix bugs
• notes!
• local rating!
• local saving!
• a lot of customization!

Github: v0.7.4
F-Droid: v0.7.4

Devlog 14

What have I done? (I am so happy )

• I FIXED A BUG THAT WAS THERE FOR OVER A MONTH. It turns out I really had to thing outside-the-box (gosh I am so funny - cause yk - jetpack compose has boxes). The bug was caused when you press the back button quickly as it fades (as on video)
• a huge code refactor
• removed a bunch of bugs
• added viewing snippets, and saving them
• again i would want to empathize how happy I am and how much work the first one took XD
• got my website verificated with my signature
• I added an abstraction layer to menu - to help extend it further

What I am working on?

• snippets (going back to the source)
• editing snippet details

Thanks so much for reading this, I am so happy rn.

Devlog 13

What changed?

• my code. really, most of the changes are to the quality of the code
• fixed covers not changing
• fixed editing (still working on it)
• added empty pages info (a pretty card)
• split pdf reading into 3 files (much more readable and maintainable code)
• moved navigation bar hiding/showing into separate file
• fixed random bugs
• still debuging the random empty page bug!

What I am working on next?

• debuging random bugs!
• my todolist (currently bookmarks/editing)

I also released the next version on F-Droid, with the updated logo!

Github: v0.7.4
F-Droid: v0.7.4

Devlog 12

What changed?

• I moved out of vibecoded pdf library (sorry to say that, but it was terrible)
• snippets work now! there won’t be quotes as selecting in cbz’s and pdf is hard/non existable on mobile, but you can have cool snippets!
• attributions in snippets
• database migrations
• debuging, debuging and a lot of additional debuging
• fixed some bugs

On what I will focus next?

• modifing snippets/deleting viewing
• a lot of code optimisations!

On F-Droid: v0.7.2

Devlog 11

What changed?

• my app is now on F-Droid and the logo is clear (not blurry from my skill issue)
• new navigation menu
• zooming CBZs!
• working on quotes!
• fixed a library that i use for pdfs (hopefully they will accept the change XD)
• thinking how to do quotes for image-pdfs

What I will focus on next?

• quotes
• bookmarks

Release: v0.7.2
On F-Droid: v0.7.2

Please spread the beary news!
See you in the next one

Devlog 10

What changed?

• my app is now on F-Droid!
• we have tasty themes
• automatic translation credits
• fixed repo authors
• my icon on F-Droid is blurry

What am I doing next:

• bookmarks
• quotes
• support for more formats?

Thanks for sticking with me :)
If you have any thoughts on themes (adding more!), create an issue!

Release v0.7.0
F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/pl/packages/dev.tulis.readbear/

Devlog 9

MY APP GOT MERGED TO F-DROID!
Yes, as you can see, I am a bit happy :)
What changed:

• a lot of small changes to get my submition accepted
• you can select theme mode (dark, light, system)
• translation credits are now automatically added with GitHub actions
• added shrink options, my apk is now only ~25mb instead of 50mb!
• working on custom themes - catppuccin!
• relases are now stable! data migrations will be now in the repo

What I am working on next:

• bookmarks and quotes
• collections/folders
• movable order of books (this is gonna be hard)
• adding the app to Google Play (at the end)

Thanks for sticking with me! I am so happy that I got into F-Droid, after the merge in around 1-2 days you can go search ReadBear! (I will add the badge too)

Relase: v0.6.3

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!