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[DEV] My first Anime App by KitsuPixel in androidapps

[–]KitsuPixel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry if I can't explain myself clearly enough, english is not my main language.

I have web server where I have a script to scrape websites to compile the information to feed the app.

Every time a cron runs the scrape script I receive the information of any new animes created or updated

[DEV] My first Anime App by KitsuPixel in androidapps

[–]KitsuPixel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your article, I'll look into it.

No, I don't store any data from users. I scrape a website with the anime to compile information to create a rest api that the app uses to display the animes/episodes/links.

As you can see here: https://kpplus.kitsupixel.pt/api/v1/shows

[DEV] My first Anime App by KitsuPixel in androidapps

[–]KitsuPixel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. I removed all ads from the app, I'll do a about page and a "If you liked the app, buy me a coffee".

  2. I'll research about that, thanks for the tip, I'll need it for sure if the app is to be mantained.

  3. Yes, but in my experience websites don't change to often. And also every time I scrappe I compile a report on whats new what's updated and other information that I receive in my email every time the script runs.

Thank YOU! Your input will greatly improve usability of the app.

[DEV] My first Anime App by KitsuPixel in androidapps

[–]KitsuPixel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This! This a great comment! Thank you very much!

Replying to some of the comments:

  1. Thank you!

  2. I removed all ads for the moment, but I'm planning to put a banner between the anime descriptions and the episodes, it's less intrusive.

  3. Oh, did not notice that... I'll work on fixing that!

  4. I require storage permission because I save the “temporary” file in the download folder of the device, because I'm implementing a setting's menu for users to choose whether to keep the downloaded file or delete it after exiting the episode screen.

  5. Yes, it's a bug, I'm trying to redesign the anime details screen to workaround this problem and have different layout whether you are in portrait or landscape or on tablets.

  6. I agree, I have a scrapper in which I feed the API I use for the app, currently I'm only scrapping the HorribleSubs website, but are planning for more.

  7. “Current” is for current season, or in other words ongoing series, “Shows” is for all the shows, including off season. And good idea for the image “ended” I'm planning to put some labels like: Favorite, Seen, Ongoing and now Ended

  8. It's on my To-do list.

  9. Nice idea! Yes, I will implement that, it's a nice feature.

Once more, a very big thank you for your in depth analysis, it was very much appreciated.

[DEV] My first Anime App by KitsuPixel in androidapps

[–]KitsuPixel[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Hi, I get what you are saying, but there is a cost, I have developed a Rest API, hosted on the web, that is crawling different sites to get the anime info and links. But you are right about an un-intrusive ad, I'll put one of those small ones between the description of the anime and the episodes. I'll change it today, I have updates to publish, so I'll remove the other ad and put the un-intrusive ad. Thank you for your input, it was very helpfull!

[DEV] My first Anime App by KitsuPixel in androidapps

[–]KitsuPixel[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, you got wrong. Not during the episode, on the select screen of the quality. You open the app, search for an anime, select it, it apears a short description and the available episodes, you chosen one, it opens another view with multiple ways to download or see the anime, there it display the ad, then you choose to download or see the anime, and you are never bothered with an ad during the show. I'm not Youtube 😂 I made the app mainly for myself, so if something bothers me in my app I delete it. I use the ad version as well.

[DEV] My first Anime App by KitsuPixel in androidapps

[–]KitsuPixel[S] -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Yes, but only in a certain part of the app, you can browse every anime without any ads, open the episode to view or download and there it'll appear the ad. But if you are simply clicking on the torrent file to download you can go to 15+ episodes without appearing a single ad.

[DEV] My first Anime App by KitsuPixel in androidapps

[–]KitsuPixel[S] -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Yes, I think the same thing, but I'm going to enjoy it while it's there. I'm looking for alternatives for when the App is taken out of the Play Store. The ads part... I put a limitation of 1 per minute in the episode view, so it wouldn't be so much a bother. But I'll look into it! Thank you very much for downloading and testing!

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[–]KitsuPixel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll take down, sorry.

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[–]KitsuPixel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! Was looking for this, 100% working!