MAL Updater OS X

Open Source macOS Scrobbler for Kitsu and AniList

Dev Log

Shukofukurou for iOS 2.1 Now Available

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Shukofukurou for iOS 2.1 is now available on the App Store. This release includes iOS 14 support, some bug fixes, prompt for score after completing a title and more. While the update is now approved, it should become available for all users in a few hours. The changelog is below.

This release adds iOS/iPadOS 14 support, fixes some bugs, adds Scrobble Share Extension support for Funimation and more.

New Features

  • iOS/iPadOS 14 Support
  • Added ability to scrobble using the scrobble share extension for Funimation (Safari and the App)
  • Added ability to filter for Airing/Publishing titles in the user’s library
  • App nows prompt the user to add a score when a user completes a title (can be turned off in the Settings)

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed Scrobbling Extension, which previously didn’t work for MyAnimeList users

Note that we are eventually developing a 2.2 release, which should happen sometime before mid 2021. Note that this app will not be available for Apple Silicon Macs when they release later this year. I feel that the user experience won’t be as good compared to the dedicated macOS app.

Shukofukurou and Hachidori is now in Alpha Preview

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For the past two months, time permitting since I have a full time job and this is my side job I do during the weekends, we have begun work on the next versions of Shukofukurou and Hachidori.

Shukofukurou 3.4 for macOS will be a minor release adding macOS Big Sur and Universal Binary 2 compatibility and adding features from the iOS version. Shukofukurou 2.1 for iOS will primarily add some quality of life improvements. As for Hachidori, it’s the same deal, but the addition of new legal streaming site support, macOS Big Sur/Universal Binary 2 support, and the ability to reauthorize accounts.

The next few months will be big as Apple is set to release the first few Macs with Apple Silicon. Currently, we have our apps ready for Apple Silicon aka ArchARM64. While we haven’t tested them yet since I don’t have a developer transition kit, I plan to get a Mac stat uses these new processors when they come out with a new Mac mini. The Mac mini will serve as a dedicated developer machine that I can remote into or use locally.

Currently, the alphas for the macOS version of Shukofukurou and Hachidori are available for Patrons only. Once the apps reaches beta, it will be available to everyone. Monthly donations/support allows me to cover the development costs of developing all three apps, primarily the domain name, hosting (including the web services the apps uses), and Apple Developer Program membership. Besides gaining access to precompiled prerelease builds by becoming a Patron, you also unlock all the donor features, read weekly developer updates on upcoming new features, gain free updates to major releases of Shukofukurou and Hachidori, and access to TestFlight for beta versions of Shukofukurou for iOS.

In short, we should have all the releases out for macOS and iOS out this fall. With that, thanks for the support thus far.

macOS 11 Big Sur Compatibility and iOS 14/iPadOS 14

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Now that the dust has settled, we have finally tested our apps on macOS 11 and it seems that nothing broke. However, we want to start working on bringing some of macOS 11 Big Sur new features to Shukofukurou for macOS. With Shukofukurou for macOS 3.5, we will be dropping support for macOS 10.11 El Capitan, which is more than 5 years old at this point and we do not have any machines running that anymore. New versions will require macOS 10.12 Sierra or later. We will also work to get Shukofukurou compiled for Universal Binary 2 so it can work on Apple  new chips. This mean recompiling all the frameworks to Universal Binary, which we will be doing for Hachidori as well.

For Shukofukurou for iOS, once we release 2.0.9, which will have some fixes, we will begin work on 2.1, which will have support for iOS 14/iPadOS 14 support. Note that iOS 12 support will be dropped in the future after 2.1.x and we will only be supporting iOS 13 and iOS 14. This is because I do not have any devices that have iOS 12, which makes it difficult for me to test. Once a test version is ready, hopefully when public beta testing is underway, I will make the 2.1 beta builds available on TestFlight for active patrons. If you want to test the latest builds for iOS, you can learn how to support our projects by going to the donation page.

Shukofukurou for iOS 2.0.8 Now Released and Development Updates

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Shukofukurou for iOS 2.0.8 is now released. While we released 2.0.7, it had serious issues and we had to issue an immediate update.

Reauthorization Feature

One of the common complaints is after a certain period of time, the functionality stopped working due to the refresh token not being able to refresh the credentials. We have tweaked this by having the token refresh when the app is launch or become active again. Also, we prompt the user if the app is not able to refresh the credentials. This will give the user the opportunity to reauthorize their account. This only applies to AniList and MyAnimeList.

Note that you cannot reauthorize with a different account. The following error will appear if you attempt to do so.

Enhanced Pointer Support and Haptic Touch Support

Since iPadOS 13.4, Apple finally added pointer support. Now, this makes it possible to make commonly used actions available with a right click or a haptic touch. This is useful, especially for users who have a keyboard case with a trackpad like the Magic Keyboard or use a Bluetooth mouse.

Other Fixes

There are numerous fixes that are made in the 2.0.8 version, which includes the following:

  • Fixed the off-centered progress wheel in the loading HUDs and UI glitches.
  • Content filters are now relaxed, but adult content (hentai) cannot be viewed. The app is now rated 17+, which is a compromise, but since this is a paid app, it’s very unlikely anyone under 17 years old would download this

This update is free for all existing users.

Other Development Updates

We will be adding the content filter changes to the macOS version of Shukofukurou and fix some discovered bugs very soon. Additionally, we are eventually adding HBO MAX support to Hachidori in a future update as well.

Content Filter Planned Changes with Sukofukurou

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In the recent weeks, I have been asked about users not being able to view NSFW content on Shukofukurou for iOS and macOS. I noticed that this is impacting the usability of the application. The filter is there is because of Apple’s App Store content policy. One possible way we can work around this is raising the app rating to 17+ by allowing unrestricted browsing. This will of course make the app unavailable to users 16 years old or younger.

However, I want some input, should we change the rating. With this change, all titles except adult titles (e.g. Hentai) will be browsable and the filters will only filter those titles. Or do we keep the status quo.

Hachidori 3.2.3 Released

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Hachidori 3.2.3 is now released, which fixes Funimation stream detection.

Also, we are aware of the crashes associated with the Discord Activities. We are trying to come up with an alternative solution such as a separate process to handle all the discord activities  so it won’t crash the whole application. We should have a fix ready in a few weeks.

The change log is below.

New Features

  • Fixed stream detection for Funimation

Known Issues

  • There is an issue with Discord support when the user quits Discord and relaunches it with Discord Activities enabled, it crashes. Will transition Discord support to a XPC Service to separate it from the Hachidori process to prevent future crashes.