MAL Updater OS X

Open Source macOS Scrobbler for Kitsu and AniList

Dev Log

Shukofukurou for iOS 1.4.3 and Shukofukurou for macOS 3.3.4 is now Released

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A little late on notifying everyone about this release, but Shukofukurou for iOS 1.4.3 and Shukofukurou for macOS 3.3.4 is now released. These are very minor bug fixes in regards to how title information is cached. Apparently, it wasn’t refreshing after a certain period of time. Now that is fixed.

As for any updates for adding MyAnimeList support, the development should start very soon once we receive the API keys. We anticipate that the open beta testing of the app with MyAnimeList support included will happen in October. However, we are still deciding to release a 2.0 version for the iOS/iPadOS release without MyAnimeList support for the time being. As of now, the app now fully works with the new iOS/iPadOS 13 betas.

Note that weekly development updates are only available to active patrons. If you want to support the project and gain access to the Shukofukurou for iOS/iPadOS betas once we start testing, become a patron today as little as $1 a month.

Additionally, a new alpha release for Hachidori is now out, which fixes Discord support.

Shukofukurou for iOS 1.4 Now Available

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Shukofukurou for iOS 1.4 is now available on the App Store, which brings advanced search, infinite scrolling of search results and various improvements. This will be the last release for a while, besides bug fixes until 2.0 is ready. 1.4.x will be the last release that will support iOS 11. 2.0 will require iOS 12 as mentioned earlier

Change log is below..

New Features

  • Added Advanced Search for Anime and Manga
  • Added infinite scrolling of search results.
  • Added unchanged entry confirmation

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

  • Fixed small delay when the user information occasionally refreshes
  • Fixed crash when user attempts to view the third party licenses on iPhone and iPod Touch devices for the second time
  • Improved Crunchyroll title detection
  • Interface improvements

Community Version is now Available

The community version is for advanced users and contains most of the features of the official version with some limitations. This is only meant for users who already have an Apple’s Developer Program membership, not for users with free Apple developer accounts due to the 7 day limitation. See the Community version page for more information. There is no support for the community version. Any issues or questions regarding it will be ignored.For support, use the official version from the App Store.

Note: You cannot install the IPA using iTunes or Apple Configurator.

Download Community Release (Advanced Users Only)

SHA256 – fbd03d17198953869673d6e1a77d24699fbf5f0f0ff4703f566bfa03e9850834

MyAnimeList API Update

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At last, the light is at the end of the tunnel. The owners of MyAnimeList will open the API up for closed beta for certain developers soon, which I am a part of. Since the public cannot use the apps that use the API during the closed beta, there will be no public testing for any of the apps nor any public commits pushed to the public repos until it’s made public again. The open beta will happen in September, meaning that there won’t be any public beta builds until then.

However, I will be posting development updates exclusively for active Patrons. If you want to see the progress made with implementing MyAnimeList support for our apps along with some new major features, they will be posted on Patreon. By becoming an active patron, you can support the development of our apps, test new beta versions for Shukofukurou for iOS and unlock donor features on the macOS version of Shukofukurou and Hachidori. MAL Updater OS X will be discontinued as MyAnimeList support will be added to Hachidori instead. However, your MAL Updater OS X donor key will work in Hachidori.

With that Shukofukurou for iOS 1.4 will be released soon, which adds a few improvements including infinite search results and advanced search. After that, we will be working on Shukofukurou for iOS 2.0. Since we are not able to bring out the app with MyAnimeList support for public testing until September, we will be getting our app ready for iOS and iPadOS 13 during this time. We don’t know the agreement in regards to the MyAnimeList API yet for the closed beta, but to be on the safe side, we won’t be disclosing any code for 2.0, future versions of Hachidori 3.2/Shukofukurou for macOS 3.4 and Hakuchou until then. They will be made public when the MAL API reaches open beta. We will be committing all changes to a private GIT repository for the time being. Rest assured, we are not making our apps closed source in any way. The source code will be pushed out to the public repos in September 2019.

Shukofukurou for iOS 2.0 will drop support for iOS 11 and will require iOS 12 or later. All devices that run iOS 11 should be able to run iOS 12.

Shukofukurou for iOS 2.0 will be a free upgrade for all users who downloaded the app already. So feel free to get the app so you are ready when MyAnimeList support drops in Fall 2019.

With that, we hope to get everything up in running for MyAnimeList users who have to endure the long wait.

Shukofukurou 3.3.2 for macOS is now released

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Shukofukurou 3.3.2 is now available on the Mac App Store and AppCast updates for non-app store users. This update fixes a bug that causes the program to crash.

Also, an option to enable analytics and crash report sending is now added for donors. We only collect diagnostic data such as errors/success and service usage statistics (e.g. how many users are using Kitsu/AniList) to help improve our apps. No personal or list data is collected at all. If you don’t want this data to be collected and you have donated, is an active patron or downloaded from the Mac App Store, you can disable analytic collection. You can see the privacy policy by clicking the “Learn More” button in General Preferences.

Change log is below.

New Features

  • Added setting to allow users to opt out of analytics and crash report collection

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

  • Fixed bug where the app crashes if the list is refreshed and an invalid selection is made before it.

Hachidori 3.1.9 is Now Released

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Hachidori 3.1.9 and 3.2 Alpha 2 is now released, which fixes Crunchyroll detection. In addition, the stable releases now allow stream detection from Microsoft Edge for Mac.

You can update to this release by checking for updates. The change log is below Hachidori has been tested on macOS Catalina Developer Beta and confirmed to work.

New Features

  • Add stream detection support for Microsoft Edge for Mac

Bug fixes and Enhancements

  • Improved Crunchyroll detection

Summer Development Plans

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Summer is finally here, so we plan to share our development plans for the months of June, July and August. There is a lot planned for the next few months.

Sponsor button on Github

If you see our repositories for Hachidori, Shukofukurou and Shukofukurou for iOS, there is now a sponsor button, which gives you a link to Patreon. You can support the development of our apps monthly through Patreon. Currently, we are still far away from making the goal of making the iOS app free, which will at least cover the costs of the Apple Developer Program required to develop these apps. You can help us by pledging as little as $1. You will have access to TestFlight to test beta versions of our iOS applications, be shown on the list of Patrons with other benefits. We plan to possibly have Patreon exclusive beta builds as well for Hachidori and Shukofukurou for mac when we eventually roll out MyAnimeList support later this summer.

macOS Catalina Support

We are testing Hachidori and Shukofukurou for Mac for preliminary support. I will explore porting Shukofukurou for iOS to the Mac through the new porting capabilities in macOS Catalina. However, it will not replace the dedicated macOS version yet since it still missing several features. The concept version will be made available to Patrons only for feedback once Apple releases macOS Catalina for public beta.

So far, Hachidori works. Shukofukurou for Mac is yet to be tested.

As for iOS 13 support, we do not plan to start working on it until September when the final version of iOS 13 and iPadOS 13 will be released. Once iOS/iPadOS 13 releases, iOS 11 support will be dropped, mostly because all currently supported devices also support iOS 12. We will only support iOS 12 and future releases for Shukofukurou for iOS. We did an initial port of it and we won’t be taking this route since it broke too many stuff. While we managed to fix Kitsu and AniList OAuth, it would take too much effort to optimize the user experience for the Mac.

Other

In addition to adding MyAnimeList support, we plan to possibly add Simkl support to Hachidori. While there is still some work that needs to be done such as adding support for Anime IDs in Simkl to Hato, it’s most likely feasible. When I add support for it, it will only support Anime media. Non-anime media will not be supported since Hachidori is an anime-centric app and support for non-anime media is beyond the scope of the app. I expect to ship this support once MyAnimeList is added back in in beta.

As for MAL Updater OS X, it will eventually be updated to use the new API. 3.4 will be the final version and will only receive bug fixes.

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