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DISCONTINUED. Atarashii! - An amazing, modern MAL app for Android 4+
http://atarashiiapp.com
BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
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More sorting options! #188

Closed SleepingPanda closed 8 years ago

SleepingPanda commented 10 years ago

Would it be possible to add more sorting options such as: Sort by last updated/watched and the inverse & Sort by title and the inverse?

In some lists, such as the 'Completed' list and the 'In Progress' list, it's time consuming to scroll down to the bottom if it's very long. Including more sorting options would be very helpful in this type of scenario.

d-sko commented 10 years ago

Good idea, I'm missing this sometimes too.

ratan12 commented 10 years ago 
Sort by last updated/watched

Sounds like you are asking for the history page that already has been written. I didn't created a pull request yet because we need in that case API 2. That version isn't marked as ready.

SleepingPanda commented 10 years ago

Not necessarily history. Just a 'sort by last modified' option as just one of the sorting options. I didn't think that would require an API version update because there are other MAL apps with this feature. Why?

ratan12 commented 10 years ago

They are only saving the changes you made on the app.

I am talking about all the changes you made. This means all the apps you used to make changes.

anyway the invert option could be useful for some people above 200 items.

SleepingPanda commented 10 years ago

Can Atarashii save the changes locally as well? Doesn't Atarashii already save changes locally until they are synced, anyway? I think that an application that was made to show lists should also have sorting options for those lists lol.

ratan12 commented 10 years ago

Atarashii is saving your whole list and is using flags... once the connection is restored it will make the request and update the things on MAL & it removes the flag.

I think it is better to wait for the last updated feature until API 2 is ready. The invert options could be added without API 2.

If the progress goes as planned I think the API will be done before the next version, not sure though.

srvrguy commented 10 years ago

Checking in here. We don't currently store history information for shows, so we can't sort by watch dates (either last updated or start/stop watch). The API code we use to interface between the website and our application does not currently provide this information, but an upcoming update (API2) will provide this. Sorting by title shouldn't be difficult as that's stored locally.

Many of the other applications get this information because they download the full MAL page and parse the raw HTML directly. For all but really simple stuff, it's the only possible way to get the information as the official MAL API is a bad joke. If we were to copy the other applications, it would be horrible on the battery of a mobile device and eat up a ton of data usage. To fix this problem, we use a component on a server to do the hard work for us and then provide the information in an easy-to-use format that's smaller than a bunch of HTML pages and takes much less processing power. Until version 1.4, this API was a third-party project that had stalled in feature development. Since Atarashii! 1.4, we have been using the API that @ratan12 and I built as a replacement, which gives us a good foundation to add these things.

ratan12 commented 9 years ago

We need to think of a good solution for this. We now support AL and I want to use the browse page (http://anilist-api.readthedocs.org/en/latest/anime.html#browse).

Edit: also add a setting to change the anime status when it is added newly Edit: also enable the amount of episodes in top lists like 5/24.

ratan12 commented 8 years ago

I added some new sorting options like score, status, type, priority and progress. 917ea1b last updated/watched will remain a difficult issue anyway since the title is "More sorting options!" and we added more sorting options now I think this can be closed.