Install in android

[Rawkush]

How to install this in android for dev

[Kylart]

This is made to be a desktop app so it cannot be installed on Android easily at all, there are ways to do it if you wanna dive into some code but I don't think that is what you asked. Still, let me know if you are interested.

[xdk78]

imho is better to create website that contain components from this app

[Rawkush]

yeah, I am interested in making one for android

[Kylart]

mmmh Are you sure? This is definitely no easy task. I can definitely help but I don't want it to be the main thing I'd working on right now.

So, basically, KawAnime comes from this vuetify template which I adapted for a desktop's use. So server files were not here and server.js in the template is main.js is here where I simply added the electron thingy.

There are different ways to somehow keep a nice proportion of the codebase to make a mobile app.

• Cordova, Vuetify's team has made a template for it so maybe you'd find help on their Discord server if you have question on how to switch from out structure to the Cordova structure.
• Ionic, there is no template from the vuetify's team and I don't it that much.
• NativeScript. Same as Ionic but I had my eyes on it for a while when considering a mobile app and I kinda liked its approach.

I am definitely no expert in the mobile app things. Maybe, some people lurking the repo or contributors have better knowledge of that field? I have plans to make a mobile app but I cannot work on this and the desktop app at the same time especially when I have a full time job so I wanted to at least finish a first draft of all the main features I thought of and only one and a half are remaining.

The plans I investigated most was to rebuild everything with Google's Flutter framework. It is not node and Dart is kinda new so it would be a nice way to learn something new too.

I don't know if that helps, your question is really vague and I'm not entirely sure what it is you're asking / thinking.

[Rawkush]

yeah i totally get you, can you just tell me which scraper you are using and for what purpose, malscraper, Horribleapi, nyaa etc, if you can tell me it will save a lot of time :)

[Kylart]

Sure. Just leave HorribleApi behind, no longer useful + outdated since horriblesubs changed their websites.

The most important libraries are the followings:

• axios: http requests.
• express: For the server.
• vue and vueitfy: Well the app is build on top of those for the all the UI.
• nyaapi: Gives access to all nyaa.si and nyaa.pantsu.cat for the magnets links to downlaoad.
• mal-scraper: Allows to scrap MAL to get anime information. Also it offers the access to the offical MAL Api (which is still down currently..).
• webtorrent: To download torrents.

There are some others but they are not that vital for the app and they only bring more security / features.