[⭐FR] Add support for light novels

[rohan-gt]

Please add a light novel section to this app

[deadeyeskun]

Dude that would be insane if possible

[Akashsundar]

Yesif possible its awesome

[ghost]

Please add a light novel section to this app

Yeah but is there any extension for it ?

[rohan-gt]

Please add a light novel section to this app

Yeah but is there any extension for it ?

So these are the sources that the Ranobe app uses:

[JFronny]

Code for the extensions would essentially need to be written from scratch anyways (though things like Cloudnovel could still be used for reference). A much bigger issue imo is how this would be presented in the UI. I can think of three options, none of which is flawless:

• Implement it like anime: by replacing another section and making the sources section even worse to navigate. While this would likely be the simplest, it wouldn't be great to use
• Merge the media types into a single library. This has the advantage of enabling the continued use of tachiyomis UI but is also not great for users, especially the sources section, in which splitting by type would need to be implemented separately (a dropdown?). Ordering by type could be implemented like the "group by ..." functionality from sy (or grouping by category like in vanilla tachiyomi)
• Implement a global media type switch. This would cleanly separate the media types and retain tachiyomis UI, however it would also be clunky to use. The positioning of this switch would have to be in the header to be accessible everywhere, but this would look bad and be unintuitive. Placing it under settings would slow the usage down, defeating the purpose of an all-in-one app.

[AbdullahBinJahed]

check this...

https://github.com/LNReader/lnreader

[Lukyzzz]

check this...

https://github.com/LNReader/lnreader

Just like he said, but not only the feature of Light Novels, but browser the MAL and import from it That could even be used as base, fortunately https://github.com/LNReader/lnreader#readme They seem to have use the feature of extensions to let u browser on MAL and the migration feature to import from there, it could even use that to sync with MAL too

[mm12]

Great idea.

[boredSage]

A much bigger issue imo is how this would be presented in the UI

Another way of achieving that without ruining the UI is by bringing back Library tag Tachiyomi had and have something like the picture in the issue #1692 but using a dropdown instead, that would be much cleaner. I made a simple image of how it could look (image below)

However, like @JFronny said, that would make the Browse section even more cluttered. But again, agreeing with them, that would be solved by a simple dropdown menu instead of having it overflow.