yourealwaysbe
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4 years ago I don't really get much time to implement things unless i'm really motivated, so i probably won't get around to this myself anytime soon. Pull requests welcome :)
From a backend perspective it's not difficult -- though could be cleaner. Essentially, the AbstractDownloader class would need a small implementing class that supplies the configured URLs.
The the UI needs implementing, which is always a faff on Android.
Relevant code parts are below. There's too much hard-coding of available downloaders going on, and this would be a good time to fix that.
- Preference entries are found in
app/src/main/res/preferenes_<mode>.xml, where<mode>is daily, weekly, etc. app/src/main/java/app/crossword/yourealwaysbe/net/Downloaders.javahas a methodgetDownloadersFromPrefsto pick out the chosen downloaders.app/src/main/java/app/crossword/yourealwaysbe/net/AbstractDownloader.javaprovides a base class for puzzle download that only needs URL construction implemented (base URL plus puzzle name suffix).
Would it be possible to create a new CustomDownloader to allow arbitrary puzzle downloads, using settings options for e.g. a datestring-formatted URL (https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/date.1.html) and update frequency?
P.S. This fork has been an amazing improvement, thank you for creating it! I've been using it since the rebrand over a year ago, and I just noticed that you're still developing it. Forgive me if I'm being selfish, but I've come up with a few feature requests that I'll note in the issues here -- I feel that these enhancements would make this app even better, if you think they'd be worth working on.