For what it's worth, I'm a programmer and I have a tablet, too... And it mostly keeps gathering dust, of course.

I might keep translating more just to see this odd conversation continue.

It's working for me now, thank you!

Ajengkid, that's because of the new SSL settings too, same issues I'm having.

Omnscient0, different errors now. https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=dynasty-scans.com says that only TLS 1.2 is enabled, a lot of the 4.* family of Android (and some later Samsung and other weird devices, they may have 1.2 there but disabled in firmware) only support TLS 1.0, also some of the ciphers may be unsupported... I may be able to do something about it in the app, but it still causes trouble with UC browser at least (downloaded it just to check)

These are a pain to debug, I know it first-hand, spent a while to configure our work server to be compatible with every Android.

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The new SSL configuration doesn't let me use the Android app (Oneesama) from my 4.4 Android device anymore, there may be an issue with certificate chains (android is very fiddly about that) or having only the newest TLS which it doesn't support.

Chrome on Android works fine regardless of the device because it re-implements all of the networking stuff.

1) I think I saw a mention of an app for Dynasty scans a while ago but it was either for a really old Android version and abandoned or there was some sort of legal issue so development stopped?

Doubt the old one is ever coming back, but you can use the unofficial Android reader. It's not actively developed but does work and critical bugs will be fixed if reported.

http://dynasty-scans.com/forum/topics/7480-oneesama-a-simple-dynasty-reader-app-for-android

Let's hope it's a good one!

SeaBed is very good, but also quite peculiar and might not appeal to everyone's tastes given how slow-paced and somewhat psychological it is. However it's 100% yuri so no worries there. I definitely recommend it and I'll read it again once it's translated.

Should start translating Nekogoze then, I guess, would be the second work under the "communism" tag here. It's not really yuri but the main characters are two catgirls quite close to each other.

Good job, guys! Great to see more of this translated.

Always love how a Squirtle can KO a giant rock snake by spewing at it.

Ah, I meant a screenshot from the fixed version so I can figure out which doujin might've been the root cause, if any. But, well, all's fine as long as it works so never mind.

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Yep, that's the place, and I should really update the OP with it, too.

0.1.9 release should fix the crash, but I couldn't reproduce the specific cause and working blind so need your help to check whether it actually does.

Also for future-proofing I'm really interested in the contents of the crashing screen so a screenshot or something would be really helpful - especially if there is a doujin that has no author listed.

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Thanks for letting me know, I think I found the particular crash that's happening (not the exact cause, though), a bit too busy for the moment but I'll release a hotfix in a few days.

Also it may be more effective to file a github issue next time since I'll at least get a notification email that way, doesn't seem to be a way to subscribe to thread updates here - I only checked the thread by chance.

Just use the "Upload request" button in the submenu accessed by clicking on your username and provide a link to mega.nz, google drive or any other decent filesharing option. I never uploaded the first chapters anywhere besides 4chan and straight up here so that should be fine.

Would be really awesome if you keep it up, love the series but don't have time to do it myself.

Any chance for the option to view a whole chapter on one page? The reader's only real flaw to me is that it's often very slow and this would help quite a bit.

Shamelessly plugging the Android app that does this exactly, although it's true that it's best not to abuse it to avoid causing unnecessary load on the server.

Are we allowed to have our usernames changed? That would be useful.

Seconding this, actually. I generally go by a different moniker nowadays so having this account reflect that would be convenient.

I noticed pictures show up when you select a series in the header thing at the top; will it be possible for the series list itself to have the cover pictures too?

I'm going the easy route and just using what's in the API of the corresponding pages, and the covers aren't there, but it's absolutely possible, if a bit tricky, thanks for the idea.

What I would find also nice is if you could jump from the offline version of a series to the browse version to continue downloading chapters.

Actually you should be able to, there's a browser-looking button in the toolbar of the "on device" series that should take you right there. Does that work?

If you have other features already on the road map, it would be cool to know what's coming up.

It's sort of a coding playground so a lot of it is decided on the spot, but the things I want to do, with no certainty or set timeframe (think at least months, with my SPEED):

• new/improved reader, with a couple of settings and most importantly not as terribly laggy with high-res images
• browsing for the rest of the directory pages, to utilize most of the available APIs
• offline series page consistent with online series page in terms of sorting and volumes
• search, there's no API yet but at least something simple enough
• maybe series update notifications one day

0.1.8 release.

Took me three whole months to add a couple of extra screens, no wonder (almost) nobody needs this.

• Browse series - I know it's a pain without fast scroll, keeping that in mind;
• Last opened chapters - more of a stop-gap measure for the "where did my chapter go" confusion than anything;
• Auto-detect Left-to-Right - relies on tags, will add manual switching later;
• Recent list improved - endless loading, actually shows what has been downloaded already;
• Lots of bugfixes.

Thanks, I haven't been reading much lately so I completely missed this. This was caused by the recent (but otherwise really helpful) changes to the Dynasty API which the app wasn't quite ready for, so every installation on every device was affected and everything crashed and burned. Apologies for not getting to fixing this until today.

Thanks to the new APIs "Recent" list now loads faster, too. I'll make use of the rest of the new APIs eventually and add expanded browsing options.

Hotfix release.

It should also pop up in the notifications next time you open the app, so that's a quicker way to update.

I have added a few additional JSON end points for anyone that is interested.

http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters.json / http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/added.json for recently released/added chapters.

http://dynasty-scans.com/pairings.json for all the directory indexes.

http://dynasty-scans.com/scanlators/dynasty_scans.json for all the specific directory pages.

Thanks, it's gonna be very useful, although it broke the app in the process since IDs are not in the API anymore and I mindlessly used them as primary IDs for the local database. I'll fix the app of course.

Speaking about the art, the guy's actually an animator at some studio and it does show in the more recent chapters. I think he just was kinda lazy at first, before it turned into this long-running series. Now the updates are much less frequent, but the art is more detailed.

Who's translating this and how can I help them out?

Usually one-manning for lack of teamwork skills and it's obviously going very slow. Though interest in this thread will definitely help with the motivation. Still, if someone wants to take over I'll only be happy to sit back and relax.

At this rate she might even tame Mewtwo with sheer childlike innocence.

I would not be terribly surprised given what happens later. Not sure I can translate that much on my own though.

some of the reactions are dramatic

Oh boy you don't even know.

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Updated the app.

• Proper chapter and volume names, finally;
• Can browse recently uploaded releases;
• Notifies when an updated version is available;
• Fixes a few annoying bugs.

I have trouble updating the app on one particular MIUI device, so if you encounter something like this (as well as other bugs) - please do tell. I know well enough that almost nobody uses it (no big surprise there, Dynasty has a mobile version), but I do plan to keep updating it for some time.

Updated for theoretical 2.3 support. It sort of worked on a Desire S, not sure if it will even run on prior devices due to per-app memory limits. Basically, install at your own risk, no guarantees.

I'll work at a more memory-efficient reader eventually, have some ideas, just not a terrible lot of time to test them.

Aw not again. That stops me from trying so many android apps, since my phone only has 2.3 (officially that is).

I knew I'd be disappointing someone by going 4.0+. Honestly, it's high time to upgrade, but I could try making a separate build for 2.3, would take a bit of time to check which libraries work and switch the reader to use NineOldAndroids but it's possible. Not sure how well it would work and how far I can support that, though.

Also as mobile (game) developer myself, I can't help but wonder just what exactly stops so many from supporting 2.3 in abridged version at least. It might be gradually dying out, but it's still around 5% of devices.

That's because for games there is no reason not to support 2.3 as you're mostly just working with graphics that generally stay the same except for some extra GLES features available on newer devices. Most of the games I have do seem to support Gingerbread, I think.

But with native UI things have changed a lot. For example Gingerbread had basically no decent UI animation and even with third-party libraries it took a lot of effort to make things work properly. Hell, for certain animations I had to resort to change the layout parameters every frame - only because it just didn't work otherwise on some devices. Plus at this point many libraries don't play well with it so it just takes a lot of extra effort to make sure things work.

tl;dr generally because lazy or short on time

Oneesama 0.1.9 - Dynasty client for Android

A simple app for taking a few chapters on the road, maybe you can find a use for it.
4.0+; 2.3 at your own risk. Prone to odd behaviour, very much a WIP.

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Please file bugs and suggestions as Github issues.

So I get notified - no way to subscribe to thread updates.

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With a decent browser the app can intercept the chapter URLs, otherwise copy the chapter URL and click ⊕ in the toolbar to download and read it.
You can also browse series and latest releases, to an extent.

Known issues:

• Chapter sorting in Series is occasionally messed up.
• Running on 2.3 is very unstable, may cause crashes and empty thumbnails.

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While I dropped off the radar for years, I do still plan to make that fresh Android app with offline caching (yay for having 2+ years of practical Android experience now), so unless an app isn't desirable for some reason - having more APIs for tags/authors/search, etc, would always be tremendously helpful, as parsing HTML would be kind of doing it wrong on many levels.

If you'd rather have the users browse and search on the actual site, then at least an endpoint for the chapter list of a given title would be great to have - there could be an intent to send the user into the app so they won't have to open and download every chapter individually.

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