Port to mobile devices

[AkiraSakura]

Do you plan to port this program to the Android/IOS systems?

[Bionus]

I've thought about it a few times, especially given Qt seems to support porting to mobile devices without too big difficulties.

So I think I might do it in the future, but not very soon.

Aren't there already a bunch of apps doing the same thing anyway? (browsing part)

[AkiraSakura]

Browsing maybe, but not Group Downloading ^^

[Bionus]

Why would you do batch downloading on a phone? Isn't it more convenient on a computer? Actually, what would be your use case for this? (so I can know when I do the app later how things should work)

Plus, you say there's apps for browsing, do you have any examples? Especially apps that support multiple sources like Grabber.

[AkiraSakura]

I agree, it is convenient to use a computer, but when there is no access to a PC, I would like to do it from mobile devices.

No, no, applications with many packages are non-existent. There is only a single app tied to your website.

[Babyforce]

Why would you do batch downloading on a phone? Isn't it more convenient on a computer? Actually, what would be your use case for this? (so I can know when I do the app later how things should work)

Plus, you say there's apps for browsing, do you have any examples? Especially apps that support multiple sources like Grabber.

There is an app on the Google Playstore called Booru Nav that allows you to browse on booru based websites easily. That's the only one I know, and doesn't include batch downlad, nor does it include multiple sources search.

[Amazingduf]

Plus, you say there's apps for browsing, do you have any examples? Especially apps that support multiple sources like Grabber.

I've been using Animeboxes for a very long time, it also supports batch downloading but it's not nearly as good as Grabber, I've been using it just for browsing boorus.

[Bionus]

given Qt seems to support porting to mobile devices without too big difficulties

FYI, I just built Grabber for Android, and after a few bugfixes here's the result. The UI is horrible but works:

Porting it properly would require having separate designs for desktop and mobile, using QtWidgets and QML respectively. That would require properly extracting all the logic out of "view" files, as well as re-designing and implementing all parts of the UI, which is a lot of work.

So my plan for now is to extract logic little by little, and when the time is right, start replacing parts of the UI on mobile by native looks.

[AkiraSakura]

@Bionus Hi, what is the progress with the mobile version? (I need it xDD)

[Bionus]

Closing in favor of issue #2147