Subete

A personal project attempting to create a Tachiyomi Mihon/Aniyomi-like for desktop from scratch. Currently features manga reading, library, and app setting modification, soon to be implementing Light Novel support (This may not work)

Currently only has a built-in MangaDex plugin, but features a plugin creator in https://github.com/naginipython/subete_plugin_creator to help creating plugins for this app. Due to limitation on how JavaScript code runs within the Rust code, do not rely on npm packages unless they are hard-coded, and avoid odd symbols because of JSON parsing (e.g. \\. \' seems fine)

Video featuring major features as of 06/17/24:

2024-06-17_sample.mp4

Goals

• Fix and doc Windows
• Make look professional
• History
• Error messages for browse
• Error messages for manga chapters.
• Error messages for ln chapters.
• Error messages for anime episodes
• Error messages for readers
• Easier Plugin DOM parsing
• Updates. Cute progress bar for updates
  • fix updates back button
  • anime & ln
• General loading icons for pages, browse.
• App initialize loading icon
• Icons for nav bar
• nav bar more items when able
• Hide Navbar when none selected (aka, manga/settings screen)
• Run app in background (& Auto-update)
• Update result notifications
• Fullscreen on Android for Reader (maybe not possible)
• Extension General Feed (Front page, if available)
• Settings:
  • Disable Manga/Ln/Anime
  • Show per row OR as many as fit
  • SPECIAL mode
  • Mode: tab above for M/L/A, OR Tabs for each lib
    • Browse & Update separation needed
  • Tab ordering
  • Repo link for extentions (like Tachiyomi)
• Library Features:
  • Search
  • Search plugin
  • Filter (completed, started, unseed)
  • Sort (alphabetically, total chap, last seen, last updated, unseen #, date added)
  • Setting: Togglable: Set # per row
  • Categories
  • Open Random
• Manga/Ln features:
  • Tracking (MyAnimeList)
  • Bookmark
  • Download (DEAD for android, unless I find workaround for tauri fs)
  • Select
  • Check down (all below)
  • Sort Asc or Desc
  • Filter: Unread, Downloaded, Bookmarked
  • Settings: Sort & Filter per item, button to set as global setting
  • Send to Web
  • Title hold sends to clipboard
  • Fix Description
  • Categories
  • fav button to start/resume (Topmost non-completed item)
• Manga Reader features:
  • Swipe turn
  • Bookmark
  • Cuter bottom page changer
  • Cuter Prev/Next screen
  • Open in Web
  • Next/Prev chap arrow
  • Page read type: l-to-r, r-to-l, strip
  • Zoom
  • Zoom into large image toggle
  • tap area size change?
  • Jpn to English help
• LN Reader features:
  • progress (scrollTop %?)
  • next/prev chapter
  • bookmark
  • open in web
  • drag speed
  • top areas
  • next/prev chapter
• Anime
  • Choose linux watcher
  • Download

Installation

To-Build Pt.1:
Install all needed by Tauri
In a command line, install tauri-cli: cargo install tauri-cli@^2.0.0-rc (note: may need quotation) you can also use other methods listed on tauri's website
In the root folder, run npm i or npm install

To-Build Pt.2: Linux
In the root folder, run: cargo tauri dev for testing, cargo tauri build to build release (will be in target/release/bundle/).
Note: Release build may need to be NO_STRIP=true cargo tauri build

To-Build Pt.2: Windows
In windows, Microsoft's C compiler won't work. You will need to use the stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu rust toolchain, which uses gcc. Install it with rustup toolchain install stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu, then you have 3 ways to use this: (NOTE: you may need msys2 gcc & enviroment variable for window-gnu)

1. In the root folder, run: cargo tauri dev --target stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu for testing, cargo tauri build --target stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu to build release (will be in target/release/bundle/).
2. rustup default stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu to set as your primary toolchain.
3. Create a .cargo folder, with a config.toml file. Add the line [build] at the top, and target = "x86_64-pc-windows-gnu" below it.

As a note for newer people, the usual toolchain is x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.

NOTE: Some pages randomly don't work first run, finding the page in src/routes, cutting it all, save, then paste, save helps reload it
Currently, mostly src/routes/snackbar.svelte has this issue often. (This is due to root styles)

Android

Ideally, ensure that the standard installation is completed.
In order to build to Android, download Android Studios, and the NDK from the Android Studio installer.
Android Studio will have 3 variables to set up, one being the JBR as JAVA_HOME (located where it is installed ./jbr. example: export JAVA_HOME=/opt/android-studio/jbr (Flatpak users RIP)), the SDK as ANDROID_SDK (export ANDROID_HOME=$HOME/Android/Sdk), and the NDK as NDK_HOME (export NDK_HOME=$HOME/Android/Sdk/ndk/27.0.11902837).
Add Android targets with rustup: rustup target add aarch64-linux-android armv7-linux-androideabi i686-linux-android x86_64-linux-android
In the main directory, run cargo tauri android init. Ideally, it will say that it is good to go.
Connect your phone to the computer with android-tools (adb), set your phone's USB debugging on, then run cargo tauri android dev for a quick view of the app (Note: The frontend is locally created, so the app will be installed, but won't work)
To build the app in an APK, use cargo tauri android build, going to where the APK is (says in console), signing it with uber-apk-signer (uber-apk-signer -a <file.apk> --out subete.apk), then installing it on my phone.