[Android] Flaming Durtles - Android app with offline support

I tried playing around with the settings now, and…I’m not certain how they’re supposed to work or if they do anything. I wouldn’t get any kind of limit to work, either.

Looks like the closest you can do is sort of keep track of how many you’ve done (number or items or time spend reviewing) in a sessions, then select “Wrap Up Session” from the menu to limit the remainder of the review to only cards you’ve partly reviewed or made a mistake on.

What folder the audio downloads are stored? I would like to delete them to get more space in my phone.

Also, when I tried the option to not download the audio, FD didnt sync anymore and was not working. When I set it on again, it started syncing normally with the website.

You can delete them from the “Download Audio” menu. You can find (and change) the location in settings > API and audio download settings.

Btw all the audio seems to be just about 150MB.

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Thank you for this app!

I’m trying this app with the intent of using it for when I will be travelling without internet connection.

A small feedback. Today at noon I should have had 10 reviews, the website showed 10, but the app only 9. I did the 9 on the app and I had no more to do on it. I did the remaining one on the website.
Is it happening only to me?

Lately WK team has been adding and removing items. This happened to me too with one of those items. If you enter Settings > Reset database it’ll usually fix the discrepancy between the items that FD knows about, and the ones available on the main site.

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Sorry if this has been asked before but I’m wondering if it’s possible to add extra vocab for use on Flaming Durtles, preferably by using this expansion pack.

I’m aware there’s a script for adding vocab for the main site but I’m wondering if it’s possible to do it through Flaming Durtles. Or if I do it on the main site will Flaming Durtles sync with that too and add the extra vocab from the main site?

For context, the reason I’m asking is because I’ve heard one of the biggest drawbacks of Wanikani is that it teaches you obscure vocab but not commonly used vocab and I want to correct that.

Nope, it’s not possible to do either of that with Flaming Durtles and I think it’s unlikely it ever will.

Daaaaamn that’s such a shame. I’ve been using Flaming Durtles for so long and am so used to its interface features that I don’t know if I can replicate it. I know I definitely won’t get the immediate response and fluidity that I’m used to (an underrated feature) from using a mobile Web browser with chrome extensions.

Is there a list of equivalent userscripts Flaming Durtles uses?

I haven’t even looked at that script that was to add vocab for ages, and it’s not something I have time to look at for the moment. If it works for you great, but if not I don’t know when or if I’ll ever get around to fixing it.

The one thing that I think would really elevate this app is if it displayed phonetic-semantic information, similarly to how the “visually similar kanji” info is shown for each WK kanji entry.

Hi, today I got a new level 10 kanji: 頁 and I haven’t been able to type it? The keyboard will not convert the じ to its katakana equivalent and so I’m stuck :frowning: Is there something I’m missing?

If I’m not mistaken if you type it with capital letters it will convert it to katakana but I’m pretty sure it takes hiragana for most answers as well.

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Oh right thank you! I forgot you could do that. Generally it does take hiragana but for this one it converted the first syllable correctly but not the second which I think caused the issue.

Hi everybody and thank you @ejplugge for your wonderful work.
I immediately looked for an app after starting wanikani and yours is by far the one I like the most.
However one thing I really liked in another one (jakeipuu) is the audio for context sentences.
I’m not fluent enough to tell how good is the pronunciation with Google AI, but it definitely helps to be able to check your vocab reading after trying to do it by yourself.
I would love to see this functionality within Flaming Durtles. I absolutely don’t know how much work it would be to do so though. Just wanted to let you know.

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@ejplugge Hi, and thank you for creating this app. I’ve been using it for a few weeks and it works very well!

First question:
It is possible to add synonyms (which is very useful since english isn’t my first language). However, I’m wondering: is it also possible to edit them, or remove some of them when we add one by mistake? I couldn’t find a way to do this.

My second question:
Is it also possible to add custom mnemonics like on the website? Adding additional mnemonics in my main language would be very useful, but unfortunately I couldn’t find a way to do this.

Thank you for your time!

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You can add (and remove) all of that when you tap the “My notes…” option of an item. Synonyms can also be added with the + button below the meaning mnemonic.

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Thank you for the quick reply, I wasn’t aware of the “My notes…”!
I will start making use of it @Kappa421

As a feature request, would it be possible to have a little “+” directly on the page for the mnemonics, just like we have for synonyms? When you have a lot of new vocab and kanjis you want to add mnemonics for, it’d save quite a bit of time. @ejplugge :pray:

hi, i wanted to use the dark theme but it changes the colors of the subject types and stuff?? i wanted everything to be the same, just with a dark background :- (

it shows the hex code for the color in theme customization, but it won’t let me actually tap on that and enter my own, so i can’t even enter the regular colors precisely… :- (

Is there any reason why Flaming Durtles does not accept the answer “Mr” for 「殿」 while it’s accepted as correct answer when doing reviews on browser? It’s only missing the full stop (or period) at the end.

If I were to guess, it’s because “mr.” is 3 characters, and “mr” is 2, and the “close enough” algorithm doesn’t work well for typos of less than 3 characters. I think it might be implemented differently than in the Wanikani front end.

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