[iOS & iPad & Android] Kakehashi - A Native App to Bridge Your Vocabulary to Real Content

Amazing! That’s working perfectly. Thank you for implementing it so fast :partying_face:

Some other (more minor) feedback now that I’m actually using it - all of this intended fully as constructive suggestions, your app is already pretty amazing!

  • When I e.g. get something wrong and go into details, return to the review, and click to the next review item, the keyboard doesn’t auto-open again as it should.
  • Very minor, but there seems to be some kind of splodge shape behind the Jitai “Aa” button in reviews that flashes in and out of existence? Not sure if that’s intentional (EDIT: Based on your screenshot of iOS, could be the second round button appearing behind the Aa button?)
  • When you click on the wrap up button, the Jitai “Aa” button moves and overlaps the “Wrapping Up (X left)” button (i.e. the wrapping up button seems to stop taking up space on the page
  • Some other UI things:
    • There could be less empty space at the top
    • Scrolling / spacing is a bit broken - on this screen the kanji is cut off and the “kanji meaning” box is cut off (can’t be scrolled, only the part below the “meaning / reading / stroke” tabs scrolls
    • Can we have an option to hide the “+ synonym” button? I never use it and it takes up a fair amount of space
    • On the meaning / reading tabs, if I scroll down the bottom is cut off (i.e. I can’t scroll further than the top of the green/red checkmark/cross icons, they’re cut in half)
    • The highlighted words in the mnemonics aren’t vertically centered
    • Maybe overall the paddings / sizes / etc could be adjusted a bit? If you look at the second screenshot below, of the Flaming Durtles app, you can see that space is used much more efficiently - the kanji/vocab are smaller (I wonder if you could e.g. animate them so that they have the current size while answering, but then shrink down on the answered screen or something?), buttons have less padding, etc. It just ends up looking less overfull / packed in even though it has space to display more information.

Another example here - padding can be nice but also if there’s too much it ends up cluttering things up more (in my opinion) as it uses so much space - e.g. all those paddings I’ve highlighted green could probably be reduced.

Thank you for your great work on this app!

EDIT: Also noticing some issues with the audio replay button on the reading questions, it seems to lag and block all interaction while doing so. I click it, and it takes a good 5-10 seconds to load (during which time I can’t click / scroll anything else on the page), and then continues saying “Replaying” for a few seconds after the audio finishes (during which I also can’t interact with anything). It also doesn’t seem to cache the audios in any way? i.e. it takes just as long to load an audio the second or third time as the first time :thinking:

Oh wow it looks much different in Android, thanks for sharing this!! I’ll work on fixes for this over the next few days. Just FYI this is how it looks on iOS on the same screen. I’ll try to make Android look closer to this

Brilliant, thank you!

Out of curiosity, do you plan on ever open sourcing the app on something like GitHub so that others could also submit Pull Requests for e.g. Android things, you could keep track of issues there, etc.? (and also so that if you were to stop working on it others would have a way to maintain it if wanted :sweat_smile:)

Yes!! Will probably do it sooner than later, since I’m struggling a bit with Android changes and I think I might be making things worse bc I can’t really test it properly :face_with_peeking_eye:

I still need to clean up the code a bit before doing this (still won’t be the super clean, but at least have it good enough)

Thank you for having made the effort to have an Android version even though it’s hard for you to test! It is greatly appreciated :saluting_face: I know the struggle cross-platform stuff can be, having experienced the opposite (no iOS device to test on)…

Signed up for the Android beta! Happy to provide any and all feedback you’d like. :slight_smile:

Also would do so on GitHub if you get situated there.

Oh sorry, I forgot to update the main post, but the app is already out of beta, it should be available on the Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.portego00.kakehashi

Hey everyone!

Kakehashi is now open source here: GitHub - Portego-00/Kakehashi · GitHub

image

I’ve just open sourced it after doing some cleanup work. The code still isn’t the cleanest yet, but it should be a good starting point.

If you’ve been enjoying the app, even just leaving a star on GitHub helps a lot! And if anyone wants to add a feature, fix something on Android, tweak anything in the app, or open issues there, please feel free to do so. Thanks again for the feedback and support!!!

Thank you so much for this app it’s truly amazing !!!

Se ve muy prometodora! Muchas gracias por tu tabajo y esfuerzo