[iOS] Tsurukame - native app with offline lessons and reviews

[davidsansome]

@deadpadre

I’m not sure if it was already mentioned before, but I encountered a pretty weird UI bug. When I’m on the main screen, after scrolling all the way down and letting it bounce back, it gets these extra layers of blue on top. After a few repeats it starts to look like this:

Weird. I’d seen that before but then I couldn’t make it happen again. I’ve filed a bug with your screenshot and I’ll look into it again.

@jonanaht

Did you rewrite it all by yourself from scratch (getting the items, its meanings and readings, comparing the user input to the correct answer and considering possible typos)? , or did you run a browser on background filling up the answer and retrieving the result (wrong, correct or typo)?

Yeah I rewrote it all from scratch using the actual javascript on www.wanikani.com as a reference. It wasn’t too hard. At the end of the day submitting an answer is just an HTTPS request!

@Sezme

Since you’re storing all the items with their readings/definitions offline, how often are you updating for user-inputted synonyms or notes, and how often do you sync in general with the WK database?

I ask because I noticed that on the screenshot I posted above for 希望する, it was marked wrong even though my answer “to hope” is listed among the “official” alternative meanings on wanikani.com (to wish, to hope, to want, to expect), whereas tsurukame only shows to request, to wish as possible meanings.

Good question! I actually got caught out by the updates on April 18th which added a bunch of items that I didn’t have in the database - so I re-fetched the data for just those items listed in the announcement and quickly pushed a new version to the App Store.

You’re right though - 希望する seems to have had new meanings added since I last updated it. I’ll be sure to re-fetch everything for the next release.