It would be great to use this app on an E-Reader, so I propose.

1. An option to disable animations app-wide for e-ink
   Or
2. An option to disable animations for page turning and smart bubble

There is project for OCR in manga at https://github.com/kha-white/manga-ocr. It seems to perform much better than (for instance) google lens in recognizing some of the weirdest speech bubbles (which are often not bubbles) you can find in manga. I have no idea how troublesome it would be to integrate such a model trained using PyTorch in an android app (but it seems to be possible); if preferable, the project also links to two datasets that could be used to train a custom model for Japanese manga. Of course this must be a lot of work so I understand if it's not a priority right now :) Thank you for the app!

Feature request: "Loading. May take a minute or two while we process the comic for speech bubbles!" I love the app but until I looked at the GitHub website I thought that it was crashing/glitching due to the over 5-10 second loading time. I would have been patient and waited if I had a visual indication that it was in fact still loading. Comic trim will state "processing page 34/231" when converting cbr to cbz, perhaps Seeneva could add a similar "now processing page x of y pages".

I think it is the right thing to do. I can use the app's git history to generate contributors list during app release build process.

While zoomed bubbles usually display completely even if they contain a lot of lines, they can sometimes appear truncated. For what I noticed, the problem is on the top left of the page, but maybe it's a coincidence.

App version: 0.1.1 both fdroid & play versions

Comic book file description

• Type: CBR
• Images formats: JPG
• Has subfolders: tried with subfolders, several selected files and single file
• Link:(https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HW7SRqBP6p2yJIMTgNQExaGS6wgHjJfm/view?usp=drivesdk)

Detail

*Please provide more information about the issue. See Eva crashes whenever I link files.

Once file appeared in list, crashed afterwards and never again added the file.

Description of Suggestion

Komga is a free and open source comics/manga media server. This can be used to host and read comics/manga in a network and read on supported devices. Komga makes use of the OPDS protocol.

OPDS refers to Open Publication Distribution System and afaik it is an established standard. However, while many apps in Android do support OPDS they have few limitations (as shown here). It'd be nice if Seeneva reader can support OPDS. Apart from Komga, there is Mango which also supports OPDS.
The spec for OPDS is listed on their website - https://opds.io/ and https://specs.opds.io/

Other Details

I happened to find the app on F-Droid purely by chance :) Right now, the app worked well for the few zips that I tried it on. As I understand, the project is relatively new; if it can support all features of OPDS from the start and continue doing so, it'd be really useful. Wish you all the best!

I received feedback from a user who experienced crashes when opening large comics files (larger than 100 - 200 MB).

I need to find such big comics or create a new one from multiple books and test this issue.

Hello!

I hope you are doing well!

We are a security research team. Our tool automatically detected a vulnerability in this repository. We want to disclose it responsibly. GitHub has a feature called Private vulnerability reporting, which enables security research to privately disclose a vulnerability. Unfortunately, it is not enabled for this repository.

Can you enable it, so that we can report it?

Thanks in advance!

PS: you can read about how to enable private vulnerability reporting here: https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/security-advisories/repository-security-advisories/configuring-private-vulnerability-reporting-for-a-repository

Add nb-rNO to defaultConfig.resConfigs

Version: 0.1.1-Fdroid

Types: CBR and CBZ

Detail

Doesn't import. App says processing, but it never goes anywhere. All 3 books the same.

If it matters, each book is ~1.8GB a piece.

Hi, i just discovered this awesome app and I like it a lot. However the way the user has to navigate still is somewhat of a mistery to me. Does one have to tap a certain panel to enlarge bubbles? Will enlarged mode start automatically if bubbles were found? In which order will bubbles be enlarged and does the order change by tapping? How long does it take for bubbles to be found, have bubbles already been found on my current page? This all remains rather unclear and it would be awesome to have a little walkthrough when opening the app the first time / show the progress of "bubble finding" in a visual way.

Other than that your app is beautiful and I can only hope its gonna be maintained for a long time!

How to reproduce:

1. Open Seeneva app.
2. Open any comic book.
3. Close it.
4. Reopen it quickly.

2021-05-26 11:48:48.309 6923-6923/app.seeneva.reader.debug E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
    Process: app.seeneva.reader.debug, PID: 6923
    java.lang.IllegalStateException: Can't init view binding. Destroyed state
        at app.seeneva.reader.binding.LifecycleBindingDelegate.initializeViewBinding(Binding.kt:75)
        at app.seeneva.reader.binding.LifecycleBindingDelegate.getBinding(Binding.kt:54)
        at app.seeneva.reader.binding.BindingKt.getValue(Binding.kt:42)
        at app.seeneva.reader.screen.viewer.BookViewerActivity.getViewBinding(BookViewerActivity.kt:117)
        at app.seeneva.reader.screen.viewer.BookViewerActivity.access$getViewBinding(BookViewerActivity.kt:112)
        at app.seeneva.reader.screen.viewer.BookViewerActivity$gestureDetector$2$1.onSingleTapConfirmed(BookViewerActivity.kt:219)
        at android.view.GestureDetector$GestureHandler.handleMessage(GestureDetector.java:300)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:193)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6669)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
        at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:493)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:858)
2021-05-26 11:48:48.312 6923-6923/app.seeneva.reader.debug I/Process: Sending signal. PID: 6923 SIG: 9

For some reason the BookViewerActivity receives touches event after it was closed.

override fun dispatchTouchEvent(ev: MotionEvent): Boolean {
        gestureDetector.onTouchEvent(ev)
        return super.dispatchTouchEvent(ev)
}

I can reproduce this on Android 9 only.

1. Open settings dialog.
2. Press on any switch.
3. Crash.

The reason is simple. I forgot to setup proguard for kotlinx.serialization.

😥

1. Disconnect from a network.
2. Use link adding option and select any cloud service app (like Nextcloud).
3. Select any non cached comic book.
4. Here you go the FileNotFoundException.

I should catch it then open a new file descriptor using ContentResolver.openFileDescriptor.

It is also related to #27

Hi,
When importing the attached file to Seeneva, the comic starts from page no 19 and has only 3 pages. The file opens fine in Moon Reader+.

Speech bubbles are shown correctly.

Link to file:

https://1drv.ms/u/s!Aqq2rQyjFtf7zVabvTj6ThNZCJG7

While reading any comic book (tested CBR, PDF and CBZ formats) with system brightness more than 20% and trying to open comic settings (tapping on gear icon), JVM trowing an exception:
Seeneva_slider_exception.txt

Because of system brightness slider value can be greater than the upper threshold, and this causes the problem.

If one tries to use app brightness, it crashes:
Seeneva_brightness_crash.txt

App version: Seeneva 0.1.0-fdroid
OS: Android 9, MIUI 11

Please add the dark mode. (Like picture below)

I would like to translate Seeneva's readme into Japanese, what should I do? Also, I translated the Seeeneva app into Japanese on weblate, so please add it.

I want to find some open source alternative to Crashlytics.

Tere are some times when i want to only zoom an specific Bubble and I have to cycle through every bubble to get to it. I guess it would be nice to have a mode where you can tap on a bubble to enlarge it and a tap on the edges will change to the next page.

Learn more about how to connect GitHub Actions to the project.

Please add direct cryptocurrency addresses within the app. Easy tap and donate without leaving the app: I don't want going around to websites. I don't want support FIAT economy.

TRX, AVAX, LTC, BTC, XEC, BNB, SOL, BCH, ALGO, XTZ, DASH, FTM, XMR addresses available for donations (addresses have to be copyable).

Seeneva already detects page panels to properly order detected speech balloons. It seems like a good idea to allow user zoom in on them. Or make other panels translucent? I should think about better implementation.

Add fr to defaultConfig.resConfigs

It seems that some file managers doesn't provide file name using _display_name Cursor column. App should try to get a file name from title column too.

Reproduced on Huawei devices.

App version: 0.1.1 (master branch)

Error description

• clone repo
• open project with android studio flamingo
• try to run it in a virtual android machine API31
• got error

Detail

Error is: error: failed to run custom build command for lzma-sys v0.1.1 (https://github.com/Seeneva/lzma-sys.git?branch=main#d382dc85)

Would it be possible that when changing the page the zoom was preserved? It would also be nice to include the typical options to fit the width or length of the screen or always open the comic horizontally or vertically, regardless of the orientation of the device.

Hello.
First, thank you for your work on this great app.
I just discovered and installed your reader today version 0.1.1 and i made some tests.
For me, with two pdf comics, the pages are not displayed in order.
Goes from page 1 to 11, then continues until the end of the book, then resumes on page 5...
What about you?

Works normally with a cbr file
Regards

I have installed Seeneva on my 2018 Samsung Tab and also managed to install it on Windows 11 Subsystem for Android on my 2021 laptop. As an example, Pepper & Carrot episode 3 CBZ file (9 pages, from archive.org), approximate loading time:
WSA - 8 seconds
Samsung Tab - 33 seconds

It would be ideal if the app could transfer the detection data from one device to another device so time can be saved. Possibly a 'sidecar' file with the extension '.seeneva' e.g. peppercarrot_episode03.seeneva to go along with peppercarrot_episode03.cbz. That means, if the sidecar file is available, Seeneva doesn't need to do any more detection.

(Thank you by the way for an excellent app!)

Looked every where and cant work out how to import a comic to this app :(

Your website uses the Pepper & Carrot web comic as an example, but can only find JPG files on: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/

Do you have a How-To setup guide with pictures for Pepper & Carrot please?

Starting from Android 5 we can use ACTION_OPEN_DOCUMENT_TREE Intent action to select directory.

I should connect Weblate to help contributors localize app resources more easily.

Last year I used Comixology app and it has a scene based zoom, that automatically turn the image to big according with the proper size of the screen.

Might you implement the same in Seeneva?

As mention in #78 , I managed to install Seeneva on Windows 11. The only input that the app can detect is mouse clicks which is equivalent to touch on regular Android devices.

It would be nice if it could recognise left and right arrow inputs from the keyboard to move through the speech bubbles.

However, WSA does have a setting (under Compatibility) where left and right arrows are used as left and right swipe. If I activate this, the arrows will scroll page by page, but I still need to use the mouse to move through the speech bubbles.

Other issues with Seeneva on WSA is that I cannot open the settings (down swipe doesn't work). Other than that, the app, even TTS, works superbly.

(Once again, thank you for the app!)

App version: 0.1.0-fdroid

Comic book file description

• Type: Any
• Images formats: Any
• Has subfolders: Don't know
• Link: N/A

Detail

I've been testing various SAF Document Providers in order to set on one to store all my comics (I don't want to have all my comics stored on all my devices) and found some of them always get all the comics marked as corrupted after some time no matter if I don't do any operation on it on the backend.

Here are my results:

• Google Drive : Official SAF from the Drive app -> KO (Although the SAF works perfectly for everything else)

• Dropbox : Official SAF from the Dropbox app -> OK (Although the SAF is not really complete for some operations/feature)

• Microsoft OneDrive: Official SAF from the OneDrive app -> OK

• Samba/Windows shared: CIFS Document provider from Google Play -> KO (Although the SAF works perfectly for everything else)

• SFTP : From FileManagerUtils on github (https://github.com/RikyIsola/FileManagerUtils) -> OK (Although the Document Provider is not stable, if I remount it before using Seeneva it will never flag the comics as corrupt)

Tests pending:

• WedDAV: From webdav-provider on github (https://github.com/alexbakker/webdav-provider) : Not tested, need to build it.

I don't know if the problem is on the Providers or Seeneva but the fact that Google Drive is not working makes me think on Seeneva.

I'm open for testing or contacting the other developers to do the tests as I'm really interested on this.

All it needs is a dark mode
It's the perfect app for reading comics

It would be nice to add this project to the main F-Droid catalogue.

From the start of the project I was thinking about make it available on different platforms (Android and desktops at least). Now that it is possible using Compose Multiplatform and Kotlin. All ML processing is already cross platform thanks to Rust.

The idea is:

1. Completely rewrite Android UI using Android Compose.
2. Implement UI and logic for Desktop platforms. I can start from Linux and MacOS implementations.

Also the adding process should be rewritten.

• #27
• #41
• #58

App version: 0.1.1

Comic book file description

• Type: CBR
• Images formats: JPG
• Has subfolders: I don't know
• Link: not sure if it's legal to share

Detail

Whenever I try to import/link this particular comic (The Ring of the Nibelung - 1991) I get the aforementioned error message. Evince opens it just fine though.

Can you add dark mode?

I tried reading a comic in split screen (see screenshot below), but the app then shows the pages overview and I can't read the comic anymore (I don't seem to be able to exit the overview).

PS: great app, btw!

I checked the issue #11. It seems there is a Libarchive RAR archive limitation described here libarchive/libarchive#373. That means that some CBR comic books are not fully supported by Seeneva right now. Some comic book pages can be silently ignored by the app. The error of ignored pages is Parsing filters is unsupported.

As a simple workaround for current app version is to repack corrupted CBR files into CBZ and add it to the app.

I should think how to fix this in future versions. It seems that Linux viewers (like Okular) use the unrar library to open CBR books. I should check its license because I have no other way but static link it into the libseeneva.so.

Cant see latest release on F-Droid! Any plans to push this to F-Droid please?

1. Create a new empty file without content like new_file.txt
2. Add it as comic book.
3. Crash.

Seeneva would be very nice replacement for ComicTrim if this were to be an option!

I'd like to use webp images in my cbz files due to their superior compression. However Seeneva doesn't seem to support them very well.

Here are two comic zips I've made (kept the zip suffix because GitHub whitelists file extensions). Both contain the first 10 pages of the webcomic Eight Bit Theater, converted to both lossy and lossless webp images:

8bt-lossless.zip
8bt-lossy.zip

When importing the lossless archive, Seeneva returns an error that it could not find any pages in the archive. Seeneva will import the lossy archive, with all 10 pages, but will show them in grayscale, even though the files are in color.

(I haven't tested animated webp files, though I don't expect Seeneva to implement displaying them)

Is proper handling of webp images something that Seeneva can implement?