Daily Comics

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Submitted by tardypad on Wed, 2020/03/18 - 23:11
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Read every day your favorite comic strips.

Designed for phones usage
Basic tablet support

Features:
- select your favorite comics among the list for quick access
- retrieve automatically the new strips locally
- display basic information about comics
- quick view all new strips in a row
- glance at unread comics in cover
- save your preferred strips to the gallery
- share strips with people
- zoom strip for better readability
- full landscape view support
- comics from multiple languages
- animate gif comics
- individual comics as independent plugins

Unfortunately the application has not been accepted into Harbour for copyright issues.

Source code available at Github Daily comics

You can check current issues and planned features at Github issues

List of supported comics: comics list

If you have some additional comics you would like to be in the list, please contact me
You can as well check the guidelines and open a Pull Request for it.

 

Here below are few good online resources to find new comics

http://gocomics.com
http://tapastic.com
http://comicskingdom.com
http://www.webtoons.com
http://www.reddit.com/r/webcomics
 

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Application versions: 
AttachmentSizeDate
File harbour-dailycomics-1.9.1-1.armv7hl.rpm6.38 MB18/03/2020 - 23:11
File harbour-dailycomics-1.9.1-1.i486.rpm6.39 MB18/03/2020 - 23:11
File harbour-dailycomics-1.9.0-1.armv7hl.rpm5.72 MB05/05/2019 - 16:09
File harbour-dailycomics-1.9.0-1.i486.rpm5.72 MB05/05/2019 - 16:09
File harbour-dailycomics-1.8.0-1.armv7hl.rpm4.79 MB28/01/2019 - 01:42
File harbour-dailycomics-1.8.0-1.i486.rpm4.8 MB28/01/2019 - 01:42
Changelog: 

1.9.1

Fast comics fix possibility: there is a file update.json in repository which is downloaded by
the application on start which allows to fix comics without releasing a new application version
A lot of comics were fixed
New comics: Vida de Programador, Suporte, C. Bennett, emoticomix

1.9.0

fix all comics
add many new comics
save strip to gallery
support dark and light themes
translations updates
various small fixes and UI improvements

Comments

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tardypad

Sat, 2017/01/07 - 19:38

I've just released a new version 1.7.2 that fixes Garfield's issue
Enjoy!

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wickedsp1d3r

Tue, 2016/12/06 - 11:07

https://github.com/tardypad/sailfishos-daily-comics/issues/34

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elfio

Mon, 2016/07/04 - 13:33

Would you mind to add this comic?
http://www.eldiario.es/autores/bernardo_vergara/

Thanks, your app is great! 

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tardypad

Wed, 2016/08/10 - 15:29

Thanks :)
Unfortunately I don't feel like adding this particular one because it's more a cartoon than a comic
You can see one of my previous response about this in https://openrepos.net/comment/9910#comment-9910

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Louis

Tue, 2016/06/28 - 23:56

Awesome app. Would be awesome if you could release a x86 build for the tablet :)

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tardypad

Wed, 2016/08/10 - 15:35

Thanks :)
There is now a tablet build available here containing some basic layout changes
To be tested!

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viitas

Sun, 2016/04/17 - 19:20

thanks I use app every day in phone. I just got tablet (one of lucky ones..) and seems that app do not work on it. It is pity. Any possibilities some co- coder who have tablet could check if it is easy to fix?

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tardypad

Wed, 2016/08/10 - 15:34

Some other people reported that the app was working  therewithout any change
And someone now made some basic layout changes which I've merged
A tablet build is now available here to be tested

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Ingvix

Mon, 2016/01/18 - 14:26

Just updated and I can't get the newly added comics to my front page. I select them in the settings and star appears but when I return to the front page none of the new ones are there.

Also would it be possible to add an option to show all non-read pages that were added after last check? Some comics have on-going story and you may not always remember to check every day for new comics and in some cases there might even be two pages added in the same comic at the same time.

EDIT: Examples that can't be added: Questionable content, The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, Nedroid and Andy Capp at least.

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tardypad

Mon, 2016/01/18 - 21:40

Thanks for the quick report!
I'm just releasing a new version that fixes this problem

Check:
- https://github.com/tardypad/sailfishos-daily-comics/issues/3
- https://github.com/tardypad/sailfishos-daily-comics/issues/13
:)

I think displaying the last few strips will require quite some efforts (especially for the interface) as the app was never designed for this.
So I'm not sure I'll have time for it. The other features will probably come before. We'll see.

Anyway, I don't have a SailfishOS phone anymore :( so I don't add any new feature at the moment.
I just add new comics and fix small bugs, as this is easy enough with only the emulator.
I'll hopefully restart some more development once I get a new phone :)
 

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Ingvix

Mon, 2016/01/18 - 22:25

Thanks for the fast fix. Octopus Pie shows only black, it seems. Also I would be nice if you could add Gone with the Blastwave: http://www.blastwave-comic.com

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tardypad

Sat, 2016/03/12 - 16:41

I've just released a new version that contains Gone With The Blastwave
The comic doesn't seem to be updated too much lately though..
I've added it anyway

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tardypad

Mon, 2016/01/18 - 22:44

Hm... I think I know the issue for Octopus Pie
If you check its website http://www.octopuspie.com You'll see the current strip is huge (>1Mb)
I thought I fixed the display of big images long ago but it seems it still appears in some cases...
I can't do anything right now as it is working fine in the emulator...
I'm sure that its next strip will be displayed fine though :)

I'll add Blastwave for the next release, probably in 1 month or so, once there are normally a few other requests
 

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Ingvix

Mon, 2016/01/18 - 22:48

Okay, cool. I also remembered that some comics like Dr. McNinja and xkcd has those associated text commenting the page which you see when you lay your cursor on the pic. Any hope getting those to the app?

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tardypad

Mon, 2016/01/18 - 23:56

Yes, looks to be the most asked feature, I had a few requests for it
https://github.com/tardypad/sailfishos-daily-comics/issues/23
Just waiting for a new phone :)

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rob_k

Thu, 2015/07/09 - 07:43

Hi tardypad,

Thank you, viewing is much better now. Wonderful you planned the work on zooming. Could you add some Dutch cartoons:

Thanks, Rob

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tardypad

Tue, 2015/09/22 - 02:39

I've just added Fokke & Sukke and Sigmund in the last release!

Unfortunately, I don't feel like Jos Collignon fits within the app as it is more of a press cartoon than a comic (if you see what I mean)
I already had this dilemna long time ago of whether or not to include cartoons from http://www.cartooningforpeace.org/en/ for example.
But I concluded that they have to many different characteristics for this app.
 

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lkdhf

Fri, 2016/12/09 - 13:56

Well, then I don't think things like Nichtlustig or The Very Near Future fit, either.

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fvalpondi

Mon, 2015/06/15 - 11:17

Hi!

thanks for this great app! I do have a question: where are the comic strips stored locally? I do not see any "download/save" option and I could not find the folder where they are stored.

Furthermore, could it be possible to have also "Lupo Alberto" strips in the app?

I am runnung the latest (1.3.1) version.

thanks!

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tardypad

Wed, 2015/07/01 - 16:34

I've just added Lupo Alberto in the last release!

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fvalpondi

Sat, 2015/07/04 - 11:15

Thank you very very much!!

For future releases, would it be possible to add also the comic Fred Bassett (Alex Graham)?

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tardypad

Tue, 2015/09/22 - 02:29

I've just added Fred Basset in the last release!

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tardypad

Mon, 2015/06/15 - 22:33

Comics are stored locally in /home/nemo/.local/share/harbour-dailycomics/harbour-dailycomics/comics/

I can add Lupo Alberto but the format won't really work currently as the page is too big.
I will need to implement some zooming or scrolling first but after yeah no problemo I think.
 

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hlotof

Sun, 2015/04/12 - 18:54

Great app, i'm enjoying it a lot.

If its not too troublesome i would be happy to see comics like "saturday morning breakfast cereal" (www.smbc-comics.com) and PHD Comics (www.phdcomics.com) and Diesel Sweeties (dieselsweeties.com) the last one is in comic sailor so maybe you can use code from it.
 

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tardypad

Thu, 2015/04/23 - 12:09

SMBC, PHD and Diesel Sweeties have just been added in the new release!

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rob_k

Wed, 2015/04/08 - 22:43

Hi tardypad,

I like this app, use it almost daily! However, my eyes are not what they used to be, and sometimes the words get too small for me. Is it possible to add zoom to the comic viewer?

Thanks!

Rob

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tardypad

Wed, 2015/07/01 - 16:37

I've increased the display size of comics in the new release!

No zoom yet but it should improve already a lot the reading and be good enough for most comics

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tardypad

Thu, 2015/04/23 - 12:08

I've planned a task for it https://github.com/tardypad/daily-comics/issues/2

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mugshot

Tue, 2015/04/07 - 22:27

Hi,

Just installed and favourited a bunch of comics, this app is grat, now I don't have to find the rss feeds for some comics. Also as a feature request, could you try to add Fok_IT (comic can be found here: http://nyt.fi/aihe/fokit/ and there's a guy who's made an rss feed for it here: http://kimmo.suominen.com/stuff/fok_it.xml)? It's one of my favourites, so would be nice. Thanks for the great app, though! :)

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tardypad

Thu, 2015/04/23 - 12:07

Fok_it has just been added in the new release!

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