What The Duck

What The Duck is an Android app allowing users from comic-management website DucksManager (also on GitHub) to view and modify the content of their collection from an Android mobile phone or tablet.

Setup

Duplicate app/src/main/assets/config.properties.sample and rename the copy to config.properties.sample, then modify the configuration properties.

Features

• Login with a user's DucksManager credentials

• Browse through the user's collection

• List the existing issues for a publication, with those possessed by the user being marked

• Add an existing issue to the user's collection, either by selecting it or by taking a picture of its cover

• ... And more features are planned.

Related projects and architecture

• DucksManager is a free and open-source website enabling comic book collectors to manage their Disney collection.
• dm-server is the back-end project that DucksManager reads and writes data from/to.
• EdgeCreator is a project allowing users to upload photos of edges and create models out of them in order to generate edge pictures.
• Duck cover ID is a collection of shell scripts launched by a daily cronjob, allowing to retrieve comic book covers from the Inducks website and add the features of these pictures to a Pastec index. This index is searched whn taking a picture of a cover in the WhatTheDuck app.
• COA updater is a shell script launched by a daily cronjob, allowing to retrieve the structure and the contents of the Inducks database and to create a copy of this database locally.
• DucksManager-stats contains a list of scripts launched by a daily cronjob, allowing to calculate statistics about issues that are recommended to users on DucksManager, depending on the authors that they prefer.

Thanks

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