Leedr is a react-native powered fiction reader for royalroadl.com. It uses redux for state management and realm for offline storage.
Once you have downloaded or cloned this repository, run yarn install inside the directory.
If you have already set up react-native, just open your emulator and run 'react-native run-android' for android and 'reactnative run-ios' for iOS.
Adding Fictions:
- Find the url of the fiction you want.
- Look for the fiction id: http://royalroadl.com/fiction/this_is_the_id/insert_fiction_name
- Switch to the add fiction tab in the app, enter the id, and press 'Add'
- If everything worked, the fiction will appear on the fiction screen in a few seconds
Reading and Downloading Chapters:
- When you open an undownloaded chapter, the reader will default to the web-view
- To download the chapter for offline reading, press the download button in the top-right
- Once downloaded, the reader will switch to the reader-view. If you want to switch back to the web-view, the option is in the menu
Before, I used an app called Instapaper for offline reading. Instapaper allows one to save articles from a given url, and it happened to work well with royalroad fictions. When brainstorming this app, I decided that I wanted to mostly keep this process instead of allowing functionality like browsing all available fictions or downloading an entire fiction at once. This app is not meant as a replacement to the royalroad website. I also recognize that the site gets revenue from ads, which those previously-mentioned functions would completely skip. By making users find the link themselves and view the web page for chapters before downloading, I hope to compromise with that issue.