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We define our API into the Rust via protobufs[0] and some codegen. The wrapper around these is very lean, FFI-based[1], it's abstracted to a library so Android devs never need to know there's rust/codegen involved. We then define a light Kotlin-based wrapper around the protobuf-generated API[2]. This is a candidate to move to Kotlin multiplatform in the near future (mostly for test speed improvements). [0] https://github.com/ankitects/anki/tree/main/proto [1] https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android-Backend/blob/a0428... [2] https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/blob/68192585a7ae4...

When a popular, free and open source passion project led by a single dev moves into the hands of a company that needs to sustain its 30-people team [0], you know what happens next. AnkiHub's modus operandi has been to take over communities or projects where free exchange happens and monetize/paywall them. If you've been a part of the /r/medicalschoolanki subreddit, you know exactly what I mean. It's been hollowed out completely. In the post, AnkiHub mentions how Anki is "sacred" to them. Yet, they have had no qualms entrenching themselves into Anki's settings menu as the only third-party ever to do so. [1] I am sure more is to come. And the language used in their post almost never helps their case, especially in the pricing and OSS sections. I understand why Damien felt he was being a bottleneck in Anki's development. This is similar to w

The community has been in a deadlock over making FSRS the default (https://github.com/ankitects/anki/issues/3616), and I wonder if this will lead to some resolution. It seems like the core things that Anki needs are new user experience improvements, and algorithm updates. SM2 really shows its age as compared to other algorithms.

Try docker: https://github.com/ankitects/anki/tree/main/docs/syncserver#...

FSRS is not a default yet: https://github.com/ankitects/anki/issues/3616

> Unfortunately Anki doesn't have a proper API and isn't easy to reverse engineer Tried any of the below? AnkiConnect (HTTP API): https://git.foosoft.net/alex/anki-connect Rust: https://github.com/ankitects/anki/tree/main/rslib via Protobuf: https://github.com/ankitects/anki/tree/main/proto/anki Rough DB Schema (outdated, but sufficient): https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/wiki/Database-Stru...

And here is the source code for Anki: https://github.com/ankitects/anki If you want to convince people to use your spaced repetition software over Anki, you need to tell us what's so wrong with Anki that can't be fixed with plugins and that's worth $10 per year. You must demonstrate value above what Anki does. I look at your list of projects in https://0xdev.gumroad.com/ and they're all pre-order of things that already exist elsewhere. To me, this smacks of "give me money, and I'll give you promises." Especially the project https://0xdev.gumroad.com/l/HelpFundMe?layout=profile You want something for free? I'll give you something for free. Anki absolutely can be improved. For new users, it's very confusing: having multiple decks, the separation between cards and notes, and the search interface are hard for new users. Combine something that

This support landed late last year as part of https://github.com/ankitects/anki/releases/tag/23.10 > .apkg imports are able to merge changed notetypes, and can exclude scheduling data

This is confusing to me. The GitHub repo[1] links to the AnkiWeb website[2] which offers the $25 iOS app as one of the download options. In what way was Anki hijacked here? [1] https://github.com/ankitects/anki [2] https://apps.ankiweb.net/

Anki is a great software, but unfortunately it is quite difficult to install on Linux systems. Almost all packages on major distros are by now years out of date or kicked out, because Anki changed its build systems so many times, that the existing package maintainers simply dropped it: https://github.com/ankitects/anki/issues/1378 Nowadays, the Anki version in Ubuntu is from 2019! The snaps are also hopelessly outdated.

I am a big fan of Anki, and for reasons I wanted to build it on a machine I have on an uncommon architecture (it has a graphical desktop). I have all of the components... rust, typescript, qtwebengine, etc) installed and working. I invested some time in trying to convince bazel that the required dependencies existed, to no avail. Rules broke left right and centre and every time I found the solution, other things broke. I think it insisted on pulling stuff from the internet, including definitions of other stuff I needed to change. I can't remember much more than that, as I gave up and haven't thought about it much since. Thing is, pkg-config would've picked up the dependencies just fine - they were literally all there. I even built Rust from source on my weird machine with musl variant, before realising musl has some issues on my architect

Not sure where you found a subscription to Anki, but it's free and open source: https://github.com/ankitects/anki The iOS app is a one-time payment though. This article is definitely not written with an unfamiliar reader in mind though, that's for sure.

Anki is an open source app: https://github.com/ankitects/anki Only the iOS version costs money, which is probably their only revenue stream.

I'm still not sure if I should go the bazel route... recently found a long good explanation why anki switched away from bazel: https://github.com/ankitects/anki/commit/5e0a761b875fff4c9e4... I'd love to have cachable builds but I wonder how much effort it takes to maintain such a setup - especially in a small team very far away from silicon valley or google were nobody saw bazel before. Would be a perfect fit for my former company but even there I couldn't convince my colleagues - they build a monster using maven which would be more elegant in bazel but maven integration worked different than the maven algorithm at least 2 years ago...so my PoC turned into reading source code of dependency resolution algorithm in the used scala tool coursier... in the end I had to give up after patching maven issues in several projects we build upon - som