WHAT IS ANKIDROID

WHY PATREON

WHAT'S NEXT?

THANK YOU

I'm David, a professional Software Engineer, and have been contributing features and bugfixes to AnkiDroid for the past half year. I'm porting the Mass Immersion Approach addons in order to support my continued development of AnkiDroid.AnkiDroid is an Android app based on Anki, a flashcard program which uses spaced repetition. We aim to fully emulate Anki, allowing our users to create, edit, and review their flashcards on-the-go, and allow them to sync their collections of cards with AnkiWeb.AnkiDroid is free, respects your privacy and is open source. It's developed entirely by a team of people volunteering their time and expertise to the project, and I'm one of these people.I've been living off my savings while developing for AnkiDroid, and I've wanted to make this a full-time endeavour for a while. When I was asked if I could port theto AnkiDroid, I felt that this would be a good opportunity to attempt to put food on the table while developing the software that I love.Patreon allows me to distribute a modified version of AnkiDroid with additional functionality. Since I'll be distributing the software to advanced users, the usual worries about misinterpreting settings and complexity won't be there, so I'm lot less constrained with the functionality that I'll be adding.Since I'll be distributing these modified addons to a small community, I'll also be on-hand to answer any support questions, and will be able to quickly react if changes are needed.Downloadable plugins as seen in the Desktop won't be possible due to technical reasons. These ad-hoc plugins should act as a stopgap to get the most-wanted functionality to the community, even if it doesn't have the mass appeal, or user-friendliness required to get into AnkiDroid.That's up to you! I'll be regularly consulting with my backers to see where you feel my time would best be spent, whether that be on new features for AnkiDroid, maintaining compatibility with Anki, or plugins (which may, or may not be viable to move into AnkiDroid).I'll post updates for most of my day-to-day work, as long as I feel it'll be of interest to someone.I'm currently working on behind-the-scenes changes to allow AnkiDroid to use code that's written for Anki Desktop. This will mean that we match Anki 100% on these aspects of the program, and we should get a small speed boost. It'll also make implementing some features much more easy, a few of the big ones are:* The Heatmap from the new Stats page* {{TTS}} tagsEach contribution you make will allow me to dedicate more of my time to improving AnkiDroid and getting through my ever-growing TODO list.I believe in open and free software. All work showcased here will be open source. If for any reason, you can't donate at the moment, send an email to [email protected] Say hi, tell me a little bit about what you're learning, and I'll send over what you need. I want this Patreon to act as "I should donate to get these plugins" rather than "I need to donate to get these plugins".----