In the recent years, Tachiyomi has become quite popular in the Manga community. Well, there are a lot of options to read Manga titles on the Internet, but Tachiyomi brings all the sources to one place. It is a free and open source app with a variety of Manga content from sites like Kissmanga, Mangafox, and Mangahere.
Users can enjoy hundreds of Manga titles from their phones, this is the main advantage of Tachiyomi. Tachiyomi also offers many titles which are hard to find. The app has a wide variety of old as well as the latest Manga titles. Tachiyomi app has now been updated to a new version aka 0.10.8. This version isn’t much of a major upgrade but brings subtle changes that will help to make the user’s experience much better. Things like a new date formatting option, download icon on chapters for quick downloading and now while downliading a title, users can also see from which source the title is being downloaded from in the queue.etc. While these new features seems small, but a regular user would appreciate them. Also, many changes have been made to fix the bugs and other issues that readers were facing while using the Tachiyomi app.
Following are all the changes that have been made in the latest version of the app –
New (major)
- Viewer navigation options (see WIP guide) (@ghostbear)
- Filter library by tracked status (@ghostbear)
- Chapter download icons for quicker download actions
New (minor)
- New date format options (@Riztard)
- Show source name in download queue (@Riztard)
- Show count in library header (Library → Filter → Display → Show number of items) (@TheUnlocked)
- Ability to reorder download queue by chapter number (@Riztard)
- Shortcut to see commit history for official extensions (Browse → Extensions → Open an extension → history icon at top right)
- Ability to manually save crash logs to a file (Settings → Advanced → Dump crash logs)
- Unified history and update item design (@ghostbear)
Behavior changes
- Split invert tapping for pager and webtoon type reading modes (@ghostbear)
- Reading mode snackbar can be dismissed by swiping it (@ghostbear)
- Trackers now shown in a bottom sheet (@ghostbear)
- Global search context menu option replaced with a share target
- Allow typing in tracker score similar to chapters
Bug fixes
- Fix tracker login redirects being white even in dark themes
- Don’t show hidden settings when searching
- Fix crash when last read page is above a newer total page count
- Direct user back to global search when coming from source search results (@clarencecastillo)
- Manga chapter view content not being focusable when using a remote or controller
- Fix crash when tapping downloading progress notification on Android 5
- Fix multi-select phantom anchor bug in manga chapters and library (@clarencecastillo)
- Show errors properly when tracking search fails
Under the hood
- A lot of tracker related code cleanup
- Gradle file converted to Kotlin DSL (@jobobby04)
- Build tool and dependency updates (@TacoTheDank)
- Require minimum WebView v87
Software Details –
Name – Tachiyomi
Version – 0.10.8
Download Links – APK file, ZIP File, Tar.gz File.