Is there any way to use renshuu without WiFi? I usually can't acces the whole app without it even though I just want to learn regularly without using any online features.
There is not. All of the data in Renshuu lives in a server instead of being saved locally to your device, so everything the app does requires an internet connection even if it doesn't seem like it's an "online feature".
It is something that I hope to do one day in the future, but renshuu is somewhere along the lines of 500,000 lines of code, and I'm the only developer! Even limiting it to just the quizzing system would be a pretty daunting feature, but one that I hope becomes possible one day.
It's an old post, but I still hopes it gets read. I'm finding extremely usefult the Japanese Lessons and Grammar Library, if that couls be used offline would be awesome
If I understand correctly, it would require writing new code for almost the entire app? That would be extremely difficult and time-consuming (unless that's something else I'm thinking of)
Nope, that's exactly why - I am the only dev for renshuu (the entire company is just my wife and I), so at the moment, a complete (or even partial) offline rewrite is not possible.
Is this something that a motivated Renshuu user with programming experience could write? An offline version of the quizzing, at least. (not necessarily me in particular, but I'd love to help with something like this if I can, and it's a feature I'd find helpful)
We think (see sticky thread) that a technically sophisticated user could probably write an anki-sync-server using renshuu’s API on the back end. So far no takers.
@ポールおじちゃん How exactly do you want the Sync server to function? If it just pulls data from your schedules and shoves it into Anki, that's not too difficult (famous last words). With the current API it won't be able to sync any of your "offline progress" back to Renshuu. Do you want it to (try to) sync SRS intervals (one-way to Anki)? Do you want any custom Anki functionality?
I just want to get a sense of the scope and general idea.
PS: "An offline version of the quizzing" is impossible, because we don't have any access to the quizzing functionality.
Edit: I don't see the API Key anywhere (searching Settings), so I can't really even test anything. Who knows, maybe I'm blind.
Hey, I’m not managing this project. ;) I’m just sharing ideas. Personally I think that an offline mode is an outdated concept. Everything else is 100% online nowadays. Why should renshuu be any different?
However, if I was going to do it, I’d probably start as small as possible. Build an MVP, as we used to say. Treat it as another kind of focused review.
I know you're not managing it, I was just checking to see if you had a clearer idea, so I could gauge difficulty and expectations better :) The offline mode (full quizzing and SRS) isn't happening anyway, so it's no use thinking about it. I don't see Renshuu going open source.
Are they API Keys not available, by the way? As I said, I can't find mine. I have Pro, if that matters. Is it something you need to opt into? I'd love to tinker with the API a bit.
