The BE, comic-reader-home, supports bookmarks (see code here). Let's add bookmark support to this app.

Suggested approach

• First, build a new bookmarks endpoint in comic-reader-home project so we can fetch all existing bookmarks via API.
• Load all bookmarks on app load.
• When loading any directory, look for matches between the comics in the directory and the stored bookmarks. Bookmarks only store a comic path and its bookmarked page.
• Display some bookmark controls on the rows where there's a bookmark for the row comic.
  • It should be possible to delete/remove the bookmark.
  • It should be possible to continue reading from the bookmark.
  • It should be possible to read from the beginning.
• Store the bookmarks offline and pull them to keep them in sync every once in a while.
• While reading a comic, it should be possible to bookmark the current page at any time.

Extra points

• Add a drawer to the app with a bookmarks option.
• Add a bookmarks activity to list all existing bookmarks.
• The list of bookmarks should link the user to the bookmarked comic in the right page.

• Build an activity that should load a list with the offline items.
• The app should work completely offline. If loaded offline or the server is unreachable, show a proper message and take the user to the downloads page.

Rather than not doing it, like now.

The endpoint to be used is /api/comic/<comic_path>/ and it's already available on the api.

It would be nice if it was possible to download entire comics for offline or simply "out of home" reading. The way things are built now, this app will only really work at my home network, which means it's not possible to read anywhere else. With comic offline support, that would be possible.

Suggested approach

• We need to add "actions" per row in the list of comics/directories.
• Add the "download" action to comics.
• The download action, on a background task, should first fetch the details of the comic itself (there's an endpoint for it, api_comic_detail (code), which will return the number of pages of the comic.
• Once we have that, download every image of the comic.
• Store the images on a local directory named using the comic "path" property, which is the full path of the actual comic on the server encoded using base64. There won't be clashes.

For now, let's keep it simple. Add it with only one menu item, Root directory.

In the future, we'll add a section for the "favorites" directories (supported already by comic-reader-come, but not exposed via api yet), another menu item for "downloads" and another one for "bookmarks".

Add some reading controls to the ReadingActivity with a "Go to page" control. A simple popup with a number input to type the page number should be enough.