Major Updates to My AnimeTracker App!

🎉 Major Updates to My AnimeTracker App! 📱

Hey! I’m back with a TON more updates to my AnimeTracker app! 🎉📱

So far, I’ve been focused on finishing the core features of the app (tracking airing shows 📺, user accounts 👤, sync to calendar 📆, fetching fresh anime data 🌟) so I can release the app by the end of 2025 (yay!).

There’s still a lot to do, but here’s what I’ve accomplished in the past 2 months:

AnimeTracker Changes:

• ✨ Updated app designs
• 🌗 Enabled light/dark modes
• 📱 Ensured compatibility with ALL modern iPhones/iPads
• 🔤 Changed font design/weights

Created a New Page: Schedule Page 📅

• 🔥 See popular airing shows
• 📜 View your list of shows airing this week, with custom AI recaps for ALL shows 🤖

Fetching REAL Data from AniList and TVDB APIs 🔗

• 📸 Grabs show and episode information, including images and descriptions
• ⚡ Optimized fetching time by 83% (from 60s to 10s 🚀) using async functions and batch writes to the database
• ⏳ Spent 15+ hours creating scripts to retrieve fresh data (still not done yet!)

Using Local AI Model (Mistral running on Ollama) for Show Recaps 🤖📜

• 🛠️ Developed specific prompts to feed the model episode descriptions and get excellent show recaps
• 🧪 Tried multiple AI models (like ChatGPT-4, DeepSeekR1 on Azure), but they didn’t work as expected
• 💰 Azure models and APIs were costly, so I switched to running the Mistral model locally via Ollama ⚙️

Debugging, Debugging, Optimizing, Debugging… 😭🐛

Plans:

• 🚀 Revamp iOS AnimeTracker to support new database structure
• 📊 Create more data-scraping scripts for currently airing shows, search results, etc.
• ⚡ Optimize ALL clients for faster database access (reads/writes)

Let me know what you think of my app so far! Any suggestions or feature recommendations? 🤔

I’d love to hear your feedback! 💡