Major Updates to My AnimeTracker App!
· AnimeTracker, AI, App Dev, Swift, APIs
🎉 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! 💡