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Seconded, I would love to see support for saving and loading color palettes, and maybe even a more general save & restore feature that saves all current progress.

I’m trying to use this app to make art on Wplace and I love the amount of variables this has, however manually importing the 64 Wplace colors is tedious. Maybe I’ll try the CLI tool instead, but a GUI makes more sense for ease of experimentation.

I don’t judge people for playing nsfw games.

I’ll look into it when I have the time.

Does it display correctly if you play it through a regular mobile web browser? (if yes, can you tell me which browser you use, and what game you’re trying to play)

If it doesn’t display correctly in a regular mobile web browser then that might be just a bug in the game itself.

Hi, the game started regularly stuttering for me seemingly for no reason, presumably after an Arch Linux update.

On Steam it was suggested to update the bundled SDL2 library with a newer one provided by flibitijibibo: https://steamcommunity.com/app/504230/discussions/4/4336474207083138770

Unfortunately his link doesn’t work anymore, but it turns out that the issue is fixed by just removing the bundled SDL2 lib entirely and instead letting the game use native libraries (sdl3 with sdl2-compat).

I was gonna leave a comment on that Steam forum thread, but I don’t own the game on Steam, so I’m writing a post here instead. :)

Just to confirm, the website loads from the web browser?

Ah, wait, you’re right, it is probably annoying to have to dismiss the notification every day if you don’t want the update. So I should probably add an ignore function after all.

The updates aren’t forced and they’re not automatic, you may get a notification for an update but you need to manually confirm to download and install it. (At least, that’s how it works for now, I plan to add fully automatic updates as an optional feature at some point.)

As for the error notification, it’s better to try to fix it, so I’d like some more details about it if possible.

Does it work if you download from a web browser? Can you give an example of a specific game?

Alsl try going into the settings and changing the installer type to “native”, that can fix bugs on some devices.

if you click “More information” above the download link you’ll see its made with RPG Maker. I don’t know which version of it is used, exactly.

If you use an account, you should be able to exclude NSFW apps from search by going into your account settings. I did not realize that there is no tag for adult games, so I probably should add “genre” exclusion at some point.

Ah, no, sorry, if an app is gone from the library then it needs to be reinstalled.

Although I probably should add a workaround for that, since the issue is pretty serious.

It should just work without reinstalling anything.

Added it to my todo list. https://todo.sr.ht/~gardenapple/mitch/43

I could do this, my app installation code was written with multiple possible installers in mind. However, I don’t have root on my phone so I won’t be able to test that method at least.

Next time I get around to working on Mitch, my priority will be to update to a higher SDK level, this will enable automatic APK updates on Android 12 or later without root or any external tools. (I’m open to implementing other methods, for the sake of older Android versions, but as I said, testing might be an issue).

Looks like a problem on their end. They may have signed the newer version with a different key from the older version. So Android refuses to install it. I really don’t think Mitch has any influence over this, but I guess you could try downloading and installing the new APK manually. If that doesn’t work your options are 1) complain to game dev or 2) delete the old version (which might erase the save data!) before installing the new one

Soon(tm). F-Droid takes a while to build packages but it looks like it’s built mine (ua.gardenapple.itchupdater:106 first on the list 😎). Should be published soon.

I mean I do use Discord and we could chat over that if you really want to, but I prefer not to publish my account and open DMs to strangers. SourceHut tickets, GitHub issues, pull requests, itch.io forums, email, all that should be enough for Mitch discussion IMO.

Are you the person who made the Github pull request?

Are you logged in to your itch.io account within Mitch? Does the error occur when you look at the game’s page or only when playing it? I have received a crash report yesterday related to this but did not look into it much yet

easier than having to append a query string on every url

You might be thinking of a different thing. The “?exclude=” URL hack is done if you go into the settings and select “Exclude tag from start page”. Meanwhile the filter that’s applied in the “…” menu on the browse page is different, that’s a custom thing that’s done by Mitch on the client-side. Unlike the URL hack it can handle multiple exclusions at once, but yes it gets reset after leaving https://itch.io/games.

if I then view a game’s page and hit back to go back go the browse games list, the exclude filter is reset.

That’s a bit tricky to fix because the “hit back to go back” interaction is handled by the WebView, not by my app. If you load https://itch.io/games by pressing “back”, to me it’s indistinguishable from loading it from some other link. I don’t want to maintain the same filter if you visit the game catalog again from some other link, that would be confusing, which is why I purposefully reset it. I can probably figure out some kinda solution, though.

Because then other, possibly malicious, applications have access to downloaded .apk files and can modify them before you install them.

This is theoretical but still a concern. To be honest I probably should add the option to just give public access to the downloaded .apk anyway, I’ve been putting it off for a long time.

If you press on an item in the update list, does it give you an error message?

Sorry, it’s a known problem but I’m not sure how to fix it since this does not happen on my device. I could add the option to download APKs outside of root/private storage, but that is a security concern.

So to be clear, you want Mitch to check if there’s a link to F-Droid on a game’s page, and if so, redirect the user to F-Droid, instead of simply installing it? That would make things more confusing, not less. Not to mention the added code complexity.

I’ve had Mindustry on my phone for quite a while now with numerous updates received through Mitch, and F-Droid never seemed to have trouble with this. I might be wrong but I’m pretty sure F-Droid is smart enough to handle these use cases, as it also often co-exists with Google Play, Aurora Store, and other apps. If not, then as far as I’m concerned, that’s F-Droid’s problem. I know there is a way to check which “app installer” was responsible for installing an app.

On the other hand, most Mitch users probably also have F-Droid installed, so they don’t really need Mitch to perform updates of the games.

The main F-Droid repo can be slow to update. Also certain features might be removed to meet their policies. (granted, these “features” might be things like Google Analytics, but still, in general we can’t assume that the F-Droid version will be equivalent to whatever’s on itch.io)

Could you try going into “Advanced” settings and changing the installation method to “System install”?

The possibility of app updates removing stuff from the library is interesting.

There is also a “database cleanup” task that runs every 24 hours which checks if an app is actually installed on the system, and if it’s not installed, it’s removed from the Mitch library menu. Normally that code should never run anyway, because apps should be removed from the library instantly as soon as they are uninstalled. Maybe that “sanity-checking” code triggers a false positive and deletes stuff for no reason. I will look into that a bit later.

Yes, this is probably the only page on the website that’s broken on mobile. Report that to the itch.io team. Mitch has its own mobile-friendly interface for this, should appear in the Library tab -> see all items

Have you tried going into Mitch settings and pressing “Cancel all downloads?”

Funny that I did not notice it, I use a password manager and autocomplete worked fine. That is strange though, I swear I used to write comments and community posts from Mitch just fine. No idea what broke it, but I think I fixed it, will push an update soon.

Looks like I got it to work, and fixed a bug preventing text input too. Will push an update soon.

The issue with icons in Hybrid turns out to be a fairly complicated problem with CORS, it’s taking me a while to fix it. I’m surprised that this does not affect more games.

I’m glad you got the update for Mitch and that it fixed the bug, I pushed it out a couple of days ago but you might have received it a bit later if you downloaded it through F-Droid

Could you send links to the games you have problems with again?

v2.1.1 should fix that game, sadly I have not fixed the scrolling/wrong screen size issues yet.

Could be a useful feature but is low-priority for now.

Also, is this a false positive? It shouldn’t send notifications for new uploads if the current file/version is still available.

Browser games have trouble with scrolling & screen sizes, that is a known issue which I’m looking into.

I’m not sure what you mean by contrast/brightness settings, what game are you talking about?

Android filtering has been disabled in v2.1.0

Implemented in v2.1.0

Ah, sorry, I forgot that the start page can also be set to ‘Popular games’ without an OS restriction. Yes, the filter works with that, too, there is no explicit restriction there.

I started working on Mitch again, will implement this ~~tomorrow~~ soon, shouldn’t be too difficult. The current plan is:

• Have two filters:
  • A “primary filter” using this hack that pkcheap found
    • This can be specified through the Settings menu
    • Will apply only to the main page, and only if the main page is set to Android games or web games
  • “Secondary filters” on the client-side
    • Can be applied anytime on https://itch.io/games but can not be saved
    • Only works with genres instead of tags
• When/if itch.io adds proper filtering functionality on the server-side, the two filters will be merged.
• I will not support filters for anything besides games

Not gonna be the most elegant solution but hopefully powerful enough, and not too confusing for users.