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An unofficial Android client for itch.io · By gardenapple

"Only Android" filter not working

A topic by kifty created Jun 26, 2022 Views: 538 Replies: 7
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First off, thanks for this great tool!

Lately, however, the "Only Android" checkbox under "Owned items" is giving me a blinking spinner for a few moments and then a blank listing. I have A LOT of games in my account, due to buying a few large bundles, so maybe that's the issue. I feel like it may have started after grabbing the Ukraine bundle a few months back.

I was using F-Droid to install the app (currently listing v1.4.7), but I've tried downloading v2.0.0 from here and I'm getting the same results either way.

I am having the same problem as OP on 2 separate Android devices.

I should add that I'm using a Pixel 3a XL.

Developer (2 edits)

It looks like itch.io doesn’t provide platform information anymore for the library. It used to be hidden within https://itch.io/my-purchases, there was some unused HTML for displaying Android, Windows, Linux etc icons, and I relied on that hidden HTML for filtering. But it looks like it has been removed now (and the way they load thumbnails has changed so that’s broken too).

Thumbnails are an easy fix but sadly the Android filter will be much harder or even impossible to fix.

Developer (1 edit)

I’ve done a bit of investigation but I still haven’t found a way to fix Android filtering on my end. I opened an issue on itch.io’s issue tracker and left a comment on their feeback forum. That’s pretty much all I can do for now.

Thanks for looking into it! 

Developer

Android filtering has been disabled in v2.1.0

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I know this is less than ideal, but what I did is I parsed a list of all android games from https://itch.io/games/platform-android and then created some ublock filters to highlight those titles in my library. Then I manually added all those titles to a collection which I can browse inside the app.

So I thought: since itch.io doesn't seem to currently be interested in maintaining this feature, and it seems really important for the purpose of this app, what if you used GitHub or something to maintain a periodically updated database of all Android titles on Itch.io, and then implemented a filter inside the app by matching the user's library entries against that database?