Tachidesk

A free and open source manga reader that runs extensions built for Tachiyomi.

Tachidesk is as multi-platform as you can get. Any platform that runs java and/or has a modern browser can run it.

Ability to read and write Tachiyomi compatible backups and syncing is a planned feature.

How do I run the thing?

Prerequisites

You should have The Java Runtime Environment(JRE) 8 or newer (if you're not planning to use the Windows specific build) and a modern browser installed. Also an internet connection is required as almost everything this app does is downloading stuff.

Running pre-built jar packages

Download the latest (or a working more stable) release from the repo branch or obtain it from the releases section.

Double click on the jar file or run java -jar Tachidesk-latest.jar or java -jar Tachidesk-vX.Y.Z-rxxx.jar

The server will be running on http://localhost:4567. A new browser window will be opened automatically. Also the System Tray Icon is your friend if you need to open the browser window again or close Tachidesk.

Running pre-built Windows packages

Windows specific builds have java bundled inside them. Download the zip release insted of the jar release which is named Tachidesk-latest-win32.zip or Tachidesk-vX.Y.Z-rxxx-win32.zip, unizp it and run server.exe.

Running on Docker

Check arbuilder's repo out for more details and the dockerfile.

Building from source

Get Android stubs jar

Manual download

Download android.jar and put it under AndroidCompat/lib.

Automated download(needs bash, curl, base64, zip to work)

Run scripts/getAndroid.sh from project's root directory to download and rebuild the jar file from Google's repository.

building the jar

Run ./gradlew shadowJar, the resulting built jar file will be server/build/Tachidesk-vX.Y.Z-rxxx.jar.

building the Windows package

Run ./gradlew windowsPackage, the resulting built zip package file will be server/build/Tachidesk-vX.Y.Z-rxxx-win32.zip.

Running for development purposes

server module

Run ./gradlew :server:run -x :webUI:copyBuild --stacktrace to run the server

webUI module

How to do it is described in webUI/react/README.md but for short, first cd into webUI/react then run yarn to install the node modules(do this only once) then yarn start to start the client if a new browser window doesn't start automatically, then open http://127.0.0.1:3000 in a modern browser. This is a create-react-app project and supports HMR and all the other goodies you'll need.

Is this application usable? Should I test it?

If you'd ask me, I'd tell you If you want to read your manga online from tachiyomi or in one place and bypass all the ads, you can use Tachidesk.

There are almost no quality of life features, including no library, no downloading for offline enjoyment and sadly no MangaDex search.

Anyways, for more info checkout finished milestone #1 and milestone #2 to see what's implemented.

How does it work?

This project has two components:

1. server: contains the implementation of tachiyomi's extensions library and uses an Android compatibility library to run apk extensions. All this concludes to serving a REST API to webUI.
2. webUI: A react SPA project that works with the server to do the presentation.

Support

Join Tachidesk's discord server to hang out with the community and receive support.

Credit

The AndroidCompat module and scripts/getAndroid.sh was originally developed by @null-dev for TachiWeb-Server and is licensed under Apache License Version 2.0.

Parts of tachiyomi is adopted into this codebase, also licensed under Apache License Version 2.0.

You can obtain a copy of Apache License Version 2.0 from http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Changes to both codebases is licensed under MPL v. 2.0 as the rest of this project.

License

Copyright (C) 2020-2021 Aria Moradi and contributors

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