[MAL] Display Anime/Manga tabs only if user has both lists.
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BRIEF:
I guess there are people who track only one type of content(for example, I do not use mangalist on MAL at all). Now on the main page I always see tabs for switching between anime and manga lists. As far as I do not have manga list, these tabs are useless and the only thing they do is consume space.
STEPS_TO_REPRODUCE:
- Open app.
- Login using MAL account which has only one list.
ACTUAL_RESULT:
There is a useless switcher between two lists.
EXPECTED_RESULT:
Screen space is not used for displaying stuff which is definitely useless.
As a solution I can suggest:
- Manage these tabs visibility using options. It shouldn't be hard to add two checkboxes like "Enable animelist" and "Enable mangalist".
- Manage these tabs visibility automatically. You can get user's list and history from Atarashii API which is enough to identify the usefulness of anime or manga list for the user.
Automatically detecting which list(s) to enable is problematic because a user might have no entries in one list or the other when first signing into the app, but what happens if they want to add a media type that is hidden? Forcing the user to use the website or another client to add the first item is obviously a non-option. But it's more user friendly than settings.
This should be carefully considered. I'll try to think of more pitfalls and things to keep in mind over the weekend, too.
Why don't we just add it in the settings an option to hide the tabbar?
I think we should display both lists by default, but we could have an option that allows the user to select which list configuration they want: both, anime only, manga only. If they choose to only show one list, the bar could then disappear.
Yeah, That is a good idea.
That will do it.
Until it will be added I leave this open
Okay I will add a setting in he preferences. I need to change the way the pageAdapter works but it won't be that hard.
