Hoshi-Reader-Android

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• Commit: 86f562ab3302c1aba0ffa5369b90c279616a9d83
• Built at (UTC): 2026-11-07T21:10:05Z
• Build workflow

Added

• Create Chinese and Korean profiles with language-specific fonts, automatic book-profile selection, and lookup in the reader and dictionary popups, including Korean deinflection and Chinese pinyin grouping.

• Switch the app between English, Simplified Chinese and the system language on Android 8–12 as well as newer versions, with the chosen language also used for newly generated notifications and background messages.

• Use the bookshelf’s Mark menu to reset books to unread, including their reading position and statistics, or mark cloud books as read when cached book information is available.

• Choose AnkiDroid or kuma3 Anki as the card-making client, including deck and note-type fetching, media export, duplicate checks, note browsing and synchronization.

• Optionally show a sentence replay button beside the reader’s bottom playback controls to restart the current Sasayaki or TTS sentence and continue playback.

• Optionally exit the reader with a single Back action without first revealing its controls, using a new Behavior setting that is off by default.

• Revisit the last 100 full-text queries from the Dictionary tab and external lookups, with tap-to-search, individual deletion and clearing, without recording in-book lookups or subsequent character and word selections.

• Sync books, reading progress, highlights, shelves, statistics and audiobook playback with Hoshi on iOS through Google Drive, including devices without Google Play Services, with less startup delay for large bookshelves, exponential retry during network outages and partial transfer failures without repeated automatic error reports or losing the Google Drive connection when token refresh is temporarily blocked, and preserved library associations with safe on-demand downloads when reconnecting to the same cloud library, without replaying part of the current audiobook cue, losing newly created highlights when local state is synced, leaving deleted books as blank cloud entries or interrupting the bookshelf and progress display during batch imports; upload transcription matches when transcription finishes or stops, while keeping live subtitle updates without repeatedly uploading temporary versions.

• Download cloud books on demand, choose local-only or cloud-wide deletion, resume interrupted uploads across app restarts, retry failed book checks and transfers after network timeouts without stalling healthy uploads or publication, stop transfers and explain cloud-book failures during Google Drive authorization recovery, clear stale errors when the connection recovers and resume sync after interrupted reauthorization, and track per-book progress, separate effective upload/download speeds and errors on a dedicated queue page that preserves your position, avoids a dim backdrop on E-ink screens, and shows checking status until transfers are known; upload chunks adapt to the connection, and transfer concurrency is configurable in Sync settings (default 8).

• Read books aloud with device, online or self-hosted TTS voices whose catalog language matches the active Japanese, English, Chinese or Korean profile, with selections remembered per language and service and native Microsoft voice names

[!NOTE] Development preview

Try upcoming features before the next stable release. This build has passed automated checks but may still contain bugs or breaking changes.

It replaces your existing app and keeps your data. Data changes may affect compatibility with older builds.

Get new previews manually from About or GitHub Releases. Updates to newer stable releases remain available as usual.

• Commit: 8f2c4816c2bc82491d32c4811ee131c8c3503397
• Built at (UTC): 2026-11-05T18:34:15Z
• Build workflow

Added

• Switch the app between English, Simplified Chinese and the system language on Android 8–12 as well as newer versions, with the chosen language also used for newly generated notifications and background messages.

• Use the bookshelf’s Mark menu to reset books to unread, including their reading position and statistics, or mark cloud books as read when cached book information is available.

• Choose AnkiDroid or kuma3 Anki as the card-making client, including deck and note-type fetching, media export, duplicate checks, note browsing and synchronization.

• Optionally show a sentence replay button beside the reader’s bottom playback controls to restart the current Sasayaki or TTS sentence and continue playback.

• Optionally exit the reader with a single Back action without first revealing its controls, using a new Behavior setting that is off by default.

• Revisit the last 100 full-text queries from the Dictionary tab and external lookups, with tap-to-search, individual deletion and clearing, without recording in-book lookups or subsequent character and word selections.

• Sync books, reading progress, highlights, shelves, statistics and audiobook playback with Hoshi on iOS through Google Drive, including devices without Google Play Services, with less startup delay for large bookshelves, exponential retry during network outages and partial transfer failures without repeated automatic error reports or losing the Google Drive connection when token refresh is temporarily blocked, and preserved library associations with safe on-demand downloads when reconnecting to the same cloud library, without replaying part of the current audiobook cue, losing newly created highlights when local state is synced, leaving deleted books as blank cloud entries or interrupting the bookshelf and progress display during batch imports; upload transcription matches when transcription finishes or stops, while keeping live subtitle updates without repeatedly uploading temporary versions.

• Download cloud books on demand, choose local-only or cloud-wide deletion, resume interrupted uploads across app restarts, retry failed book checks and transfers after network timeouts without stalling healthy uploads or publication, stop transfers and explain cloud-book failures during Google Drive authorization recovery, clear stale errors when the connection recovers and resume sync after interrupted reauthorization, and track per-book progress, separate effective upload/download speeds and errors on a dedicated queue page that preserves your position, avoids a dim backdrop on E-ink screens, and shows checking status until transfers are known; upload chunks adapt to the connection, and transfer concurrency is configurable in Sync settings (default 8).

• Read Japanese books aloud with device, online or self-hosted TTS voices (with Edge TTS access restored after Microsoft's service update), background playback, adjustable speed, separate narration/dialogue voices, independently replayable Japanese dialogue passages and smoother continuous speech across sentences and chapters with parallel online prefetch and recovery from temporary synthesis failures; skip empty audio from successful HTTP sy

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Pinned native components downloaded and SHA-256 verified by Hoshi when needed. This component release is excluded from app updates. See the attached notices for licenses and source links.