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Thanks!!
No official roadmap (such is Open Source), but:
* Rust Conversion (got a proof of concept, need to productionise it) - Anki Desktop has moved to Rust. We can unify all of the platform, and remove most of our backend code and maintenance burden.
* Android 11 has made significant changes to how applications store files on the device (Scoped Storage). I expect this will be a nightmare to deal with: https://developer.android.com/preview/privacy/storage
* Visual HTML Editor (probably 2.13) - currently editing and adding formatting could do with a ton of love. Typing HTML by hand isn't a great experience for non-technical users.
* User onboarding & UX - We get tons of bad reviews: "All my cards have been deleted" - this is because we fail to explain how Anki/Spaced Repetition works and that we take control of scheduling. People download AnkiDroid expecting flashcards, and we can do much better in this area.
* Performance improvements with larger collections - we're fast, but there's still lots of low-hanging fruit regarding multithreading.
* Background media sync - Medical Students have multi-gigabyte collections (just fixed a bug where some Android systems wouldn't open zips >= 2^31-1 bytes). We're tied to the AnkiWeb protocol for syncing, but it'd be a much better UX if we moved this to the background.
Personal Goals (some point in the future)
* CI/CD improvements - both speeding up build times, adding more styles of testing to the pipeline and adding more auto-linting.
* Accessibility - our TTS doesn't play well with Android talkback; this hurts me to type.
* Better gamepad support
Thanks!! No official roadmap (such is Open Source), but:
* Rust Conversion (got a proof of concept, need to productionise it) - Anki Desktop has moved to Rust. We can unify all of the platform, and remove most of our backend code and maintenance burden.
* Android 11 has made significant changes to how applications store files on the device (Scoped Storage). I expect this will be a nightmare to deal with: https://developer.android.com/preview/privacy/storage
* Visual HTML Editor (probably 2.13) - currently editing and adding formatting could do with a ton of love. Typing HTML by hand isn't a great experience for non-technical users.
* User onboarding & UX - We get tons of bad reviews: "All my cards have been deleted" - this is because we fail to explain how Anki/Spaced Repetition works and that we take control of scheduling. People download AnkiDroid expecting flashcards, and we can do much better in this area.
* Performance improvements with larger collections - we're fast, but there's still lots of low-hanging fruit regarding multithreading.
* Background media sync - Medical Students have multi-gigabyte collections (just fixed a bug where some Android systems wouldn't open zips >= 2^31-1 bytes). We're tied to the AnkiWeb protocol for syncing, but it'd be a much better UX if we moved this to the background.
Personal Goals (some point in the future)
* CI/CD improvements - both speeding up build times, adding more styles of testing to the pipeline and adding more auto-linting.
* Accessibility - our TTS doesn't play well with Android talkback; this hurts me to type.
* Better gamepad support