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Is the format open source?
by melling 7y ago
Is the format open source?
- jac241 7y agoThe desktop app is GPL and it's all backed by a Sqlite db so it's possible to reverse engineer.
- melling 7y agoThat requires a lot more effort, and it’s error prone. You don’t want to get it wrong because you may corrupt people’s data
- muldvarp 7y agoHere is a description of the format: https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/wiki/Database-Structure https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/wiki/Database-Stru... If you'd ask me it's a perfect example of how not to structure a database. It's not even in the first normal form. I'd love to create an Anki clone that has better UI/UX and a better database format and I think that would remedy some of the biggest pain points about Anki. But since most Anki users (me included) use several plugins that are quite essential to their Anki experience, an Anki clone would have to support those plugins, too.