Manga reader update

Apr 18, 2010

I just wanted to share some screens of my upcoming Android project, a manga reader. It still doesn't have a name as I'm not quite sure if it will just focus on mangas, comics in general, or if it will become a fully featured eReader at some point.

Anyway, here are some screens of the current look of it.


Main screen with favorites mangas

bye Aptana, hello phpStorm

Apr 05, 2010

During the last weeks I've been playing (or working actually) with phpStorm. For those who haven't heard about this, phpStorm (or WebIDE) is an awesome IDE for web developers, it has support for quite a few languages, good deployment options and version control support (SVN, GIT, CVS).

I consider myself one of the now disappointed users of Aptana who have seen how their team started building an incredible IDE for web development that supports quite a few technologies to go shifting towards Rails development. It first started by dropping the support of their own php plugin in favor of PDT (which can be really good) but this plugin has almost no integration with Aptana, all appearance options are separate from the rest.

Now to make it even worse, they release RadRails 3 (Aptana Studio 3) and make everyone scratch their heads. http://aptana.com/ features RadRails, while http://www.aptana.org/ features Aptana Studio. But they also have http://www.radrails.org/ !!

It's time to move on...

Update and my projects

Mar 25, 2010

In January I started in a full-time position at Incite Marketing as a Web Developer. Incite is a local marketing firm with more than 10 years in the field and while my job involves working with a CMS, I had to switch to Expression Engine so I won't be doing much work in Drupal, hence you won't see me posting about it too often. The reason is because I'm spending my extra time working on my Android projects.

As I posted before, I started building an Android app for reading comics. It still doesn't have a name but so far it's working pretty well with reading manga from OneManga.com. Although, thats no the only way to get comics, I also plan on giving the ability to read from ZIP, RAR and CBR files.

Another one of my projects is my Drupal administration theme Cleanr. So far is doing well, with over 130 sites reporting they are using it.

I'm also getting a Nexus One in the next couple of days, so with having an HTC Magic and a Nexus One I will be making my Android apps to work better on both devices. I will be posting pictures of my phone soon. 

 

My own manga reader

Feb 10, 2010

Ok, it's more like a book, pdf, online manga, offline manga reader. Why? Because I tried different applications on the market that could allow me to read online manga and I didn't like any of them.

What are the features?

  • 2 zoom levels
  • Ability to create favorites
  • Cool interface.
  • Tablet and phone friendly
  • Will open ZIP files or files in a directory besides the online mangas.
  • Can list all unlicensed mangas from OneManga and favorite them for easy access. (It won't store any file on the actual device)

So far the requirements are Android 1.5 and that's it. Maybe in a near future I may have to drop support for it as it can't handle multiple device densities correctly.

When and "how much"?

When it gets to a stable point and It will only be ad supported as I can't sell applications from within Canada.

Here's a very alpha screenshot showing the list from OneManga.com
 

Update Feb 20, 2010
New screenshot showing a more finished UI.