[APP] Comic Reader Mobi

[deisama]

Comic Reader Mobi
by Ty Landercasper

Comic Reader Mobile has been converted to a commercial product.
You can find it, and a list of all the new features here:
http://comicreader.mobi

or, if you want to wish me luck, ask any questions, or just feel like populating my new forums you can go here:
http://forums.comicreader.mobi

The newest version contains lots of improvements over the old one. Faster loading, improved UI, and button binding to name just a few.
Let me know if you have any questions or comments






Features:

Lense Mode! click on any part of the page and it'll show a zoomed in section of that area.
Autosizing lense Lense will try to fit to the text, so its almost always the right size!

Portrait/Landscape mode in Full screen
Autorotate for best fit

Opens zip/cbz and rar/cbr files

High Quality image resize. (Text is still readable even when the comic is fit to the screen!)

Touch Pro features extra commands Doubletap right panel, left panel, or action button. Use the wheel to scroll.

Smooth scrolling. (even on large images)

Bookmarking

Remembers what comic and page you were on
Remembers the last 10 comics and what page they were on

"Next Comic" option opens the next zip in the directory, so you don't have to remember which one your on

"Manga" when changing pages, automatically starts at the right of the page

can associate with cbz/cbr and zip/rar files
Page list
Recent list

All buttons are rebindable
Onscreen controls



Controls
double click to go full screen
hit the action button to go to the next page
Up:toggle Dragging
Down: Fullscreen
Left: Previous Page
Right: Next Comic

click to see the lense
Drag lense to move it
drag screen to make the lense go away


v.1 to v1.1 changes:
Fixed Memory leak/crash with large images
sped up page load time
added cbr/rar support
added page list
added recent files list
can associate with cbz/cbr and zip/rar files
arrow keys navigate between pages and comics

v1.1 to v1.2 changes:
Fixed bug where Manga didn't change where the image started at
fixed landscape bug. Image should resize appropriately now
renamed "manga" to "Start at Top Right"
added "Automatic Fullscreen" option
added option to change what up/down buttons do
added "High Quality" option. (Depending on source, the difference is barely noticable)

v1.2 to v1.3 changes
Fixed zooming bug.
Added "Lense" Feature. when you click on the page, it'll show a lense at that spot thats zoomed in, so now you can easily read the text!

v1.3 to v1.3.1 changes
fixed startup bug
fixed double page bug

v.1.3.1 to v1.3.2 changes
new fix for the double page OOM exception

v1.3.2 to v1.4 changes
New fix for corrupt image files and large images
Proper preferences menu. Theres now a preference for just about every thing I can think of.
Remappable buttons
lense size
display lense away from mouse
click in the box to set the offset the lense zooms at.
onscreen buttons.

v1.4 to v1.4.1 changes
final fix for OOM exception, even works on 6000x4500 images
fix for IOException crash when not using Lense

v1.4.1 to v1.5 changes
Fixed problem with clicking bottom of screen always exiting fullscreen mode.
Fixed Out of space issues. Temp files are put in the comic reader directory instead of Application Data
Lense will now autosize to the text, so you don't have to fine tune it.
Touch Pro scrolling and capacitive panel binding (http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...=436671&page=3)
Added button option: toggle drag, clear lense, toggle fit
Added bookmarking. If its in the recent list, it should remember what page you were on.
Increased recent List size to 10
Added option to display filename and pagenumber on screen.
Added autorotate option
Added "automatically go to next comic when you try to go to the last page"
Added option to let the scroll button change page when its at the end

v1.5 to v1.5.1 changes
Next file is extracted in advance to improve load speeds
Auto lense is much more reliable at small resolutions now.original source is used instead of shrunk image.
Bookmarking
There is now a prompt when loading the next file to prevent accidental comic changes

v1.5.1 to v1.5.2 changes
Faster page loading
"Show Controls by clicking bottom" Hides controls until the bottom of the page is clicked

v1.5.2 to v1.5.3 changes
Bug fix: rar sometimes crashes when preloading
Bug fix: misnamed cbz or cbr files now load as the appropriate type
Autosizing lense detects text MUCH better now.

v.1.5.3 to v1.5.4 changes
Name changed to Comic Reader Mobile
Bug fix: wont leave preferences if only "display buttons by clicking bottom" is checked
Bug fix: 65% tolerance was used regardless of setting.
Removed "Show lense while Dragging"
Added "Lense can be moved by dragging it"
made it much harder to double click
Controls go away if you click away from them.
Added link to this page in the About screen
Tolerance renamed to "Sensitivity"
Lense can't be larger than the screen.

v1.5.4 to v1.6
Limited Smartphone support
Single cab for wm2003,wm5+ and smartphones
2X zoom lense is much higher quality
New OpenFileDialog uses http://www.mobilepractices.com/2008/...mentation.html
Can load images directly
text is displayed onscreen when an image can't be displayed
when starting, form is displayed first, than comic is loaded
zooming focuses on the last place that was clicked instead of upper left
pressing any key makes the about dialog go away.
current bookmark is remembered when you close and reopen the app.
various other tweaks and optimizations.

v1.6 to v1.6.1
Program minimizes on call
fixed bug on Fuze, where if fullscreen was binded to the arrow keys, it would sometimes cause it to toggle between fullscreen indefinetely
Fixed some problems that were caused when the last read comic was no longer there.
Added a catch all block at the beginning, so the program should always start, even if theres a problem loading the file

[TaurenSnake]

This sounds great but where is the App?

[deisama]

whoops, I remembered to upload the attachment, but didn't realise I needed to add it in the body!

[bosskoffee]

Thank You

[r-e-m]

thx! nice app

[Authrom]

Ive been looking at something like this for awhile! Interested to see how it performs!

[Chad Sexington]

Any chance for an update to read .cbr files?

[deisama]

yeah, the next version will support cbr and rar files

[BenDick]

Kudos for the program. I like it!

I am waiting for the update for the cbz format. Its going to kick some serious butt. Also is it possible to access files from the storage card? When I am given the access to the open menu, I can only open files that are on the device memory.

Cheers tho.

Ben

[deisama]

It actually will open files on the storage card but only one level deep
so anything in \comics\xmen will not be seen
but
\xmen will be.
I really really don't understand why Microsoft choose to make their open dialog work that way, but there you have it

In the next release I'll have an option to associate comic reader with cbz and cbr files, so that you can open them from File Explorer and get around that.