Yesterday night I submitted an iOS app to Apple for approval, it’s first time ever I have experienced nerdgasm!
Chandamama is one of my favorite comic and I still read it when find old issues, I’m really excited to write an App for it. The first version has support for three languages that is Kannada, Hindi and English, it allows user to read Chandamama archives from 1949 which is exciting the best part is the will be available for free, yes you heard it correctly it is going to be FREE. Basically as C# developer I should live up to Microsoft in naming the product, so I named it “Chandamama Archive Reader”!
I have posted the screenshots of app just give sense of what we are going to get on iPhone/iPod.
The Home screen where you get select language.
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List of Issues of Comic all the way from 1949!
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Comic View, where we can navigate through pages by swiping on screen and you have option to use Next and Previous Button to navigate and Pinch in and out to zoom
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When, you tap on Comic view it enters to full screen mode so you can continue reading comic without any visual distractions. (I love these vintage ads on comic
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You possibly may think that App looks very boring, well, I have few tasks lined up for future release, as one of famous software quote “If always think of future, you never going to release V1.0” so that justifies everything.
If everything goes well it will be available in App store by end of October!
Thats good news Prashant. I can now read chandama on my iDevice. I was developing this App for myself. Now I shall stop doing the same. Let me know if we could collaborate and do many things around this.
ReplyDeleteThat's great I was looking for programming buddy, DM me your email on twitter. I'll get back to you with the plan :)
ReplyDeleteThank you Prashant for the App!
ReplyDeleteChandamama did a great job by their huge archive and now you have brought it to the iOS Devices, I am hoping it scales well on the iPad too.
@Sri I wish I could port it to iPad, but I don't have one :(
ReplyDeleteನಾನು ನಿಮ್ಮ ಹಾಗೆ ಕನ್ನಡ ಅಭಿಮಾನಿ.
ReplyDeleteಕನ್ನಡ ಬಾಷೆಯನ್ನು ಮಾಹಿತಿ ತಂತ್ರಜ್ಞಾನದ ಮೂಲಕ ಸಮಸ್ಯ ಕನ್ನಡಿಗರಿಗೆ ತಲುಪಿಸುತಿರುವ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಶ್ರಮ ಮೆಚ್ಚಬೀಕಾದುದ್ದು!.
ಅಭಿನೊಂದನೆಗಳು!
ನಾನು ಅನ್ದ್ರೊಇದ್(android) ಗೆ ಕನ್ನಡ ಆಪ್ ಬರೆಯಲು ಆಲೋಚಿಸುತ್ತಿದೆ, ಇ ಮೂಲಕ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಹಾಗು ಕಾಮ್ಮುನಿಟಿಯ ಜೊತೆ
ನನ್ನ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನಗಳನ್ನೂ ಒಗ್ಗೊಡಿಸಲು ನಾನು ಕರೆ ನೆಡುತಿರುವೆ.
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Hi; I love Chandamama books; I have purchased this app from Apple app store; it did not work on my iPhone 4.3.2. I get only black blank screens; looking forward to get a fix on this. Thanks
ReplyDeleteநான் அப்பில் ஸ்ரோர் மூலம் சந்தா மாமா வாங்கினேன் ஆனால் இப்போ என்னால் அதை உபயோகிக்க முடியவில்லை வேலை செய்யுதில்லை
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