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[Xoom Themes and Apps] Dubar:
I really like what you're doing here. I just set my root directory as my dropbox folder and now I kind of want to load a bunch of comics in there just to scroll through the collection. I'm sure you'll iron out any bugs or fcs eventually, but for a 1.0 I'm impressed, and I love any app that feels like it belongs in honeycomb.

I dont even know if its possible, but a suggestion would be if you could do like windows does with its thumbnails and show a cover page on a folder (like, page 1 of the first listed file). I like to keep my stuff organized, but the collection view looks too good to be blanded up by a bunch of blank folders.

also "Could not open the file-did something happen to it?" made me smile. I tried to open an .xls

edit: ok confused myself, maybe you should limit the file extensions that it sees in case someone uses a folder with unrelated stuff in it
[Xoom Themes and Apps] kaycha:
I am glad you like it! I was thinking about that. I do show covers for the directory directly above. I will make it so that the directories above that also show some covers. Here is another option. What if I made it display the image of a file called "cover.jpg" or something like that? That would give you better organization ability.

Its strange. I wonder how that xls got in there. I will look into it. It might be some weirdness with dropbox. I am glad that functions.

EDIT: Ah. I found the issue. Thanks! It will go out with the next release.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] le_pere_noel:
hello, I am a huge comics fan and read a lot on my xoom, If I could I would advise you to add followings things :D :

- read pdf file with the same interface

- read jpg file

I have a lot of comics with pdf or jpeg extension

- edit the display of a folder with a jpg or perhaps a pdf :)

Gl for your apps
[Xoom Themes and Apps] kaycha:
Duely noted! I am in the process of getting an jpg comic book to work properly. I dont know how easy a pdf file is though. It cant be that hard! I will see if I can get that support out by the next release. Thanks for the suggestions.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] patass:
it's not bad but I'm going to stic with perfect viewer for the time being

Perfect viewer loads pages much faster and I like the quick tap feature to go to the next comic or back to my library. It loads the thumbnails faster too. If you haven't tried it yet you may want to now. Its totally free and there is an optional 3 dollar donation, I donatd because of how amazing the app is.

I do like the tap to preview other pages though. It just loads the thumbnails kinda slow.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] kaycha:
I have used perfect viewer and didnt particularly like its organizational features. It is strange that you find it so much faster - were you testing the same files? CBRs universally suck for pretty much every app that I have tried because of the sorry state of the unRAR library. I think I will try doing much more prebuffering when dealing with CBRs. That should solve much of the speed problem.

You can also jump back to the library or next by tapping on the screen when you are reading and hitting the buttons in the action bar. How does perfect viewer do it?

As far as loading comic thumbnails are concerned, it is done once and cached. I try to only load them when the user has stopped scrolling because the scrolling experience is extremely hampered by continuously trying to fetch the comics. Basically what I am saying is only the first time that a directory is visited has really slow thumbnail loading.

As always, thanks for the suggestions! I will be working on getting parity with Perfect Viewer.

EDIT: Okay. These ads are causing way too many force closes. I will be removing it. The free version is now ad free. The update will be on the market shortly.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] MagicMicky:
Awesome app! Totally replaced perfect viewer for me! just waiting for the pdf views :D

Congrats dude!

Sent from my Xoom.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] kaycha:
It is coming my friend :) Researching as we speak!
[Xoom Themes and Apps] jrezin:
very nice app indeed!

Just buyed this app last night after trying the free version... very nice indeed and fast (is it using renderscript?).

Just waiting for double page view in landscape mode, manga mode view (right to left) and night mode for B&W comics/mangas... =]
[Xoom Themes and Apps] kaycha:
Sweet thanks for the feedback! That's actually an interesting suggestion for double page view in landscape mode. Would it show the current page and the next page side by side? I think I got some ideas for it. Manga mode is definitely coming. I didnt think about night mode. That is an awesome suggestion. Does it just it just invert the colors to white on black?

As always thanks for the excellent feedback! I will be updating my first post with things that I will be adding into the next release.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] patass:
Perfect viewer's bookshelf

reading in PV

double page mode in PV

perfect viewer's quick controls (customizable)

I cant decide just yet who's bookshelf I like better, yours or PV. PV handles the covers better though (with some of my files your app shows the wrong image). I'll buy your app as a thank you, and as encouragement to one up perfect viewer's dominance over android comic apps.

PS - Mango is the app I use for reading manga because it has many sources and pulls manga from the internet, all you need is the app itself.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] kaycha:
Interesting ideas... I definitely can grab covers better I think. The problem is there is no standardization on how files are named - there is definitely some improvements I can make by looking through the zip for something that seems like "front cover" or something like that. Right now I simply show the first image in the file.

The quick links are interesting. I definitely will be looking into something like that. Buttons easily placed in the page thumbnails overlay or something like that.

The dual page thing i am definitely going to do. That is a super cool feature that I am surprised I missed.

As always, thanks for the support and the suggestions!
[Xoom Themes and Apps] patass:
The "quick links" thing shows briefly on startup and then remains hidden. I went through the options to bring it up for the snapshot.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] kaycha:
I see. Into the pipeline it goes!
[Xoom Themes and Apps] Dubar:
Bought the paid version, even though you took the ads out of free. Not that you seem to need much encouragement! Thanks again
[Xoom Themes and Apps] Thibor69:
Awesome !! I will test any version you want. I have many backups of my system. Just let me know. PM here or email me thibor(at)gmail(dot)com

Cheers!
[Xoom Themes and Apps] gbmitchell:
Page turn animations are cool but please put it low on the priority list. Sometimes I have to use perfect viewer just because Komik is acting up and I would prefer to just use Komik.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] musashiken:
Although you did not mention in the release note but it seems you secretly added auto fit for images smaller than the screen resolution. This is awesome.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] iliketrains:
Another thing to add. I know that you had mentioned improving zoom quality. Did that ever happen? I notice that on landscape pages where the text is small, zoom simply enlarges the text instead of zooming. Its kind of hard to see sometimes because its blurry.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] kaycha:
I fixed this in the last big release 1.20. Are you still seeing problems? It should stay blurry as you are moving it (to prevent lag). Once you let go though, the high rez image should appear. It obviously is dependent on how high rez the actual image is. This also applies to the magnifying glass.

musashiken - Oh whoops. I frogot to add it to the release notes. I will edit it. Thanks :)

gbmitchell - What sort of issues are you seeing? Force closes? Slowness? I will try to resolve any issues you are noticing.

iliketrains - I dont understand what you mean by grouping. Isnt that just sticking the folders into another folder. Folders support custom cover images (via the cover.jpg file). I will be working on page turning animations, but I want to get some of the more pressing issues out of the way first.

As always, thanks for your suggestions and support.

- kaycha
[Xoom Themes and Apps] iliketrains:
Yea like I said, all of my suggestions are minor.

Far as the magnifying, its still blurry for me even when still. Only time I magnify is in landscape. Maybe this has something to do with it.

Btw all the of the images in my books are fairly high rez.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] gbmitchell:
I can't figure out what is causing it but every now and then it just gets to where if I try to go to another page it locks up and eventually force closes. I'll keep using and try to replicate the problem enough to narrow it down to a reason.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] xeroja:
I am running 1.22 and the sorting and numbering is still messed up plz help
[Xoom Themes and Apps] jrezin:
by using the two-finger diagonal click (magnifying glass?), the resulting square that shows the selected content zoomed don't actually improve the displayed resolution, just enlarges it. the content has more resolution than the xoom screen, and by zooming normally with pitch the content redraws with larger resolution, but not in the magnifying glass.

the filtering is very block too in the magnifying glass, but the issue is not only filtering, as in the normal zoom the extra resolution is clearly there.

I don't use it much, but just letting you know, as it looks like the mentioned issue.

(by the way, nice S in the brightness settings; and the reading of chapters with low number of image files seems to be fixed too... as I finished the 500+ chapters in folders in quickpic; just got back to CBRs, the I'm also confirming no problems with perpetual loading until now too)
[Xoom Themes and Apps] kaycha:
Oh. I am thinking about deprecating that feature because it doesn't work all that well to me. The magnifying glass (two fingers close together down on the screen) works better for me and allows you to pan around by sliding your finger. The image will improve in quality the moment you stop panning your finger around as well. Do you actually use the local zoom (diagonal two fingers down)?

xeroja - can you PM me your filenames so I can see whats wrong?

gbmitchell - that sounds like an out of memory error. Are the images inside the comic you are opening very high resolution? I havent had an OOM error in a while.

iliketrains - if you are seeing low quality resolution after zooming in the latest code it definitely is a bug. Can you try the magnifying glass feature (two fingers close together on the screen) and see if that improves the quality in the zoom window?

- kaycha
[Xoom Themes and Apps] jrezin:
Don't really use neither of them too much, I was just pointing about the quality in this Local Zoom... but IMHO, it won't be missed with the magnifying glass in place...

...my only comment would be about the normal zoom. It could be a little more responsible (the panning I mean), and it's to easy do accidentally change page when you're just trying to pan and continue to read the comic page.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] jrezin:
just realized that the magnifying glass doesn't work properly in the "motorola corner" (top right in portrait, top left in landscape). the magnifying glass keeps under your fingers in this corner... which makes reading a bit hard... =)
[Xoom Themes and Apps] iliketrains:
When I use the two fingers close together, the zoom quality is slightly better, yes. However, using the two fingers close together gesture, for me isnt that enjoyable. I would prefer to simply zoom in on the whole page, which i often do. I guess i was expecting a sort of maginifcation window that stays static but in which the zoomed portion of the page can be moved around inside of.

I guess thats more of a suggestion but an entirely unnecessary one. Most people are probably like me and if they need to zoom, then zooming the whole page is easier to do.

Keep up the good work!
[Xoom Themes and Apps] martenw:
So how is development going?

Haven't seen an update in a while now.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] musashiken:
Lol, the app was updated slightly over a week ago only. How fast do you expect the developer to churn out updates?
[Xoom Themes and Apps] martenw:
So it's just me then... I never seem to get those "An update is available" for Komik...

If I read the first post it seems like 1.20 is the latest.

I need to check the market when I get home.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] musashiken:
Ah well the version now is 1.22.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] kaycha:
Hi all,

Sorry. I haven't been able to dedicate as much time as I would like to development. My actual job is picking up. So I have been spending much more time working on that. At the end of the month I should have another update though!

- Kevin Cha
[Xoom Themes and Apps] codye09:
Comics still need to be sorted in common numerical order. I love everything about this app over all the other choices on Android except that when I finish issue number one in a series, number ten is the issue that I am taken to next. This is a minor annoyance compared to all you've done well in the app though.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] musashiken:
I get around this by adding the appropriate number of zeros in front of the single digits in all the filenames. I just use some batch rename program to make things easier.

Of course you have to be able to edit your comics and this does take some time and effort.

I encountered this annoyance in a few comic readers on the pc, so I got pissed and decided to ensure that all my current reading stuff are numbered with padding of zeros.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] kaycha:
Hey all,

That number issue is definitely really annoying. I fixed it when the names consist of all numbers, but it still needs a lot of work. I will be releasing an option for doing this sort of advanced numerical sorting (sort of like a beta) in the next release. I am really scared of doing this across the board because of the presence of many different sets of numbers in the filenames. If I change the sorting, it could mess up the sorting on the files that are already sorted properly with leading zeros.

Sorry I haven't been keeping as up to date with the app as I would like. I have a ton of work (actual full-time job work). I am planning on having another release at the end of July or early August.

Thanks all!

- kaycha
[Xoom Themes and Apps] martenw:
Well if people named their albums correctly for computers it wouldn't be a problem.

01-09 then 10-19 etc.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] kevlarman:
Are we able to select more than one folder, or can there only be one root?
[Xoom Themes and Apps] producerism:
Second this motion, please :)

I'd love support for this app on the Nook Color (2.3x CM7)
[Xoom Themes and Apps] skribles:
does anyone have a link to an .apk??
[Xoom Themes and Apps] kalel90:
Im not sure if its been asked but would you considering adding scraping and downloading support for manga/comic hosting sites like mangafox for example? What im aiming for here is something like mangarock unity for the ipad.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] ffttgghh:
Just got the donation version off the marketplace, absolutely love it.

finally happy to have a great reader, this is by far the best one out there I've found.

keep up the great work!
[Xoom Themes and Apps] mug2k:
Are you planning to add a landscape mode at all ?.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] zeltak:
hya

i second that, that app is perfection on the xoom apart for the lack of landscape :)

thx

Z.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] kaycha:
Hi all,

For those of you asking for landscape mode, it is definitely coming. I hope I can get it out soon. I haven't had had a chance to work on it very much lately. For those of you who are asking for landscape mode, is it mainly about the position of the controls or are you actually looking for zoom-to-width in landscape mode?

As for scraping manga off of places like mangafox and such, it is definitely doable, but most of those site technically have a do-not-scrape/crawl. I do not want to get in trouble with those sites. I definitely will look into it in the future if a good solution comes up that doesn't end me up in hot water though :)

Thanks everyone!

- kaycha
[Xoom Themes and Apps] mug2k:
Zoom-to-width would be good, I think its what perfect viewer has and is perfectly fine.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] jrezin:
data, license and upgrades

Unfortunately after some upgrades in XOOM I found myself unable to use the app after a Titanium Restore... the license check would not let it start up...

The way to solve it was uninstalling it and then re-download from the market, but this will basically erase all your library information, read and unread comics, etc...

Is there any way to solve this problem? Like backup this library info data to the SD or something like that?
[Xoom Themes and Apps] Alainsob:
Hi Kaycha,

First of all : YOU'RE DOING A GREAT JOB DEVELOPPING KOMIK READER !! YOU ROCK !!

Basically, I bought my tablet mainly for the purpose of reading comics when I am on the move.

I've been trying all readers available and none can be compare to the job you've acheived.

For the app to be perfect I would recommend implementing :

- pdf recognition (but it has been mentioned before and I know you're working en it).

- reading in lanscape mode with zoom to with option (I know you are working on this to)

- issue creating thumbviews in some cases

- page flipping visual effect to enhance reading experience

Many Thx

Alain
[Xoom Themes and Apps] MasterDave0:
any chance of 7-zip support in the future?

maybe people aren't using it heavily (though they should!) but I'd like to be able to recompress all my stuff into 7-zip archives and save wee bits of space here and there. When you're on a portable, every bit helps.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] musashiken:
Komik supports .zip and .rar files as well.

Just 7-zip your files into .zip files.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] Tension113:
Coming over from an Ipad using Comicglass, I just recently got an Asus Transformer and this looks like the viewer I'll be using.. Nice work so far.. I had edited Comicglass a little bit to get it to where I like it, but so far I'm enjoying reading them on the Transformer much better.. Here are my questions and suggestions..

One thing I prefer on my old setup over this one, is when I go into a series folder that has 100+ comics in it, scroll up and down the list, and all the covers display without any lag of any kind.. I notice using Komik, the covers load as you scroll and sometimes you have to play around a bit scrolling up and down to get them to display.. I liked having them preloaded..

The support for Comicrack that I saw someone else mention would be awesome.. I have scraped all of my comics through Comicvine using Comicrack and it's just great for organization..

Something else I saw someone else ask is the ability to add more than one root folder.. Is this possible? Personally, I have 40+ gigs of comics.. Since this is mainly what I use the tablet for, I'll probably be putting some of them on the internal storage and some on a memory card.. It's just nice having your entire collection everywhere you go :) Or maybe there's another work around for this?

Other than the zooming in feeling a little sluggish compared to what I'm used to, I'm really liking this so far.. Especially compared to everything else I've seen so far for Android.. Looking forward to future updates..
[Xoom Themes and Apps] martenw:
Zoom-to-width in landscape definitely.

I think you shouldn't focus on scraping sites, ComicRack for the PC does it very well with a plugin or two, Focus on supporting their XML format instead.

That way you could parse all zip files for the XML into your database and we could do all sorts of cool sorting things (by series, company, title, etc.)

Soon you'll have some competition in the Android Comic reading market from the developer of ComicRack also.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] timrock:
I was reading a comic this morning and it kept loading when flipping thru pages. it did this for about the first 5 pages. Any way to speed up the loading time.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] speedyv79:
Zoom-to-width in landscape mode for sure! :D
[Xoom Themes and Apps] gerbick:
After almost a week in the hospital and only my trusty Xoom + Komik... my love for this app only has grown even more.

Thank you. Great app, works great and all of the past improvements have made this an even better app since the time I first bought this when it came out.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] usoska:
Was the file you were reading a .cbr file ?

.cbr take much more time for loading. Try converting your file to a .cbz, and check again, it should load instantaneously ...
[Xoom Themes and Apps] timrock:
Yes. Mostly all of my comics are cbr. I will try this.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] mfad:
Very cool reader!

It's the most beautiful comic reader I think. Working well in my Xoom and I just bought donated version from Market. Hope the new feature will be added soon, such as PDF support and landscape viewing mode. Thanks.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] d750:
The only thing missing is an optional: colour balance or gamma correction. Because the majority of comics has the dubious quality.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] primetime34:
This is a great app...I have a question/feature request. Is there some way to browse files on the network? I have my comics on a server and would like to read them on my tablet without having to move them over? I have a Toshiba Thrive. Any way to do this with Komik?
[Xoom Themes and Apps] mika76:
I'm absolutely loving this app! Thank you very much.

I do have some suggestions/comments:

1. Error handling could be better. If there is a page that does not work the reader will not display the book and also the covers do not work. It would be better if the pages that _do_ work could still display. If you have 10 files in a folder, and one doesn't work, the folder will not have any cover...

2. The covers do not work if there is less than 3 comics in a folder, or if there are folders within folders.

3. I see lots of your responses to comments are the .cbr .cbz issue where .cbz is native and therefore faster. How about adding in a [convert] command on a file or folder of files where they would be converted to .cbz. This would obviously take time initially when invoked but would make the reading experience much nicer.

Brilliant app though! Thanks.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] martenw:
Converting comics (CBR->CBZ) can easily be done BEFORE you put them on your device.

I think my script is on page 16

Right now what I miss most is the landscape viewing mode with fit to width.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] mika76:
Absolutely true, but I think the only reason one might do that is to make it quicker for this specific app so it might be a nice feature. Also I'm sure it's about as easy to implement in java as it is using your script.

Anyway, it was just a suggestion. I think the error handling is the most important of my points. At least to me :)
[Xoom Themes and Apps] botossi:
Hi kaycha, is there any plan to port that to Gingerbread? or it will be only HC/ICS when is out? I have the little Nook and i tried your app on the HC test rom and it looked awesome... it would be nice to be able to run it in GB...
[Xoom Themes and Apps] Matchstick:
I just started trying this app and I'm pretty impressed.

Once thing I have noticed though is that the app includes the ._<filename> dummy files that OSX adds when copying files to a non native OSX drive.

Would it be possible to add an option to hide these files to a future version ?
[Xoom Themes and Apps] martenw:
I've switched to ComicRack now.

It does landscape view correctly and navigates the page good.

Sorry. It was a good run!
[Xoom Themes and Apps] exkaizen:
Hi,

I've used this apps in ICONIA a 10" tab... and it working great...

Currently I'm looking for smaller tab such as Samsung Galaxy tab 7.7, Galaxy tab 8.9 or Sony Tablet S.

Anybody have tried the apps in screen smaller than 10"? I know shouldn't be a problem on potrait but I believe due to smaller screen, the picture will be too small in landscape...

Is there any option to change the landscape (dual page view) to be change to potrait (which split the dual page to individual page view)?