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[Android Apps and Games] xindroid:
This app is great, small but powerful, thanks for you work!
[Android Apps and Games] raynerape:
XDA is rife with designer talent that is eager to work for quality projects, so maybe you should just look around and ask for art/theme designers to land a hand or provide assets for backgrounds, etc? You will be surprised just how much your app will be improved with proper artwork.
[Android Apps and Games] conejoblanco:
Very nice app, fast and powerful. I have been looking for a simple sequential image viewer like this since I got my Android phone and I've tried quite a few; this is the best I've seen yet.

What I like:

Fast interface

Customizable touch zones allow quick zooming and navigation

Good format support

Can browse into directories that start with a dot

A few improvements I'd like to suggest:

I like the option to select the resampling method, but nearest-neighbor doesn't look very good and the other options perform too slowly on my phone to be practical. Other image viewers (such as the default Gallery) seem to handle image scaling with a better quality/performance tradeoff. Also it seems like there is an off-by-one error when selecting the sampling method, when I select a method I always get the method just above the one I selected.

It would be nice if there was an option for automatically switching screen orientation when the phone is rotated. Also, when I switch orientation the app steps forward to the next page, I think it should stay on the same page.

I don't see a long-press action, that could be another configurable action. It might be useful to display the touch commands on long press in case you forget some of the less-used commands and need a reminder. Or it could be configured to execute some other action.

The app is not too big currently, but it is larger than some other similar apps. For example ACV is under 300KB.

All in all, great app! Thanks for releasing it and I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with it in the future.
[Android Apps and Games] paladinlin:
Thank you for your suggestion.

1.You can choose Averaging method it's have normal image quality and fast.

And you found a bug I'll fix it soon.

2.Automatically switching screen orientation will be add in future. You found another bug I'll fix it soon.

3.I don't have plan to add long-press action currently.

4.Because this app is use native c++ library(libpng,libjpeg etc.) to handle image&archive files so will be a little bigger
[Android Apps and Games] INeedYourHelp:
Can you make the app show thumbnail's of the jpg/png (not the comic book files)? This way, I can finally get rid of the android gallery app. I will gladly donate if this feature can be done.
[Android Apps and Games] paladinlin:
Thumbnail browse is already in roadmap. But the time schedule is after other function(bookmark etc.)
[Android Apps and Games] INeedYourHelp:
Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] PatcheZ:
fantastic app!

lol, i think i've been using this more than any other as of late.

just wish it would render a little faster on anything other than 'averaging' and 'nearest-neighbor' as the quality of the others are much better, but don't think there's much you can do about that.

again, awesome!
[Android Apps and Games] picard1974:
Hello,

I apologize in advance because English is not my native language.

I try to use your program in a tablet, SmartQ V7, with these features:

Android 2.1

600MHz ARM11 CPU

Memory 256MB DDR II RAM

Virtual Cache 128MB

The problem is that when you open the comic book closes automatically.

I tried the following:

Close all aplicaiones to free memory, free memory getting about 80 MB,

Turn off cache in settings

I would love to test your application as it is highly recommended.

Thank you very much
[Android Apps and Games] paladinlin:
If you got force close while open archive file, You can try to open a image file.

If image file is worked maybe you can send me the archive file for test.
[Android Apps and Games] raynerape:
Version 1.2 is a great improvement, the new UI is very smooth and has a profesional feel to it.

Still, there's one minor annoyance that's fairly easy to fix and will greatly improve my experience with your comic viewer. I like the slide command where instead changing the page, the screen slides down the page until it reaches the bottom, then changes the page. What I find annoying however is that the distance the screen slides is not configurable. It would be great if we can change the screen slide distance. The slide distance can be a value that chan be changed with a slider, or presets based on fractions of the page height, i.e. 1/5, 1/4, 1/3, and 1/2.
[Android Apps and Games] Sergio Nova:
Thanks a lot.

I have Android as the operating system in my tablet (10" Eken M006). Before knowing Perfect Viewer, I would prefer my images in PDF, despite some problems, but now I have changed my mind. Your application has some interesting qualities (that Documents-To-Go lacks when opening PDF files):

1. It fits the image no matter the size of the previous one.

2. It remembers last viewed page.

3. The page does not rotate automatically, what is a bless. I suffer a lot when the page rotates by itself. It would be great if you added a "page rotating" function.

Page orientation is not the problem. I read many Western reading books, and pressing the screen on the left or the right side is indifferent.

The application will be even better if it could open other image formats, like GIF and BMP. If you could include PDF files, it would end up simply perfect.

Thanks a lot for the great job.
[Android Apps and Games] paladinlin:
Thank you for your suggestion. But currently I have no plans to add this function. Maybe I'll consider it after complete other function.

"page rotating" is already have. it call "Switch screen orientation" in main menu.

GIF and BMP support is in roadmap, But currently I have no plans to support PDF file.
[Android Apps and Games] Sergio Nova:
Installation problems

Every time I try to install the last version from the market, I receive a message saying the download failed. Do you know what is the problem?
[Android Apps and Games] paladinlin:
You can download from here
[Android Apps and Games] Sergio Nova:
Switch screen orientation

I succeeded in downloading and installing version 1.2, but I still cannot cannot rotate pages - at least I do not see the option Switch screen orientation. Also, such an option is not show in the picture here in xda-developers.

Anyway, this programme has already gained my preference. It is simply the best.
[Android Apps and Games] PatcheZ:
1.2 definitely looks much more refined than 1.1... yet i actually liked the simplicity of the 1.1 menus.

again, fantastic app... the app i use more than any other.
[Android Apps and Games] jjwa:
I am IMPRESSED sir! :)

Quick - keeping high quality, even during resizing.

Super-easy to learn touch positions, and even with so many touch areas, pinch-to-zoom still works perfectly.

Your menu is also very well done, with the little tab list :).

Very very nice.

I also have a few comments. I should mention that I do not use it for comic reading, I have an other goal: replacing the stock Gallery (I hope to replace all apps that need the media scanner, hehe). Which means I would like to be able to use it for checking out folders of pictures without missing any of the Gallery features. Because this app would be so much nicer for that! :)

General comments:

No matter what 'Reading direction' I choose, or enable/disable 'Load last file', when I open a picture in a folder, I can only go to the other pictures or folders by tapping on the left side. Instead of on the right side (I am European, so right side is the logical way for me).

When you get to the last picture in a folder and you can't 'side-scroll', a little sound and/or bump animation could be nice.

(When my device was acting slow, I first thought it was lag that prevented me from scrolling to the next files, I did not know it was the last one.)

The picture explaining all the touch areas, it would be nice if we can find it in the menu, maybe under Misc..

Is it possible to make Perfect Viewer the program used when I open a (supported) picture from a file browser? So I do not always have to use 'Open file' inside PV to open something.

Gallery-style features:

I would really like a thumbnail/gallery view.

(I know it's on your roadmap, but for me it's on the top of my wishlist :).)

A 'Share' button would be a nice gallery-style feature, with a menu that allows us to sent a picture using Gmail/buetooth, etc. I expect it's a pretty copy-paste thing to add in Android, I see it in many apps.

A 'Set as' option, allowing you to use a picture as wallpaper or contact picture would also be a good feature when hoping to replace the Gallery :).

Thanks a lot for this application :). If you can fix a lot of my list, so I can be happy to use it as a gallery replacement, I will donate :).
[Android Apps and Games] paladinlin:
2010/12/08 Version 1.3

Added support GIF (non animated) and BMP image file

NEON optimized JPEG and PNG decoder, Improved 10 ~ 50% decode speed on ARMv7 CPU

Added thumbnail display in file browser (don't use it if memory not enough)

Added Averaging v2 for image resampling

Added low memory mode, Reduce the memory usage while decoding JPEG file, but it reduces the image quality too

Added wallpaper setting function

Added Quick Setup feature

New file name sort method (sort file name like windows explorer)

Renamed the bookmark to favorites, and added new simple bookmark function

7z file now supports Deflate streaming

History now integrated into the main menu

Minimum require OS version back to 1.6, but multi-touch features still need 2.1+

Other minor bugs fixed
[Android Apps and Games] Sergio Nova:
Man! I will definitely fall in love with this application.

Will you please inform alternative link? I still have problems with Market.
[Android Apps and Games] Sian:
Hi

This is a nice viewer to read comic (tho' many used it as image viewer). I particularly like the cut picture in half feature. :)

Also it would be nice to have a magnifying glass feature to enlarge the text or certain part of the image. This is useful for comic reading. Hope you will consider adding it in.
[Android Apps and Games] jjwa:
Very, very nice list of changes for 1.3! You are really good at this thing :).

For me, the 'Set as wallpaper' function does not work. When I tap the option, I very shortly see the menu expand with 2 options 'folding out', but those 2 options disappear so quickly I can barely read them. And my wallpaper is unchanged.

I am on a Samsung Galaxy S i9000 on Android 2.2. I think the failure to change the wallpaper could be because it's running Samsung's TouchWiz, which I guess needs it's own tricks or methods.

I was about to donate a little bit, but your PayPal link is in NT$. I personally could not be sure how much I would be donating if I filled in something there. It would probably be a good idea if you can set your PayPal link in Euros or US Dollars, because a lot more people are familiar with those. Let me know. (Also if you can't fix it, because then I'll just try a little bit harder at the conversion values :P.)
[Android Apps and Games] paladinlin:
Version updated.

2010/12/18 Version 1.3.2

Changed create thumbnail behavior

Thumbnail cache store as JPEG for reduce memory usage

Thumbnail cache limited to 5MB

Added goto upper folder when open file browser(Default off)

Fixed set as wallpaper not functional

Fixed may cause force close in create thumbnail

Fixed may cause force close in startup

I changed the donate link in signature to USD. You can use it.:D
[Android Apps and Games] INeedYourHelp:
edit: nvm to my previous question

Would it be possible to release a donate/paid version on the market for those who don't want to use paypal?
[Android Apps and Games] paladinlin:
Thank you for your intentions.

But release paid application on market is need google adsense account.

I applied many times still can't pass the review.

I'll keep trying apply google adsense.
[Android Apps and Games] dcontrol:
Anybody find a way to make it work with astro file manager? Something to do with registering mime types? Anyways, Im asking because i can browse network shares with astro and it would be nice to stream comic books. Works great on Nook Color very fast.
[Android Apps and Games] paladinlin:
New version update

New Version!

2011/01/06 Version 1.4

Supported scrolling & flip with fling(swipe) gesture

Supported scrolling with trackball

Supported APP2SD

Added file sort(file name,date,size)

Added show hidden files(Default off)

Added show file extensions(Default off)

Added fullscreen toggle in preferences(Default on)

Move Assign key function to main menu and removed Show screen function

Long tap history or bookmark item can delete it

Added data clean in main menu to clean history,bookmarks & favorites

Other minor tweak bugs fixed
[Android Apps and Games] Pegli:
Swipe is a great feature if reading full size pages, but if I zoom in and then I have to scroll left or right, it happens that it turns the page even if I don't need it.

Is it possible to enable or disable swipe gesture in the settings (I didn't find that option)?

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] tkienzle:
Great app thanks... wonder why your app opens all cbz files and others don't weird but works for me thanks again...:)
[Android Apps and Games] mikaelc:
Display main menu ?

Hi everyone,

I think I'm stupid because I didn't find a way top open the main menu of this app. I'm using it on a ZT-180 10'' tablet, you can find its specifications here.

Thank you
[Android Apps and Games] paladinlin:
New version 1.4a is added a option to disable fling gesture.

Your device must have menu key to show main menu
[Android Apps and Games] mikaelc:
OK, now I'm feeling dumb. I always use the toolbar for "Menu".

Thank you for the answer and your great app.
[Android Apps and Games] frostering:
Thank you in advance for this great app!

But, I think there is a issue, well, an inconvenient. When I want to open a cbr, the app show me all jpg that there are inside of this file. This is great if I want to, but, I don't, it's too annoying.

I mean, if I have 6 vol. of one comic and I switch to another comic, when I want to come back to the first one (and I don't have any bookmark marked) I have to remember the last page and open it, instead automatic open the cbr and go to immediately to the last page.

I think woulde better an option to automatic open those cbr or not, and go to the last page in consecuence (like ACV does).

Anyway, this is a very very fantastic app, thank you again!
[Android Apps and Games] paladinlin:
2011/01/25 Version 1.4.5

Added page transition effect

Added slideshow function

Added backlight control(Need turn off auto backlight)

Image smaller than screen now can scale to fit the screen

Thumbnail can choose full or crop(Need restart)

Tweaked pinch-to-zoom

Added support Tegra2 CPU(No FPU optimize). Need test Tegra2 user please give some feedback

Other minor tweak & bugs fixed

You can use history menu to open latest 10 folder/archive and go to last page
[Android Apps and Games] mr.r9:
paladinlin, thank you for an amazing app :D great work.
[Android Apps and Games] INeedYourHelp:
When you set the wallpaper, where does Perfect Viewer store the wallpaper? I want to make a backup of it.
[Android Apps and Games] paladinlin:
Perfect Viewer doesn't store wallpaper on your device. Only store temporary file for image crop.

You can find it in "/sdcard/Android/data/com.rookiestudio.perfectviewer"
[Android Apps and Games] noursy:
Feature requests

Perfect Viewer is by far the best comic viewer I have used. Thank you for your work!

Here are a few suggestions to improve it further:

The bookshelf has very small thumbnails and a lot of space around them. Would it be possible to make a better use of the screen space?

With a large collection of comics, it would be easier to select something if we could organize the bookshelf in multiple sections, or possible have multiple book shelves, instead of a unique, huge bookshelf.

Split mode viewing is great, but double-page mode would be equally useful.

Would it be possible to have a continuous page mode? This way you could continuously scroll down and when you reach the bottom of the page, the top of the next page appears just below it.

An additional zoom mode: fit to screen width if the image is wider than the screen, use actual size otherwise

I hope you will find some of these worth implementing.
[Android Apps and Games] Sergio Nova:
:mad:DON'T DO THAT! The display is perfect the way it is. Continuous page mode would reduce it to the level of ordinary applications out there.
[Android Apps and Games] raynerape:
I disagree. Plus it is suggested as optional mode, your response is as if someone decided to change the whole app's default usage which is not what's suggested above.

Show me one comic viewer that actually does continuous reading. Right now Perfect Viewer requires you to scroll the page (on phones w/small screens), then tap to page turn forward, then scroll again. It is much more natural to just keep scrolling rather than alternate between two different controls.
[Android Apps and Games] Sergio Nova:
:DI apologize. If the suggestion is to include an option, I accept it as positive.

My position, you see, is this simple: I do not read comics in a mobile phone. That sounds as a sort of voluntary torture to me. I use Perfect Viewer in a tablet (and, honestly, no matter what the advertisements say, tablets are perfect for e-book/comics reading; besides, they are bigger than e-readers and colored). I do not use my tablet to surf the web. PC was invented two decades ago and does that much better.
[Android Apps and Games] pawces:
great app this one! Has replaced jjComicViewer for me..it was way too slow. love the controls on this thing! 5 stars!
[Android Apps and Games] benoitb85:
I love your app. Very fast, nice menus abd a lot of usefull options. Plus I love your algorithm to detect lines and provide the next /previous functionnality.

Is it possible to zoom a page over 100% to really use that feature and have a full box on the screen ? In european comics sometimes the text is very small.

That would make reading european comics on my phone actually possible :)

Right now on my 800x480 screen I can't display a box alone on the screen as the resolution of the phone is too high and I would need to use a 150% zoom I think.
[Android Apps and Games] raynerape:
This will probably sound weird and bloatware, but here it is:

Please add Facebook integration to Perfect Viewer!

* Connect with Facebook via new browser method.

* Add the ability to auto post each time reader opens a comic book for a first time.

* Add the ability to auto post each time reader reaches last page of a comic book.

* Add menu item/press action to "like" or "dislike" a comic. Shows a modal overlay with Thumb Up and Thumb Down icons to vote the issue.

* When posting:

** Preset message: "reads" or "finished reading" followed by file name.

** The cover or current page opened (defined by setting) is uploaded to a image host.

** The URL to the hosted image is used for the publication.

I know I am a social-holic but way too many people are these days - and we'd love to see this even if it ends up in a Premium app we'd love to buy!
[Android Apps and Games] 999NiN:
thanks (small request)

Maybe it's possible to do it but i have not find the way do to it yet

In Bookshelf it's possible to add a set fonction for series

exemple:

Tintin----

|----tintin vol 1

|----tintin vol 2

|----tintin vol 3

Other Magazine

Obelix-------

|----obelix vol 1

|----obelix vol 2

Other comic

Spiderman

etc...

So in Bookshelf you see only Tintin - Other Magazine - Obelix - Other comic - Spiderman

but when you enter in Tintin you see tintin vol 1 vol2 vol 3

thanks
[Android Apps and Games] floxyz:
This is such a perfect app for reading comics. I try the other ones (ACT, jjComics) from time to time but nothing is as good as this one.

But I want to suggest two things or ask for how they could be enabled:

1. Pressing the trackball to go to the next page.

2. Scrolling down with the trackball with more speed.
[Android Apps and Games] Masterface7:
I came here to request this same thing. I think most people organize there library's this same way

...\Series name\vol.(or chapter)\pages.

So if the bookshelf could only show the series level in a specified folder than it would be incredibly useful.

Thanks, this is by far my favorite viewer and is one of the apps that makes my nook 100% better.

edit: I suppose paypal would be a good way to show my appreciation for a quality app.
[Android Apps and Games] SimonDroid:
I cannot access CBR files from my shared network in a Viewsonic G Tab. The ES explorer sees the CBR files wirelessly and I can see JPG files and play music but if I want to open CBR files from my network using Perfect viewer even giving the application the path, it says the folder doesn't exists. What I'm trying to do is set my shared comics folder in the network as my Bookshelf.
[Android Apps and Games] Sergio Nova:
WTH

It seems more a problem of hardware than software. Anyway, have you tried renaming CBR to RAR?
[Android Apps and Games] SimonDroid:
Sorry, the way I stated the sentence brings some confusion. I can access the files fine thru a file manager like ES explorer. The problem is Perfect Viewer doesn't sees the shared network.
[Android Apps and Games] Shining_knight:
This is quite useful :)
[Android Apps and Games] SimonDroid:
I was able to make my network folder the Bookshelf using Mount Manager. After PV worked thru more than 2500 comics building the new gigantic bookcase it became really unstable and started throwing memory errors and closing the application to the point were it became unusable. I kept working thru it browsing and opening comics ignoring the memory errors and the applications restarts until it finally crashed the system and had to restart the tablet. Seems like either the tablet needs more memory or the software needs to be optimized to manage a networked library. It would have been awesome to be able to connect to the comic library like a sort of Comic Book Media Center Extender but I guess we are still too early in the game.
[Android Apps and Games] kruuth:
Hey, I just threw this on the Nook Color and it works great. It's crazy fast and scales up/down with ease. The only two issues I have seen are that it openes cbz files and you need to select the page you want, and when you scale to the display it won't exactly fit. Baring those I've not found any sort of issues with this yet. As of now, I'm using this as my default viewer. Great work.
[Android Apps and Games] neok44:
Dumb question. How the hell do you open the bookshelf?
[Android Apps and Games] benoitb85:
Hey I'm there once again with an easy-to-implement feature request !

I just bought a nice Archos 70b ereader 7 inches tablet. It has hardware buttons on the sides of the screen. Those are detected as keypad buttons and I can use them in ACV to change pages.

Can you add in the "Assign key function" a possibility to map the left cursor and right cursor hardware keys ?
[Android Apps and Games] Sergio Nova:
Wouldn't it be simpler to use the pen?
[Android Apps and Games] benoitb85:
It's really much more comfy to use the hardware buttons. The resistive screen is pretty bad on that tablet. As it is designed and sold primarily as a cheap reader, the buttons are the best way to turn pages, the touchscreen layer is of very poor quality.
[Android Apps and Games] Sergio Nova:
You made me curious. Unfortunately, the 10inch model does not have such buttons, and it is not interesting to read European magazines in a 7in screen.
[Android Apps and Games] benoitb85:
7 inches is the best size for the overcrowded subway and public transportation ;)
[Android Apps and Games] Sergio Nova:
Well, as I live in São Paulo, I am graduated about overcrowded buses & trains. Actually, the only place completely empty here is my bank account.

Anyway, even a 5in e-book reader is enough for text books. The problem arouses when we go to images & comic books.
[Android Apps and Games] dante_w:
Nice app! I enjoyed it ;)