salam, android!
after the nexus one came out, i became a little more interested in android. while i had written a simple ’salam world’ app some time ago, i figure it would be nice to delve a little deeper and try to write something remotely useful.
so without further adieu, introducing a (very simple) quran for android:
source code on github
for the most part, android is fairly fun and easy to develop for. however, one of the most frustrating parts is the extremely limited memory for apps. since apps can’t be on the sd card (due to some security issues), you are limited to the very small amount of memory on the device. consequently, in order to display the images for the quran in this app, i have to require the user to download the images to their sd card (or do it for them over the web).
note – try it at your own risk, i only tested it on the emulator…
How is your app coming along?
today, i added gesture support (so you can swipe to switch from one page to another) and now keep the title bar updated with the sura name and page number that you are viewing.
still have a plethora of features to add before it’s a full product, but it’s definitely very usable at this point in time. i still need to add animations (right now, it is not animated), optimize for smaller screens, and ideally add pinch to zoom functionality.