bubble

bubble is an Android comic book reader.

The project was created in the mid-2010s after purchasing a Nexus 7 mini tablet. I found existing comic readers at the time either unergonomic, outdated (not updated to Material Design) or ad-ridden.

The app worked by pointing it to a local directory with comics, either in archive formats (ZIP/CBZ, RAR/CBR, etc.) or folders containing comic pages (JPG, PNG etc).

The goal of the project was to:

• provide a simple and intuitive UI with three views:
  • Library for comics grouped by folders
  • List displaying comics within a group with search and filters
  • Reader for viewing an individual comic
• have minimal settings, with all options provided in respective views a couple of taps away and without the need for a separate settings page.
• enable a pleasant reading experience for a variety of comics, be it western comics, manga or webtoons.
• be resource-efficient, with little RAM usage.

Development of the project halted after I sold my tablet. There’s an active fork that’s been picked up by Edgar Soldin available here.

Source code: https://github.com/nkanaev/bubble