Aizoban

An online and offline Manga reading application for Android.

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Aizoban

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An Aizōban is a quality collector's edition volume. Likewise, "Aizoban: Your Manga Reader" is an online and an offline manga reader which aims to provide a great visual user experience when browsing and reading manga.

✔ Access to over 70 000 manga series from currently 7 sources: MangaEden (EN), Mangafox (EN), MangaHere (EN), MangaReader (EN), MangaPanda (EN), MangaEden (IT), and MangaHere (ES).
✔ Amazingly fast and immersing viewer with options to switch reading direction, lock orientation, and lock zoom.
✔ A search tool capable of instantly filtering and ordering manga series by name, genre (not for all sources), and status.
✔ An "Exploring" function to discover random manga series.
✔ A download manager to collect your desired manga series offline.
✔ Your personalized list of favourite manga series and recently read chapters.
✔ Easy settings to manage your reading experience such as "Enable Lazy Loading" to conserve bandwidth.

What's New?

Version 1.2.8:

  • General local database update (December)
  • New source: MangaPanda (EN)
  • New translation: Italian (@tizio04)
  • Top alignment for pages in landscape mode with fit width settings
  • Added fast scrolling on adding to queue page (@IpodHero188)
  • Visual improvements:
    • New assets for splash screen and status bar
    • Adjusted navigation bar color (#17)
  • Bug fixes:
    • Fixed wrong manga info parsing (MangaReader and MangaPanda)
    • Fixed extremely slow download (#5)
    • Fixed wobbling UI elements after splash screen (@harkin)
  • Removed Batoto source support (for now)

Version 1.2.7:

  • General local database update (now with over 90.000 manga)
  • New sources (#40): Mangafox (EN), Batoto (ES)
  • Android 6.0 Marshmallow support
  • New translation: german
  • New options: sort chapters (#43), hide page numbers (#44)
  • Share option for manga
  • Next/Previous chapter button enhancements (#36)
  • Reading progress indicator (Recent Chapters)
  • Visual improvements:
    • New app icon (#54)
    • Adjusted statusbar color
    • Rearranged settings
  • Bug fixes:
    • Search term problem with trailing whitespace
    • Broken Batoto thumbnails
    • Missing MangaEden filter options for "Genre"

Version 1.2.6:

  • Added keep screen on flag.

Version 1.2.5:

  • Updated local database.

Version 1.2.4:

  • Fixed latest updated bug for MangaEden sources.

Version 1.2.3:

  • Some visual changes.
  • Some bug fixes.
  • Suppress some device manufacturers causing errors with menus for some Android 4.2.2 users.

Version 1.2.2:

  • Added progress indicator in Immersive Mode.
  • Improved image sharpness by using more memory.
  • Fixed pre-loading images.
  • Updated local database with Batoto (EN).
  • Batch fetching image links for 5 times faster chapter loading.

Version 1.2.1:

  • Downgraded Glide dependency because it caused random crashes.

Version 1.2.0:

  • Updated chapter viewer.
  • "Add To Queue" shows chapters in ascending order.
  • Able to choose startup screen.
  • Able to resume a recent chapter.
  • Adjacent downloaded chapters now works.
  • Improved general performance.
  • Able to clear latest manga.
  • Catalogue is now paginated for performance.
  • Page selection in chapter viewer.

Versions...

Version 1.0.0:

  • The application has been rewritten. All prior data from previous versions of Alpha and Beta will be lost. To clear old data from previous versions, please "Clear Data" for Aizoban in your device's "Setting" application.

Screenshots

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License

Copyright 2014 Jacob Park

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.

Disclaimer

Aizōban is developed by me, an individual, who does not have any affiliation with the content providers of the mangas available in the application.