Droid Comic Viewer, the leading Android comic and manga reader by Robot Comic, broke the 250,000 Android Market downloads mark this week.

Unlike other landmark apps of the Android Market, Droid Comic Viewer has not been featured by Google yet. Its growing success comes from the strong support of its community, who actively contributes to make it the best comic reader for Android.

Droid Comic Viewer is the de facto comics and platform for Android devices worldwide. It has been localized to 7 languages and uses the ACV open format, which allows creators to adapt their comics for mobiles.

With an upcoming version that includes major feature, performance and usability upgrades, as well as more localizations, Droid Comic Viewer is on its way to become an essential app not only for comic fans, but also for all Android users. Join us as we introduce to a brand new audience the joy of reading comics!

A new version of Droid Comic Viewer (ACV), the free comic, manga and image viewer for Android mobiles, was released today and is now available in the Android Market, AndAppStore and soon AppsLib.

Version 1.3.10 includes usability and performance upgrades, bug fixes and a new auto-bookmarking feature. The most significant changes are:

• Auto-bookmarking: remembers last read position of all viewed files
• Renamed SD Browser setting group to Memory
• New Memory > Clear history setting to clear all viewing history (auto-bookmarks in particular)
• Share this screen now shares the screen, not the image file
• New Support > Low memory setting to disable pre-loading and transitions. Might help for some files that cause out of memory errors.
• Improved memory management to decrease like-hood of out of memory errors
• Added ACV mime type to supported intents

With more than 150.000 users and counting it was about time that we opened a forum for Droid Comic Viewer, the leading Android comic and manga reader.

The Droid Comic Viewer forums will give Droid Comic Viewer community an official and open channel to requests features, report bugs, and get involved, be it users, comic book creators or Android developers.

Droid Comic Viewer is what it is thanks to its awesome community. Through these brand new forums we hope to help its community grow and make Droid Comic Viewer better.

Visit forums.droidcomicviewer.com and let us know how can we improve Droid Comic Viewer, or help us do it yourself.

A new version of Droid Comic Viewer (ACV), the free comic, manga and image viewer for Android mobiles, was released today. Version 1.3.7 includes usability, stability, performance and localization upgrades, and introduces support for the new ACV2 format that blends transition effects and frame-by-frame animation for a whole new mobile comics reading experience!  It’s features such as these that continue to make Droid Comic Viewer the best and most popular comic and manga reader for Android.

Some of the changes included in version 1.3.7 are:

• Pinch to zoom for devices that support multi-touch
• Italian and French localization (thanks to Davide Borin and Climbatize)
• ACV2 support
• ACV format features such as vibration can be disabled through Settings
• Improved CBR/RAR support for devices with memory class 24 or higher (but you should use CBZ or image folders instead!)
• Corners have optional transparent buttons
• Zoom up to 2x
• Reorganized Settings
• Zooming in and out with double tap or single tap centers the image on the tap point
• Brightness setting
• Volumes keys for navigation
• Volume keys can be configured in custom controls
• Improved sorting of images (1.jpg comes before 10.jpg)
• New high-res icon for high resolution devices (thanks to blunden)
• Taping on the welcome screen icon opens the menu
• New action for custom controls: Show menu
• Improved scrolling

FONE HOME’s (”The Mothership of UK mobile”, I kinda like that tag line) Linsey Fryatt declared Robot Comics’ own ACV Droid Comic Viewer as one of the 50 Best Android Apps on the market today.  They actually announced this back in December, but we just noticed, and wanted to say: Thanks, Linsey!

Seeing as how there were 20,000+ apps already on the Android market at the time, being chosen as one of the tip-top 50 really means something to us.  We’re pleased users have gotten so much out of ACV to date, and you better believe the big update to the viewer (coming very soon) is going to live up to all this hype.  Stay tuned.

BTW: if you’re new to all this, read more about Droid Comic Viewer here.

A new version of Droid Comic Viewer (ACV), the free comic, manga and image viewer for Android mobiles, was released today. Version 1.3.2 includes usability, stability and performance upgrades that continue to make Droid Comic Viewer the best and most popular comic reader for Android.

Some of the new features included in version 1.3.2 are:

• Share any screen via email, MMS and Facebook
• Subscribe to the Robot Comics newsletter
• Expanded ACV support to show screen-specific transition and message buttons
• Recommend ACV via email, SMS and Twitter
• Bug fixes and performance improvements

Download

The preferred method of download for ACV is through the Android Market. If you are browsing this page from an Android powered mobile, click on the following link to download ACV from the Android Market.

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Feature requests

We have many features in our roadmap that we will be releasing quickly and regularly. If you would like a feature added to ACV, please send an email to development@robotcomics.net. You will be surprised to know how fast our development team adds features to ACV!

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User Manual

For all the features, actions, transitions, file formats, and networking options supported by the Droid Comic Viewer, read our online USER’S MANUAL.

Read the ACV User Manual