Fabrice --

Yeah, in the HIG they state that they won't allow any 'loading screens', but if you like at 75% of the application screens.. they have them.  Even some of apples own applications have splash screens.  But just in case I'll send you a backdrop with the toolbar so that you can put the loading screen above the toolbar.

For the icon, the 512x512 is just the application icon bigger.  Not a screenshot or anything like that.     

So good slices would be the icon 29x29 png, icon 57x57 png, icon 512x512 png, kanji backdrop square png (however big it was), paperweight png (minimum size that captures all shadows)

I believe that would at least be a start.  I'm really not a proficient at graphics stuff at all so forgive me!  By alpha do you mean a on a white background, or transparent?  If possible transparent is best.  I think I answered your question? :-P

John

ファブリス wrote:

- "Kanji Practice Shodou" > kanji drawing screen calligraphy style, with paperweight at the top of the screen. This shodou setup is the idea behind the screen, to give a traditional calligraphy feel

love the shodou idea!!!

Thanks John for this encouraging news.

Re the Kanji -> story, whatever is easiest I suppose.   

Whereas I can generally remember the kanji when it いｓ keyword -> kanji, going in the opposite direction is not so reliable.  Yet when one reads kanji texts the flow is kanji -> meaning (keyword, story).

I trained as a musician and was taught that after practising things one way, try to find opposing ways to do it in order to embed the learning deeper.  I suppose I am just applying the same principles, although in this case there is some logic to it.

Thanks again for all your help.  When I started attempting Japanese I had to lug piles of books around with me on tour.  Now its just my iPhone and a 電気辞書。Bliss.

I don't think for the moment that you are being elitist.  A sterling effort and much to be admired.  I will get out of your hair now.

Best

M

Hi John,
I think if keywords and story don’t match up in language would not be a problem.

Of course I speak and read English, but I did the experience that it is very very hard to review with English keywords, if you learned with the German keywords. Especially because a (stand alone) English word usually has more German meanings and so you have to have in mind the exact translation of all words. This means to review foreign characters with foreign words – and this is nearly impossible without a dictionary beside (and so not practicable with iPhone).

I have a list of the 2042 basic kanji German words, but I think it would not be a problem to get a full list (and if I know there will be German keywords in the app I type them in if need is :-)

Thank’s for your efforts! We all appreciate this!

The no splash screens thing is probably to prevent the splash diarrhea (nice mental image) that you get when you start a console/ds game. One splash is ok, 10 splashes that you cannot skip are not.

If you don't need the splash time to load resources etc, then no splash is better. It's a cellphone so stuff should be as instant as possible.

Last edited by Jarvik7 (2010 April 15, 6:50 am)

HerrPetersen:  Yeah, Fabrice also scolded me about the font choice

Unfortunately the iPhone only has a handful of Japanese fonts from which to choose from.. none of them have the handwritten feel.  (All probably optimized for reading on a small screened device)

I'm planning to build a tool that creates all the images before hand so we don't have to rely on the iPhones ability to render the font.  Also this maybe include an animated strokeorder type display.

I'm interested in helping. I have a 64gb Touch that I have no intentions of jailbreaking. I echo the thoughts of most everyone else here as well, offline is a must.  I have a corporate smartphone that I can't really dump all my review on, hence the Touch, which has little to no chance of wireless access for most of my day. I'm not really picky about font as long as its legible. Please let me know if I can do anything to help.

Hey John;
Just wanted to say, good luck with all this! I don't pretend to understand even a tenth of the jargon on this thread but I'm very very excited about the possibility of the RTK iPhone app as I'm buying an iPhone in August (but no pressure haha) and am tired of lugging these books around.

Best of luck!!!

Ella

Hi John,

Speaking of translating, I would be happy to translate the interface into Spanish (I translate software for a living, so it would be something relatively easy to do). I do not have the keyword list in Spanish, though. I will try to find it and see what I can do.

Last edited by Kimya (2010 May 11, 3:56 pm)

So have I and was wondering the exact same thing... In case you need any help, please let us know! I know there are a lot of people waiting for the app :-)

Does anybody know what happened to this project? I still think it is a great idea and am still willing to help test and translate the tool.

Really hope john gets back to us.
Would love to use a RevTK iphone/ipad app right now.