Refresh for XKCD
Free AppAbout Refresh for XKCD
Refresh for XKCD is the newest way to browse XKCD comics on your Android device.
Based off of Material Design, Refresh combines a beautiful user interface with a feature-rich browsing experience to give you the best XKCD browser available. Bringing a great user interface and tons of features, Refresh for XKCD is your best bet for browsing everyone's favorite webcomic on Android.
Features:
- Material Design
- Dedicated pages: Simply touch a comic in the main page to view a full page dedicated to the comic, filled
with important information and actions
- Searching: Search for comics by their title, or comic number.
- Downloading: Refresh will prompt you to download all comics to save load times, network usage, and increase functionality (Note: Around 15MB must be free for the download to complete)
- Shuffle: Discover new XKCD comics at the touch of a button
- Explanations: Don't understand a comic? Each comic has an explanation, provided by explainxkcd.com, available on its own page.
- Panning & Zooming: When inside of a comic's page, simply tap the comic image, and you can zoom in and pan the comic to view smaller text and content.
- Favorites: See a comic you like? Add it to your favorites at the touch of a button, and the comic will be available at any time from the favorites page. (Swipe in from the left side of the screen on the main page to access the favorites page)
- Sharing: Text your favorite comics to your friends, or post them to your favorite social networks.
- Easy navigation: Refresh for XKCD offers easy navigation between comics
If you have any feature requests or bug reports, contact me on Twitter (@jordandebarth) or Reddit (/u/nonextstop), and I'll try my best to help you out. Thanks!
XKCD comics are provided through xkcd.com under a Creatives Commons License.
All icons used in this application are provided courtesy of materialdesignicons.com
Comic explanations are provided by explainxkcd.com are not official, nor are they necessarily the intended opinion of the comic as per the author.
Based off of Material Design, Refresh combines a beautiful user interface with a feature-rich browsing experience to give you the best XKCD browser available. Bringing a great user interface and tons of features, Refresh for XKCD is your best bet for browsing everyone's favorite webcomic on Android.
Features:
- Material Design
- Dedicated pages: Simply touch a comic in the main page to view a full page dedicated to the comic, filled
with important information and actions
- Searching: Search for comics by their title, or comic number.
- Downloading: Refresh will prompt you to download all comics to save load times, network usage, and increase functionality (Note: Around 15MB must be free for the download to complete)
- Shuffle: Discover new XKCD comics at the touch of a button
- Explanations: Don't understand a comic? Each comic has an explanation, provided by explainxkcd.com, available on its own page.
- Panning & Zooming: When inside of a comic's page, simply tap the comic image, and you can zoom in and pan the comic to view smaller text and content.
- Favorites: See a comic you like? Add it to your favorites at the touch of a button, and the comic will be available at any time from the favorites page. (Swipe in from the left side of the screen on the main page to access the favorites page)
- Sharing: Text your favorite comics to your friends, or post them to your favorite social networks.
- Easy navigation: Refresh for XKCD offers easy navigation between comics
If you have any feature requests or bug reports, contact me on Twitter (@jordandebarth) or Reddit (/u/nonextstop), and I'll try my best to help you out. Thanks!
XKCD comics are provided through xkcd.com under a Creatives Commons License.
All icons used in this application are provided courtesy of materialdesignicons.com
Comic explanations are provided by explainxkcd.com are not official, nor are they necessarily the intended opinion of the comic as per the author.
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Android app
App History & Updates
What's Changed
- Fixed bug that resulted in a crash when opening a mobile link
- Fixed bug that resulted in duplicate comics appearing
- Fixed bug that resulted in a crash when opening a mobile link
- Fixed bug that resulted in duplicate comics appearing
What are users saying about Refresh for XKCD
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The one thing I really want from this app is a notification when there is a new comic. Also, I might be doing something wrong, but it seems to stop working properly if I don't use it for a few weeks. It doesn't display any comics and clicking download doesn't do anything. If I clear the app data and re-download it works.
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It does what it does very well. However, the fact that it forces you to download ALL of the comics before you can even use the app is a little obnoxious. It would be even better if it also supported the what if articles!
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Great app but has become unusable on Marshmallow :(
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No really.
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Offline viewing. Explanations from explainxkcd.
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Best one out there.
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It does what it does very well. However, the fact that it forces you to download ALL of the comics before you can even use the app is a little obnoxious. It would be even better if it also supported the what if articles!
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I love xkcd and your app really makes it better accessible on my phone but an error keeps showing 'Error: problem setting up in-app billing...' Its really annoying as it shows up every time I change the slide or open the app. Please fix it, also, the app sometimes freezes and turns black and you've to reopen it for it to work properly. Thanks
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Crashes when opening mobile links
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I love the design and idea of this app. It is now working for me and the developer has been awesome at making that happen.
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I really like the app. It is visually nice, and has lots of nice animations.
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Love the app, but crashes constantly
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The app no longer crashes all the time, but I did find bugs. Seems like using the "random" button too many times will crash the app.
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Great start, needs some work
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This app is great so far, there are a few things that could be improved. The app could really do with a search option even if it's only by number. Being able to go back to the previous random image would be great.
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It is the best looking xkcd browser by far, but has some odd design issues and a few strange bugs. Dev is responsive and fixes issues quickly. For example, there is a drawer, but nothing to tell you there is a drawer. Also, after upgrading, the update button will still show up, so there is no confirmation it worked until you see the "already owned" error.
by B####:
I really like the app. It is visually nice, and has lots of nice animations.