Magnifica
★ Add a small menu with an impressum item for now.
New in version 0.8
★ Add pinch to zoom.
★ Add bubble that shows current zoom when changed.
The name is a little bilingual joke, born of a glorious act of linguistic optimism. I'm Spanish, and "Magnifica" sounds a bit like "magnify" in English. At the same time it brings to mind magnífica in Spanish, which means "magnificent." So the goal was obvious: build a magnifier app that's, well... magnificent.
WHAT IT DOES
• Magnifies stuff. The tiny print on a medicine box, the impossible serial number on a router, the ingredients list written by someone who clearly hates you — or that suspicious little dot on your kid's leg that you really, really need to know is a freckle and not a tick. Point, zoom, see.
• Sensible zoom. It steps in powers of two (1x, 2x, 4x, 8x…) and tops out at whatever your camera can actually do. Tap plus and minus, no fiddly pinching.
• Tap to focus. See a blurry thing, tap it, it becomes a readable thing.
• A torch. On the back camera it's your real flashlight. The front camera has no flash, so it turns the whole screen blindingly white and calls that a "flash." It's a hack. It works.
• Front and back cameras, one button to flip between them.
• Negative mode. Invert the colors with one tap — handy for low-contrast or light-on-dark text. The button even previews what you're about to switch to.
WHAT IT DOESN'T DO
No accounts. No ads. No mysterious permissions. It wants the camera, because it's a camera app, and then it would like to be left alone to do its job.
Magnifica: a magnificent way to make small things bigger.
- Author: juanitobananas
- License: GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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★ Add pinch to zoom.
★ Add bubble that shows current zoom when changed.
New in version 0.7
★ Add icon and featureGraphic for F-Droid store.
New in version 0.6
★ Force screen to portrait and just rotate glyphs in buttons
(camera-style).
★ Nothing really, just trying to get reproducible builds to work on F-Droid.
New in version 0.4
★ Nothing really, just added a description (metadata)
New in version 0.3
★ Remove org.gradle.toolchains.foojay-resolver-convention for F-Droid inclusion.
New in version 0.2
★ Added adaptive icon (incl. monochrome)
New in version 0.1
★ Well, everything :) Very first version of Magnifica.