Welcome to XKCDisplayer! Love XKCD? Of course you do. This app is chock-full of XKCD goodness -- every XKCD comic in existence, in fact -- for you to read and enjoy to your heart's content. Did we mention that every comic comes with a relevant background image from Flickr? Plus, with XKCDisplayer you get the added bonus of an easy to navigate swiping interface that frees up as much screen space as possible for Randall Munroe's genius to come alive!
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When you open the app, the most recent XKCD comic will be displayed on the screen, with its title and date appearing at the bottom. For instance, the below image shows a 5-panel vertical XKCD comic titled "Friendship" that was released on February 11, 2015.
You'll notice that each comic is accompanied by a background image (usually) related to the comic's title. These images are from Flickr's public photo feed, so you're seeing real content posted by strangers every time you pull up a new comic.
You can navigate through the comics via swiping. Swiping to the right brings up the chronologically previous comic, as might be expected. For instance, if we'd like to read the comic that aired before the "Friendship" comic from above, we swipe right and end up with a new comic titled "Apollo Speeches" and released on 2/9/15, two days prior to "Friendship."
Similarly, swiping left will display the comic that appeared after the current comic. As seen below, swiping left on "Apollo Speeches" returns "Friendship" to the display.
Note that swiping left will not work if performed on the most recently released comic, as there are no comics that have appeared after it. The same goes for swiping right on the first XKCD comic ever released.
Let's say you don't want to navigate by previous or next release date, but rather wish to simply pick a comic at random. Fair enough. All you have to do is swipe up and you're good to go!
You might be wondering what swiping down does, as that's the only direction yet to be covered. As it turns out, swiping down will bring you back to the comic that had previously been displayed on your screen.
So if you select a comic at random but want to return to the comic you were reading previously, just swipe down! You can repeat this as many times as you want until you wind up at the comic you started at.
Well, that about covers it! Feel free to watch the tutorial video below, and thanks for checking out XKCDisplayer!
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