Finally I sent ShinKanji for publication in the appstore. It is ironic how difficult and convoluted that process is. In particular it is surprising when you see how polished apple development tools are that the signing functionality is so arcane and badly documented. In fact the instructions given by apple to sign a program are plain incorrect and resulted in hours of frustration until I found on the web someone who had posted the solution to my issues. Of course the NDA preventing free communication with others on any SDK related topic doesn’t help

Enough ranting, I hope you will appreciate this first release, many additional features are planned and this one may seem low in features compared to others. However I wanted to get the product out to let people experience the 2 unique features of the application:

• Advance Stroke Order Diagram support with full animation
• Navigation through the kanji structure

The second one in particular enables you to navigate from one kanji to all the kanjis containing it and to all the kanji it contains, it is an entertaining and educating way to discover new kanjis.

One detail, ShinKanji is priced at $4.99. Updates will of course be free but when the feature set increases significantly, I may increase the price for new buyers