Ebook reader app maker

If you write stories, poems, a course or a family history, an ebook reader app puts your book on readers' home screens with your cover and your name on it. Describe the library and the reading experience, the AI agent builds the app with your text inside, you read a few pages in the emulator preview, and you download the APK to share with readers.

What your ebook reader app will have

• Library — book covers in a grid, with a Continue reading card for the last book you opened.
• Book page — the cover, a short description, the chapter list and a progress bar.
• Reader — clean pages with comfortable margins, tap or swipe to turn, and a slim bar with the chapter name and percentage read.
• Reading settings — font size, typeface, line spacing, and Light, Sepia and Dark themes.
• Bookmarks and highlights — select a passage, pick a color and add a note; a list per book jumps back to each one.
• Search — find a word or phrase inside the book, with each match shown in its sentence.

Your place in every book is saved on the phone, so readers pick up exactly where they stopped, even without internet.

Features you can ask for

• A table of contents that opens from any page.
• Reading streaks and minutes read per day.
• An Explain this word button that uses the project's AI backend.
• Chapter summaries or a short quiz at the end of each chapter for study books.
• New chapters from the online database, with a New badge, for stories you publish in parts.
• An author page with your bio and your other books.
• Night mode that switches on by itself after sunset.
• Illustrations between paragraphs, sized to the screen.

Ideas to make it yours

Saving your place and your favorite passages works like bookmarks in a news reader; the news app with bookmarks guide shows how to describe it. For study books, the AI study helper guide explains summaries and quizzes built from your own text.

Get it on your phone

1. Press Build this ebook reader app and sign in with Google, then paste your first chapters into the chat.
2. Read in the emulator preview: turn pages, change the font size, add a highlight and close and reopen the book.
3. Ask for changes in plain words: "wider margins", "a serif font by default", "show the chapter title at the top of each page".
4. Press Download APK and install it on your Android phone. Read a full chapter on the real screen.
5. For Google Play, build the signed version from the same menu; the APK builder page explains signing and uploading.

Test with your longest chapter, not your shortest. Long chapters show whether page turns stay smooth and whether the progress bar still makes sense.

Preparing your book for the app

A reader app looks only as good as the text inside it. Before you paste, clean up the manuscript: one heading per chapter, no page numbers left over from a printed layout, and paragraphs separated by a blank line. Decide on a cover early, because it appears in the library, on the book page and as a natural choice for the app icon. Only include books you wrote, have permission to publish, or that are in the public domain. If you plan to keep writing, start with the online database version so new chapters reach readers without a new APK; if the book is finished, keeping it inside the app is simpler and works fully offline. Readers who take notes as they go may also enjoy a companion journal, and the notes and journal app guide shows how.

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