NihongoUp Android is here!

Since the release of NihongoUp Desktop, I have received countless e-mails asking me to port the game to mobile platforms. First, roughly a year ago, the game was ported to the iPhone. Now, and Android version was just released, and the brand new NihongoUp Phone will soon allow you to learn Japanese with a Windows Phone 7.

NihongoUp Android - Menu

NihongoUp Android has nearly all the same features as the desktop version of the game. You can use it to learn hiragana & katakana, as well as review JLPT kanji, vocabulary & grammar (particles, counters and transitive verb pairs). All that when playing a game with highscores, bonus streak multiplier, etc. In fact, it is the desktop Adobe AIR application (with slight modifications, of course).

NihongoUp Android - JLPT 4 Kanji

On a related note, if you are interested in a port for the upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook, please let me know in the comments. The new tablet will support Adobe AIR and if there are enough users interested in playing NihongoUp on the device I will surely do my best to make a PlayBook version available.

+Philip Seyfi is a Russian new media developer, designer, and entrepreneur. He is the author of NihongoUp and co-founder of EduLift.

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  • Rist

    Hiragana and katakana seemed flipped. I try to select correct answer and I get 0 correct. Seems flawed on nexus one.

    • http://divita.eu/ seifip

      Oups. That’s true. I’ll fix it ASAP.

    • http://divita.eu/ seifip

      Fixed & v1.0.1 published :)

  • http://www.jamaipanese.com Jamaipanese

    would have loved it if this was compatible with android 2.1.

  • Snapcasezx3

    I can’t find this on the android market. Can you provide a QR code?

    • http://divita.eu/ seifip

      You must have Android 2.2 (Froyo) and live in a country where one can purchase Android apps. Let me know if the two conditions are true in your case.

      • Snapcasezx3

        nope I have 2.1

    • http://divita.eu/ seifip

      You must have Android 2.2 (Froyo) and live in a country where one can purchase Android apps. Let me know if the two conditions are true in your case.

    • http://divita.eu/ seifip

      You must have Android 2.2 (Froyo) and live in a country where one can purchase Android apps. Let me know if the two conditions are true in your case.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1416420264 Aubrie L’rai Johnson

    Hey there,

    Thanks so much for creating this site, it’s incredibly useful and it makes studying a lot of fun! I’m having some trouble downloading the Android app though, which is especially frustrating considering I just bought my phone a month ago. Is it possible you could make the app backwards-compatible? My phone apparently carries 2.1. Man, they really update phone systems fast…

    - Aubrie

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1416420264 Aubrie L’rai Johnson

    Hey there,

    Thanks so much for creating this site, it’s incredibly useful and it makes studying a lot of fun! I’m having some trouble downloading the Android app though, which is especially frustrating considering I just bought my phone a month ago. Is it possible you could make the app backwards-compatible? My phone apparently carries 2.1. Man, they really update phone systems fast…

    - Aubrie

  • http://twitter.com/jseb_92 Seb

    cool thanks!

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