Amharic Letters Flashcards

Amharic, the official language of Ethiopia, has a writing system with over 200 letters derived from beautiful Ge'ez script.

This simple app aims to provide practice learning these letters. (As of November 2023, it is aimed at English speakers only.)

Project Status

The project is in active development as of November 2023. The hope is to release versions to various app stores sometime within 2024.

Development

This project is built using React Native, the wonderful technology that allows you to create native apps for Android and iOS using React, a JavaScript user interface library.

Getting Started

Preqrequisites / Downloads

You will need:

• expo-cli on your local machine (brew install expo-cli should work on MacOS)
• [recommended] a smartphone with the Expo Go app installed

Setup

After cloning this repo, simply yarn-install and then start the local server:

yarn
yarn start

You should then see a QR code with some instructions on how see the local server on your smartphone, like this:

Opening developer tools in the browser...
Starting Metro Bundler
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› Metro waiting on exp://192.168.1.73:19000
› Scan the QR code above with Expo Go (Android) or the Camera app
(iOS)

› Press a │ open Android
› Press i │ open iOS simulator
› Press w │ open web

› Press r │ reload app
› Press m │ toggle menu
› Press d │ show developer tools
› shift+d │ toggle auto opening developer tools on startup (enabled)

› Press ? │ show all commands

Logs for your project will appear below. Press Ctrl+C to exit.
Started Metro Bundler