Kids Animal Piano was recently released by Radu Muresan. It’s a port of one of his popular Android apps to iPhone and iPad. So how did the transition go? Really well.
Kids Animal Piano is a mash up of animal sounds as musical notes, playable via piano keys. The concept is simple, which is exactly what a child wants in an iPhone/iPad app.
One of the key features of Kids Animal Piano is that once a child is in the app a stray finger isn’t going to exit back to the main menu or heaven forbid open up an ad. If you’ve ever seen a child use an iOS app, you know exactly why this is awesome.
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In total Kids Animal Piano contains 15 different instruments with 10 different preset songs like Bingo, ABCs, and This Old Man. 6 of the instruments and 4 of the sounds are available in the free version of the app, and the remaining content is purchasable for $1.99.
The only area where Kids Animal Piano falls short is that it doesn’t take advantage of iOS’s multi touch capabiltiies. So a child holding their finger on one part of the screen and touching with the other may become easily frustrated. Overall a very minor detail in the overall picture of the app, and something that Radu has on his todo list.
So if you have a child, niece, or nephew that can’t get their hands off your iPhone/iPad, pick up Kids Animal Piano and support a local yyc dev!
PS – One of the really cool things about Radu is the success he’s had developing applications. We’ll be writing up a developer profile shortly, so subscribe to our RSS feed to get updated when it rolls out.
PPS – If you know someone that would be a great fit for a developer profile send us an email or tweet.
PPPS – Radu, add a train instrument to the app – my nephew would KILL for that!
September 19th, 2012 at 3:39 pm
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