Tsewatiwe Zema app for iPhone and iPad

Tsewatiwe Zema is a collection of Hymn and song books that are used in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church Spiritual Service.

The App contains the following books

• Book of Hymns of St. Yared Hymn books, mostly by St. Yared (Digua, Thesome Digua, Mieraf, Zimare, Mewasiet, Zik, Mezmur)
• Holidays and holidays of various holidays
• Psalms of the weeks and holidays of the year
• Liturgical Books
• Book of Horologium for the day and the night
• The Books of Song (Mahlet) for the holydays
• The covenant prayer
• Leviton
• Mestebkuat
• Zeyinegis

Features of the App

Theme
• Material Design color schemes.
• Setting for Night mode and Day Mode

Multiple book collections
• Add two or more translations to the app.
• Multiple books of Ethiopian prayers

Navigation
• User can configure the choice of translation and layout within the app.
• Allow swiping between books
• Book names could be displayed as list or grid views

Fonts and Font Sizes
• You can change fonts sizes from toolbar or navigation menu.
• The app uses true type fonts for main view.

Text Copy and Share
• To copy a text to the device clipboard, tap on the text to select it. Then select the Copy button from the text selection toolbar.
• To share a text with someone else, tap on text to select it. You can choose to share by text message, email, WhatsApp, etc.

Contents
• Book contents are rearranged and missing parts included
• Colorful texts for the name of God, Jesus, St. Mary and Saints
• Notices and Orders in the book are written in italic for emphasis

Interface translations
• Added interface translations in English, Amharic and Afaan Oromoo.
• Changing the app Interface language will change menu item’s name.

Audio and Text Synchronization (future pro update)
• The phrases being read are highlighted and synchronized with the audio being heard.
• Added new user setting ‘Highlight synchronized phrases’ to allow user to turn on/off the yellow highlighting when the audio is playing.

Search
• Powerful and fast search features
• Search the whole words and accents
• Number of search results displayed at the bottom of the page

Settings screen
• Allow the user of the app to configure the following settings:
• Book selection type: list or grid
• Red Letters: show the name of saints in red