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Case study · Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · Books & publishing

Built Fahasa's reading app: e-books and audiobooks on phone and tablet.

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How did InApps help Fahasa?

Fahasa, the Ho Chi Minh City Book Distribution Corporation, has sold books in Vietnam since 1976, through bookstores across the country and the fahasa.com online store. InApps, a software company in the same city, built the Fahasa reading app for iOS and Android in React Native. It puts Fahasa's online e-books and audiobooks on phones and tablets, with search in the text, bookmarks, notes and text-to-speech.

Fahasa.com logo Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Industry
Books & Publishing E-commerce
Services
Custom Software Development System Integration
Main technologies
React Native React

About Fahasa

Founded in 1976, FAHASA is a leading book distributor in Vietnam, with bookstores across the country and the fahasa.com online store. In its own words, it is a destination for tens of millions of readers every year.

The challenge

Fahasa's readers knew it through printed books, in its stores and its online shop. Fahasa wanted to change how they read: its e-books and audiobooks on their phones and tablets, with reading tools that make a book on a screen feel like a real one.

If reading on a screen feels worse than paper, readers go back to paper.

The solution

We built the app in React and React Native for iOS and Android, phones and tablets, and connected it to Fahasa's online catalogue of e-books and audiobooks. Inside a book, readers can search for a phrase, change the font, keep bookmarks and notes, switch the language, share with friends and have the text read aloud, with 3D animation effects as they read. We integrated several payment gateways, and the app's data updates in real time.

In every book
  • Search in the text
  • Fonts, bookmarks and notes
  • Text-to-speech
  • 3D animation effects
  • Sharing with friends

The stack

React Native React

The outcome

Fahasa's digital catalogue, readable and listenable in one app.

  • On iOS and Android, for readers' phones and tablets.
  • E-books and audiobooks together: Fahasa's online titles in one place.
  • Text-to-speech reads the page aloud.
  • Payment in the app through several gateways.

Source: InApps project records.

Questions about this project

InApps built the Fahasa reading app, an iOS and Android app for phones and tablets that gives readers Fahasa's online e-books and audiobooks in one place. Fahasa is a book distributor in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, founded in 1976. The app was built to change how readers used to printed books experience reading on a screen.
Readers can open Fahasa's e-books and audiobooks, search for a word or paragraph in the text, change the font, add bookmarks and notes, switch the language, see 3D animation effects, share with friends and have the text read aloud with text-to-speech. Payment goes through several payment gateways.
InApps built the app in React and React Native, so iOS and Android share one codebase. It integrates several payment gateways, and its data updates in real time.
Fahasa (FAHASA, the Ho Chi Minh City Book Distribution Corporation) is a leading book distributor in Vietnam, founded in 1976. It runs bookstores across the country and the fahasa.com online store, and describes itself as a destination for tens of millions of readers every year.
Around the content the client already owns. For Fahasa, InApps connected the app to Fahasa's online catalogue and built the reading tools and payments on top of it. That is our custom software development service, with the catalogue and payment connections handled as system integration.

Readers want your catalogue on their phones? We built Fahasa's.

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InApps engineers at their desks in the Ho Chi Minh City office