Card Deck simulator type app?

This thread explains a couple ways of 'shuffling' virtual cards:
https://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/1483364/card-shuffler

Halfway down they note using CardMaker and further down Andrea notes the nanDECK method. I've made some cards with nanDECK and used its Table function to randomly draw cards. At the bottom left of the window it shows how many cards are left in the deck.

David

I have thought about doing this, too. It would actually be quite easy for me set up a virtual deck on Android.

Let me know your requirements, and I can probably help.

First thoughts - you use an Android phone, and you have a picture of the deck with the back of a card showing, with space beside it. Drag off the deck and you get a new card face up. Long-press for a pop-up menu (Reset, Shuffle, Create png files, etc).

The deck contents could be specified in a text file that can be edited without making a new app. A single text file would hold the text of each of your cards, separated by a marker such as "<10>" to indicate that what follows is the text for card ten, and so on.

A tag such as "mist.png" in angle brackets could specify that, until the next image tag appears, all cards will use the mist.png image file behind the text.

A tag such as "col 100, 200, 200, 200" could specify that, until the next col tag, all text will be rendered in that colour, where 100, 200, 200, 200 are the alpha, red, green and blue components of the colour.

Another tag would specify font and text size.

Mostly the images would be created on the fly by combining the text with a background. The "Create png" option would actually create separate image files for each card, saving them on your device, ready to be used for PnP or uploading to a printer and so on.

Would anyone find this useful, or did you have something else in mind?

Cheers,

Craig.