ebooks API in Tizen

By stanislav Andreev

18 Mar 2014 06:34 English 4 Replies

Questions from developers of Tizen application that is planning to port Android OS "Read!" application (from LitRes developers) to Tizen:

1. Does Android OS "Read!" application use some ebooks format (like fb2 etc)?

2. Are there in Tizen any API for such formats?

Edited by: Nikita Kalyazin on 21 Mar, 2014

Responses

4 Replies

stanislav Andreev

18 Mar 2014 06:46

1. As Android OS "Read!" application code is closed it is impossible definitely to say if it uses concrete ebooks format or not.

Work of this application shows that at least fb2 format is supported.

2. https://developer.tizen.org/documentation/dev-guide/2.2.1 describes public API and it does not support of fb2 format in Tizen

Note: using non-public API will lead to reject of the application at the validation stage

John Ixion

18 Mar 2014 10:40

Hi Stanislav,

For ebooks I would recommend the EPUB format and the Readium reader:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB

https://github.com/readium/

John Ixion John Ixion

22 Mar 2014 20:14

edit: the Readium.js viewer https://github.com/readium/readium-js-viewer

which is by far the best EPUB book reader: http://epubtest.org/results/

stanislav Andreev

19 Mar 2014 07:09

Another possible solutions:

1. Use FBReader application as a viewer for ebooks (i.e. exterior application)

2. As mentioned above - use Readium - for epub format