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

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

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

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Edited on 21 03, 2014
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stanislav Andreev

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

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

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

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