New FBReaderJ headed for Android Market ‘in near future’—and meanwhile version 0.3.0 is out
FBReaderJ 0.3.0 is out now for Android cellphones, and you can download it and see more screen shots here.
The big changes, as described by developer Nikolay Pultsin, are the following:
- FBReaderJ digital signature has been changed. For the versions below 0.3.0, an auto-generated Google SDK debug key was used. We plan to publish FBReaderJ in the Android Market in the near future. Android Market does not accepts applications signed by the debug key. Unfortunately, this means that if the FBReaderJ of version < 0.3.0 is installed on your device, you must remove the old version before installing the new one. Moreover, all the settings from your old version will be lost, sorry.
- FBReaderJ is now registered as the viewer for epub/oeb/fb2 files. If you’ll click a link to a file with extension .epub, .oeb, .fb2 or .fb2.zip in the Android web browser, the file will be downloaded to the device and opened in FBReaderJ. If you’ll click the same link again, a book will not be downloaded again, local copy will be used for reading.
- File selection dialog has been removed. To open a book in FBReaderJ you should copy it into the /sdcard/Books directory on your device (or into any subdirectory of /sdcard/Books). Alternatively, you can click a book link in the Android web browser.
- New library view has been implemented. You can open it with Menu->Library item.
- OS standard scrollbar is used instead of own FBReader position indicator.
February 19th, 2009 at 10:12 am
Good news, it’s nice to see some ePub support on Android too ! Hope that it’ll be released pretty soon on the Android Market: that’s the best way to distribute it.
It should work fairly well with Feedbooks Mobile (http://www.feedbooks.mobi) now that the file extension is associated to FBReaderJ (something that the iPhone doesn’t support, you cannot associate a MIME type to an application in Safari Mobile).