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[uBook]

Ok,
Here it goes:  The bad news is that I am so disappointed with the poor performance of the Java (Dalvik/Android) version that I am putting it aside for now.
The good?  Thanks to the brilliant people behind the Android os, the NDK allowed me to port 95% of (Legacy 2010) uBook in two weeks:



It is (not too) far from finished, the fonts are the big item on my list.
Otherwise, here's the APK for you to try:  

uBook Legacy for Android


It works on my (Canadian) black Pandigital (Android 1.5) and on the emulator (Android 2.2), both with good speed results.

More to come...

[uBook]

Just fixed problem with (clean) exit when the unit is rotated....

[esr]

Glad to see growth of the product! Makes me proud to be a reg'd owner!  I'll give it a go on my Droid Incredible running Verizon original Froyo (2.2) and report back the results.

[esr]

Putting it aside.. Gotchya. Oh well. Guess I should go.read the original thread on your Android Dev and get up to speed

[The Guru]

Oh this is good news indeed!

Hmm I'll have to copy raw books as well as ePub onto the machine now

[uBook]

The Guru, on 04 February 2011 - 05:06 PM, said:

Oh this is good news indeed!

Hmm I'll have to copy raw books as well as ePub onto the machine now

I guess, until I add better epub handling...  But I have a list of issues first, starting with fonts.

D.

[cyclist]

Great, it's usable - well only just, I really need to be able to make the fonts larger.  But it's great to have books that look like books on a paper like background.

[cyclist]

Where do I put the licence file for Ubook to recognise it? Android doesn't let me see where Ubook is installed. The only sensible choices that I can think of are the folder I'm using for my library or the device root.

Sent from my HTC Desire using Tapatalk

[The Guru]

I got it loaded but was unable to navigate on to the SD card to load any books. On the Desire I just ended up going up and up and up...

[cyclist]

Working fine on my Desire.  Took a while to remember how I used to configure the settings, but functionality is just like it was on WM 6.