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Re: Zim Options on Android

 

Right now the markup is just parsed from a hardcoded string in the main
activity. I guess the next thing would be to make it load the markup
from a file. I also don't think I implemented serializing the text back
into markup.


On Tue, Jun 2, 2015, at 10:19 PM, Hugh Manning wrote:
> Awesome, thank you very much! I'll get started on it when I get home.
> What were your next steps planned for it when you left off?


> On 3 Jun 2015 00:42, "Hans Elias B. Josephsen"
> <hansihe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Okey, I uploaded the source to github:
>> https://github.com/hansihe/ZimDroid
>>
>> The usual disclaimers apply, I never really intended it to get
>> released to the public in this state, so alot of things are a
>> bit ugly.
>>
>> I wrote a simple parser in java for the zim file format. I considered
>> trying to use the original parser for zim, but because of
>> dependencies that are a bit tricky on android, I chose to write a
>> simple one myself.
>>
>> I tried to make sense of and use android's way of applying styles in
>> a text editor as best I can. That involves converting the markup to
>> 'spans' or style ranges. I don't know how the actual zim does it, but
>> it seems logical that it does it in somewhat the same way.
>>
>> If there are any questions, feel free to ask. I will try to answer
>> them as best I can.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015, at 08:47 AM, hugh manning wrote:
>>> Much to do but a good start! Please throw it on GitHub so I can take
>>> a look at it.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  On Monday, 1 June 2015 8:51 PM, Hans Elias B. Josephsen
>>>  <hansihe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I startes writing a zim editor for android a while ago, but I never
>>> really took it anywhere. I guess I can put my work so far out on
>>> github when I get home.
>>>
>>> Here is a demo video that I uploaded when I was working on it:
>>> https://youtu.be/LX2_00BGODA
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 1, 2015, at 10:24 AM, hugh manning wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I've got a new Android phone but one of the things I'm missing on
>>>> it are my Zim notebooks; editing them manually is getting to be a
>>>> drag. I've googled around but had no results for an app that can
>>>> edit them. Is anyone aware of something I missed?
>>>>
>>>> Alternatively, I've been starting to get into Android development,
>>>> and while a Zim port is probably a bit big to take on myself it'd
>>>> be great if I could contribute to an existing effort. Maybe I
>>>> should start writing one anyway?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers, Hugh
>>>>
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