Awesome .. this will be fun to play with and a great addition to the Wikipedia app community.
--tomasz On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Christian Pühringer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tomasz, > > I've pushed the code to https://github.com/cip/zimgap-android. > Note that the only functionality is currently to load an article from the > zim file and display it. > In particular there is no search functionality, so you have to know the > exact article name to open it. > The reason is simply that I am currently focusing on the feasibility, and I > expect that the main issues are related to loading > an article and and not related to searching the index. > > Best regards, > Christian > > Am 24.09.2011 23:14, schrieb Tomasz Finc: > > Awesome work Christian. Where can we find your code to test out? > > If you don't have a place then I'll carve one out in our depots. > > On Sep 24, 2011 5:57 AM, "Christian Pühringer" <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hi Emanuel, >> >> Makes sense that images are not compressed in zim file again, thanks for >> the >> clarification. >> In particular for windows mobile this increases the probability that with >> reducing the cluster size >> a sufficient performance is achieved (i.p. if there was a better way to >> display >> images than in android, but I haven't looked into this). >> For android I still expect that it it will be better to use a native >> library. >> >> Christian >> Am 24.09.2011 14:30, schrieb Emmanuel Engelhart: >>> On 24/09/2011 14:24, Christian Pühringer wrote: >>>> The JAVA liblzma performance is pretty bad: To increase efficiency of >>>> compression in the zim-format articles (and also all >>>> other data like images) are stored in clusters. Cluster size is >>>> apparently about >>>> 1 MB. This implies that loading an article >>>> which is stored at the end of a cluster involves decompressing the >>>> complete >>>> cluster. >>> Images should not be compressed in ZIM files for the obvious reasons >>> they mainly are already compressed. This is the case for all ZIM files I >>> made. As far as I know this is also the case for Mediawiki:Collection >>> build ZIM files. >>> >>> Emmanuel >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dev-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://intern.openzim.org/mailman/listinfo/dev-l > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://intern.openzim.org/mailman/listinfo/dev-l > > _______________________________________________ dev-l mailing list [email protected] https://intern.openzim.org/mailman/listinfo/dev-l
