Hi David, Jirka : It's pleasure to see you in here with some great imagination. Thank you for putting your thoughts at correct place and make my idea more stronger.
I think, David is with me and he pointed out some thing similar to my first idea which had in my mind. As I mentioned earlier; *"So far I'm with the idea of "Android-xsl sheet produces android applications (APKs) for each user xml input(which is in DocBook format). This APK has the capabilities such as collapsible table of contents, searchable index and full-text searching. Ex: if user A wants to build android apk, he can build it by using Android-xsl and install in to Android. Also user B wants an apk, also he should follow previous steps and both have different apk applications for their documents."* So I think Jirka should conclude the final decision and we should wait until his comments. I'm trying to get in to iOS development[1]. I registered in developer site but unfortunately I can't download their developing tool because of it's a big size of file. I hope to get into iOS soon. These days I'm busy with finishing my Android project[2]. After that I can accelarate my work. Hope Jirka will help me to get though this idea. David, I think by adding iOS also into my work is enough to do over the summer hopefully. On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:00 PM, David Cramer <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'd like to clarify here what I had in mind: when you buy a book from > O'Reilly or subscribe to the Linux journal, you have the option of > getting various formats. For example, you can get an .epub file or a > .apk file (or a mobi for Kindle or pdf). The .apk file in this case is > basically an ebook but instead of opening an epub reader and then > opening the desired epub file, the book appears on your device as an > application. When available, I prefer these to epub files, though it > may just be that I haven't found an epub reader I like. I find the > .apk ebooks to be faster and more convenient for reading books on my > phone in odd moments. I don't know anything about these apk files > other than that. I'm guessing that they're a lot like epub, but that's > just a guess. > > I can imagine other things you might do with DocBook on Android and > those might well be worth pursuing. I'll be interested to hear what > you and Jirka come up with, but I wanted to make sure I hadn't > confused the issue :-) > > Thank you !. [1]. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS [2]. http://code.google.com/p/parental-controller-android/ -- Regards Gihan Chanuka Karunarathne Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Moratuwa Sri Lanka Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/gihanchanuka LinkedIn: http://lk.linkedin.com/pub/gihan-karunarathne/25/ba3/993
