how is this done in epub format? rupert
On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 10:44 AM, renaud gaudin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Full text search engine was not left out for performance reasons but for > practical ones. > Yes, we don't want people to generate the index on their phone. Except for > tiny tiny zim files, it would be too much CPU, battery and time consuming. > But we do want to add full text search to Android. > It could work today but the search index is a (large) folder so it would be > a pain to setup. > As soon as we integrate both the ZIM file and the index in a single file, > we'll enable full text search on the Android App. > > Hope that helps, > > renaud > > On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 5:48 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Dmitry Brant, 01/10/2014 01:07: >>> >>> Looking at the Kiwix app for Android, it doesn't seem to have full-text >>> search within articles (unless I missed it). I assume that this was left >>> out of the Android version for performance reasons. >> >> >> Don't assume, ask Emmanuel (cc Offline-l). >> If I understand correctly, you're talking of small selections of articles >> (hundreds or thousands). Making an index for tens of GB of text takes hours, >> so Kiwix doesn't always make one (on desktop, you usually download the >> pre-made index). But for few articles, the problem is easier (and one can >> also reduce compression). >> In general, I have no idea what it means that "zero team starts to think >> about pre-loaded content": sounds a lot like reinventing Kiwix, which would >> be a disastrous idea. :) >> >> Nemo >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Offline-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l > > _______________________________________________ Offline-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l
