FBReaderJ 0.2.2 for Google Android is released (November 29, 2008).
Changes:
- Book scrolling is now more Androidish. To scroll a text you should move your finger over the touchscreen.
- Volume +/- keys on the left side of the device are used for the text scrolling too.
- 'Add Book' dialog has been changed to be more convenient for finger tapping.
- Book position saving has been fixed.
- Register FBReaderJ as the default viewer for fb2/epub files.
- Fullscreen mode.
- Faster zip file loading.
- Standard Android view for Setting dialog.
- The Library view will be changed to be more convenint for finger tapping.
Changes and known issues:
- Recompiled with the newest version of Android SDK. This version should work on real devices.
- Several UI issues are still not fixed. Options dialog is not standard. Menu icons are still not presented.
- Large zip files loading is too slow.
- Unofficial port of the latest version (0.8.17) for MacOS X is available. Many thanks to Stanislav Gobunov who is the author of this port.
- Packages for both Intel and PPC architectures are available for download from the port site.
Changes:
- Added text selection.
- Added book tag support.
- Added a page about FBReader in Broncho project.
This is first beta version of FBReader java port. This version includes binaries for Google Android only, but we plan to compile packages for J2ME devices (like Symbian mobile phones) and desktop computers. For more informations and/or downloads please visit FBReaderJ project page.
FBReader 0.8.17 is released (March 23, 2008).
Changes:
- Fixed crash after removing a book from library.
- Updated Finnish interface translation.
Changes:
- Book tags support has been added. This feature allows to organising you library in a more convenient way. Full description of this feature is available in the “Documentation” section of our site.
- The standard Unicode algorithm for line breaking in now used for all languages (including Chinese). We use liblinebreak library written by Yongwei Wu.
Important note for users who build own FBReader binaries: you should download and build liblinebreak separately. For Debian/Ubuntu systems, source and binary developer package are available from FBReader repository. - Fixed a bug with tapping scrolling/selection. If you prefer to have a selection feature unstead of scrolling by tab, please install the new version, then go to the Preferences Dialog, “Scrolling” tab, select “Tap Scrolling” for “Options For” and then “Disabled” for “Scrolling Mode”.
Changes:
- Freeze during text scrolling has been fixed.
- Indonesian localization (by Ketut Putu Kumajaya) has been added.
- From now FBReader remembers list of recent search patterns.
Changes:
- Fixed crash. It was always reproducable for maemo platform and was possible for all othr platforms.
Changes:
- Freeze on several files has been fixed.
- Plain text format support has been improved.
- Version for Motorola A1200 smartphone has been included into the mainstream source. (Many thanks to Eugeniy Zorin.)
- 'Go to page by number' feature has been added. In desktop version, this feature is assigned to 'G' key by default. In maemo version, it is available from menu.
Changes: VBAtaxx 0.1 is released (January 16, 2008).
- Zlibrary is a cross-platform library written for FBReader. It is possible to write the apllication once for different Linux-based PDAs using this library. The sample zlibrary-based application is VBAtaxx, a clone of the well known Ataxx game. You can download VBAtaxx packages for Sharp Zaurus and for Nokia Internet Tablets 770/N800/N810. (Sources are available too.)
Changes:
- Tap scrolling is now available for all platforms with touchscreen. (Just enable tap scrolling on the Scrollings tab in the Preferences Dialog.)
- XML namespace processing has been fixed. (In XML-based formats: oeb, epub, fb2.)
- Plain text with UNIX line delimiters problem has been fixed.
- Fixed Ctrl-F bug on Windows platform.
- Default settings files are now human-readable. (Integer action codes have been replaced with the symbolic names.)
- Added “Electronic Book Formats (supported and unsupported)” document.
Changes:
- FBReader automatically adds Mobipocket/Palmdoc books to the library.
- More OS2008-specific options. If you use OS2008 on your N800 device, please read this document.
- Swedish interface translation (by Daniel Nylander) has been added.
- Problem with reading plucker documents on 64-bit computers has been fixed.
- Several epub-related bugs have been fixed.
Changes:
- A library bug has been fixed.
- Option 'Always use windows-1252 encoding instead of iso-8859-1' has been added.
- A bug with network file names in Windows has been fixed.
- Toolbar and menu are now XML-configurable.
Changes:
- Author info duplication bug has been fixed.
- Offline installation on IT OS 2008 problem has been fixed.
Changes:
- A bug in very long (multiple hyphenated) word processing has been fixed.
- An option for enabling/disabling text selection has been added.
Changes:
- Option for finger/stylus tap detection has been added. Please, read the document for more information.
Changes:
- Italian interface translation has been added. (Thanks to Floriano Scioscia.)
- Changes in copyright notices.
- Minor fixes.
- New screenshots: Java port of FBReader works on Google Android Emulator.
Changes:
- Automatic detection of the text language has been added. Chinese, Czech, English, Esperanto, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian are supported.
- Hyphenation patterns for Finnish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian have been added.
- Finnish interface translation has been added. (Many thanks to Marko Vertainen.)
- Our own language/encoding detection engine is used instead of enca.
- Added “Localization of FBReader”. The document describes various options related to language and encoding support.
2 additions to our documentation:
Complete history of all releases is available here.