Android is an epub reader for reading .epub files.

Question

I develop and read EPUB. I want to know some things related to other EPUB readers on the market (e.g. Cool reader, FBReader, Amazon Kindle and many others).

• What kind of view do they use to display .EPUB book pages?
• Is this plain text, web browsing, or something ordinary?
• How to implement the search and bookmark function in an epub reader when we loaded individual html pages into a web view?
• I want to know how to read epub? Are there any api in Android?

Any best solution is appreciated.

Answer 1

Check out Epublib, the java epub library that it supports on Android.

EPUB is just a ZIP file containing HTML, CSS, images and metadata.

This way you can use WebView to display HTML pages. Or you can convert it to .png or a bitmap, and then use it in ImageView .