I wish to query kiwix, and return page back to Emacs. So emacs browser can view page.

• Logo should be replace by custom app logo
• "Search Kiwix" shoudl be replaced by "Search app_name"

When you click on an Item in the LibraryActivity.java for now, it will only create one notification for a downloaded item, since the notification ID is hardcoded.
It doesn't handle multiple items being downloaded at the same time.

Implement:

• A notification for each downloading item
• Dismiss notification once the download is finished
• Dismiss notification once the download service is stopped

To launch the DownloadManager, you need to start the LibraryActivity yourself, which at this point is not called nowhere from within the app since it's still very experimental and not integrated yet.

Migrate the current "Recent Searches" database to squidb.
We've already started implementing squidb for the download manager, but it's not in use yet.
The current search database can be found in: DatabaseHelper.java, and the new database implementation & the new database models can be found under the the /database/ package.

The logo is too small, it should be like for the firefox widget.

Since 1.97 we can move the app to the SD card using Android settings - or a custom app. The problem is that with custom apps like Wikimed or Wikivoyage, which are using an obb file, the obb seems to stay on the device storage. Or the obb file represents 95% of the whole size of the app. This is a problem for many users because they can not install & move the app to an external SD card and therefore often not use the app at all due to a lack of storage.

This happens by using the git master head. Here is the tracelog:

java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{org.kiwix.kiwixcustomwikivoyage/org.kiwix.kiwixcustomwikivoyage.settings.KiwixSettingsActivity}: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #8: Error inflating class org.kiwix.kiwixcustomwikivoyage.settings.SliderPreference
at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2416)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2476)
at android.app.ActivityThread.access$900(ActivityThread.java:150)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1344)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:148)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5417)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:726)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:616)
Caused by: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #8: Error inflating class org.kiwix.kiwixcustomwikivoyage.settings.SliderPreference
at android.preference.GenericInflater.createItemFromTag(GenericInflater.java:443)
at android.preference.GenericInflater.rInflate(GenericInflater.java:483)
at android.preference.GenericInflater.rInflate(GenericInflater.java:495)
at android.preference.GenericInflater.inflate(GenericInflater.java:327)
at android.preference.GenericInflater.inflate(GenericInflater.java:264)
at android.preference.PreferenceManager.inflateFromResource(PreferenceManager.java:273)
at android.preference.PreferenceFragment.addPreferencesFromResource(PreferenceFragment.java:301)
at org.kiwix.kiwixcustomwikivoyage.settings.KiwixSettingsActivity$PrefsFragment.onCreate(KiwixSettingsActivity.java:87)
at android.app.Fragment.performCreate(Fragment.java:2198)
at android.app.FragmentManagerImpl.moveToState(FragmentManager.java:942)
at android.app.FragmentManagerImpl.moveToState(FragmentManager.java:1148)
at android.app.BackStackRecord.run(BackStackRecord.java:793)
at android.app.FragmentManagerImpl.execPendingActions(FragmentManager.java:1535)
at android.app.FragmentController.execPendingActions(FragmentController.java:325)
at android.app.Activity.performStart(Activity.java:6267)
at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2379)
... 9 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "org.kiwix.kiwixcustomwikivoyage.settings.SliderPreference" on path: DexPathList[[zip file "/data/app/org.kiwix.kiwixcustomwikivoyage-1/base.apk"],nativeLibraryDirectories=[/data/app/org.kiwix.kiwixcustomwikivoyage-1/lib/x86, /data/app/org.kiwix.kiwixcustomwikivoyage-1/base.apk!/lib/x86, /vendor/lib, /system/lib]]
at dalvik.system.BaseDexClassLoader.findClass(BaseDexClassLoader.java:56)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:511)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:469)
at android.preference.GenericInflater.createItem(GenericInflater.java:376)
at android.preference.GenericInflater.createItemFromTag(GenericInflater.java:432)
... 24 more
Suppressed: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.kiwix.kiwixcustomwikivoyage.settings.SliderPreference
at java.lang.Class.classForName(Native Method)
at java.lang.BootClassLoader.findClass(ClassLoader.java:781)
at java.lang.BootClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:841)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:504)
... 27 more
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Class not found using the boot class loader; no stack trace available

Night mode seems really good for AMOLED displays, but the problem is that when I enable it things look fine only for the page I am on. As soon as I go to another article, the images in it have their color inverted too, so it looks like photographic negatives.

Firstly reported at https://sourceforge.net/p/kiwix/bugs/901/

Find a way to parse a metafile like this, using simple xml.

An example on how to use simple xml can be found by looking at LibraryNetworkEntity.java.
Convert the MetaLinkNetworkEntity.java for parsing the meta link files to a similar entity.

Currently, the meta links are parsed by setting a custom ConverterFactory for retrofit: MetaLinkConverterFactory.java. It uses regex to find out the mirror urls, which is very suboptimal, since we'd also like to have the hash values and all the other data from the meta files.

Can you please give @siebrand and @Nikerabbit push access to the Kiwix repo? I just noticed today that our commits fail because we don't have push access.

Reported by kelson42 on 2007-01-25 10:16 UTC
if you search "mexico", the article "mexico" is not the first result but 'only' the fourth one !

Reported by kelson42 on 2007-01-25 10:23 UTC
This parts of the interface like (button, search results) should always have the same pointer (like a link, cursor:pointer (CSS)).

Like that, it's visualy easier for the user to identify where he can click (or not).

Steps to reproduces:
1 - Make a search (and open) on "article 3"
2 - Make a search (and open) on "article 2"
3 - Make a search (and open) on "article 1"
4 - Make a search (and open) on "article 1"
5 - Open the search dialog and type nothing

You get:
A list of suggestions with this order "article3 article2 article1 article1¨

You should get:
A list of suggestions with this order "article3 article2 article1"

Remark:
Probably a small system to avoid duplicates in the list should be done. I would do it that way at each new search (open article) done:
1 - Add the last search to the search history (at the top) like currently.
2 - Remove any further duplicate in the rest of the list/history

Reported by kelson42 on 2007-01-25 10:07 UTC
With the window binary, the application icon is the default xulrunner one. It should be the wikipedia icon.

@rgaudin
I'm pretty unsure about the reprocase but this was my impression that upgrading to android6.0 has broken wikimed app. Do you think this is possible?

1 - Click many times on "random" and "bookmark" icons in the action bar (to create dozens of random bookmarks
2 - Open the bookmarks (long clikc on bookmark icon)
3 - Part of the bookmarks listed are listed as content://org.kiwix.zim.base/..... and trying to open these bookmark opens the welcome page of the current ZIM file

The problem probably happens if the HTML is not fully loaded at the time the bookmark icon is clicked. Then the title of the page is probably unknown (HTML not fully parsed).

IMO, if the page is not fully loaded the bookmarking code should be triggered one time the page is loaded (non blocking).

Kiwix uses custom fonts to render unsupported Languages (see LanguageUtils.java).
But the custom language-changer solution is now a bit outdated. Replace the font changing with the library Calligraphy.

For private reasons, it's important to provide a solution to clean the history. This could be simply a "button" in the settings panel.

Widgets are an important part of Android usability:
https://developer.android.com/design/patterns/widgets.html

It would be really nice to propose a Kiwix search widget (within Kiwix app) to allow users to find things with Kiwix directly from their home page.

The current welcome and help pages suffer from following weaknesses:

• It's impossible to come back to the welcome page, one time a file has been loaded
• Both are ugly
• They are not localized

For this reason this ticket ask:
1 - Merge both welcome and help pages. The informations should be more or less kept but the way to present it is free
2 - A fancy/nice/beautiful still should be used. A few graphics are available at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Kiwix and http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Category:Visuals
3 - One time, this is done, we will create a solution to translate this on www.kiwix.org and sync things. (@Kelson)

Reported by kelson42 on 2007-01-25 10:25 UTC
... although it's not always neccessary (in most of cases)

A few days ago, an icon was added by @EladKeyshawn to the "Rate the app" dialog. This usability improvment (more fancy UI) generates an awkward situation with "custom apps" like Wikivoyage or Wikimed. The users of these last two apps do not know about Kiwix and will therefore be surprised to see its logo at this place because the "rate me" dialog is not only displayed for the Kiwix app but for all apps (which is really good). This "static" Kiwix icon shoulw be probably replaced by a dynamic solution (always working), for example it would be a benefit tout simply display in place the app logo.

$ ./build-android-with-native.py customapp/wikivoyage/info.json
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./build-android-with-native.py", line 395, in
os.chdir(ICU_TMP_TARGET)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/kelson/kiwix/platforms/tmp/target/'
kelson@kelson-VirtualBox:~/kiwix/android$ mkdir -p /home/kelson/kiwix/platforms/tmp/target/

kelson@kelson-VirtualBox:~/kiwix/android$ ./build-android-with-native.py customapp/wikivoyage/info.json

ls -lh build/outputs/apk/org.kiwix.kiwixmobile-*

ls: cannot access build/outputs/apk/org.kiwix.kiwixmobile-*: No such file or directory

Here is message I have got from a user:

After upgrading kiwix stopped reading the (previously working) zim
files.

It gives the message "To access zim files we need access to your
storage".

Zim files are on the external sd card, Android 4.0.4, Kiwix 1.98

This is not a proof that something goes wrong... but does someone has a clue why this might be happening?

The LibraryActivity list is currently just a huge list of entries and not very usable. Make the list more accessible by making is searchable.
The search should work like the main kiwix search in KiwixMobileActivity.java.

Add an entry to the LibraryActivity to the main overflow menu in the KiwixMobileActivity.java.
For now there is no starting point for the LibraryActivity.

Replace the current solution with something like this:
https://stackexchange.com/sites

This would be really more appealing

Right now they are stored in shared preferences (in a file). Store them in a database instead.

Here is the log, with filtering out everything which are not error:

E/SurfaceFlinger( 469): #### captureScreenImplLocked
E/EnterpriseContainerManager( 507): ContainerPolicy Service is not yet ready!!!
E/kiwix (11775): File removed:
E/kiwix (11775): File removed:
E/SurfaceFlinger( 469): #### captureScreenImplLocked
E/SurfaceFlinger( 469): #### captureScreenImplLocked
E/EnterpriseContainerManager( 507): ContainerPolicy Service is not yet ready!!!
E/kiwix (11775): File not found: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /data/data/org.kiwix.kiwixmobile/files/8ea04e3d-4d34-e564-783b-6ff812c04d54.txt: open failed: ENOENT (No such file or directory)
E/EnterpriseContainerManager( 507): ContainerPolicy Service is not yet ready!!!
E/ActivityThread(11775): Activity org.kiwix.kiwixmobile.KiwixMobileActivity has leaked IntentReceiver com.immersion.android.haptics.HapticFeedbackManager$HapticFeedbackBroadcastReceiver@417c33a0 that was originally registered here. Are you missing a call to unregisterReceiver()?
E/ActivityThread(11775): android.app.IntentReceiverLeaked: Activity org.kiwix.kiwixmobile.KiwixMobileActivity has leaked IntentReceiver com.immersion.android.haptics.HapticFeedbackManager$HapticFeedbackBroadcastReceiver@417c33a0 that was originally registered here. Are you missing a call to unregisterReceiver()?
E/ActivityThread(11775): at android.app.LoadedApk$ReceiverDispatcher.(LoadedApk.java:800)
E/ActivityThread(11775): at android.app.LoadedApk.getReceiverDispatcher(LoadedApk.java:601)
E/ActivityThread(11775): at android.app.ContextImpl.registerReceiverInternal(ContextImpl.java:1650)
E/ActivityThread(11775): at android.app.ContextImpl.registerReceiver(ContextImpl.java:1630)
E/ActivityThread(11775): at android.app.ContextImpl.registerReceiver(ContextImpl.java:1624)
E/ActivityThread(11775): at android.content.ContextWrapper.registerReceiver(ContextWrapper.java:430)
E/ActivityThread(11775): at com.immersion.android.haptics.HapticFeedbackManager.setupPackageBroadcastReceiver(HapticFeedbackManager.java:564)
E/ActivityThread(11775): at com.immersion.android.haptics.HapticFeedbackManager.(HapticFeedbackManager.java:108)
E/ActivityThread(11775): at com.immersion.android.HapticFeedbackManagerProxy.initialize(HapticFeedbackManagerProxy.java:90)
E/ActivityThread(11775): at com.immersion.android.HapticFeedbackManagerProxy.access$100(HapticFeedbackManagerProxy.java:30)
E/ActivityThread(11775): at com.immersion.android.HapticFeedbackManagerProxy$1$1.run(HapticFeedbackManagerProxy.java:71)
E/ActivityThread(11775): at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:856)
E/Watchdog( 507): !@sync 52332
E/SurfaceFlinger( 469): #### captureScreenImplLocked
E/EnterpriseContainerManager( 507): ContainerPolicy Service is not yet ready!!!
E/SurfaceFlinger( 469): #### captureScreenImplLocked
E/EnterpriseContainerManager( 507): ContainerPolicy Service is not yet ready!!!
E/Watchdog( 507): !@sync 52333
E/SurfaceFlinger( 469): #### captureScreenImplLocked
E/EnterpriseContainerManager( 507): ContainerPolicy Service is not yet ready!!!
E/SurfaceFlinger( 469): #### captureScreenImplLocked
E/EnterpriseContainerManager( 507): ContainerPolicy Service is not yet ready!!!
E/AndroidRuntime(11775): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
E/AndroidRuntime(11775): java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot add header view to list -- setAdapter has already been called.
E/AndroidRuntime(11775): at android.widget.ListView.addHeaderView(ListView.java:264)
E/AndroidRuntime(11775): at android.widget.ListView.addHeaderView(ListView.java:293)
E/AndroidRuntime(11775): at org.kiwix.kiwixmobile.utils.HTMLUtils$HTMLinterface$1.run(HTMLUtils.java:68)
E/AndroidRuntime(11775): at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:725)
E/AndroidRuntime(11775): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
E/AndroidRuntime(11775): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:175)
E/AndroidRuntime(11775): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5279)
E/AndroidRuntime(11775): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
E/AndroidRuntime(11775): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
E/AndroidRuntime(11775): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1102)
E/AndroidRuntime(11775): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:869)
E/AndroidRuntime(11775): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
E/SurfaceFlinger( 469): #### captureScreenImplLocked

Currently when a user first launches the app, selects a zim file and article... I can't see a way in which the user will know there is an option like swiping to the left for the Content drawer (There is no icon or else to indicate its existance).
So i thought it might be helpful to have a one-time help on 1st launch overlaying activity to inform the user of it.

raspberry Pi 2B with Raspbian

Steps:

wget http://download.kiwix.org/src/kiwix-src.tar.xz
sudo su
apt-get install libzim0 liblzma5 libctpp2-2
apt-get install make gcc libtool
tar xvf kiwix-src.tar.xz
cd kiwix-0.9/
./autogen.sh

Error:

configure.ac:1836: required file 'static/Makefile.in' not found

Solution:

cd kiwix-0.9/
mkdir static
cp Makefile.in static/
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install

P.S.:

Thank you for developing Kiwix. I put it in a youth detention center (Judenvollzugsanstallt) and a forensic psychiatry in the context of vocational training in Germany.

• Impossible to see the ZIM file from Kiwix itself
• Clicking on the ZIM file does not open Kiwix

Reported by kelson42 on 2007-01-25 10:38 UTC
If you search for "century", you get no result... bizarre !

Create an entry in the settings that opens up a new Activity/Dialog for when you click on it.
It should display the current open source licenses of the open source libraries that we're using.

Something like the ones mentioned here: https://www.bignerdranch.com/blog/open-source-licenses-and-android/

Here is the tracelog:

Build fingerprint: 'samsung/ha3gxx/ha3g:5.0/LRX21V/N900XXUEBOK7:user/release-keys'
Revision: '11'
ABI: 'arm'
pid: 23042, tid: 23042, name: wix.kiwixmobile >>> org.kiwix.kiwixmobile <<<
signal 11 (SIGSEGV), code 1 (SEGV_MAPERR), fault addr 0xdead432d
r0 6f1fd868 r1 131a6d40 r2 dead4321 r3 770f7508
r4 000000bd r5 131a6d40 r6 6f1fd868 r7 6f222cb8
r8 13189a60 r9 b4e08000 sl dead4321 fp 13157080
ip becb20bc sp becb3d20 lr 73effa4d pc 73ed1e1c cpsr a00f0030

backtrace:
#00 pc 00055e1c /system/framework/arm/boot.oat
#1 pc 00083a4b /system/framework/arm/boot.oat

In Kiwix for Android, while opening a page in new tab, focus goes to the newly opened page. Its a hindering to the flow of reading. There should be a check box option in the 'Settings' which asks 'While opening a new tab switch to it'

Reported by kelson42 on 2007-01-25 10:36 UTC
If you search "centur", the completion box opens itself and propose "centurion" and "centuries".

If you minimize at this time the application window, this completion box window stays open, alone, in the middle of the screen.

When browsing from a mobile device to something running kiwix-serve, it would be nice if the server used the mobile style sheets rather than the desktop ones, which look messed up.

As of now, every time you open up the ZimFileSelectActivity, the app scans the entire system for new zim files.
It would be better to save the files that we already know of in a database, and then once you open up the ZimFileSelectActivity, display at least those files, and start refreshing for new content in the background.
Use the current implementation of squidb in the /database/ package for this.

Additionally, the database should not only save the paths to the files, but also the meta data for the zim file (Author, publish date etc.). All this can be found out by using ZimContentProvider.setZimFile()

Example of crash log:

java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{org.kiwix.kiwixmobile/org.kiwix.kiwixmobile.SearchActivity}: android.database.sqlite.SQLiteException: near "S": syntax error (code 1): , while compiling: select * from recentsearches where zim = '/storage/extSdCard/ab'S/APKz/Download/wikipedia_en_all_simple_2015-08.zim'

Error Code : 1 (SQLITE_ERROR)
Caused By : SQL(query) error or missing database.
(near "S": syntax error (code 1): , while compiling: select * from recentsearches where zim = '/storage/extSdCard/ab'S/APKz/Download/wikipedia_en_all_simple_2015-08.zim')

at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2699)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2773)
at android.app.ActivityThread.access$900(ActivityThread.java:177)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1434)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:135)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5930)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:372)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1405)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1200)

Caused by: android.database.sqlite.SQLiteException: near "S": syntax error (code 1): , while compiling: select * from recentsearches where zim = '/storage/extSdCard/ab'S/APKz/Download/wikipedia_en_all_simple_2015-08.zim'

Error Code : 1 (SQLITE_ERROR)
Caused By : SQL(query) error or missing database.
(near "S": syntax error (code 1): , while compiling: select * from recentsearches where zim = '/storage/extSdCard/ab'S/APKz/Download/wikipedia_en_all_simple_2015-08.zim')

at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteConnection.nativePrepareStatement(Native Method)
at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteConnection.acquirePreparedStatement(SQLiteConnection.java:1093)
at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteConnection.prepare(SQLiteConnection.java:670)
at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteSession.prepare(SQLiteSession.java:588)
at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteProgram.<init>(SQLiteProgram.java:59)
at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteQuery.<init>(SQLiteQuery.java:37)
at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDirectCursorDriver.query(SQLiteDirectCursorDriver.java:44)
at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase.rawQueryWithFactory(SQLiteDatabase.java:1454)
at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase.rawQuery(SQLiteDatabase.java:1393)
at org.kiwix.kiwixmobile.utils.DatabaseHelper.getRecentSearches(DatabaseHelper.java:82)
at org.kiwix.kiwixmobile.SearchActivity.onCreate(SearchActivity.java:47)
at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:6178)
at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1118)
at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2652)
... 10 more

The solution: values given to sqlite should be SQL escaped or use any other SQL solution to avoid this kind of problem with special characters.

here is the log at the time the app is launched

03-02 20:13:53.200 31352 31352 D kiwix : Kiwix Custom App starting for the first time. Check Companion ZIM.
03-02 20:13:53.204 31352 31352 D kiwix : Looking for: /data/data/org.kiwix.kiwixcustomwikivoyage/lib/libcontent.so -- filesize: 4802267
03-02 20:13:53.205 31352 31352 D kiwix : ... doesn't exist.
03-02 20:13:53.232 31352 31352 I AppCompatDelegate: The Activity's LayoutInflater already has a Factory installed so we can not install AppCompat's

On the screen, at the start, the following error message appears:
"Your application is corrupted. This might happen when you remove files on the SD Card...."

Steps:
1 - Open a ZIM file
2 - Choose a picture and long click on it

You get
File is saved in the pictures directory but the first two letters of the file are missing

You should get
File with the correct filename

Remark
This bug as already been fixed on time in one of the recent last releases... unfortunately it seems to be broken again. Probably the regresseion was introduced in 1.97.

Include a Changelog Link, within the F-Droid App', on Info' Page. Not present, as of: 1.97.

Reported by kelson42 on 2007-01-25 11:31 UTC
A few article need specific fonts to be correctly rendered. That is the case of "United-Nations".

On default windows installations, this font are not installed.

It would be good to be find a solution to be certain that all page are correctly rendered.

Reported by kelson42 on 2007-01-25 10:32 UTC
By searching "centuries", I get all articles about centuries. Ok

But in the search result box, all numbers before "th" are squezed !

Reported by coulonito on 2007-01-24 14:20 UTC
In root page : anchor 8.html.gz#Engineering.2C_applied_sciences_and_technology is not found.

Reported by kelson42 on 2007-01-25 10:17 UTC
This binary should have an icon (now it's simply the default win binary icon) : the wikipedia one.

like the menu entry... as long as we can provide something better/more useful.

This is because the content language is fixed, the UI should be in the content language of the ZIM file and the menu should not be displayed because this is disturbing for users.