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In-App refresh for eInk devices #23
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@petigPelle Would you happen to have any information/docs/API about what this "moving responsibility to the app" means? |
Unfortunately I do not. The more active users always talk about the fact that the refreshing has been moved from the system to the app itself which means that when you're using non-eInk apps you run into pretty serious ghosting after some times since there is no refresh to clear the screen again. Apparently, OReader (which is an Onyx adaption of AIReader) is still usable which makes sense as it's developed by Onyx which sells eReaders as well. Maybe that is helpful. That is pretty much all I can tell you. I have done some minor Android modding myself but I'm pretty new to eReader devices. If I should find something helpful I will get back to you. |
CoolReader uses manufacturer and device ids to identify device as E-ink. PS: recent PR adds identification of all ONYX devices as e-ink. |
Alright, thanks for your comments. I am talking about this device: https://mytolino.com/tolino-shine-2hd/technical-specifications/ The only thing I could find out from my model is, that its model number is 'tolino' which isn't very helpful I would guess. If you can tell me how to provide you with more information (given, you would actually consider to implement a controller) I will gladly do so. |
Hi Vadim, The only way for me to get next/previous page working is like this:
I tired to dig into this, trying to understand how it refreshes after the popup disappears, If you can give me some pointers I'd be interested to help with this. Thanks, Norbert |
In the thread above, IIRC I had found EPubProd.apk to contain all the magic. |
Hey,
I am not sure whether you're aware that your CoolReader has grown pretty popular on the german Tolino eReader device. It ships with a closed source standard app that is alright in terms of usage, but also has some restrictions you obviously can't fix. That's why many users use a little workaround to install alternative reader apps such as yours.
Anyway, along with the recent update Android has been updated to 4.4.2 which moved the eInk display refresh from the system's responsibilities to the app's. This means that you quickly run into serious ghosting on the display.
Are you by any chance planning to implement some functionality to overcome this problem in the near future? I'm pretty new to eInk and I can't properly gauge how much effort this would be for you. I can, however offer you to run tests on my device if that helps in any way.
Lukas
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