Typhon, the synchronizing ebook reader for Android

Typhon is a free, open-source ebook reader that allows you to keep your reading progress synchronized across multiple devices. This means you can read a few pages on your phone, than grab your tablet continuing where you left off.

It is a fork of PageTurner ( http://www.pageturner-reader.org/ ) and it adds a feature for Japanese dictionary lookup.

The lookup code takes its root on JadeReader. I recycled the Android specific code and made another project for the dictionary lookup called JRikai.

Typhon is licensed under the GPL-V3 license.

Benjamin Marlé benjamarle@gmail.com

Typhon改

Revise code base to androidx api29, fixing some UI bugs (Notably fixes unused space at the bottom of tall displays)

Update anki integration so it doesn't crash on android 26+

Add storage permission requests on android 26+

Building Typhon

Install Java

• On Ubuntu

  sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk
  

• On Windows install the JDK from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

Typhon uses Java 8 lambda's through usage of the RetroLambda library.

Install the Android SDK

Typhon改 was created and tested with Android Studio 4.0

1. Download at http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

2. Unzip

3. Update

   sdk/tools/android update sdk --no-ui

4. On Ubuntu install ia32-libs

    apt-get install ia32-libs
   

5. Add sdk/tools/ and sdk/platform-tools to your PATH

Install USB drivers for your device

• Make sure adb devices shows your device, for example

  $ adb devices
  List of devices attached 
  015d18ad5c14000c        device
  

Example PATH setup in .bashrc

export ANDROID_HOME=$HOME/projects/adt-bundle-linux/sdk/
if [ $(uname -m) == 'x86_64' ]; then
    export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre
else
    export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-i386/jre
fi

PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools

Gradle

Typhon is built using Gradle. If you want to use a local Gradle version, make sure it's at least version 2.9. The preferred way is to run the Gradle wrapper. This will automatically download the correct version of gradle to your system.

Run the Gradle wrapper by running

gradlew

Build Typhon

Once everything is in place you can build Typhon and install it on your device with

gradlew build
gradlew installDebug