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TriForceX / MiyooCFW

Custom firmware source code and resources for BittBoy, PocketGo, PowKiddy V90-Q90-Q20 and third party handheld consoles
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[FEATURE-REQ]: Add PixelReader https://github.com/ealang/pixel-reader #564

Closed roodyster closed 8 months ago

roodyster commented 8 months ago

💡 Feature request

There is this epub reader already working for Miyoo Mini, can someone compile it for MiyooCFW ? https://github.com/ealang/pixel-reader

Motivation (behind your idea)

It would be fantastic to be able to read epub ebooks on bittboy or pocketgo !

szymor commented 8 months ago

Thanks for the link!

I had porting an e-book reader app for MiyooCFW in mind, but I realized the resolution is really low and the screen is small, so in the long run you could just hurt your eyes. My wife was displeased when she found out about the idea, so I needed to abandon it.

Maybe somebody else will take the challenge?

roodyster commented 8 months ago

Hi,

Well actually I was thinking of FC3000 which has a 3.0 inch IPS screen with a resolution of 960x320, and is already running MiyooCFW I have one of these and it seems large enaugh for this. Also it works with standard aaa batteries, and I find it a novelty to be able to read ebooks using aaa batteries. There are also people struggling to convert ebooks to text files with calibre and reading them with bard and wizzwrite (example: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bittboy/comments/p5w7v4/comment/h995ju4/ )

If anyone would be willing to do this, I'm sure it would make some people happy :)

EtherealIntellect commented 8 months ago

Thanks for the link!

I had porting an e-book reader app for MiyooCFW in mind, but I realized the resolution is really low and the screen is small, so in the long run you could just hurt your eyes. My wife was displeased when she found out about the idea, so I needed to abandon it.

Maybe somebody else will take the challenge?

I've had luck with the atkinson hyperlegible font https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont when it comes to small text, i found it on the kindle reddit. Maybe it's worth trying to compile a reader app with it built it (and maybe a red light/red tint mode), and seeing if the headaches are better. There's also the option of bitmap terminal fonts, but i feel atkinson will scale better after allowing people to choose font size

blackz1982 commented 8 months ago

Well actually I was thinking of FC3000 which has a 3.0 inch IPS screen with a resolution of 960x320, and is already running MiyooCFW

1) The fc3000 has a 320x240 resolution screen 2) And there's no MiyooCFW on the fc3000 yet.

roodyster commented 8 months ago

Well actually I was thinking of FC3000 which has a 3.0 inch IPS screen with a resolution of 960x320, and is already running MiyooCFW

  1. The fc3000 has a 320x240 resolution screen
  2. And there's no MiyooCFW on the fc3000 yet.

Hi, sure there is, it is built by neotendo, check following links:

https://4pda.to/forum/index.php?showtopic=1051936 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqOGKx2LDQ4

I have it installed on my device right now.

Apaczer commented 8 months ago

@roodyster there is no support for FC3000 right now in MiyooCFW, and what you're using is just old version (modified) of GMenu2X on top of custom kernel made by steward-fu. Naturally most of the apps will work because it is the same platform using identical SDK to compile, should be the same case for pixel-reader and porting should be straight forward 👍

Apaczer commented 8 months ago

Added to repo's README , the prerequisities are to have latest MiyooCFW Dev-build installed on your device (at least BETAv3-Dev_build-n3).