kiwix-hotspot vs kiwix-android

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kiwix-hotspot		kiwix-android
	Project
6	Mentions	12
69	Stars	798
-	Growth	2.5%
4.7	Activity	9.7
8 months ago	Latest Commit	6 days ago
Jinja	Language	Kotlin
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

kiwix-hotspot

Posts with mentions or reviews of kiwix-hotspot. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-17.

Installing hotspot installer on Windows
1 project | /r/Kiwix | 9 Dec 2023

OK, I found this in the CHANGELOG:
Can I pull the power on a headless Zero 2 W running Kiwix Hotspot?
3 projects | /r/Kiwix | 17 Feb 2022

But since you've found the repo and are not the first one to ask, feel free to open a feature request at https://github.com/offspot/kiwix-hotspot/issues
Using screen for kiwis
1 project | /r/Kiwix | 13 Feb 2022

Edit: it actually is a feature request and has been scheduled for the next milestone.
Hotspot installer 2.4 is out!
1 project | /r/Kiwix | 19 May 2021

This update is fairly important as it corrects a number of limitations that were on Raspberry Hotspots. The full changelog is here but here's what really matters:
Kiwix pi hotspot not working.
2 projects | /r/Kiwix | 22 Apr 2021

The FAQ indicates that RPi 4 manufactured from late 2020 on are not supported, but I also see that this ticket has been closed last week, so the upcoming 2.4 release should fix that.

kiwix-android

Posts with mentions or reviews of kiwix-android. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-22.

kiwix android3.8.1 cannt to search
1 project | /r/Kiwix | 9 Dec 2023

Thanks for checking that. So it seems like we have an issue with UTF8 search for mutli-byte character sets. I've opened this issue on GitHub to investigate further: Search appears to be broken with Chinese characters (possibly all UTF-8 multibyte characters).
Cant add Zim file to app.
1 project | /r/Kiwix | 6 Dec 2023

Either way the previous version still works. https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-android/releases/tag/3.8.0
Best Android E-Ink tablet for Kiwix?
1 project | /r/Kiwix | 2 Jul 2023
Why isn't the play store up to date?
2 projects | /r/Kiwix | 22 Feb 2023

Looking further it looks like 3.6.0 used to be on f-droid https://www.reddit.com/r/Kiwix/comments/wxaf88/kiwixandroid_360_available_on_fdroid_major_fix/ but was pulled all the way back to 2.4 due to containing non FOSS. https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-android/issues/30910 which looks like isn't slated to be fixed until 3.7.0
What is your Kotlin project?
13 projects | /r/Kotlin | 12 Oct 2022

https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-android haven’t been there for a few years now but happy with what I did and taught. Introduced kotlin to a pure java environment and it was so much better every time
⟳ 7 apps added, 50 updated at f-droid.org
11 projects | /r/FDroidUpdates | 22 Aug 2022

Kiwix (version 3.6.0): Offline Wikipedia reader
What's your favorite/best written of kotlin code?
2 projects | /r/Kotlin | 21 Jul 2022

https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-android/blob/develop/core/src/main/java/org/kiwix/kiwixmobile/core/extensions/CursorExtensions.kt ah good it is still there, haven’t been on the project in years
Question About Kiwix & Android
1 project | /r/Kiwix | 8 Apr 2022

Never had such a problem with my Pixel4 but I would totally suggest you open a ticket on github describing the issue.
Kiwix can't read file from internal or external storage.
1 project | /r/fossdroid | 10 Mar 2022

It's a known issue and should be fixed with the next release, but feel free to open a ticket on https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-android/issues
Double character issue on a few apps
1 project | /r/unihertztitanpocket | 25 Oct 2021

That's an unusual issue - would you mind opening a ticket on https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-android/issues ? (basically indicate the Android version, device, Kiwix version, etc. so we can try and reproduce)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing kiwix-hotspot and kiwix-android you can also consider the following projects:

kiwix-js-pwa - Kiwix JS Offline Browser implemented as a Progressive Web App (PWA), and packaged as Electron, NWJS and UWP apps for Windows and Linux.

kotter - A declarative, Kotlin-idiomatic API for writing dynamic console applications.

sherlock - 🔎 Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks

kiwix-desktop - Kiwix for Windows and GNU/Linux desktops

OkHttp - Square’s meticulous HTTP client for the JVM, Android, and GraalVM.

kiwix-tools - Command line Kiwix tools: kiwix-serve, kiwix-manage, ...

Spell4Wiki - Spell4Wiki is a mobile application to record and upload audio for Wiktionary words to Wikimedia Commons. Spell4Wiki also a multilingual Wiki-Dictionary.

wi-page - Rank Wikipedia Article's Contributors by Byte Counts.

Sapphire-Assistant-Framework - An extensible framework for creating Android Assistants on-device. It does not require Google services or network connectivity

Mediawiker - A plugin for Sublime Text editor that adds possibility to use it as Wiki Editor on MediaWiki-based sites like Wikipedia and many other.