kiwix-js-windows
Kiwix JS Offline Browser for Windows and Linux, packaged as PWA, Electron, NWJS and UWP (by kiwix)
kiwix-android
Kiwix for Android (by kiwix)
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| kiwix-js-windows | kiwix-android | |
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| 25 | 10 | |
| 113 | 698 | |
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| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| 3 days ago | 3 days ago | |
| JavaScript | Kotlin | |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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-js-windows
Posts with mentions or reviews of kiwix-js-windows.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-14.
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Updates to Kiwix JS Electron/PWA, and Kiwix JS WikiMed (versions 2.4.x March 2023)
For overall changelog, see https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-js-windows/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md.
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Any way to stop screen rotation on Kiwix JS PWA on Android?
I've opened an issue here: https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-js-windows/issues/375. I'll track progress there, but will update this post with any significant development.
u/verrucagnome This fix is now released in v2.4.0: https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-js-windows/releases/tag/v2.4.0 and the PWA https://pwa.kiwix.org (let it update to v2.4.0).
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New useability update for Kiwix JS for Linux and Windows v2.3.0
u/Nibb31 There's no need to run it in Docker, as you can compile the Electron versions on either Linux or Windows simply by cloning the Repo and running npm install --save-dev, then npm start to test, or npm run dist-linux (or dist-win), to make packages. See scripts in package.json. It uses electron-builder to build the apps, in case you're familiar with its CLI.
Version 2.3.0 of Kiwix JS has an extensive changelog, focusing on useability, versatility and some niggly bug fixes. Enjoy!
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Desktop WikiMed app now with Full-Text search (experimental - works only with the Electron app for modern Linux and Windows)
The packages contain the December 2022 WikiMed English ZIM (mdwiki_en_all_maxi_2022-12), together with the changes in the CHANGELOG. The Electron app uses Electron v18.3.15.
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Kiwix JS for Windows and Linux v2.2.0 (with support for Zimit archives)
For what's new, see the CHANGELOG. The headline feature is that Service Worker mode is now the default if your platform/browser supports it.
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Monday feature wishlist: what would you want to see on Kiwix as a priority?
Are you referring to the Kiwix JS browser extension version? And are you referring to custom URLs for ZIM content as mentioned here: https://web.dev/url-protocol-handler/? Please note that the browser extension version requires you to pick the archive on each startup, so linking from custom URLs would not be a very satisfactory process. This might be possible in the PWA. See this issue.
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.
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Why isn't the play store up to date?
I downloaded 3.6.0 from the github page and search is fast and smooth.
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
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What is your Kotlin project?
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
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⟳ 7 apps added, 50 updated at f-droid.org
Kiwix (version 3.6.0): Offline Wikipedia reader
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What's your favorite/best written of kotlin code?
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
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Please, how do I make hardlinks like on Windows tablet? My company requires a legacy app -- Kiwix -- but it doesn't support external storage on my tablet, even though the OTG drive shows up fdine in everything else, so I am trying to hardlink like in Windows or Linux. Android uses Linux kernel&FS?
A good place to ask would probably be r/kiwix or, better, https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-android/issues (or https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-desktop/issues)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing kiwix-js-windows and kiwix-android you can also consider the following projects:
kiwix-tools - Command line Kiwix tools: kiwix-serve, kiwix-manage, ...
offline-plugin - Offline plugin (ServiceWorker, AppCache) for webpack (https://webpack.js.org/)
wikipedia-mirror - 🌐 Guide and tools to run a full offline mirror of Wikipedia.org with three different approaches: Nginx caching proxy, Kiwix + ZIM dump, and MediaWiki/XOWA + XML dump
kiwix-desktop - Kiwix for Windows and GNU/Linux desktops
pwa-qr-code-scanner - Lightweight progressive web app for scanning QR codes offline
kiwix-hotspot - Kiwix Hotspot Image Creator (Desktop) for Windows/macOS/Linux
legacy-modules
kotter - A declarative, Kotlin-idiomatic API for writing dynamic console applications.
operations-puppet - Wikimedia Foundation operates some of the largest collaborative projects in the world. This is the Puppet repo for our servers. This repository is a mirror; see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_access for contributing.
OkHttp - Square’s meticulous HTTP client for the JVM, Android, and GraalVM.
Sapphire-Assistant-Framework - An extensible framework for creating Android Assistants on-device. It does not require Google services or network connectivity