PeruseWithSpritz

"Peruse with Spritz" is a reading tool designed around Spritz, the RSVP Library.

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Peruse with Spritz

Made with simplicity in mind to efficiently read with Spritz.

Usage

The one with OCR capabilities is not on the play store, it doesn't work well enough.

Functionality

  • Users can share e-pubs from the FS to the app.
  • Users can share text to the app
  • Users can share web pages to the app
  • It provides a text fragment in which the user can paste or type text to spritz.
  • Anything that is spritzed is saved to the phone's local database in the "recent" perusals list
  • Perusals can be removed
  • Perusals can be renamed
  • Perusals' text can NOT be edited
  • OCR could be better ( Improve filtering or perform isbn scanning instead, to find a digital copy )

Note about saving the Perusals:

The title of the perusals is limited to the first three words of the text. If the Spritzing was done on a URL then the text is not saved, rather, only the url is saved. In that case, the title is set to the part after the web protocol "http://" stuff in the url. (Maybe the app should just save the text and not the URL to prevent multiple spritz web scrapes?)

Known Issues:

  • URL Link sharing opens the spritz fragment (through the 'peruse controller' aka edittext fragment) and the url is saved in a recent perusal item, but Spritz fails to load and "spritz" the url.. The current user workaround is to go to the recent perusals list and select the url just shared/added. then it works flawlessly.
  • Main activity: Choosing intent assumes "/" intent type is for e-pubs, should just be "application/epub+zip". On phone and simulator, sharing/sending epub from filesystem with the app created an intent with type "/". unexpected..
  • E-Pub UI is plain. ( Buttons or no buttons? Swipey views! )
  • Text from an e-pub "page" is saved to recent list when Spritzed. Subject to change.
  • Canceling during ocr causes app to crash..

Todo

  • Wearable Spritz Views. If wearable is present, send text data to the watch instead on "Spritz"
  • Implement Spritz view subclass that ties in with the wearable 'fragments' ( to create views while computing the tings )
  • Feature to change font type for reading purposes
  • seperate text catagories: text, url, epub, images
  • Share URL to epub
  • Fix issues

Long Term

  • Figure out a way to easily access the book based on isbn number
  • Perusal Sharing
  • PDF support?

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