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koreader and auto rotate Android
so I'm using one of the newer Samsung tablets. and I was delighted to see my favorite kobo reader, Koreader, was available for Android. I still love this reader. it's my favorite and it work so well.
I was wondering if we might someday have an auto rotate feature for it? that would definitely be a nice bonus. I'm using the Samsung S7 Fe. I have also noticed a few times that it has crashed or gone black when it's sitting in one of the temporary opened windows, if I have been using another app upon returning to it. this tablet is completely update. |
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Autorotate is there, but it is disabled for a couple of reasons:
- there's no common logic: On the rest of platforms/models with a gyro where autorotation is supported we need to do something to rotate, so prevent autorotation is just ignore doing something. On Android autorotation happens by itself (it is managed by the framework), so setting a specific rotation would disable autorotation. Current UI assumes the paradigm used by other platforms: rotating requires doing something, autorotates requires detecting gyro changes and doing the same something. That makes possible that setting a manual orientation doesn't disturb future changes based on autorotation. On android that's not possible, setting a manual orientation would disable autorotation. Which leads me to the second reason: - there's no common UI to switch from/to full sensor/ landscape sensor/ portrait sensor and manual modes. Writting one would be awesome, so patches are very welcome ![]() |
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Not all the modules/functions are documented. If you find something undocumented and not trivial please report in https://github.com/koreader/koreader/ *Edit* also looking at non trivial plugins might help to get familiarized with some of the widgets used in the UI. |
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![]() You can follow the recommendations in the page. From KO itself you might want to uncheck "optimize battery" in Settings->Device. Anyways, being killed (by the user or by the framework) shouldn't make the program unresponsive. Feel free to report it as a bug in github (in that case please follow the bug template) |
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Another thing I would like to ask. I just got a bluetooth keyboard for this big android tablet and I notice it doesn't have an effect on Koreader as I expected it might have some page turning functionality, since reaching forward all the time on a larger tablet at distance is uncomfortabe.
Is there any way in Android to get some keyboard functionality? That would be awesome. Love it. thanks, James |
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You can also remap any of the keycodes following https://github.com/koreader/koreader...customize-keys Full support is not available yet. It shouldn't be too difficult but requires some knowledge, time and lots of motivation. If somebody wants to try please read https://github.com/koreader/android-...ment-961005237 |
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I was just taking a look inside the KoReader program. is there a place within a particular menu where you can remap the keys? for example for a page turning press the key that you wish. and then it has been designated.
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Nope, you need to do it following the steps described in the wiki links above
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