reading epub file in blackberry

Question

can you tell me a hint to start an Epub reader app for blackberry?

I want the simplest way to do it, is there any browser or UI component that can read & display it?

I want to download it from a server then view it to the user to read it.

Answer 1

couple of days ago, an Epub reader library was added here, I tried to use it, but it has some difficulties, it could open Epubs only from resources, but not from file system, so I decided to download the source and do some adaptation. First, I wrote a small function that opens the Epub file as a stream:

public static InputStream GetFileAsStream(String fName) {
    FileConnection fconn = null;
    DataInputStream is = null;
    try {
        fconn = (FileConnection) Connector
                .open(fName, Connector.READ_WRITE);
        is = fconn.openDataInputStream();

    } catch (IOException e) {
        System.out.println(e.getMessage());
    return is;

Then, I replaced the call that opens the file in com.omt.epubreader.domain.epub.java, so it became like this:

public Book getBook(String url)
{
    InputStream in = ConnectionController.GetFileAsStream(url);

    ...
    return book;
}

after that, I could read the file successfully, but a problem appeared, it wasn't able to read the sections, i.e. the .html files, so I went into a short debug session before I found the problem, whoever wrote that library, left the code that read the .html file names empty, in com.omt.epubreader.parser.NcxParser it was like this:

private void getBookNcxInfo()
{
    ...

    if(pars.getEventType() == XmlPullParser.START_TAG && 
                    pars.getName().toLowerCase().equals(TAG_CONTENT))
    {
        if(pars.getAttributeCount()>0)
        {

        }
    }

    ...
}

I just added this line to the if clause:

contentDataFileName.addElement(pars.getAttributeValue("", "src"));

and after that, it worked just perfectly.