Xapian on Android?

Cliff Missen missenc at widernet.org
Thu Aug 27 20:15:57 BST 2020


Yes.  Something like Kiwix, but a different infrastructure and manifold content options.


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From: Emmanuel Engelhart <kelson at kiwix.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2020 3:13:28 PM
To: Cliff Missen <missenc at widernet.org>; Xapian Discussion <xapian-discuss at lists.xapian.org>
Subject: Re: Xapian on Android?

On 27.08.20 17:55, Cliff Missen wrote:
> Now we're developing smaller libraries that will fit on smartphones, tablets, and laptops.  For example, our 16GB Ebola Pocket Library that is in the hands of hundreds of health workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
>
> We seek an Android search interface that would interact with an index of ~128GB of resources.
>
> We can create the index on more powerful machines with any OS in our development lab, but need to provide the end users with tools to search that index on their devices.

You mean something like Kiwix?

Regards
Emmanuel

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