Some of you may have heard me talking about this already, but i've finally begun actual coding and this will be the place to share the experience.
The goals of RasterReader is to create a viewer for RasterFarian-generated as well as, hopefully, many other file formats. The things it will initially do are modest, yet sorely-needed fixes to what Sony did horribly, horribly wrong:
- Browse all books on the SD card, navigating and organizing by folder.
- Patent pending technology: entering page numbers with number buttons. (Sony: I'll license this to you for a reasonable fee)
- Pre-caching of pages
- Aso, ability to turn off that damn flashing.
- Due to the above two, page-turn latency on RasterFarian books will go down from 2.0s to 0.65s
- On-the-fly resizing of RasterFarian books.
- Autorefresh of display so that teeny-tiny fonts stay crisp
- Autostart from SD card. No installation or Reader modification
Additionally, I will try to use the Fsk interface that's used by the current Reader UI for viewer plugins. If this works, RasterReader should be able to view everything that the Reader UI can view, including maybe even DRMed LRFs. Viewers developed with Igorsk's SDK should also work.