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{{box-news|ZIM on Android / LZMA2 for Java|2010-09-17|Linterweb, the maker of the Okawix offline reader, has recently switched to ZIM and is currently working on an Android version of their software.
{{box-news|ZIM on Android / LZMA2 for Java|2010-09-17|Linterweb, the maker of the Okawix offline reader, has recently switched to ZIM and is currently working on an Android version of their software.


There is one problem: ZIM uses XZ / LZMA2 for compression while there is no such library available for Java. There are Java libs for the older LZMA and an SDK for XZ / LZMA2, but this currently only supports C/C++.
Good news folks! Lasse Collin has ported LZMA2 to Java. You can download the source and the docs over here:
* http://tukaani.org/xz/java.html


Asaf Bartov from Wikimedia Israel, also a user of the ZIM technology, now started to port LZMA2 from C to Java:
Feel free to contribute. Lasse's code is open source software.}}
* http://github.com/abartov/LZMA2-java
 
Feel free to contribute. Both the LZMA2 SDK and Asaf's Java port are open source software.}}


{{box-event|Wikimania 2010|July 9th - 11th, 2010|At the yearly international Wikimedia conference, this year in Gdansk (PL) there will be a long ''Wikipedia Offline'' workshop where openZIM is involved (Friday 9th, 2 - 6 pm).
{{box-event|Wikimania 2010|July 9th - 11th, 2010|At the yearly international Wikimedia conference, this year in Gdansk (PL) there will be a long ''Wikipedia Offline'' workshop where openZIM is involved (Friday 9th, 2 - 6 pm).
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