I was preparing to go offline for few days i was searching for apps that can be used while there is no internet connection.Few preparation i have done are
- Downloaded few Audio books from Nepali Audio Books application
- Have a book named The Oath of Vayuputras, third book of seriesThe Immortals of Meluha on kindle.
- Few TED videos to be watched.
- Have Maps.me for offline map which usages Openstreet Map.
- Few maps tiles saved from Google Map
- Kiwix installed on my Android and Offline schoolpedia zim file copied to sdcard.
The offline wikipedia is new thing on my list. I have recently come to know about the zim file(file format to store wikipedia content for offline use) and the zim reader avaliable. The kiwix.org have published app for android and for all other major platforms. I picked the android version and to test this app i picked zim file of offline wikipedia(because it is smaller than offline wikipedia(2.1G vs 9.7G). From my initial testing it works well on my android(Samsung Grand 2) with 1.5G of RAM and Quad Core 1.2 GHz processor.
The search feature and the link everything works well and i have noticed no performance lag while accessing the content. The search is also incredibly fast.Ok i will be testing it further on.
Beside that i will have few games installed on phone and mainly i have lots of new knowledge to be learned by talking with the locals. We need to walk for around 4/5 hours and hence we will be tried too. Hence i know that there would be very less time to explore those material too.