BookWyrm

A BookWyrm client for Android.

AppID:	nl.privacydragon.bookwyrm
Author:	Privacy_Dragon
License:	BSD-3-Clause
Donation:
InRepoSince:	2022-03-11
LastRepoUpdate:	2025-03-09
LastAppUpdate:	2025-01-23
LastVersion:	1.3.8
Categories:	Reading
APK source:	Github
Google Play:	Check if it's there

This is an Android client for BookWyrm – a federated social network for tracking your reading, talking about books, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next. It is just BookWyrm put into a webview element, nothing special – but it adds some convenience on top:

bookwyrm links can be made to open with the app (e.g. clicking on the link to someone's userprofile will open that from your own bookwyrm instance)
thanks to that, you can immediately follow them easily if you want.
it lets you easily return to your own home timeline when viewing something like posts, on another bookwyrm instance, because the 'back' button is then modified for that.
You can also search for books by scanning the ISBN, no matter what instance of Bookwyrm you use.

This application is not an official client! (An official client does not exist yet, as far as I know)

The ISBN scanning feature is created with the zxing-android-embedded library.

WhatsNew:

Fixing what turned out not to work for unreleased version 1.3.7:
* Significant log-in improvements, including better security.
Further changes:
* The app now uses a custom User-Agent string.
* Two new dependencies have been added: okhttp3, and conscrypt.

Anti-Features:

NonFreeNet: This application promotes or entirely depends a non-Free network service.

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While you can download the APKs here directly, you should preferably use an F-Droid client so the app stays up-to-date on your device. Some clients have this repo enabled by default, e.g. Neo Store, Droid-ify, or, of course, the IzzyOnDroid client by Sunil. With others (like the official client) you'll have to add this repo manually (see the hint on top of the package list for how to do that).

Packages

Version 1.3.8 (2025-03-09)

Android Versions:

Target: 14.0
MinVer: 6.0
ABIs: arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64

Permissions:

Features:

Malware-Check:Passed

34 Libraries detected:

Libraries:

Android Support v4 (Development Framework)
The Android Support Library is not actually a single library, but rather a collection of libraries that can roughly be divided into two groups: compatibility and component libraries. For details, please see Understanding the Android Support Library.
AndroidX Activity (Utility)
provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
Android Jetpack Annotations (Utility)
library that contains the annotations for Android Jetpack.
Arch (Utility)
helper for other arch dependencies, including JUnit test rules that can be used with LiveData.
AppCompat (Utility)
support newer Android features on older Android versions.
Android Support Library collections (Utility)
standalone efficient collections.
Concurrent (Utility)
AndroidX library to help move tasks off the main thread with coroutines and take advantage of ListenableFuture.
Constraint Layout Library (Utility)
library to reduce the number of nested views needed.
Androidx Core (Utility)
a static library that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that are either not available for older platform versions or utility APIs that aren't a part of the framework APIs.
AndroidX Cursor Adapter (Utility)
static library support version of the framework's CursorAdapter.
Android Support Library Custom View (UI Component)
a module to implement custom views. Part of the Android Support Library.
Drawerlayout (UI Component)
AndroidX library to implement a Material Design drawer widget.
Android Emoji2 Compat (UI Component)
core library to enable emoji compatibility in Kitkat and newer devices to avoid the empty emoji characters.
AndroidX Fragment (UI Component)
AndroidX library to encapsulate part of the user interface or behavior into reusable components.
Interpolator (UI Component)
AndroidX library to use animation interpolators on older platforms.
Lifecycle (Utility)
perform actions in response to a change in the lifecycle status of another component, such as activities and fragments.
Loader (Utility)
library to load data for your UI that survives configuration changes.
ProfileInstaller (Utility)
AndroidX library that enables libraries to prepopulate ahead of time compilation traces to be read by ART.
ResourceInspection (Development Aid)
AndroidX library to surface the attributes of custom views in Android Studio’s Live Layout Inspector.
Android Activity Saved State (Utility)
provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
Startup (Utility)
AndroidX library to implement a straightforward, performant way to initialize components at app startup.
Tracing (Utility)
AndroidX library to write trace events to the system trace buffer.
Vectordrawable (UI Component)
AndroidX library to render vector graphics.
Android Jetpack VersionedParcelable (Utility)
Provides a stable but relatively compact binary serialization format that can be passed across processes or persisted safely.
Viewpager (UI Component)
AndroidX library to display Views or Fragments in a swipeable format.
Google Core Libraries for Java 6+ (Utility)
a set of core libraries that includes new collection types (such as multimap and multiset), immutable collections, a graph library, functional types, an in-memory cache, and APIs/utilities for concurrency, I/O, hashing, primitives, reflection, string processing, and much more.
ZXing ('Zebra Crossing') (Utility)
ZXing („zebra crossing“) is an open-source, multi-format 1D/2D barcode image processing library.
ZXing Android Embedded (Utility)
Barcode scanning library for Android, using ZXing for decoding.
OkHttp (Utility)
OkHttp is an HTTP+HTTP/2 client for Android and Java applications.
Kotlin (Utility)
The Kotlin Programming Language
kotlinx.coroutines (Utility)
library support for Kotlin coroutines.
OkHttp okio Framework (Utility)
A modern I/O API for Java to make it much easier to access, store, and process your data.
Conscrypt (Utility)
a Java Security Provider (JSP) that implements parts of the Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) and Java Secure Socket Extension (JSSE). It uses BoringSSL to provide cryptographic primitives and Transport Layer Security (TLS) for Java applications on Android and OpenJDK.
IntelliJ IDEA (Utility)
development helper: integration for the IntelliJ IDEA IDE.

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