diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 8b9f1f4..b9d57f8 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,35 +1,42 @@ # Stellarium-android -A version of Stellarium for android +A modded version of Stellarium-Mobile -Original readme document has been renamed to README - -Original source code: http://stelladata.noctua-software.com/stellarium-mobile/stellarium-mobile-1.24.tar.gz -(This link is dead now...) +Stellarium kernel version 0.12.3 +Mobile platform specific source code http://stelladata.noctua-software.com/stellarium-mobile/stellarium-mobile-1.29.tar.gz Assets from https://code.launchpad.net/stellarium/ +Note that changes have been made to the source code and assets (mainly use uncompressed PC version assets instead of compressed ones) Copyright: Original Stellarium dev team +## Features +* Extend default star catalog limiting magnitude to 13.5 +* Allow custom configuration files and catalogs (Put them in ```/sdcard/stellarium```. Same file structure to ```mobileData/data```) +* Tweak UI size for better handling on mobile +* Correct for magnetic declination angle (Magnetic North is not real North) +* Higher quality texture compared to official Stellarium-Mobile + ## Prerequisites -Qt-for-android (preferably qt 5.6 or higher) +* Qt-for-android (Known to work on qt-5.11 and 5.12) -Since qt does not provide a redistributable version of qt-for-android, you -may have to build it for yourself. The building procedure is already -detaily documented in the document of qt. Please refer to qt.io for info. +Please note that for version ealier than 5.10, API for permission models for Android 6.0+ were not correctly implemented in Qt. +Notably, Qt did not provide any API for requesting ```read/write to external storage``` permission. This permission is essential +to the application. -Python PIL +## Building APK +Set up android SDK and NDK, and environment in QtCreator. +Open ```stellarium.pro``` in QtCreator. +Push the Build button. -If you want to create low-resolution resources, please run -create-mobile-data.sh. It will call PIL so you might want to have it installed -firsthand. +If the building process runs into problems while compiling ```dummy.cpp```, simply copy the file to build directory and rename it ```moc_predefs.h```. -## Installation -The original INSTALL file nearly states nothing useful, but some links are -still provided within that document. Simply download and build. I have -included all assets in this respository as I might modify them in the -future. +## Localization guide +TODO ## Change Log +### April 3, 2019 +Update to mobile source code to 1.29.6 +Clean up unused files ### June 21, 2018 Android 8.0 support Runtime permission request