Please, help.

I have a .epub file. How can I render it in a React native expo project. And if you know how to render an epub file with media overlay.

expo version: 43.0.2 react-native: 0.64.3

Any help is appreciated.

CodePudding user response：

There's no ready-made solution for rendering ebup file in the Expo app.

There are many services that offer API to convert EPUB TO PDF.

after converting to PDF, you can use react-native-pdf.This is native module linking. You will need to use an expo custom client which support adding your custom library.

CodePudding user response：

An ePub is simply xhtmlX thus in theory the contents should be renderable in any browser when unpacked.

Unfortunatly ePub have not capitalised on that simplicity, by not insisting on a sidebar of contents like in a PDF, (one very simple step)

You can extract the pages/chapters and serve them by adding your own Iframe built from the ToC as sidebar for navigation.

I don't have an example to hand on this device but chapter 2 of Homerus should look like this in the page body.

and here are the two files that either could have been easily adapted to a htmlx navbar