The format of books that Android supports (tablet, smartphone, etc.) is determined by the applications installed on the device with this operating system. Nevertheless, there are the most common formats of electronic publications, which, in fact, are focused on application developers.
In this article, we will consider what format of books supports “Android 4” and other versions of this OS, how these formats are characterized, and in which of them it is preferable to download literary works on the device.
Fb2
FB stands for FictionBook. This is one of the most popular e-book formats. In honor of him, the reader on Android is even named - FBReader - which, in addition to the above, opens other files.
Text with the extension .fb2 is formatted using XML markup, that is, it is described by tags. This is what ensures the format compatibility with various devices, and also assumes the ease of creating, transferring and storing books. No wonder he is so popular among users.
In addition to the specified reader .fb2 also without any problems opens Cool Reader, Monn + Reader, ALReader.
EPUB
The format of Electronic Publication is actively promoted by Adobe, and very successfully. It is an archived publication data file created on the basis of XML markup, the text of the book itself (HTML tags or PDF). All additional materials, such as illustrations, formulas and tables, are also stored in separate files. In this way, similar publications are provided on completely different devices. Android, of course, is among them.
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RTF
Literally, you can translate the meaning of this format as "rich text." On Windows, it opens using WordPad and regular office Word. The same analogues of programs can be used on Android. However, prudent developers take rtf into account when creating programs, allowing them to open it.RTF is the next step after TXT using simple meta tagging. Most word processors support importing into it.
On Android, this format is opened by CoolReader (users note that the application does not do this correctly), Foliant, NOOK for Android.
Finally
As you can see, essentially, the question of which format of books Android supports, can be safely answered "any common". There are countless readers for this operating system, a certain number are released from time to time, and proven products have update support to open up more and more diverse formats.