/Boomega

A modern book explorer/catalog application written in Kotlin and Java.

Primary LanguageKotlinGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

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An advanced book explorer/catalog application written in Java and Kotlin.

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✨ Features

  • Cross-platform
  • Dark/Light theme, modern UI
  • Multiple UI languages
  • Flexible to support multiple Database Management Systems (e.g MySql)
  • Exporting to several formats like Excel Spreadsheets, JSON, etc...
  • Custom notes with Markdown support
  • Google Books synchronization
  • Customizable key-bindings
  • Plugin support
  • ...and more!

📄 Documentation

⬇️ Download

Platform Downloads Version GitHub Release Date

Note: If you want to try the latest version, you should build the project yourself!

Windows

(64-bit)

Linux

(64-bit)

MacOS

(64-bit)

Help wanted

Java archive (.jar)

⌨️ Source code

Java version Kotlin version Top language Gradle Gui GitHub repo size

  • The repo has two important branches:
    • master - usually for permanent versions
    • dev - for developing the app further
  • The code is written in Java and Kotlin mixed.
  • The GUI toolkit used is JavaFX
  • The app targets Java 17 but the project is unmodularized
  • The build tool used is Gradle
  • Want to contribute? See the contribution guideline.

🔨 Build

The recommended IDE for building this project is IntelliJ Idea.

Build requirements

Build manually (without using an IDE)

If you want to run the project, simply use gradlew run.
To build a fat jar, use gradlew shadowJar.
To build executable binaries, use gradlew jpackage (see distribution guideline)

🏋️ Acknowledgements

All acknowledgements (e.g. third-party libraries) are listed in this document.

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📄 License

This software is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.