There was a Chennai Unofficial Wikimedia Hackathon[1] that happened a few days ago in Chennai. One of the projects that one of the volunteers took on was getting qvido[2] (a super light weight offline zim reader built for embedded devices) to build and run properly. He managed to do so, and the code (along with build instructions) can be found here:
https://github.com/feroze/qvidoSuggestions on taking this further? I'm cc'ing the awesome volunteer (feroze) involved in the hack.