[jsword-devel] jsword on android

[DM Smith]

Joe,

Hey, it's good to hear from you again!

Troy has started work on a JNI wrapper for SWORD C++.

I'd love to see JSword on a mobile phone. In the past mobile Java has 
been to limiting (e.g. not property files) and it would have been a 
major pain to re-write JSword to it. Hopefully things have changed.

Regarding annotations, JSword does not use any other than @deprecated, 
@since, ... and the standard, been there for a long time Java 
annotations. (Specifically, it does not use those from Java 1.5.) If 
these are a roadblock, they can certainly be removed.

Regarding Lucene, it has moved to Java 1.5 with the 3.0 release. We are 
still in the 2.x series.

I'll hold off on any Java 1.5 move until someone can provide some 
clarity on its impact on using JSword on Android.

In Him,
DM


On 04/20/2010 10:44 AM, Joe Walker wrote:
>
> I have no idea about the annotation issues, so I'll take your word for it.
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>
> Joe.
>
> On 20/04/2010 15:33, Wes Widner wrote:
>> Hey Joe,
>>
>> Thanks for getting back with me on this. I also recently got an 
>> Android phone and while there are a few good Bible apps for it 
>> already I highly respect and admire the Sword family of apps and I 
>> would love to see it supported natively.
>>
>> I also have a niche application I want to try and build (flashcards 
>> for Greek vocab using the Strongs dictionary).
>>
>> At any rate, I have done a lot more digging since my email to you and 
>> it seems that jsword as it stands contains several annotations that 
>> cause the dex compiler in android's sdk to choke. Lucene also 
>> contains the same sort of annotation issues. These annotation issues 
>> are known by the android core team and they are working on a 
>> work-around, but no word yet on when it will be released.
>>
>> In the meantime I've started working with the android native 
>> development kit using the early work on a project known as 'bishop 
>> <http://www.mail-archive.com/sword-devel@crosswire.org/msg20790.html>' which 
>> is a JNI wrapper to the C-based sword api.
>>
>> So far it compiles and allows for some rudimentary working with the 
>> modules.
>>
>> While there are some good performance reasons to use JNI, I would 
>> still love to see a pure java solution and would therefore love to 
>> help with a jsword fork in any way I can.
>>
>> What do I need to do to subscribe to the jsword-devel list?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Wes
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Joe Walker <joe at eireneh.com 
>> <mailto:joe at eireneh.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 15/04/2010 20:47, Wes Widner wrote:
>>
>>         Hey Joe,
>>
>>         I've been poking through the jsword source in hopes of
>>         trimming it down somewhat in order to use it in an android
>>         application I am writing. I have two questions I'd like to
>>         see if you could help me with:
>>
>>         1. Have you worked with jsword in relation to the android sdk
>>         (or the dalvik jvm) any?
>>
>>     I haven't, however I have just got an android phone, so I've been
>>     itching to have a go.
>>
>>
>>         2. Is there a way to pare down the jsword code to a minimal
>>         set required to load local sword modules (instead of
>>         attempting to auto-download them) and read/search through
>>         them (lucene has issues at the moment being run under the
>>         android sdk)?
>>
>>     There used to be 2 implementations of the search interfaces,
>>     although I suspect that we've junked the pre-lucene one by now.
>>     It should be trivial to create a stub implementation (so long as
>>     you don't want the ability to search ;-)
>>
>>     I'm CCing jsword-devel at crosswire.org
>>     <mailto:jsword-devel at crosswire.org> which is where this
>>     conversation should probably take place.
>>
>>     Joe.
>>
>>
>
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