[jsword-devel] Android bible

[Troy A. Griffitts]

On 07/02/2010 12:10 PM, Martin Denham wrote:
> Okay Troy.  I never thought of that.  Is it okay for the Android bible
> app to download it directly from the CrossWire site in the manner that
> BibleDesktop does?

Yes.  It should be evident to the user that they are retrieving the text
from the CrossWire server, to avoid more complaints from GNP who might
think it is being bundled or downloaded from another place.  My
apologies for this, but we've been on the edge of having the text
pulled.  Thank you.

Troy





> Martin
>
> On 2 July 2010 19:31, Troy A. Griffitts <scribe at crosswire.org
> <mailto:scribe at crosswire.org>> wrote:
>
>     Martin,
>
>     I'm excited about your work!
>
>     However, please remove the ESV from your download file via
>     Google.  We have often received complaints from GNP about
>     redistribution of our ESV data.  The ESV is not a freely
>     redistributable text.
>
>     Thanks, and I'm looking forward to trying out your prototype!
>
>     Troy
>
>
>     On 07/02/2010 04:10 AM, Martin Denham wrote:
>>     Hi,
>>
>>     I have built a working prototype of a bible for Android mobile
>>     phones.  The prototype uses a slightly modified JSword back-end.
>>      You can download the prototype
>>     from http://code.google.com/p/and-bible/downloads/list.  You need
>>     to manually copy the contents of SdcardBibles.zip to your
>>     Android's sdcard prior to installing AndBible.apk
>>
>>     You can 
>>
>>        1. view a chapter at a time in bible page format
>>        2. select a book: ESV bible, WEB bible, Hebrew bible, JFB
>>           commentary, Barnes commentary by pressing a tool-bar button
>>        3. select a bible book chapter by pressing a tool-bar button
>>        4. swipe left for next chapter or right for previous
>>        5. search for words in the current book - press search button
>>        6. click a search result to go to the appropriate chapter
>>
>>     Testing has been done on Android 1.6, 2.1, and 2.2.  On a G1
>>     performance is okay but there are some pauses.  If the chapter is
>>     big e.g. Ps 119 and most commentary pages there may be a long
>>     pause.  I am planning some performance analysis.
>>
>>     *JSword*
>>     Android 2.2 has excellent support for JSword but unfortunately
>>     java.xml.transform.* was only introduced in version 2.2 so I had
>>     to switch from xslt to sax for html creation for the screen.
>>      Earlier Android releases also appear to have issues with dynamic
>>     class loading so I had to make some changes to JSword source for
>>     this prototype build.  I also made a memory optimisation.
>>
>>     Best regards
>>     Martin
>>
>>
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