[jsword-devel] Announcing MinimalBible - Bible app for Android on JSword

[DM Smith]

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> On Feb 6, 2015, at 1:51 PM, Chris Burrell <chris at burrell.me.uk> wrote:
> 
> This is what I do:
> 
>     @Override
>     public void index(final String initials) {
>         final IndexManager indexManager = IndexManagerFactory.getIndexManager();
>         final Book book = this.versificationService.getBookFromVersion(initials);
>         if (!indexManager.isIndexed(book)) {
>             indexManager.scheduleIndexCreation(book);
>         }
>     }
> 
> On 6 February 2015 at 00:11, Bradlee Speice <bspeice.nc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Awesome. First question: Am I doing something wrong searching?
> After downloading a Bible, I go through the following code to search:
> 
> IndexManager manager = IndexManagerFactory.getIndexManager(); manager.setIndexPolicy(new IndexPolicyAdapter()); manager.scheduleIndexCreation(downloadedBook);
> 
> // Code runs, downloadedBook.getIndexStatus() is DONE
> String searchText = SearchType.ANY_WORDS.decorate(text);
> Key results = downloadedBook.find(searchText);
> 
> // And results.getCardinality() is 0, meaning no results.
> This might not be enough information, if so, let me know, but I never get any search results back. I tried to closely imitate And-bible, but can’t seem to get anything.
> 
> Anyway, if you have ideas, let me know! In the mean time, thank you for the warm reception!
> 
> -Bradlee Speice
> 
> On 02/05/2015 06:23 PM, Chris Burrell wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> Sure fire away!
>> 
>> You should link in with Martin D as well as he has lots of experience with android and jsword.
>> 
>> Also so you know step (www.stepbible.org) will be releasing an app at some point too.
>> 
>> Chris
>> 
>> On 5 February 2015 at 22:56, Bradlee Speice <bspeice.nc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello all!
>> First of all, thank you so much for your work building the JSword backend. Having something like this that is open-source is a huge win for developers and people all over the world.
>> 
>> That said, the past couple of months I’ve been working on a new Bible app. I wasn’t satisfied with the experience using any of the software available for Android, and so designed an app myself. It’s certainly not feature-complete, but I wanted to at least let you know it was in existence, and see if there would be any interest in helping with its development.
>> 
>> The app is called MinimalBible (very creative, I know), and is being developed on Github over here. Additionally, I’ve been keeping a blog of my development experience here as well. It’s not publicly available on the Play store yet, but I do have alpha testing in progress through the Play store with a few friends.
>> 
>> MinimalBible is designed to be focused on an experience as close to reading an actual Bible as possible. I don’t plan to use reading plans, videos, sharing features, but want an app that starts quickly and helps me focus on the actual content. Additionally, the app has been designed to be Material-compliant for Android 5.0, uses the latest SDK, but supports all the way back to SDK v8. Development is done using the new Android studio, and I have a toolchain set up for automated builds and code coverage.
>> 
>> Again, thank you for all your work building the JSword foundation so developers like me can re-use the work. It’s greatly appreciated. Would you guys also be willing to help answer some questions on JSword? I'm having issues with searching right now.
>> Have a great day!
>> 
>> -Bradlee Speice