[mobile-devel] Android bible
David Forslund
forslund at mail.com
Mon Jul 5 22:37:49 MST 2010
Some more observations:
- It doesn't seem to remember what version or book and chapter were
displayed the last time the program was run. It always seems to start
with BBE at Genesis 1.
- If I select a book of the Bible but cancel the selection by hitting
the back arrow instead of selecting a chapter, it goes ahead to that
book instead of going back to the book selection.
I know this is a work in progress, so I'm not complaining, just
observing in case you weren't aware.
Thanks,
Dave
On 7/5/2010 1:38 PM, Martin Denham wrote:
> Thanks SonWon, That is useful input and thanks for encouragement.
>
> 1. I used Pocket e-sword for years and tabs for bible/commentary etc
> is the approach Pocket e-sword used but it uses a whole row and I
> found I normally just used 2 tabs (bible & commentary) so I was
> planning to initially have a bible/commentary button on the main menu
> bar (as you suggest at the end of point 1).
> 2. I have already switched to using a standard menu on my own local
> build after playing with Troy's Bishop. I have only just got an
> Android phone and never pressed the Menu button!!!
> 3. I am not sure how to best fit book/chapter nav on one screen. I
> initially tried and failed to copy Pocket e-sword's nav, but list
> items are so big on the Android I have thought of putting the books
> into a grid, but then that still leaves up to 150 chapters. All ideas
> appreciated. I am currently thinking of 2 tabs - tab 1 containing a
> grid of books and tab 2 a list of chapters. Alternatively I could
> have 3 tabs Document/BibleBook/BibleChapter. That would also remove
> the Document button from the menu.
>
> Did you realise you can drop other books from the CrossWire site into
> the appropriate place under the jsword dir on the sdcard and after
> restarting AndBible you can view them.
>
> I need to select verses to enable display of the correct commentary
> verse associated with the currently viewed bible passage and I was
> considering auto verse calculation based on the current distance
> scrolled down the ScrollView - that is something I can play around with.
>
> Last weekend I managed to increase speed considerably by bypassing
> some slow DOM creation code - now I just need to work around a couple
> of bugs but most docs/chapters display fine.
>
> I am hoping my youngest daughter will create a splash screen for the
> app to distract users from the slowish start up time. Also new name
> "and-the-word" instead of "AndBible". What do you think? It
> obviously comes from John chapter 1. I thought AndBible was a bit
> obvious.
>
> Best Regards
> Martin
>
> On 5 July 2010 19:13, SonWon <sonwon.1 at gmail.com
> <mailto:sonwon.1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Got it, when I unzipped SdcardBibles it placed the jsword in a
> SdcardBibles folder. I moved jsword to root of the sdcard and all
> is well.
>
> Thank you very much. This is a very good start!
>
> My first suggestion is to place tabs across the bottom to easily
> switch between text, like Bible, commentary, dictionary, and etc..
> Maybe this could be done with the menu button?
>
> Second suggestion, move the navigation buttons into a
> menu assessable from the menu button. This will free up space for
> the text.
>
> Third suggestion, make the navigation to a new book, chapter, and
> verse a table that fits all on one screen so the user doesn't have
> to scroll. I have a lot more suggestions to make about this area.
>
> Thanks again!
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Martin Denham <mjdenham at gmail.com
> <mailto:mjdenham at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi SonWon,
>
> Sorry you had problems. Error handling in the app needs to be
> greatly improved on. Did you unzip SdcardBibles.zip to your
> mobile's sd card and have you now got a directory named jsword
> in the root of your sdcard?
>
> To uninstall the application you can go to
> Settings/Applications/Manage applications/Bible/Uninstall.
>
> Kind regards
> Martin
>
>
> On 5 July 2010 14:27, SonWon <sonwon.1 at gmail.com
> <mailto:sonwon.1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi Martin,
>
> Bad news, I am unable to run the application. I get a
> forced closed error? I am using Android version
> 2.1-update1 on a Sprint EVO.
>
> Let me know if there is anything I can do to help solve
> this problem.
>
> Also, how do I uninstall the application?
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Caleb Maclennan
> <caleb at alerque.com <mailto:caleb at alerque.com>> wrote:
>
> 2010/7/2 Martin Denham <mjdenham at gmail.com
> <mailto:mjdenham at gmail.com>>:
> > 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.
>
> Martin,
>
> Excellent work, this looks great for a prototype! Keep
> it up.
>
> I will be following progress closely and perhaps
> participating at some point.
>
> Caleb
>
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