[mobile-devel] Android bible
David Forslund
forslund at mail.com
Tue Jul 6 21:10:39 MST 2010
I think the more specific question is when do you think the code (of
some type) be in the svn repository?
Thanks,
Dave
On 7/6/2010 6:37 PM, SonWon wrote:
> Martin,
>
> You wrote, "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!!!"
>
> When could I get a copy of this version to test?
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:37 AM, David Forslund <forslund at mail.com
> <mailto:forslund at mail.com>> wrote:
>
> 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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