[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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