[mobile-devel] Android bible
David Forslund
forslund at mail.com
Sat Jul 10 09:28:55 MST 2010
If you check your code into the Google code
repository, those of us with development
environments could monitor what you are doing and
provide suggestions before you do another full
build. Of course, you may not want to deal with
all the "noise" that it would generate.
Thanks for your efforts,
Dave
On 7/7/2010 1:20 AM, Martin Denham wrote:
> Hi SonWon,
>
> I don't want to frustrate people by putting up a
> lot of builds which are only half finished so I
> am not doing very frequent builds. I would like
> to address many of the issues before making
> another build available.
>
> I am hoping to do another build in a couple of
> weeks.
>
> Thanks for your continued input and
> encouragement everybody. It is much appreciated.
>
> Best regards
> Martin
>
>
> On 7 July 2010 01:37, SonWon <sonwon.1 at gmail.com
> <mailto:sonwon.1 at gmail.com>> 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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