[mobile-devel] mobile-devel Digest, Vol 15, Issue 17

[scott.bouma at gmail.com]

Hi Dirk, 

I've been following the development of Martin's Android Bible over the past few weeks as well so I might as well chime in too.  I'm currently working on a very similar project for BlackBerry based on the GoBible project that you mentioned.  it's basically GoBible with support for touch screens as well as the ability to download Bible translations from within the app rather than needing to build a new version of the app for each different translation.  Is this something that you might be interested in as well, or are blackberries not a big segment of the market where you are?

Anyway, if you or anyone else is interested in doing a bit of beta testing, I think I'm getting close to that point.  It should work on most blackberries. 

Keep up the good work Martin, it sounds like you're making good progress.  

Regards,

Scott 

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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:02:39 -0600
From: "Dirk Kaiser" <dkaiser at pactec.kz>
To: <mobile-devel at crosswire.org>
Subject: Re: [mobile-devel] Questions related to Android bible
	development
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Hi Martin,

I've been following your work over the last few weeks and wanted to chime in
with my opinion.  I work for a missions organization in Central Asia to give
you perspective on who I am.  In our part of the world, persecution is the
norm for believers.  Past projects of min included creating GoBible versions
of the bible that can be hidden on a phone when examined by the secret
police or Muslim family members.  It has been really successful and
beneficial to the believers there.  So, my comments below are in line with
my previous intentions to do the same sort of thing with an Android bible.  

Since you have started working on a project already, I would love to join in
with you to work on those aspects of the program where I could add in those
types of security layers necessary in my part of the world, work on helping
to create a translatable interface, and of course testing.  I'm real busy
right now, but would hope to help out in a few months.

I really don't have much to add about the license other than I've always
used the Apache 2 license which lets anyone do anything with the code.

As far as the app name goes, I would strongly urge you to NOT use something
with the term 'bible' in it.  That term is offensive to many parts of the
Muslim world and obviously would make it difficult to hide the fact that you
have a bible on your cell phone if the word bible was there.  Can I suggest
the use of 'scripture' instead which actually is a very appealing term for
Muslims?

Looking forward to when you release the source on SVN so I can help out.

- Dirk




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