[mobile-devel] New build of and-bible available

[Martin Denham]

Thanks Nic & Jason,

The screenshots are very helpful and give us more ideas.  Are there any more
screen shots of other screens in Pocket Sword anywhere?

Pocket Sword looks very polished, maybe and-bible will get there one day!
 Apologies for hogging mobile-devel.

Best regards
Martin

On 7 October 2010 05:32, Nic Carter <niccarter at mac.com> wrote:

>
> Hi guys,
> I have just joined this mailing list, but I'm not sure if I'll stay on it
> long? If it's basically Android Dev, I'll probably just lurk and not have
> much to say. But, good to see that Jason has some screenshots. I just wanted
> to elaborate on what the reference selector screens do:
> if you tap on the "disclosure" icon next to a book name or a chapter
> number, it will jump straight to ch 1, v1 of that chapter OR straight to v1
> of that chapter. The idea is that you can very quickly jump to the start of
> a book if you want, or start of a chapter, or to a specific verse, depending
> on how many taps you want to use... :) the list down the right side of the
> screens is a way to jump to a point in the list, so you don't have to scroll
> down lots to find a certain  book/chapter.
>
> I have code for the iPhone to create grids of buttons for book names &
> chapter numbers, etc, but even tho that's what i was used to from PalmBible+
> days, I decided it was a bad UI design for a touch screen display and that
> the iOS provided better ways of doing this. :) However, Olive Tree and other
> apps use the grid method of navigating, so I'm not saying you shouldn't go
> that route - it's just that I decided (after implementing it both ways) that
> the current method was better for the iPhone... :)
>
> I'm currently laptop-less & hence not doing any Dev for the next few weeks,
> so I may not be responding to emails for the next little while, but I'm
> happy to answer any questions if I have time :)
>
> Thanks, ybic
> Nic... :)
>
> On 07/10/2010, at 9:57, Jason Crowsen <jasoncrowsen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Here are some screenshots of PocketSword:
>  <http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/6186891/1/PocketSword%20Screens?h=9cdd28>
> http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/6186891/1/PocketSword%20Screens?h=9cdd28
>
> Jason
>
>
> On 7 October 2010 05:23, Martin Denham < <mjdenham at gmail.com>
> mjdenham at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Okay guys, I'll look at navigation again and probably experiment with a
>> grid again but it won't be soon because there is lots of missing
>> functionality I plan to work on first.  The current grouping was intended to
>> address the problem of having a very long list to scroll to reach some
>> books.  The whole app is a work-in-progress.
>>
>> I did look at a grid in the early days of development but I couldn't make
>> it presentable and usable enough to publish so I fell back to a simple
>> list.  There is also the issue of consistency between screens and also with
>> 66 buttons on 1 screen it is tricky to make the buttons easy to hit
>> accurately.  If anybody has some nice code they would like to contribute...
>>
>> If there are some screen prints of Pocket Sword on the iphone it would be
>> nice to look.  I haven't got any chrisian mates with an iphone.
>>
>> On another note I am toying with the idea of renaming from 'And Bible'
>> to 'Handy Bible'.  Any thoughts.
>>
>> Regards
>> Martin
>> On 6 October 2010 13:02, Lars Tore Gustavsen < <lars.tore at mulebakken.net>
>> lars.tore at mulebakken.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Brian J. Dumont <<bdumont at ameritech.net>
>>> bdumont at ameritech.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> > While I really do want to thank everyone for all of the work done on
>>> > And-Bible, I have to agree with this review of the new navigation
>>> system.
>>> >
>>> > I sometimes have to break my train of thought to figure out where a
>>> book
>>> > is classified (is Lamentations in Poetry or Major Prophets?).  This
>>> > could be a much bigger stumbling block for someone with little
>>> knowledge
>>> > of the Bible.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks,
>>> > Brian
>>> >
>>>
>>> Hallo
>>> I'm also agree with this. And as David said, a grid would be a nice
>>> solution.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Lars Tore
>>>
>>>
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