[mobile-devel] Thoughts re dictionaries integration in And Bible

[SonWon]

Martin, thank you for all your work.  If my reply are not clear please do
ask questions, replies in red below,

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Martin Denham <mjdenham at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have started looking into the implementation of Dictionaries and I have
> various thoughts regarding the design but I thought that while I am still in
> the early stages I would ask if anybody has any particular ideas in this
> area.  I have a few questions.
>
> 1. Do you use Strongs Greek or Hebrew dictionary on your mobile phone? *
> YES*
> Personally I know minimal Greek and Hebrew and would rarely use Strongs.
>  Do people analyse Greek and Hebrew definitions on their mobile using
> Strongs?
>  *YES*
>   I am just trying to see what the requirement is for this before going
> ahead.  I suspect theological students would all say yes but most people who
> love to read their bible can't read Greek or Hebrew.
> It would be interesting to get Crosswire module download stats for the
> different books, epecially Strongs.  Does anybody know if that is possible?
>
> 2. Do you use general dictionaries on your mobile phone?
>  *YES*
> I have often used ISBE in the past but no others.
>
> 3. Design of Strongs integration in And Bible.
> 3.a I was initially planning to add Strongs numbers in pressable links like
> most s/w that would take you to a page showing the strongs detail for the
> ref pressed.  *Rather than a page I would prefer split screen so I could
> view the Bible text and the other text at the same time.  Give me a text box
> to enter the item into and volia up pops the text in the 2nd half od the
> screen.  Also include presets for the dictionary, Strong's, etc.  Oh, and a
> button that brings up a popup window that allows for easy changing to
> another text.*
> 3.b Another alternative might be to do something similar to the Notes
> functionality where all the Strongs numbers in a verse are looked up and
> displayed in a long list.  *Long list are bad :)*  Either the Strongs
> detail could be pre-loaded with the numbers or clicking a list item would
> take you to the detail.  The advantage of this is that often it is difficult
> to hit exactly the correct link in a web page and this completely avoid
> small links in between words.  Android and iPhone don't have a stylus and so
> press accuracy is severely diminished.
> 3.c A modification might be NOT to display Strongs numbers in the page
> thereby avoiding page clutter but either to use letters (like Notes and
> x-refs) or to use different colours for words.  The number would be
> displayed after navigation to the Strongs ref.
>
> 3. Design of general Dictionary integration in And Bible.
> This seems less problematic.  If you select a module that is a dictionary
> you show some sort of navigation screen and then show the page selected.  An
> alternative would be to go to the last page viewed and allow change by
> opening a navigation page but I think most people will view an entry once.
> For navigation I am thinking of an expandable tree with a-z at the first
> level and words at the second but I need to analyse dictionary keys to check
> that is possible.
>
> Any screen prints from Pocket sword would be great.
>
> All thoughts or ideas are welcome.  In the end I am often driven by
> implementation issues especially with such small devices as mobile phones,
> and the result of experimentation, and change the design several times but I
> thought I would at least ask peoples thoughts on the above before I plough
> ahead.
>
> Best regards
> Martin
>
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