[mobile-devel] Thoughts regarding future And Bible enhancements

[Martin Denham]

Hi Guan,

That is great news about the Chinese search.  You are doing a terrific job.
Tell us when you think it is ready to push into svn.

Regarding the actual Chinese search index creation, I don't think we will
need to create them on the mobile.  We can create them offline on a pc,
upload them to Crosswire, and download on request from the user's mobile.
That is what we do with the other indexes and I think it works a lot better
because creating indexes requires a lot of ram and takes a long time on a
mobile.

Did you find the Lucene index config file in JSword that specifies the
Analyzer used for each language?

Martin

On 4 February 2011 16:01, Guan YC <yc.guan at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi,
> great plan.
>
> 2011/1/30 Martin Denham <mjdenham at gmail.com>
>
> I have started thinking about the next enhancements to And Bible and would
>> like to give people a chance to comment.  The items in the first list I have
>> been thinking about and am probably ready to implement.  Please comment if
>> you have any thoughts or opinions regarding implementation or regarding
>> items you would like to see or not see in And Bible.  Items in the second
>> list I would like to implement but am not yet ready.  Items in the last list
>> I have no plans yet to implement.  People seem to like the recently added
>> grid navigation and that was pushed through because of comments from this
>> group:
>>
>> *Possibly Next Release*
>>
>> *Speech
>> *
>> *I have spent too long thinking about how best to do this.*
>> Aim: Allow multiple sequential or diverse chapters to be queued for
>> speech.
>>  Alternative 1: Simple enhancement so that if Speech button is pressed on
>> a chapter not being spoken the chapter is added to the speech for queue.  If
>> Speech is pressed on a chapter just requested to be spoken then all speech
>> is aborted.
>> Possibility to allow fewer presses by moving the Speech button to the
>> first screen of menu buttons but which button to remove and how to know if
>> user can/does use Speech.
>> Alternative 2: Show Speech Dialog when Speech button is pressed but this
>> would involve a lot more button presses.
>> Alternative 3: Add stateful Speak button beside Quick Link buttons (at
>> top) in Portrait mode (more room) if selected in Settings.  The Speak/Silent
>> button would switch between the several states Speak, 2 Chapters, 4
>> Chapters, Book, Silent.
>> My vote: I prefer Alternative 3 or possibly Alternative 1 because I feel a
>> dialog just to add a chapter is overkill and could frustrate users.
>>
>   +1
>
>
>> *Remove Create Index Button*
>> Does anybody use it?
>>
>     -1, the chinese analyzer may need this button
>
>>
>>
>> *Small Changes*
>> More wait cursors e.g. when searching.
>> Formatting of text needs more consistency and tidying.
>> Splash screen needs better layout.
>> Large screen Tablets can't scroll to last verse.
>> Nav to Verse or Chapter Setting to optionally 3rd level to Navigation
>>
>   +1
>
>>
>> *Later Release*
>> These are things I would like to do but not yet.
>> *
>> *
>> *Improve Formatting*
>> Important and ongoing.  I have really focussed on ESV but need to look at
>> others more closely.
>> *
>> *
>> *Fancy Header*
>> It could be prettier but it needs to be small.  The Android Twitter ui is
>> supposed to be a good model but the Toolbar there is very wide.  Also some
>> have suggested allowing full page viewing but I am not sure.
>>
>> *Navigation*
>> I don't like putting my fingers all over the screen I am reading but
>> thumbwheels are not so common now so maybe: touch right/left edge to go
>> forward back a chapter, touch bottom corner to scroll down.
>>
>> *Gen Book Module Support*
>> Support CrossWire book modules
>> *
>> *
>> *Book Speaker*
>> I really like the TTS and would like to use it with Books
>>
>> *Chinese Search*
>> I had to disable this a few releases ago but I have no visibility of the
>> number of Chinese users of And Bible so don't know the priority.
>>
>     ( youversion.com 's Bible has formed a Chinese user community to
> spread its uses).
>
>     and i have implemented Chinese search using one analyzer from   '
> http://code.google.com/p/mmseg4j/' ( the file jar is 95k ),   and it's
> apache license.
>
>     and tested a few words for ChiUNS version.  I'll test  more words and
> more Chinese versions in a day or two on Simulator and my N1.
>
>
>
>>
>> *Reading Plan*
>> I did not know how many people use a reading plan until recently.
>>
>    +1 reading plans are great feature!
>
>>
>> *Twitter & Facebook Integration*
>> Maybe somebody would like to contribute the code*.  **I am not even on
>> Twitter.*
>>
>
>     Intent intent_share = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
>     intent_share.setType("text/plain");
>      intent_share.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, book+ chapter);
>      intent_share.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, verses);
>
>      startActivityForResult(Intent.createChooser(intent_share, "Share"),
> 1);
>
>      -----------
>     menu popup for facebook , twitter, mail,  short message and others,
>     not perfect but the lines works  ( though not work  for long verses
> text )
>
>>
>> *Hide Document Facility*
>> For documents you want on your mobile but don't use often or for non
>> directly used docs like Strongs.
>>
>> *Better Localisation Support*
>> Localisations merit a dedicated resource to organise, support, check, ...
>>  Possibly integrate with Translations LaunchPad.
>>
>> *More Inter Document Links*
>> *Faster Start Up*
>> *Tabbed Document selector*
>> *Pictures & Maps*
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Martin
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
>
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>
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