[mobile-devel] [And Bible] Pocketsword's maintainer mode and applicability to AndBible

[Martin Denham]

Hi Peter,

I haven't got an iPhone so maybe somebody with one could correct or confirm
my understanding, but I believe the iPhone is totally locked down and
therefore this special 'maintainer' facility to manually install modules is
required, whereas Android is totally open so you just plug in a usb cable
and drag modules into sdcard/jsword using a standard file manager app
(Windows Explorer).

For fonts we should really associate languages with particular fonts and
download them from a server automatically, but they also would be downloaded
into a folder which might also be manually populated using a file manager
and usb cable as above.

Kind regards
Martin

On 14 June 2011 09:28, Peter von Kaehne <refdoc at gmx.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Last week I found on a friend's iPhone the "maintainer mode".
>
> This is small web-server serving at port 49xxx and allowing direct
> upload of a module. You switch it on, upload a module via your PC's
> browser and switch it off in the phone again. I used it to check out a
> module of a new Bible translation on the translator's iPhone.
>
> I am now wondering if this might have mileage for AndBible too - and not
> just for modules, but also for fonts?
>
> Peter
>
>
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