[mobile-devel] A new build of And Bible is now available

[Brian J. Dumont]

Martin,

Thanks for all of your work here; I can't wait to try it out.

Brian


On 03/18/2011 10:46 AM, Martin Denham wrote:
> Hi,
> *
> *
> *Release Plan*
> I have built And Bible version 0.3.00rc1
> <http://and-bible.googlecode.com/files/AndBible-0.3.00rc1.apk> for
> Android and it may be downloaded from and-bible downloads
> <http://code.google.com/p/and-bible/downloads/list>.  My plan is to do
> some more testing, integrate any new or updated localisations and then
> do another build for App Market at the end of next week.
>
> *User Interface Localisations*
> Now would be a good time for people who have contributed localisations
> to consider if they would like to update the localisation text to
> reflect recent changes and amendments to the And Bible interface.  Any
> new or updated localisations can be included in a release build at the
> end of next week.
>
> /Text Changes/
> There is a new Speech Dialog with associated text, a list of languages
> used for localisation switching (see more below), a few new Options
> and other small changes which are fairly localized and should require
> only modification of localisations not a rewrite.  I have tried not to
> reorder text lines so you can tell what has changed.  Here is the
> basic And Bible localisation guide
> <http://code.google.com/p/and-bible/wiki/UserInterfaceTranslation>. 
>
> If there is a translator who would like to volunteer to be a central
> point of contact for translators, to guide and assist new translators,
> and to improve the localisation process then it would be a big help.
>
> Point of interest: I don't have geographical statistics on And Bible
> use but noticed that there are more hits on the And Bible development
> web site <http://code.google.com/p/and-bible/> from the Czech Republic
> than from any other country except USA.
>
> *Testing*
> *If you install this version I would be grateful if you inform me of
> any errors you notice and it would also help, if you are using Android
> 1.6, 2.1, 2.3 or 3.0, to tell me if you do NOT find any errors because
> my own mobile runs Android 2.2 and I only do selective testing on
> other versions.*
> *
> *
> **Changes in this version**
>
>     * Ability to search in Chinese bibles (contributed by Guan)
>     * Ability to share a verse via Twitter and Facebook (contributed
>       by Filipe)
>     * Ability to display one verse per line (contributed by Stephen)
>     * More powerful speech control
>           o speak multiple chapters
>           o use local pronunciation
>           o repeat speech
>           o speaks bibles, commentaries, dictionaries and books
>     * General books e.g. Calvin's Institutes, Hodge's Systematic
>       Theology, Pilgrim's Progress
>     * Gill's Commentary now available
>     * Limited Xiphos repo integration
>     * Quick links to module list and navigation in header
>     * Change user interface language
>     * Structured document selector
>     * Fix Strong's links in Russian bibles
>     * Several bug fixes
>
> Here are comments on a few of the above changes.
>
> Chinese Search
> Many thanks to Guan who has done an excellent job selecting an
> appropriate Lucene Analyzer (mmseg4j
> <http://code.google.com/p/mmseg4j/>), integrated, and tested it.  The
> Chinese analyzer used by JSword was too resource hungry for mobile
> phones and so, prior to Guan's work, had been disabled.
> *
> *
> *Books & Xiphos*
> These took a bit longer than expected.  Android has no tree control so
> I use a long list for the contents.  You can use the Speech Control to
> speak any module type including General Books and it normally works
> well.  I have enjoyed listening to Hodge's Systematic Theology
> recently.  Xiphos repo contains some good books and so some of the
> books you see in the download list are from the Xiphos repo but
> integration with Xiphos is not yet perfect so I manually included a
> few selected books and also Gills Commentary.
>
> *Change User Interface Language*
> **This was done partly to support languages like Faroese and Welsh
> that do not have a locale selectable on the mobile phone but I also
> thought it might be useful for others.**
> **
> **
> *Go to Options screen and you will find it near the bottom.  After
> changing locale and exiting Options the app will restart with the new
> locale.  The setting is persistent.  To revert to the default locale
> select Default from the list of languages.  *
> *
> *
> *Not Done*
> There is a lot that has not been done but the work continues.  One
> area I need advice on is font inclusion to improve support for Greek
> and Hebrew and the more widely used foreign languages.
> *
> *
> Best regards
> Martin
>
>
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