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

[Brian J. Dumont]

Hi Martin,

Great work.  It is *very* nice to have genbook availability, and I know
the UI is tough.  I really appreciate your efforts.

A few suggestions:
The genbook keys are currently presented as a simple list.  I understand
that the "tiered" list is very tough, but navigation through this list
can be a bit confusing.  I suggest that a (I think) simple change be
made that helps orient the user and make moderately-sized genbooks
easier to use.  For each depth level, add a dot or similar character
before the key in the list.  This would give a visual indicator of
general structure.  For instance, a list might look like:

Part 1
»Section 1
»Section 2
»»Subpart 1
»»Subpart 2
»Section 3
Part 2
»Section 1
»Section 2

the second suggestion is to allow bookmarks for genbooks

The third is unrelated to genbooks, but rather to general bookmark
usage.  I love the "labels" (in my mind categories) for the bookmarks,
and would like to see them be expanded a bit.  For instance, I'd like to
be able to set the "default" label.  This way, when I'm adding a bunch
of bookmarks on one topic, they all get the same label.  Also, if I
navigate to a bookmark in the labeled category "Lesson2", then later go
to the bookmarks again, it would be nice if it defaulted to "Lesson2"
bookmarks.  This would speed the process of digging through multiple
related bookmarks.

Christ's blessings,
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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