Thanks SonWon, That is useful input and thanks for encouragement.<div><br><div>1. I used Pocket e-sword for years and tabs for bible/commentary etc is the approach Pocket e-sword used but it uses a whole row and I found I normally just used 2 tabs (bible & commentary) so I was planning to initially have a bible/commentary button on the main menu bar (as you suggest at the end of point 1).</div>
<div>2. I have already switched to using a standard menu on my own local build after playing with Troy's Bishop. I have only just got an Android phone and never pressed the Menu button!!!</div><div>3. I am not sure how to best fit book/chapter nav on one screen. I initially tried and failed to copy Pocket e-sword's nav, but list items are so big on the Android I have thought of putting the books into a grid, but then that still leaves up to 150 chapters. All ideas appreciated. I am currently thinking of 2 tabs - tab 1 containing a grid of books and tab 2 a list of chapters. Alternatively I could have 3 tabs Document/BibleBook/BibleChapter. That would also remove the Document button from the menu.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Did you realise you can drop other books from the CrossWire site into the appropriate place under the jsword dir on the sdcard and after restarting AndBible you can view them.</div><div><br></div><div>
I need to select verses to enable display of the correct commentary verse associated with the currently viewed bible passage and I was considering auto verse calculation based on the current distance scrolled down the ScrollView - that is something I can play around with.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Last weekend I managed to increase speed considerably by bypassing some slow DOM creation code - now I just need to work around a couple of bugs but most docs/chapters display fine.</div><div><br></div>
<div>I am hoping my youngest daughter will create a splash screen for the app to distract users from the slowish start up time. Also new name "and-the-word" instead of "AndBible". What do you think? It obviously comes from John chapter 1. I thought AndBible was a bit obvious.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best Regards</div><div>Martin</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 July 2010 19:13, SonWon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sonwon.1@gmail.com">sonwon.1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Got it, when I unzipped SdcardBibles it placed the jsword in a SdcardBibles folder. I moved jsword to root of the sdcard and all is well.<div><br></div><div>Thank you very much. This is a very good start!</div><div><div>
<br></div><div>My first suggestion is to place tabs across the bottom to easily switch between text, like Bible, commentary, dictionary, and etc.. Maybe this could be done with the menu button?</div><div><br></div><div>
Second suggestion, move the navigation buttons into a menu assessable from the menu button. This will free up space for the text.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Third suggestion, make the navigation to a new book, chapter, and verse a table that fits all on one screen so the user doesn't have to scroll. I have a lot more suggestions to make about this area.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks again!<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Martin Denham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mjdenham@gmail.com" target="_blank">mjdenham@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi SonWon,<div><br></div><div>Sorry you had problems. Error handling in the app needs to be greatly improved on. Did you unzip SdcardBibles.zip to your mobile's sd card and have you now got a directory named jsword in the root of your sdcard?</div>
<div><br></div><div>To uninstall the application you can go to Settings/Applications/Manage applications/Bible/Uninstall.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards</div><div>Martin<div><div></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On 5 July 2010 14:27, SonWon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sonwon.1@gmail.com" target="_blank">sonwon.1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Martin,<div><br></div><div>Bad news, I am unable to run the application. I get a forced closed error? I am using Android version 2.1-update1 on a Sprint EVO.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Let me know if there is anything I can do to help solve this problem.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Also, how do I uninstall the application?</div><div><div></div><div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Caleb Maclennan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:caleb@alerque.com" target="_blank">caleb@alerque.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">2010/7/2 Martin Denham <<a href="mailto:mjdenham@gmail.com" target="_blank">mjdenham@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div>> I have built a working prototype of a bible for Android mobile phones. The<br>
> prototype uses a slightly modified JSword back-end. You can download the<br>
> prototype from <a href="http://code.google.com/p/and-bible/downloads/list" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/and-bible/downloads/list</a>.<br>
<br>
</div>Martin,<br>
<br>
Excellent work, this looks great for a prototype! Keep it up.<br>
<br>
I will be following progress closely and perhaps participating at some point.<br>
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Caleb<br>
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