[sword-devel] Android SWORD

[Bill Burton]

Hello,

With the discussion on which back end to use, would it make sense to write a
JSword adapter to the interface described by Troy below?  This would enable
the back ends to be swapped out with minimal effort (maybe even at runtime).

-Bill

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 4:05 AM, Troy A. Griffitts <scribe at crosswire.org>wrote:

> A quick update on Android progress.
>
> o  Basic Bible navigation and display are working, albeit not pretty.
> o  Text-to-Speech functionality is added.
> o  All methods from the engine are now completely wrapped to the same
> swordorb.idl interface we use for SWORDWeb's Java<-CORBA->C++ bridge, so
> a full-featured Android client should now be possible with the current
> engine exposure.
>
> Everything is still at the same location (below).
>
>        -Troy.
>
>
> Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
> > There is now a preliminary Android NDK / Java binding available in SVN.
> >  This is very very early and should just be considered a proof of
> concept.
> >
> > There is a package available to show things working, but doesn't really
> > do much:
> >
> > http://crosswire.org/~scribe/bishop.apk<http://crosswire.org/%7Escribe/bishop.apk>
> >
> > the JNI libsword.so should be placed in your project/libs directory,
> e.g.,
> >
> > ~/workspace/bishop/libs/armeabi/libsword.so
> >
> > and can be obtained from the above package-- believe me, you don't want
> > to try to compile it yourself as the NDK does not have STL support out
> > of the box.  The Java classes can be obtained from the
> > sword/bindings/java-jni/src directory, e.g.
> >
> >
> http://crosswire.org/svn/sword/trunk/bindings/java-jni/src/org/crosswire/android/sword/
> >
> > Module library must exist on your SD card under a 'sword' directory to
> > be found, e.g., unzip KJV.zip to /sdcard/sword/
> >
> > Have fun, let me know if anyone else is interested in developing an
> > Android frontend.
> >
> >       -Troy.
> >
>
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