[sword-devel] Android SWORD

[Kermit Kiser]

A couple weeks ago Troy posted this message:
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Dear Vitaliy,

The SWORD library has been ported to Android with Java wrapper classes via the NDK. Instructions for building can be found in the trunk of our svn repository under bindings/java-jni/README.

http://crosswire.org/svn/sword/trunk/bindings/java-jni/README

When developing the bindings, I had a test program I used to test the calls to the engine. I called it Bishop, but have not continued to develop it into a fully usable application. I could post the source, but I'd rather see what a real Android UI developer can do with the bindings instead.

The port is very preliminary so please let me know if things seem not to work as you'd expect.
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If I understand that correctly, Bishop was never intended to be the actual Android SWORD frontend but only a feasibility demonstration. When I get some time free from my other Android projects I hope to take a whack at this one but I don't use Java or C so there may be a learning curve.

-- Kermit Kiser (BSV module developer)
AndRexx Applications


SonWon wrote:
> Any more progress on the Android Bible Reader?
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Troy A. Griffitts 
> <scribe at crosswire.org <mailto:scribe at crosswire.org>> 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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