[sword-devel] Android SWORD

Wed Sep 8 12:26:23 MST 2010

Am 07.09.2010 um 15:40 schrieb DM Smith:

> Of course, if I were to do it, I'd use JSword.

I would as well.

Manfred

> 
> On 09/06/2010 05:41 PM, Kenneth Arnold wrote:
>> This thread got rather sidetracked by the version control issue;
>> personally I use git daily but usually in a centralized workflow. I
>> think between github and GUIs like TortoiseGit it's not a big burden
>> for new users ("just remember to Push"). Also, many open-source
>> projects I follow have switched from bzr/Launchpad to github. But I
>> have no strong feelings on what direction the various projects here
>> should go. Now back on topic...
>> 
>> Once the libsword-JNI bindings are stabilized and the build process is
>> smoothed out, the only significant difference between them and JSword
>> for Android should be speed, so let's measure that. There may also be
>> differences in formatting, so let's go with the one that formats
>> better and is faster. (Caching and prefetch could smooth over most
>> visible speed differences, so maybe it's just which one formats
>> better.) I also once lamented the complexity of doing simple things
>> with the libsword C++ API, but I wrote a Python ztext reader instead
>> of what I should have done, which is: help improve the code :)
>> 
>> It doesn't look like the current way and-bible uses WebView allows you
>> to do much with the text besides display it. I'm considering replacing
>> the static page with a Javascript viewer that calls Java methods using
>> addJavascriptInterface [1]. This would theoretically allow accurate
>> verse position information and continuous scrolling (assuming the
>> ability to call Javascript from Java, which may be possible with
>> loadUrl [2]), but would require some significant HTML and Javascript
>> work. Are there any web-based SWORD viewers that might be adaptable to
>> that purpose?
>> 
>> Btw, PocketSword users, how do you like the interface? Should we just
>> do the same thing on Android?
>> 
>> For those that would prefer to pay now instead of waiting for
>> open-source, CadreBible and Olive Tree's BibleReader both have nice
>> (though not perfect) interfaces.
>> 
>> So Martin, enjoy your holidays and see you when you get back.
>> 
>> -Ken
>> 
>> 
>> [1] http://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebView.html#addJavascriptInterface%28java.lang.Object,%20java.lang.String%29
>> [2] http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/6ed23efa4d22f7e6
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Martin Denham<mjdenham at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Bishop is real fast but I don't know if that is all due to C++ code or if it
>>> is not doing as much html processing/formatting as and-bible.  I thought
>>> about switching to the C++ libs but there are various h/w restrictions if
>>> you use the ndk and also it is a long time since I use C++ and I just can't
>>> understand the Sword C++ code anymore and it seems from Troy's e-mails that
>>> the packaged ndk lib would need a fair bit more work.  Jsword also needs
>>> some optimisations and tweaks but I am more confident with Java.  So if you
>>> use C++ then feel free to continue Bishop or branch and-bible, but I always
>>> planned to create a pure java bible and JSword gave me a really good start.
>>> There is facade layer in and-bible that acts as an interface to JSword but
>>> realistically so many helper classes are used in the ui that it would be
>>> difficult to make the back-end switchable.
>>> 
>>> Maybe the git idea is a good one and can be put on the list.  What do others
>>> think?  I chose svn because I thought most developers would be familiar with
>>> it and it has great eclipse integration.  Personally I have to use PVCS and
>>> Clearcase at work so even svn provided challenges for me.  Nic recently
>>> transferred PocketSword to Mercurial and seemed very happy.  However, as
>>> everybody keeps commenting there is a whole load of functionality in
>>> and-bible that is missing and that needs improvement so maybe I should keep
>>> my head down and not be distracted.
>>> 
>>> I am on holiday at the moment so don't expect any new releases for a while.
>>> Why am I typing e-mails while I am on holiday!!!
>>> 
>>> btw I just want to share we just heard that my eldest daughter got 5xA* 4xA
>>> and a B in her GCSEs - the holiday begins.
>>> Best regards
>>> Martin
>>> 
>>> On 31 August 2010 19:11, Bill Burton<bburton at mail.com>  wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 
>>>> On a related note, could this project be hosted on http://github.com?  It
>>>> would provide much better ability to collaborate since anyone can fork, make
>>>> changes and then push them back for optional inclusion.  The built-in wiki
>>>> would make it easy to publish any appropriate docs.
>>>> 
>>>> For an example of why this would be helpful, I have some libsword swig
>>>> bindings for Ruby that never got committed because no one who was a commiter
>>>> had the time or inclination to step up and look at them.  If I could have
>>>> forked the swig bindings, and checked in my changes, then whether or not
>>>> they became incorporated in the official version, they would be readily
>>>> available for anyone to find, evaluate and/or fix.
>>>> 
>>>> Just my $0.02.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> -Bill
>>>> 
>>>> On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Kenneth Arnold<kcarnold at alum.mit.edu>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Hi Martin and Troy,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I finally got the AndBible source built; I needed to get the jsword
>>>>> source and also raise the memory limit for Eclipse--it thrashed and
>>>>> eventually crashed in the linker/dex step. There's still a dex warning that
>>>>> floods the Console, but it works on my Droid X. I made a few minor
>>>>> modifications to ensure I could, but nothing serious yet.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Major things I'd like to work on as a user are navigation, continuous
>>>>> scrolling, and verse number sync. Also, do you think we should replace the
>>>>> backend with native libsword? That might help formatting and speed, but I
>>>>> don't know how deeply it's woven into the code. The Bishop code could be a
>>>>> useful example if we decide to go that way.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Should we continue discussion on this list?
>>>>> 
>>>>> -Ken (mobile)
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Aug 26, 2010 1:39 AM, "Troy A. Griffitts"<scribe at crosswire.org>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Dear Ken,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thank you for the debug.  I also have had trouble with the installer and
>>>>> haven't had time to look into it.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The history is that I build Bishop as a sort of proof of concept for the
>>>>> java-jni bindings for Android.  I mostly work in the engine code.  The
>>>>> jni binding code I kept in SWORD SVN and the Bishop code I just backed
>>>>> up occasionally to our server.  Last year my drive crashed and I lost
>>>>> some work but might have pieced it all back together.  Here is an email
>>>>> I sent to Gary with links to all my stuff.
>>>>> 
>>>>> ______________________
>>>>> 
>>>>> After last year when I started the work I had a harddrive die on my
>>>>> laptop.  I had been backing up the work regularly, but lost about 2
>>>>> weeks of work in the crash.  I used a recovery tool to salvage many of
>>>>> the files from the bishop project and think I may have close to what is
>>>>> in the apk.  Here are my resources if you want to try to piece things
>>>>> together:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Lastest binary when I stopped, dated 11-18-2009:
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://crosswire.org/~scribe/bishop.apk
>>>>> 
>>>>> Latest backup of source, dated 10-31-2009:
>>>>> http://crosswire.org/~scribe/bishop-20091031.tar.gz
>>>>> 
>>>>> Latest binary after reconstructing source and I think some small new
>>>>> work (I think this is built with debug symbols in the native library so
>>>>> it's a little bigger):
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://crosswire.org/~scribe/bishop2.apk
>>>>> 
>>>>> Current backup of source which built the above:
>>>>> http://crosswire.org/~scribe/bishop-20100804.tar.gz
>>>>> 
>>>>> Please excuse my ignorance of Android programming.  I am fumbling
>>>>> through it all.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I remember having trouble with the InstallMgr.  It sometimes connects
>>>>> and downloads and other times it does not.  I thought it might be the
>>>>> limited memory on my G1 or some trouble with the timing of the FTP code
>>>>> in the native library.  I've found serious bugs in Android's system
>>>>> calls, (e.g. memccpy) and reported it to them, but they still haven't
>>>>> fixed it.  I use my own version in the ftp lib to avoid the bug.  That
>>>>> is where I stopped-- thinking I needed to debug this ftp intermittent
>>>>> issue.  I didn't compare how well the older .apk works versus the newer
>>>>> .apk.  Maybe the older version worked better?  Or maybe a newer version
>>>>> of Android or new phone works better?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Let me know what you find.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Troy
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 08/24/2010 09:01 PM, Kenneth Arnold wrote:
>>>>>> I just got an Android phone, and after seeing the...
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