[sword-devel] Bishop for Android and iOS / JavaScript bindings

[Troy A. Griffitts]

I've had 2 instances of problems running the app.  One was a report from
a user here, and another was trying to install the app on my TV.  In
both cases, the app showed a blank gray screen after install and and
startup.

I have had debug versions on all my devices here at some point, so I'm
not a very good clean test case.  Has anyone had any luck installing and
getting the basic set of modules running? Or any problems?  Thanks for
any feedback.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.crosswire.bishop

Troy


On 03/02/2018 01:31 PM, David Haslam wrote:
> *_Suggestion:_*
> Please edit https://wiki.crosswire.org/Frontends:Bishop
> and add these details.
>
> Best regards,
>
> David
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> On 1 March 2018 2:26 AM, Troy A. Griffitts <scribe at crosswire.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear team,
>>
>> You all know we've been working on Cordova bindings for SWORD for
>> quite some time now.  We now have a simple reader written in
>> JavaScript which will run unchanged on both Android and iOS.Bishop
>> includes an InstallMgr to auto-discover remote installation sources
>> and let a user install SWORD content.
>>
>> I've kept the development code name "Bishop", my favorite android
>> (from Aliens) and almost appropriate for a Bible app :)  I've also
>> tacked on our boring moniker from our Windows app, "Bishop: The SWORD
>> Project for Android".  Long name but should get more search hits.
>>
>> Basically, Bishop's UI has 2 basic modes:
>>
>>     *Reader*: which simply shows 1 chapter of up to 3 Bibles in parallel.
>>     *Verse* *Study*: When in reader mode, as the user scrolls, one
>>     verse will always be active, when "Verse Study" is chosen from
>>     the menu, the user can then drill down into that active verse. 
>>     Verse Study has 4 tools:*
>>     *
>>
>>         *Word* *Study*: shows the verse broken down word by word,
>>         showing the original Greek or Hebrew behind each word, along
>>         with a simple definition.*
>>         Commentary*: shows all installed commentary for that verse.
>>         *Witness* *Study*: shows all available ancient New Testament
>>         manuscript witnesses which attest to the current verse.
>>         *Variant* *Study*: shows all variant between the manuscript
>>         witnesses for the current verse.
>>
>> Other features include very basic bookmarks and search.  The Android
>> release has an initial attempt at BibleSync support to send your
>> current verse out to all your friends running Bishop on the same
>> network (thanks Karl!).
>>
>> The initial goal of Bishop was to be the thinnest client on top of
>> the bindings, as an example and thus uses no 3rd party libraries,
>> save jQuery.  Now that the initial release is completed and can serve
>> as an example, we're free to improve the mobile user interface if
>> anyone feels called to join the team and give it a shot.
>>
>> Installation locations follow.  It's best to let Bishop install its
>> basic set of SWORD modules upon first run, so it has a minimal set of
>> tools it can use to operate.  It will prompt you to do this when you
>> first launch the application and it finds no modules installed.
>>
>> Android users can install the app from:
>>
>> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.crosswire.bishop
>>
>> iPhone users will need to send me their UDID for testing while we try
>> to get through the Apple Store approval process.  I haven't even
>> tried yet as I don't have much hope that it is "pretty" enough for
>> them, but the download link for the iPhone binary is here:
>>
>> https://crosswire.org/bishop/manifest.plist
>>
>> https://crosswire.org/bishop.ipa
>>
>> The code can be had from:
>>
>> http://git.crosswire.org/main/bishop
>>
>> Please let us know what you think if you are a user, and offer your
>> suggestions from a usability perspective.
>>
>> If you are a developer, please offer comments and suggest features
>> you have a desire and are willing to add.
>>
>> Please give us a great rating so we show up in a search in the Play
>> Store and let others know.  I think we have some unique feature that
>> other app don't offer and I've been using Bishop as my morning reader
>> for a while now.  The default fullscreen text without clutter is
>> pleasant.
>>
>> Christ's best for you!
>>
>> Troy
>>
>>
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