[sword-devel] Bishop for Android and iOS / JavaScript bindings
Michael Johnson
Michael at eBible.org
Sun Mar 4 14:45:05 MST 2018
Thanks, Troy!
I downloaded Bishop on an Android phone (Moto E with Android 7.1.1), and it worked until I tried downloading spavbl2018eb from the eBible.org repository. Opening that Bible resulted in the spinning wheel of death. I then tried engfbv2018eb, with the same result. Either time, I could go back to an already-downloaded translation (that was there with And Bible), and that worked. Downloading a new Bible from Crosswire Main worked. Downloading a full Bible from eBible.org (engRV1895eb) worked. When I tried to
install a partial NT (engGLW1996eb), that installed, but also would not open (spinning wheel of death).
Spin.
Spin.
Spin.
Something is hanging up or in an infinite loop...
On 03/03/2018 02:24 PM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
>
> Bishop 1.0.2 pushed out-- support for older devices.
>
> Found some JavaScript and CSS constructs I was using which didn't work well (at all) on older Android phones. I've updated things and tested on Android 5.1 and iPhone 5s and seems to now work reasonably well. Please let me know if you have a device which is having trouble or if you are successfully running on an Android release older than 5.1. I'd like to know how old we can go back and still support.
>
> Thanks everyone for your feedback and time spent having a go at this,
>
> Troy
>
>
> On 03/03/2018 02:53 PM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the feedback Michael,
>>
>> I have added a new menu choice:
>>
>> [ Settings ]
>>
>> - Font Size +
>>
>> It seems to work well on both iOS and Android. Please let me know if it makes the app more usable for you. The update should now be available for your phone.
>>
>> Thank you again for taking the time to provide valuable feedback.
>>
>> Troy
>>
>>
>>
>> On 03/03/2018 04:05 AM, Michael H wrote:
>>> I already had AndBible installed.
>>>
>>> Bishop installed and recognized all the modules (at least 20+ bibles, i haven't confirmed "ALL") that AndBible has present. I haven't attempted any more module installs after installing Bishop, either from AndBible or Bishop.
>>>
>>> The text is small on my Samsung Galaxy On5. Not horribly unreadably small, but small for me to use for any length of time. I don't see settings to adjust that, so I haven't spent much time on it. I can and will test more if you have something specific.. But this isn't ready for my eyes yet. Very promising tho. :-) Based on the images in the store screen, I would be using it more if the text had size adjustment.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 11:05 PM, Troy A. Griffitts <scribe at crosswire.org <mailto:scribe at crosswire.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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 <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 <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> <mailto: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 <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/manifest.plist>
>>>>>
>>>>> https://crosswire.org/bishop.ipa <https://crosswire.org/bishop.ipa>
>>>>>
>>>>> The code can be had from:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://git.crosswire.org/main/bishop <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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