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

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Hi Chris, thanks for the report on a Galaxy S8. 2 questions. Have you tried version 1.0.2 which was released yesterday evening? It has fixes for older phones. If yes, then can you tell me what version of Android is on your phone?

Thank you!

Troy

On March 4, 2018 2:02:34 PM MST, Chris Umphress <umphress at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hey Troy,
>
>I have a Galaxy S8 and finally installed Bishop now that it is on the
>Play
>Store. On launch, the app shows a grey screen and then crashes. I sent
>feedback with the logs, but let me know if I can help in any way to
>debug
>this.
>
>Chris Umphress
>
>On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 5:05 AM, Troy A. Griffitts
><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
>>
>> 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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>> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
>> On 1 March 2018 2:26 AM, Troy A. Griffitts <scribe at crosswire.org>
>> <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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