[sword-devel] Bishop for Android and iOS / JavaScript bindings
Gary Holmlund
gary.holmlund at gmail.com
Sun Mar 4 15:31:41 MST 2018
I have a Galaxy S8+ and have the same crash on startup that Chris has.
It was version 1.02 and Android 7.0.
Gary
On 03/04/2018 02:13 PM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
> 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 <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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>>
>> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
>> 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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