[sword-devel] Bishop for Android and iOS / JavaScript bindings
Troy A. Griffitts
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Sun Mar 4 16:51:21 MST 2018
Thanks Gary. Any more info? I only have emulators here. Anything from logcat? Do you have AndBible installed? Curious if maybe you have a specific module already installed via AndBible which might be causing trouble. Any more info from people having startup issues would be great. I'll keep trying more emulators.
Troy
On March 4, 2018 3:31:41 PM MST, Gary Holmlund <gary.holmlund at gmail.com> wrote:
>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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