[sword-devel] Fwd: Bishop feature proposals

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Hi Alex,

Have you had any success compiling Bishop?  What operating system do you
use for development?

I like many of your features you list below.  I am in the middle of a
mostly failed UI experiment right now.

My primary use for Bishop is to try to make reading original languages
during my morning devotionals not a distraction from the devotional.

Showing the English/[Greek|Hebrew] parallel view, which is the default
from a clean install, is useful, but I find myself reading the English
more often then struggling through the Greek or Hebrew.  I like the
Verse Study/Word Study tool for mobile devices, which basically breaks
out the verse text word by word and gives a short definition with each
word, but I don't like to have to switch between the screens.  So, my
plan to make this more seamless  during reading was to create different
display "Modes".  The current mode, which can display up to 3 Bibles in
parallel, I've kept the default and named "Bible".  I've added 2 new
display modes: Language Assist and Commentary Assist.  Both of these are
split screen modes which show the primary Bible text on the left and as
you scroll it populates the right with the chosen tool.  Language Assist
places the Word Study tool on the right.  Commentary Assist places the
Commentary tool on the right.  These are the same tools as on the Verse
Study screen, but just pull forward to the mail screen, split to the
right side.  I wanted to make the scroll on the Word Study tool
highlight the current word as you scrolled, in the same way the current
verse hightlights as you scroll the Bible view.  This way, when there is
a word I need help with, I can scroll the right side quickly until that
word is highlighted in the verse and then I'll know that word is in view
with it's definition on the right.

Well, I finished the split screen view and the 3 modes, but it just
seems a little too small in the emulator screen.  The Strong's
definitions we use have a bunch of extraneous information (like "See
XXXXX; See YYYYY+ZZZZZ). Which I don't think anyone ever uses.  We don't
provide nice links for these texts, though we should.  I am sure the
would be used more if we did.  But for now, I was thinking of trying to
hide that info.  It might make the tool more usable in the smaller split
screen on the right.

Anyway, it was all a bright idea which seems to have not worked out as
well as I had hoped.

I like your ideas you mention below.  There is a setting to increase and
decrease the font size of the entire app, so that might help your button
press difficulties.  Maybe your swipe left idea might be cool to bring
up the Word Study tool instead of splitting the screen.  That would make
it easier to switch between the two.

Let me know if you need help compiling the app and getting started.

Troy


On 05/09/2018 11:59 AM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
>
> Since mobile-devel hasn't been active for a while, I thought it best
> to forward Alex' email here for comments.
>
>
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: 	Bishop feature proposals
> Date: 	Wed, 9 May 2018 10:55:22 -0400
> From: 	Alex DuBois <wandns at gmail.com>
> To: 	mobile-devel at crosswire.org
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to propose the following features for Bishop:
>
> 1. Night mode.
>
> 2. Verse peek mode. The idea is to allow fullscreen viewing of your
> favorite translation with the ability to "slide" a verse right or left
> to see the same verse as it is translated by your next favorite
> one(s). Basically, this is so one does not have to have more than one
> translation shown at all times when secondary translations are only
> used to gain clarity of text. Showing other texts in the "peek" view
> such as related notes or commentary should also work.
>
> 3. Continuous scrolling rather than clicking for the next or previous chapter.
>
> 4. General UI improvements. A) On my Pixel 2 XL, I have trouble
> clicking on some of the buttons because of their size. B) The search
> feature could show the results along with previews of the matching
> text in a full-width view rather than inside of the general menu. The
> back button should go back to the last text location rather than
> minimize the app.
>
> 5. Share a verse or a range of verses having the citation automatically added.
>
> I have written native Android and iOS apps in the past, but I have no
> experience with Cordova, so maybe some of these features are not
> practical. What do you all think of these ideas, and is their
> implementation possible using Cordova?
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
>
>
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