[sword-devel] Mobile Linux UIs

[Michael H]

The best thing i can think of that's already in distros is Calibre,
specifically the ebook viewer.  It needs epubs though, not Sword modules,
and navigating bibles in epub format is tricky when they're made by
standard conversion. Epub Bibles need backlinks to the book title on all
the chapter breaks, a 1 layer table of contents to books only, then chapter
links inserted at the start of each book. This navigation scheme keeps up
with paper books for every reference except maybe Psalm 119, Luke 1, and
Isaiah 60.

I (may) have a couple examples around if you're interested.

But it has a minimal interface and font settings that are remembered. and
search within book, etc. seems the best candidate without a bunch of
recoding and compiling.

On Sun, Nov 7, 2021 at 3:49 PM Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Anbox and Waydroid are both possible on the Pine Phone, but Anbox
> especially folks say is very slow because of the virtualization on the
> hardware. Waydroid is better because it seems to use more of Container
> space. In both cases people say the Pine Phone Pro is fantastic in
> performance with them. But if I can get a native Linux app with a display
> optimized for tiny screens it would be best.
>
> Hmm, for some reason I thought Bible Time Mini had gotten folded into the
> main line BT repo back in the day. Bummer. Wonder how tough it would be to
> get it going with modern Sword and BT code.
>
> --Greg
>
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 7, 2021, 15:25 Timmy <tim.bze at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I recently tried to run And Bible on anbox, but anbox is too old for
>> current version of And Bible (it's actually webview that is too old and
>> can't update it).
>>
>> With my searching I think I saw people running waydroid on pine phone.
>> Waydroid has much more up-to-date Android versions available. But waydroid
>> did not work with my computer graphics so I have not been able to try that
>> yet.
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 7, 2021, 14:55 Michael H <cmahte at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Bibletime mini is/was a separate initiative to make an android version
>>> similar to bibletime.  As far as I know it's completely separate from
>>> Bibletime and largely inactive. It shows available for Android 2.3, last
>>> release was 5 years ago. but while the interface is designed for touch on
>>> small screens, it doesn't have a linuxOS port... just most of the 2012
>>> phoneOS options at the end of the first smartphone war (symbian, windows
>>> mobile, etc.)
>>>
>>> Bibletime desktop has 3 or 4 rows of menus/toolbars at the top of the
>>> screen. Some of them might be disabled, but then the app would be even less
>>> touch friendly... same for the sidebar. It's built for a large screen
>>> format with a mouse pointer. not a touch interface.
>>>
>>> Have you tried andbible via anbox?  (is it possible to compile andbible
>>> to run in linux natively or as a java app in linux?)
>>>
>>> On Sun, Nov 7, 2021 at 2:30 PM Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> For my phone I've been moving to my new Pine Phone. For those unaware,
>>>> this is a cell phone that runs mainline Linux and most of the popular
>>>> desktop distributions are available on it - Arch, Fedora, Ubuntu, Manjaro,
>>>> and about a dozen others I don't recall off the top of my head. I'm
>>>> personally driving mine with Fedora.
>>>>
>>>> Which of our apps have the ability to run in a mobile friendly UI but
>>>> on desktop software stacks? The current Pine Phone is very slow (only quad
>>>> Arm A53 cores at 1 GHz), so the full browser experience to bring up a Bible
>>>> in the browser is like going back to 2015. If I could build one of our
>>>> native apps, it would be grand. I think Bible Time has a mobile UI option,
>>>> but I don't know if it is compatible with a desktop stack. Are there any
>>>> others? Is anyone willing to help me get one built?
>>>>
>>>> --Greg
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