I think the size issue could be solved somewhat if we could get the module loading system to download and open modules from the SD card rather than having them bundled into the application's .apk<div><br></div><div>Also, for what it's worth, I want to throw my vote in for using libsword via JNI.</div>
<div><br clear="all">-Wes<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 8:18 PM, David Forslund <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:forslund@mail.com">forslund@mail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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One other request is to try to reduce the size of the application.
It is over 8Mbytes on my Droid and is one of the largest
applications on the phone (around the size of Google Maps). Other
Biblereaders are significantly smaller. I would hope the size
could be reduced. I don't know if going to the native libsword
would be smaller or not.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<div class="im"><br>
<br>
Dave<br>
On 8/29/2010 7:04 AM, SonWon wrote:
</div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><blockquote type="cite">Just my opinion but I am all for more speed ;) I use
the reader during sermons and some speakers move from Bible text
to Bible text quite fast. Having a history feature tracking each
verse is useful for later review. Just my two sense. :)<br>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Kenneth
Arnold <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kcarnold@alum.mit.edu" target="_blank">kcarnold@alum.mit.edu</a>></span>
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<p>Hi Martin and Troy, </p>
<p>I finally got the AndBible source built; I needed to get
the jsword source and also raise the memory limit for
Eclipse--it thrashed and eventually crashed in the
linker/dex step. There's still a dex warning that floods the
Console, but it works on my Droid X. I made a few minor
modifications to ensure I could, but nothing serious yet. </p>
<p>Major things I'd like to work on as a user are navigation,
continuous scrolling, and verse number sync. Also, do you
think we should replace the backend with native libsword?
That might help formatting and speed, but I don't know how
deeply it's woven into the code. The Bishop code could be a
useful example if we decide to go that way. </p>
<p>Should we continue discussion on this list? </p>
<p>-Ken (mobile)</p>
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<div>On Aug 26, 2010 1:39 AM, "Troy A.
Griffitts" <<a href="mailto:scribe@crosswire.org" target="_blank">scribe@crosswire.org</a>>
wrote:<br>
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Dear Ken,<br>
<br>
Thank you for the debug. I also have had trouble with
the installer and<br>
haven't had time to look into it.<br>
<br>
The history is that I build Bishop as a sort of proof of
concept for the<br>
java-jni bindings for Android. I mostly work in the
engine code. The<br>
jni binding code I kept in SWORD SVN and the Bishop code
I just backed<br>
up occasionally to our server. Last year my drive
crashed and I lost<br>
some work but might have pieced it all back together.
Here is an email<br>
I sent to Gary with links to all my stuff.<br>
<br>
______________________<br>
<br>
After last year when I started the work I had a
harddrive die on my<br>
laptop. I had been backing up the work regularly, but
lost about 2<br>
weeks of work in the crash. I used a recovery tool to
salvage many of<br>
the files from the bishop project and think I may have
close to what is<br>
in the apk. Here are my resources if you want to try to
piece things<br>
together:<br>
<br>
Lastest binary when I stopped, dated 11-18-2009:<br>
<p><font color="#500050"><a href="http://crosswire.org/%7Escribe/bishop.apk" target="_blank">http://crosswire.org/~scribe/bishop.apk</a><br>
</font></p>
Latest backup of source, dated 10-31-2009:<br>
<a href="http://crosswire.org/%7Escribe/bishop-20091031.tar.gz" target="_blank">http://crosswire.org/~scribe/bishop-20091031.tar.gz</a><br>
<br>
Latest binary after reconstructing source and I think
some small new<br>
work (I think this is built with debug symbols in the
native library so<br>
it's a little bigger):<br>
<p><font color="#500050"><a href="http://crosswire.org/%7Escribe/bishop2.apk" target="_blank">http://crosswire.org/~scribe/bishop2.apk</a><br>
</font></p>
Current backup of source which built the above:<br>
<a href="http://crosswire.org/%7Escribe/bishop-20100804.tar.gz" target="_blank">http://crosswire.org/~scribe/bishop-20100804.tar.gz</a><br>
<br>
Please excuse my ignorance of Android programming. I am
fumbling<br>
through it all.<br>
<br>
I remember having trouble with the InstallMgr. It
sometimes connects<br>
and downloads and other times it does not. I thought it
might be the<br>
limited memory on my G1 or some trouble with the timing
of the FTP code<br>
in the native library. I've found serious bugs in
Android's system<br>
calls, (e.g. memccpy) and reported it to them, but they
still haven't<br>
fixed it. I use my own version in the ftp lib to avoid
the bug. That<br>
is where I stopped-- thinking I needed to debug this ftp
intermittent<br>
issue. I didn't compare how well the older .apk works
versus the newer<br>
.apk. Maybe the older version worked better? Or maybe
a newer version<br>
of Android or new phone works better?<br>
<br>
Let me know what you find.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>
Troy<br>
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