<div dir="ltr">Thanks David, please pardon that,<div>I sent the message while engaged elsewhere, and had not thought it necessary to introduce myself since I was last active here in 2020. I also took it for granted that everyone could see my name since Gmail does that on my end.<div><div>My name is Mr. Maxwell Murunga. I do native iOS development, native Android development, and fullstack Web development. On the SWORD side of things, I am mostly interested in iOS, and can contribute to any iOS related issues.</div></div></div><div>Blessings,</div><div>Maxwell.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM David Haslam <<a href="mailto:dfhdfh@protonmail.com">dfhdfh@protonmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">It would be nice if the sender of the previous reply might introduce himself/herself to the team.<br><br>Has anyone used the GitHub facility to import the PocketSword repository from Atlassian BitBucket?<br><br>Nic's source code is at <span style="font-family:sans-serif;color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline"><span> </span></span><a rel="nofollow" href="https://bitbucket.org/niccarter/pocketsword" style="text-decoration:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);padding-right:13px;font-family:sans-serif;color:rgb(51,102,187)" target="_blank">https://bitbucket.org/niccarter/pocketsword</a></div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div>
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On Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 at 4:44 PM, Maxwell Murunga <<a href="mailto:maxmmur@gmail.com" target="_blank">maxmmur@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">As a long-time PocketSword user, I am willing to contribute to this effort.<div dir="auto"> </div><div dir="auto">I am fairly familiar with the PocketSword source code, having built it several times about 5 years ago. Even at the time, it was already in the realm of "legacy"; I could tell that it desperately needed to be ported over to Swift.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Back then, Swift was not directly interoperable with C++. You had to use Objective-C bridging headers. However, that changed last year or so and now Swift is directly interoperable with C++. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The best way forward, in my opinion, seems to be porting PocketSword from Objective C++ to Swift. Tools like Github Copilot or Swiftify could make this a breeze. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 5:57 AM Kahunapule Michael Johnson <<a href="mailto:kahunapule@ebible.org" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">kahunapule@ebible.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">I discussed this with a volunteer developer, today. We agreed that probably the best way forward was a rewrite/replacement. If anyone wants to contribute to that effort, please let me know.<br>
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> FYI: I've just noted the discovery in the developers' wiki<br>
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> On Sunday, January 12th, 2025 at 10:12 PM, David Haslam <<a href="mailto:dfhdfh@protonmail.com" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">dfhdfh@protonmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Dear all,<br>
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>> Today I discovered that PocketSword is no longer downloadable from the App Store!<br>
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>> NB. I've already alerted Michael Johnson via Messenger.<br>
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>> cf. The original developer (Nic Carter) stopped developing the software after he moved to teach in New Zealand several years ago.<br>
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>> Presumably, Apple has ruled that those apps that were designed only for iOS 10 or earlier should be removed from the store.<br>
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>> cf. Back in late 2020, I ask them "Is there a high risk that next month Apple may disqualify PocketSword from the App Store if it’s not updated to their latest data privacy standards?"<br>
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>> Michael informed us in May 2022 that his friend Craig Ahlman had volunteered to work on PocketSword. Even so, there's been no news of any progress since then.<br>
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>> I would be very sad if this excellent front-end app for iPhone and iPad devices could not be brought back to see the light of day.<br>
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