[bt-devel] New BibleTime Frontend Proposal

Jaak Ristioja jaak at ristioja.ee
Thu Apr 11 23:36:49 MST 2013


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Hi!

On 12.04.2013 06:01, Gary Holmlund wrote:
> I have been watching smart phones and tablets rise in sales as 
> desktop/laptop computers are not selling very well. I think it is
> time to think about BibleTime for mobile computers.

Laptops/desktops will not go anywhere. People still need them for work
(proper word processing for most).

> Qt 5.1 will officially support Android and IOS, if your program is 
> written in Qt Quick/QML. Because QML is quite different from Qt
> widgets, this requires a completely new frontend.
> 
> I am willing to put in the effort to make this happen for Android.
> I am not asking for your help, unless you want to. :)    I would
> appreciate guidance along the way.
> 
> To show you that I am serious, I have already created a prototype 
> running on linux using Qt 5.0.1. This prototype just has basic 
> bible/commentary windows, verse changing, module changing. The
> windows can be arranged tabbed, horizontal, vertical, and
> auto-tiled. It has many features and much usability yet to be
> worked on. Please look at this screen capture:
> 
> http://sourcearchives.com/downloads/bibletime-mobile.webm
> 
> The prototype is on a local git branch and integrated with the
> BibleTime cmake build using the BIBLETIME_FRONTEND mechanism
> already defined in BTSourceFileList.txt. You can either build
> BibleTime or BibleTimeMobile.
> 
> What do you think?

I like the idea. I'm not that into mobile myself, but I think for
BibleTime its worth the effort. I think the main gains for the project
would be:

  1) more users (yay!)
  2) potentially more devs (yay!)
  3) better backend/frontend interface (refactoring, yay!)
  4) refactoring efforts would improve the overall code quality (yay!)

However, there's already the BibleTime Mini effort. Is there a
relation to that?

Blessings!
Jaak
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