[mobile-devel] Android bible

[SonWon]

Thank you thank you thank you Martin!

You are the man!

I will test this weekend and give you feedback.


On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Martin Denham <mjdenham at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have built a working prototype of a bible for Android mobile phones.  The
> prototype uses a slightly modified JSword back-end.  You can download the
> prototype from http://code.google.com/p/and-bible/downloads/list.  You
> need to manually copy the contents of SdcardBibles.zip to your Android's
> sdcard prior to installing AndBible.apk
>
> You can
>
>    1. view a chapter at a time in bible page format
>    2. select a book: ESV bible, WEB bible, Hebrew bible, JFB commentary,
>    Barnes commentary by pressing a tool-bar button
>    3. select a bible book chapter by pressing a tool-bar button
>    4. swipe left for next chapter or right for previous
>    5. search for words in the current book - press search button
>    6. click a search result to go to the appropriate chapter
>
> Testing has been done on Android 1.6, 2.1, and 2.2.  On a G1 performance is
> okay but there are some pauses.  If the chapter is big e.g. Ps 119 and most
> commentary pages there may be a long pause.  I am planning some performance
> analysis.
>
> *JSword*
> Android 2.2 has excellent support for JSword but unfortunately
> java.xml.transform.* was only introduced in version 2.2 so I had to switch
> from xslt to sax for html creation for the screen.  Earlier Android releases
> also appear to have issues with dynamic class loading so I had to make some
> changes to JSword source for this prototype build.  I also made a memory
> optimisation.
>
> Best regards
> Martin
>
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