[mobile-devel] Android bible

[Martin Denham]

Thanks SonWon,  That is useful input and thanks for encouragement.

1. I used Pocket e-sword for years and tabs for bible/commentary etc is the
approach Pocket e-sword used but it uses a whole row and I found I normally
just used 2 tabs (bible & commentary) so I was planning to initially have a
bible/commentary button on the main menu bar (as you suggest at the end of
point 1).
2. I have already switched to using a standard menu on my own local build
after playing with Troy's Bishop.  I have only just got an Android phone and
never pressed the Menu button!!!
3. I am not sure how to best fit book/chapter nav on one screen.  I
initially tried and failed to copy Pocket e-sword's nav, but list items are
so big on the Android  I have thought of putting the books into a grid, but
then that still leaves up to 150 chapters.  All ideas appreciated.  I am
currently thinking of 2 tabs - tab 1 containing a grid of books and tab 2 a
list of chapters.  Alternatively I could have 3 tabs
Document/BibleBook/BibleChapter.  That would also remove the Document button
from the menu.

Did you realise you can drop other books from the CrossWire site into the
appropriate place under the jsword dir on the sdcard and after restarting
AndBible you can view them.

I need to select verses to enable display of the correct commentary verse
associated with the currently viewed bible passage and I was considering
auto verse calculation based on the current distance scrolled down the
ScrollView - that is something I can play around with.

Last weekend I managed to increase speed considerably by bypassing some slow
DOM creation code - now I just need to work around a couple of bugs but most
docs/chapters display fine.

I am hoping my youngest daughter will create a splash screen for the app to
distract users from the slowish start up time.  Also new  name
"and-the-word" instead of "AndBible".  What do you think?  It obviously
comes from John chapter 1.  I thought AndBible was a bit obvious.

Best Regards
Martin

On 5 July 2010 19:13, SonWon <sonwon.1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Got it, when I unzipped SdcardBibles it placed the jsword in a SdcardBibles
> folder.  I moved jsword to root of the sdcard and all is well.
>
> Thank you very much.  This is a very good start!
>
> My first suggestion is to place tabs across the bottom to easily switch
> between text, like Bible, commentary, dictionary, and etc..  Maybe this
> could be done with the menu button?
>
> Second suggestion, move the navigation buttons into a menu assessable from
> the menu button.  This will free up space for the text.
>
> Third suggestion, make the navigation to a new book, chapter, and verse a
> table that fits all on one screen so the user doesn't have to scroll.  I
> have a lot more suggestions to make about this area.
>
> Thanks again!
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Martin Denham <mjdenham at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi SonWon,
>>
>> Sorry you had problems.  Error handling in the app needs to be greatly
>> improved on.  Did you unzip SdcardBibles.zip to your mobile's sd card and
>> have you now got a directory named jsword in the root of your sdcard?
>>
>> To uninstall the application you can go to Settings/Applications/Manage
>> applications/Bible/Uninstall.
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Martin
>>
>>
>> On 5 July 2010 14:27, SonWon <sonwon.1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Martin,
>>>
>>> Bad news, I am unable to run the application.  I get a forced closed
>>> error?  I am using Android version 2.1-update1 on a Sprint EVO.
>>>
>>> Let me know if there is anything I can do to help solve this problem.
>>>
>>> Also, how do I uninstall the application?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Caleb Maclennan <caleb at alerque.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> 2010/7/2 Martin Denham <mjdenham at gmail.com>:
>>>> > 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.
>>>>
>>>> Martin,
>>>>
>>>> Excellent work, this looks great for a prototype! Keep it up.
>>>>
>>>> I will be following progress closely and perhaps participating at some
>>>> point.
>>>>
>>>> Caleb
>>>>
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