[mobile-devel] Android bible

Wed Jul 7 00:20:14 MST 2010

Hi SonWon,

I don't want to frustrate people by putting up a lot of builds which are
only half finished so I am not doing very frequent builds.  I would like to
address many of the issues before making another build available.

I am hoping to do another build in a couple of weeks.

Thanks for your continued input and encouragement everybody.  It is much
appreciated.

Best regards
Martin

On 7 July 2010 01:37, SonWon <sonwon.1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Martin,
>
> You wrote, "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!!!"
>
> When could I get a copy of this version to test?
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:37 AM, David Forslund <forslund at mail.com> wrote:
>
>>  Some more observations:
>>
>> - It doesn't seem to remember what version or book and chapter were
>> displayed the last time the program was run.   It always seems to start with
>> BBE at Genesis 1.
>>
>> - If I select a book of the Bible but cancel the selection by hitting the
>> back arrow instead of selecting a chapter, it goes ahead to that book
>> instead of going back to the book selection.
>>
>> I know this is a work in progress, so I'm not complaining, just observing
>> in case you weren't aware.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Dave
>> On 7/5/2010 1:38 PM, Martin Denham wrote:
>>
>> 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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