Hi Michael,<div><br></div><div>It is good to hear from you and if you have time I think your experience in Hebrew will be valuable not just for And Bible but in the Hebrew modules used by all the (J)Sword applications.</div>
<div><br></div><div>RTL is very problematic on currently versions of Android but I think the current source in svn should have been corrected and I plan to make another build available soon and definitely before the end of January. When implementing Strong's Number links in 0.14 the numbers confused the Android rtl algorithm and I switched it off as I did not believe it was working correctly anyway. Recently I discovered, by working with one of your fellow countrymen, that rtl works fine for Hebrew books that do not contain vowels. The next build restores the rtl and also strips vowels from Hebrew documents before displaying them and I have been told that it works great now on all books even with Strong's included.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Have you found the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/and-bible/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk%2FAndBible">source code</a> yet? There are some very brief instructions on how to build the source <a href="http://code.google.com/p/and-bible/wiki/CompilingAndBibleSourceCode">here</a>.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Pinch to zoom would be nice. Although I am personally finding the amount of touches that are possible a bit confusing and when I mean to scroll down the context menu sometimes pops up. So I am concerned that there we are getting to a stage where too many touches are conflicting. But, having said that, still pinch-to-zoom would be nice if it could not be confused with other touch types.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Recently a <a href="http://www.crosswire.org/pipermail/sword-devel/2011-January/035608.html">thread </a>was started on the sword-devel mailing list relating to the Modern Hebrew Bible which apparently is not Delitzsch, which we are informed would be desirable, and that there are also several versions of Delitzsch, of which a modern version would be best. I don't know if you would like to contribute your knowledge to that thread and I don't know how others who responded to that thread have fared since but I thought you might be interested.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best regards</div><div>Martin<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/1/15 מיכאל בר-דוד <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael@mail.org.il">michael@mail.org.il</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<big> Hello List<br>
<br>
My name is Michael and I'm a software developer from Israel. I
wrote a basic version of android bible app in the past (as well as
other bible software: PHP, JS, python, maemo version, etc.), but
that was before I discovered And Bible. I started to use it 3
weeks ago, and it's very nice, and so I use it as primary bible
app.</big> <big><br>
<br>
I would like to participate the dev team, if that's fine with you.
I'm not experienced with android development too much, but I know
a little, and I have some knowledge about UI design. I also can
help in Hebrew translation and other Hebrew-related issues. I have
Motorola Milestone (AKA Droid in the states) with 2.1, and a
chinese device called SmartQ V5 which has android 2.1.</big> <big><br>
I also have a web server, so I can offer forums, bug-reports
system or other web systems that might be useful for the project.<br>
<br>
BUG report:</big> <big><br>
A serious bug that started from v 0.14 and still on 0.15, is about
hebrew text direction. As you probably know, Hebrew is written
from right to left, AKA RTL, and also right aligned as default.
Versions before 0.14 were in RTL direction and right aligned, but
from 0.14 the text is left aligned (I can't determinate if it's
RTL or LTR). My guess is that the text size change that was added,
is responsible for that, in some way. BTW, have you considered
using pinch-to-zoom? I used it in my app, and it's was very
comfortable.<br>
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<div style="direction:ltr"><big>I want to
strengthen your hands with that important work.<br>
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Regards,</big> <br><font color="#888888">
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<h1 style="direction:ltr">Michael Bar-David</h1>
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