Hi Ken,<br><br>You have made some good points.<br><br><b>Development Help</b><br>A couple of your points relate to help and I could make a list of things which others might do better than me e.g. Chinese Search or are ways to get into the system e.g. junits.<br>
<br><b>Speech</b><br>I am still going backward & forward in my mind regarding the best ui for enhanced speech. Currently I am going toward a dialog as being a more standard ui pattern than stateful buttons.<br><br><b>Index</b><br>
The first time you press Search you are asked either to create or download an index.<br><br>Thanks<br>Martin<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 January 2011 23:21, Kenneth Arnold <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kcarnold@alum.mit.edu">kcarnold@alum.mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Martin Denham <<a href="mailto:mjdenham@gmail.com">mjdenham@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I have started thinking about the next enhancements to And Bible and would<br>
> like to give people a chance to comment. The items in the first list I have<br>
> been thinking about and am probably ready to implement. Please comment if<br>
> you have any thoughts or opinions regarding implementation or regarding<br>
> items you would like to see or not see in And Bible. Items in the second<br>
> list I would like to implement but am not yet ready. Items in the last list<br>
> I have no plans yet to implement. People seem to like the recently added<br>
> grid navigation and that was pushed through because of comments from this<br>
> group:<br>
<br>
</div>Thanks for not only doing the grunt work but also being transparent<br>
about the development process and priorities. Is that "Later Release"<br>
list things you'd like help with?<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Alternative 3: Add stateful Speak button beside Quick Link buttons (at top)<br>
> in Portrait mode (more room) if selected in Settings. The Speak/Silent<br>
> button would switch between the several states Speak, 2 Chapters, 4<br>
> Chapters, Book, Silent.<br>
<br>
</div>I don't use speech but this seems simple in both concept and<br>
implementation. It could be just a selection of what to do at the end<br>
of this chapter: stop or go on?<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Bad XML Toleration<br>
> The optimised page loading does not have JSword's bad xml structure<br>
> toleration for books like WEB. I plan to try falling back on JSword if the<br>
> optimised technique fails.<br>
<br>
</div>For fast enough devices it might be reasonable to always use JSword.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Strong's List of Ref use<br>
> Use Lucene index to display a list of all verses containing a certain<br>
> Strong's ref<br>
<br>
</div>e-Sword treats that as just another kind of search.<br>
<br>
> Remove Create Index Button<br>
<br>
There is one? It's just what happens when you push Search, right?<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Navigation<br>
> I don't like putting my fingers all over the screen I am reading but<br>
> thumbwheels are not so common now so maybe: touch right/left edge to go<br>
> forward back a chapter, touch bottom corner to scroll down.<br>
<br>
</div>All the ebook readers I use now let you use the volume keys to scroll<br>
by pages. I find it quite comfortable. (I suppose a separate question<br>
is whether And Bible should be more like an ebook reader that happens<br>
to work well for Bibles. In practice that mostly means switching to<br>
page-like navigation, but could also mean bookmarks, notes, etc.)<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Reading Plan<br>
> I did not know how many people use a reading plan until recently.<br>
<br>
</div>The community is now getting pretty big, with 5-digit download<br>
figures. It's approaching time to start figuring out how to scale the<br>
user community interaction. Maybe something lightweight like a comment<br>
page (Disqus for example)?<br>
<br>
> Faster Start Up<br>
<br>
Do you know what's slow yet? That could be a lightweight way for new<br>
developers to get started.<br>
<br>
> EverNote integration<br>
<br>
I'm not sure, but you might just be able to use an Intent to send a<br>
chunk of text to any app that can deal with it.<br>
<br>
Cool!<br>
-Ken<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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