Ahh, yes, I spent way more time than I was happy with in getting the GUI for
the install part to be "satisfactory"!
I was thinking I could create screenshots of everything, but I don't think that
would give an accurate picture of how things like the installation of modules
happens. Easy solutions for me are for you to get a Mac (and run it on the
iPhone simulator!) or, more realistically, do you have a friend with an iPhone
or iPod Touch? we could get PocketSword on that and you could play with it?
But the flow for installing a module is: select the downloads tab -> select an
install source (should I name these "Publishers"?) -> selection of a module
type (Bible or commentary, atm) -> selection of the language (hence my posts
recently about language codes) -> selection of the module name -> (presents
lots of info about the module, with an "install" button available) hit the
install button. It's a LONG flow, but I think it's important. When the screen
is so small, I wanna cut down the presented information on each screen, hence I
make the user select what type of module & even what language they're
interested in. Should make it easier for a user to find a module in a specific
language, that way :)
Unfortunately I'm learning the SWORD framework as I go along, so I haven't had
time to tap into much of the power that it has to offer. Things like
footnotes/x-ref (and you say "etc" but I have little idea what "etc" includes!)
I have ideas about, but I've left them switched off via
swManager->setGlobalOption()... I figure it's better to not have them there
than for there to be a half-baked implementation of them (have I been using
Apple products for too long? anyone remember the Copy&Paste saga on the
iPhone?).
I don't have a hook to the upgrade/versioning info of installed modules yet,
either, but I figure that's not a high priority atm, given module upgrades
don't happen all that often?
Fonts are an issue on the iPhone. Well, not entirely. There's a good
selection pre-installed on the iPhone & I now have code to allow the selection
of the font to use & hopefully that fixes up any glyph issues we were having
before. I love the concept of having a selectable font per module, but I'm not
there yet... Looking into how to install a font on an iPhone (even just
installing it for your own app) has shown me that there is a world of pain
there. But hopefully the situation is quite good with the fonts available in
OS 3.x :) Of course, if you jailbreak your iPhone, it's easy to install
additional fonts, but there's no way I'm going along that line :P
Thanks for the post, Troy, you've given me further ideas. :) My todo list for
1.1 is now so big I'll probably have to cut it into 1.1 & 1.2 tags :P
thanks, ybic
nic... :)
PS: for the Font gurus around, here is what I have made available in
PocketSword:
and, yes, I am taking advantage of the role of "dictator" of PocketSword to
make the executive decision to not allow "Marker Felt" :P everything else is
up for discussion, not that :P
and, yes, I have very little idea about some of these fonts. I assume the
various Heiti fonts are tweaked for different languages, for example, & I do
know that if you use Zapfino, it pretty much makes reading the Bible impossible
(it's too fancy!), but it's fun :)
fontStrings = [[NSArray arrayWithObjects:
@"American Typewriter",
@"AppleGothic",
@"Arial",
@"Arial Hebrew",
@"Arial Rounded MT Bold",
@"Arial Unicode MS",
@"Courier",
@"Courier New",
@"DB LCD Temp",
@"Georgia",
@"Geeza Pro",
@"Heiti J",
@"Heiti K",
@"Heiti SC",
@"Heiti TC",
@"Helvetica",
@"Helvetica Neue",
@"Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN",
//@"Marker Felt",
@"Times New Roman",
@"Thonburi",
@"Trebuchet MS",
@"Verdana",
@"Zapfino",
nil] retain];
On 14/11/2009, at 5:29 AM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
> Well, with Nic's encouraging report and from Barry's lead with the subject
> All Things Mobile, I'll give a brief status update on the Android front.
>
> First, I'd like to say this has been a real challenge-- more than I had
> expected, but it's been fun. I would really love to see your solutions for
> touch navigation, install gui, footnote/x-ref display, etc. As many of you
> know, I'm not so creative in the field of aesthetics :) maybe we could post
> screen shots and learn from eachother's ideas.
>
> Most of my time has been spent on a user intuitive installation screen backed
> with InstallMgr. I believe it works fairly well now and includes our
> 'Auto-discovery of Publishers' function, selection of a publisher and install
> from a list of their modules. Remove also works. What isn't implemented is a
> hook to our upgrade/versioning info of installed modules.
>
> I've removed the text to speech feature for now, so Bishop can run on Android
> 1.5 devices, as many handsets are still on this version (Samsung).
>
> Basic reading and navigation of Bibles works ok. I'm not including a CSS with
> the content yet and I'm leaving Javascript turned off on our webview
> component, so you'll see odd 'x' characters where cross-references are
> located, 'n' for notes, etc.
>
> David Haslam has discovered that font support is limited on stock phones, and
> as of Android 1.6 we don't know a way to install additional fonts without
> rooting your phone; my Cyanogen modded G1 has quite a bit better font
> support, but still not great.
>
> You can try it out at the usual place:
>
> http://crosswire.org/~scribe/bishop.apk
>
> Android emulators are available in the SDK, if you'd like to test but don't
> have a phone.
>
> Troy
>
> Nic Carter <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi gang, a quick update on what is happening with PocketSword... :)
>>
>> Due to what is happening with Ian Wagner's free time (or lack thereof!),
>> we've decided that I'm going to start taking over the development of
>> PocketSword for the time being. :)
>>
>> What this means for those of you who were beta testers (or those of you who
>> want to try out PocketSword on your iPhone or iPod Touch) is that I need to
>> get your UDID (http://www.ispeeddial.com/how-to-find-your-iphone-uuid/ for
>> details) if you want to continue beta testing... Please send me a private
>> email, not to the mailing list, but to [email protected] :)
>>
>> FYI, I've been working on this for the last 1.5 months (which is why you may
>> have seen me post more on this list) & there's currently a very large
>> changelog from the last beta. I'm hoping to put out a new beta in the
>> middle of next week & some changes include:
>>
>> - Module installer using the SWORD InstallMgr (including a much improved UI)
>> -> using the new HTTP functionality recently implemented.
>> - Method to "manually" add a module (in a zip file) to your iPhone/iPod
>> Touch.
>> - Many many many changes to the UI.
>> - Preliminary work for av11n (kinda words, not a priority for v1.0).
>> - More options in settings.
>> - New commentary tab, so you can have a Bible & commentary open at the same
>> time.
>> - Many many many changes behind the scenes to make the above happen & to
>> allow more fun things for v1.1
>>
>> Feature requests for v1.0 are probably closed & I've got a long list of
>> ideas for v1.1 which is very flexible atm :)
>>
>> Until we sort out what's happening with the website, I have thrown together
>> a 5 minute effort at: http://web.me.com/niccarter/PocketSword/
>>
>> Thanks all, ybic
>> nic... :)
>>
>> ps: A quick intro for you all: My name is Nic Carter & I was born in
>> Canada, raised in Sydney, Australia, have lived in Hong Kong for a few years
>> and I'm now residing back in Sydney. Means my time zone is probably fairly
>> different to some of you, but I'm good with communicating across timezones &
>> great with email :)
>> I'm considering heading to the US for BibleTech:2010
>> (http://www.bibletechconference.com/) next March, as a couple of friends are
>> getting married nearby a few days later. Is anyone from here planning on
>> being there?
>>
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