TestFlight not an option to make it installable for testers?


Manfred


> Am 04.03.2018 um 16:36 schrieb DM Smith <dmsm...@crosswire.org>:
> 
> David,
> I’ve installed it on my iPhone 6. Will do my iPad 2 later today.
> 
> I don’t think the iOS app store supports 32-bit only any more, but they might 
> allow dual 32/64. I have an old iPhone 5 on which I can test. I don’t have a 
> 32-bit iPad like yours.
> 
> It’s not something you’ll be willing to do. I’m describing the process that I 
> went through in case others are interested.
> 
> To install it, you need to be running MacOS. This is possible to do in a VM 
> on Windows or Linux. I think that’s what Troy does. I have a Mac, so it isn’t 
> a difficulty for me.
> 
> Within MacOS you have to install XCode from the Mac App Store and in XCode 
> open Window->Devices and Simulators with your iOS device attached to your 
> “Mac". Make the window wide enough to see the entire device “Identifier”. 
> Right click on that, select copy and send that to Troy.
> 
> Troy will have to add that to the list of authorized devices and rebuild 
> Bishop.ipa.
> 
> Download that ipa and in the same window, click + under INSTALLED APPS, 
> navigate to that download and “Open” it. This will install it to your device.
> 
> Later, I think it’ll be possible to build from source in XCode.
> 
> DM
> 
>> On Mar 4, 2018, at 3:26 AM, David Haslam <dfh...@protonmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Troy,
>> 
>> I've been ignoring Bishop on the grounds that I'd only ever seen it 
>> described as being an Android OS app.
>> 
>> This is the first time I've seen it mentioned in connection with iOS devices.
>> 
>> My devices are iPhone 5 and iPad Mini. My wife has an iPhone 5S and iPad 
>> Mini.
>> 
>> Even so, unless it's in the Apple iStore, only users who jailbreak could 
>> install it?  AFAICT, it's not there.
>> 
>> btw.  Is it a 64-bit app ?
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> David
>> 
>> Sent from ProtonMail Mobile
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 21:53, Troy A. Griffitts <scr...@crosswire.org> wrote:
>>> Thanks for the feedback Michael,
>>> 
>>> I have added a new menu choice:
>>> 
>>> [ Settings ]
>>> 
>>>   -   Font Size  +
>>> 
>>> It seems to work well on both iOS and Android.  Please let me know if it 
>>> makes the app more usable for you.  The update should now be available for 
>>> your phone.
>>> 
>>> Thank you again for taking the time to provide valuable feedback.
>>> 
>>> Troy
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 03/03/2018 04:05 AM, Michael H wrote: 
>>>> I already had AndBible installed.  
>>>> 
>>>> Bishop installed and recognized all the modules (at least 20+ bibles, i 
>>>> haven't confirmed "ALL") that AndBible has present. I haven't attempted 
>>>> any more module installs after installing Bishop, either from AndBible or 
>>>> Bishop. 
>>>> 
>>>> The text is small on my Samsung Galaxy On5. Not horribly unreadably small, 
>>>> but small for me to use for any length of time. I don't see settings to 
>>>> adjust that, so I haven't spent much time on it. I can and will test more 
>>>> if you have something specific.. But this isn't ready for my eyes yet. 
>>>> Very promising tho. :-) Based on the images in the store screen, I would 
>>>> be using it more if the text had size adjustment.  
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 11:05 PM, Troy A. Griffitts <scr...@crosswire.org> 
>>>> wrote: 
>>>> I've had 2 instances of problems running the app.  One was a report from a 
>>>> user here, and another was trying to install the app on my TV.  In both 
>>>> cases, the app showed a blank gray screen after install and and startup.
>>>> 
>>>> I have had debug versions on all my devices here at some point, so I'm not 
>>>> a very good clean test case.  Has anyone had any luck installing and 
>>>> getting the basic set of modules running? Or any problems?  Thanks for any 
>>>> feedback.
>>>> 
>>>> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.crosswire.bishop
>>>> 
>>>> Troy
>>>> 
>>>> On 03/02/2018 01:31 PM, David Haslam wrote: 
>>>>> Suggestion: 
>>>>> Please edit https://wiki.crosswire.org/Frontends:Bishop 
>>>>> and add these details. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Best regards, 
>>>>> 
>>>>> David 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ 
>>>>> On 1 March 2018 2:26 AM, Troy A. Griffitts <scr...@crosswire.org> wrote: 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Dear team, 
>>>>>> You all know we've been working on Cordova bindings for SWORD for quite 
>>>>>> some time now.  We now have a simple reader written in JavaScript which 
>>>>>> will run unchanged on both Android and iOS.Bishop includes an InstallMgr 
>>>>>> to auto-discover remote installation sources and let a user install 
>>>>>> SWORD content. 
>>>>>> I've kept the development code name "Bishop", my favorite android (from 
>>>>>> Aliens) and almost appropriate for a Bible app :)  I've also tacked on 
>>>>>> our boring moniker from our Windows app, "Bishop: The SWORD Project for 
>>>>>> Android".  Long name but should get more search hits. 
>>>>>> Basically, Bishop's UI has 2 basic modes: 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Reader: which simply shows 1 chapter of up to 3 Bibles in parallel. 
>>>>>> Verse Study: When in reader mode, as the user scrolls, one verse will 
>>>>>> always be active, when "Verse Study" is chosen from the menu, the user 
>>>>>> can then drill down into that active verse.  Verse Study has 4 tools:
>>>>>> Word Study: shows the verse broken down word by word, showing the 
>>>>>> original Greek or Hebrew behind each word, along with a simple 
>>>>>> definition.
>>>>>> Commentary: shows all installed commentary for that verse.
>>>>>> Witness Study: shows all available ancient New Testament manuscript 
>>>>>> witnesses which attest to the current verse. 
>>>>>> Variant Study: shows all variant between the manuscript witnesses for 
>>>>>> the current verse. 
>>>>>> Other features include very basic bookmarks and search.  The Android 
>>>>>> release has an initial attempt at BibleSync support to send your current 
>>>>>> verse out to all your friends running Bishop on the same network (thanks 
>>>>>> Karl!). 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The initial goal of Bishop was to be the thinnest client on top of the 
>>>>>> bindings, as an example and thus uses no 3rd party libraries, save 
>>>>>> jQuery.  Now that the initial release is completed and can serve as an 
>>>>>> example, we're free to improve the mobile user interface if anyone feels 
>>>>>> called to join the team and give it a shot. 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Installation locations follow.  It's best to let Bishop install its 
>>>>>> basic set of SWORD modules upon first run, so it has a minimal set of 
>>>>>> tools it can use to operate.  It will prompt you to do this when you 
>>>>>> first launch the application and it finds no modules installed. 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Android users can install the app from: 
>>>>>> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.crosswire.bishop 
>>>>>> iPhone users will need to send me their UDID for testing while we try to 
>>>>>> get through the Apple Store approval process.  I haven't even tried yet 
>>>>>> as I don't have much hope that it is "pretty" enough for them, but the 
>>>>>> download link for the iPhone binary is here: 
>>>>>> https://crosswire.org/bishop/manifest.plist 
>>>>>> https://crosswire.org/bishop.ipa 
>>>>>> The code can be had from: 
>>>>>> http://git.crosswire.org/main/bishop 
>>>>>> Please let us know what you think if you are a user, and offer your 
>>>>>> suggestions from a usability perspective. 
>>>>>> If you are a developer, please offer comments and suggest features you 
>>>>>> have a desire and are willing to add. 
>>>>>> Please give us a great rating so we show up in a search in the Play 
>>>>>> Store and let others know.  I think we have some unique feature that 
>>>>>> other app don't offer and I've been using Bishop as my morning reader 
>>>>>> for a while now.  The default fullscreen text without clutter is 
>>>>>> pleasant. 
>>>>>> Christ's best for you! 
>>>>>> Troy 
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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