Hey Troy, I have a Galaxy S8 and finally installed Bishop now that it is on the Play Store. On launch, the app shows a grey screen and then crashes. I sent feedback with the logs, but let me know if I can help in any way to debug this.
Chris Umphress On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 5:05 AM, 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 <https://protonmail.com> Secure Email. > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On 1 March 2018 2:26 AM, Troy A. Griffitts <scr...@crosswire.org> > <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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: > sword-devel@crosswire.orghttp://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > > > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > -- Chris Umphress <http://www.epicvoyage.org>
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