For what its worth, I tested on 4 platforms: * Acer tablet with Android 4.4.2 * Motorola phone with Android 7.1.1 * Apple iPad Pro with iOS 11.2.6 * Apple iPhone 7 plus with iOS 11.2.6
Observations: * Search works consistently with eBible.org modules (unlike PocketSword). * Poetry 2nd lines are not indented, but it would be nice if they were. * The app icon for Android is much nicer than the app icon for iOS. (The latter looks more like a Minecraft monster head.) * I like the way columns without a current chapter to display disappear, making a nice seamless way to display the Hebrew OT and Greek NT next to another Bible translation. * Support for display of Strong's numbers and visible linkage of parallel translations and/or lexicons where the word stem matches would be nice. On 03/22/2018 01:32 PM, Michael Johnson wrote: > Hello, Troy & all! > > After a bit of testing, I have concluded that the Bishop app is awesome. :-) > Its current version works well on both iOS and Android. > I like its Scripture display layout. OK, there is some room for improvement > in poetry display, making secondary and tertiary lines indented a little more > like the NIV and World English Bible official printed editions do, but other > than that, most things I think of now fall firmly in the camp of feature > addition instead of bug fixes; like maybe more complete localization to other > user interface languages. > > The biggest flaw is not yet being in the Apple App Store for general use on > iOS devices. Sure sending Troy a UDID and side loading a special compilation > works for me for now, but it would get really tedious for Troy after more > than just a few testers... and there are limits to how many testers you can > have. I think it is at least as good as many iOS apps that are in Apple's App > Store. I have an active Apple developer account, so I could submit it if you > like, after I get back from the conference I am > enroute to, now. > > > On 03/01/2018 10:26 AM, Troy A. Griffitts 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.org >> http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel >> Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > -- signature Aloha, */Michael Johnson/** PO BOX 881143 • PUKALANI HI 96788-1143*• USA mljohnson.org <http://mljohnson.org> • Phone: +1 808-333-6921 • Skype: kahunapule _______________________________________________ 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
