I would be glad to provide input for the user interface.
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:28 AM, mjdenham <mjden...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Troy, > > I just thought I would mention that I have also been playing around with > Android. > > I have spent the last few weeks creating a prototype bible viewer > application for Android, but I just noticed Troy's messages in this forum. > I took a slightly different technical approach to you and I don't know > which > is better and I also came at this project with the aim of creating a mobile > bible viewer I could tweak and improve rather than specifically to write an > Android front end for Sword. By way of information I thought I would > outline my approach and what led me to start. > > I have used Pocket e-Sword for many years but development has now ceased on > Pocket e-Sword and it is already looking a bit old, as is WinMob that it > runs on, so I started thinking what to use in the future. Although I loved > using Pocket e-sword there were one or two things that I would have loved > to > change if I had access to the source but the source was closed. Most > pocket > bible apps seem to be closed source and many charge money or depend on > being > on-line so I began to think about writing my own. I have been writing Java > code for a living since the 90's. I looked at Java ME which unfortunately > is not supported by recent, popular, trend-setting phones like iPhone and > Android and started going that route but there doesn't seem to be much > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1414288/j2me-vs-android-vs-iphone-vs-symbian-vs-windows-ce > buzz around Java ME at the moment. I briefly thought of iPhone but refuse > to learn Objective-C, buy a Mac, and bend over backwards to get the app > into > App Store. Then I realised that Google have built Android primarily for > Java Applications and Gartner predict that by 2012 Android will outsell the > iPhone so I downloaded the Android SDK and am impresed by the application > framework Google have put into Android. Incidentally I went to a > fascinating talk on Android by Reto Meier yesterday evening. > > As Android hosts Java apps so well it seemed a good idea to use java front > to back so I downloaded the jSword and sword-Common projects back-end to > serve the OSIS documents and started creating a Java front-end for jsword > on > Android so I have now been doing that for the last couple of weeks off and > on. I included the jsword and common jars in my Android app and simplified > the xslt template I found in bible-desktop and now have a basic bible > viewer > app. > > Troy, I am interested to see that you use jni to access a C back-end. Is > that right? Does this give better performance or is there another reason. > > In the front end I am currently using a TextView but briefly used a WebView > which has better html support. I may have to switch back to WebView. I > tried to copy the PocketSword verse selection screen but failed so I am > just > using 3 combos for now. > > I haven't used Crosswire code before and it took me a while to get used to > OSIS and jsword but the code looks great and I am now familiar enough with > jsword to find my way around the necessary parts. > > Here is a screen print of the current state: > http://sword-dev.350566.n4.nabble.com/file/n2248754/android-bible1.jpg > > For now I am still happily trying to improve on the prototype but I could > switch and contribute to a central project with others. My only aim is to > create a good open source bible I can tweak and that others may find useful > too. > > Best regards > Martin > -- > View this message in context: > http://sword-dev.350566.n4.nabble.com/Android-SWORD-tp360475p2248754.html > Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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