Hi Troy, Apologies, I was a bit confused regarding the different projects. The above was my first post to *Sword forums. I incorrectly thought that JSword, Sword and other Crosswire forums would be worked on by the same people. I have now joined the JSword-dev list which I had not spotted before.
Whether the back end is built based on Sword or JSword it might be worthwhile combining with the Java Jsword guys for the front end which I think has to be in Java. I may download your apk and try it out. I can put my code/build somewhere if you want but it's still in a state of great flux. Kind regards Martin On 13 June 2010 04:54, Troy A. Griffitts <scr...@crosswire.org> wrote: > Martin, > > Great news on your success of getting JSword to build on Android. I'm > sure the JSword mailing list would be interested to hear about your > success! > > I'm not sure about the speed. I will add a primitive search box to my > test app and let you know how long a complete search of the KJV (a > heavily marked up Bible) takes on my G1. > > Troy. > > > > > On 06/09/2010 05:28 AM, mjdenham 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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