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joshn53 2010-03-30 12:30
Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)
 
It's very unlikely that any major new features will be available by April 1st.

I like Logos' APIs (go REST!), but I'd echo the others - if the APIs are online-only at this point, I don't see a lot of advantage to using them; BibleGateway.net provides online access to many translations. Adding support for the API could be a fun exercise to demonstrate how easy it is to add a new text source, but the difficulty would be showing nice status when downloading data from the server.

ARJWright 2010-03-30 19:00
Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by joshn53 (Post 588146)
It's very unlikely that any major new features will be available by April 1st.

I like Logos' APIs (go REST!), but I'd echo the others - if the APIs are online-only at this point, I don't see a lot of advantage to using them; BibleGateway.net provides online access to many translations. Adding support for the API could be a fun exercise to demonstrate how easy it is to add a new text source, but the difficulty would be showing nice status when downloading data from the server.
Duly noted.

And the status message from the server for non-local content... that sounds like something fun to learn more about from my end. Thanks for the feedback there.

joshn53 2010-04-10 14:38
Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)
 
A short update: I've just committed code in SVN to manage translations, including downloading new translations off of the internet. This removes the dependency on Rapier to install translations. Unfortunately, since the Autobuilder is messed up until PR 1.2, so I can't upload a new version.

As soon as PR 1.2 is released, I'll upload a compatible version. The work at that point will be testing, and I'll need all of your help to do testing (and vote the application up, of course!) so that we can get it into Extras.

Aside from helping the app move into extras, I likely won't be spending much more time on it; I've spent about as much time as I can justify, and for me it's pretty much feature complete.

For those of you wanting .pdb support: I still don't know of any translations available in .pdb format that aren't available in the sword repository (and can therefore be download with a few clicks.) If any of you have modules like this, would you mind sending them to me?

doksng 2010-04-14 17:22
Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)
 
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Just updated to version 3.0. Thanks joshn53

You can now download Bibles directly through Katana.
You can install and remove multiple Bible versions at the same time.

When I used the option it deleted all the bible versions I had previously downloaded using Rapier, so I had to start over again.

You now have a button to close search results

Noticed that once in a while it would give an error message that Katana is not responding during download and search but I clicked on no to continue.

Downloading bibles was slow and took quite some time.
There is no notification when populating the list of bibles to download and might give the impression that it is not responding

Joshn53, I think there should be an "About" section with your name, contact details, version number and link to this discussion on t.m.o.

Thanks

cardiff-blues 2010-04-14 17:42
Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)
 
This is excellent guys! Well done on your hard work and God Bless!

treofant 2010-04-14 18:46
Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)
 
WOW, this prog is so cool!
Thanks a lot!:)

cardiff-blues 2010-04-14 22:48
Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)
 
could I ask how difficult it might be to have an option to inverse the screen colours when in reading mode? I think mguttenburg has this and I am guessing that reading white text on a black background would be less battery intensive because the screen isn't light up as much.

joshn53 2010-04-14 23:25
Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by cardiff-blues (Post 610994)
could I ask how difficult it might be to have an option to inverse the screen colours when in reading mode? I think mguttenburg has this and I am guessing that reading white text on a black background would be less battery intensive because the screen isn't light up as much.
It's probably not that hard to add, but you won't save any battery doing it. Remember that an LCD screen creates color by restricting light, not creating it.

Besides battery life, is there an argument for this? My main objection is that it's Yet Another Setting.

joshn53 2010-04-14 23:33
Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by doksng (Post 610531)
When I used the option it deleted all the bible versions I had previously downloaded using Rapier, so I had to start over again.
Hmm. I added validation against that... So you were really able to delete all the translations? I'll have to fix that.

Quote:
Originally Posted by doksng (Post 610531)
Noticed that once in a while it would give an error message that Katana is not responding during download and search but I clicked on no to continue.
Yuck. That's when the sword libraries are hanging. I may have to roll my own FTP transport to fix that.

Quote:
Originally Posted by doksng (Post 610531)
Downloading bibles was slow and took quite some time.
There is no notification when populating the list of bibles to download and might give the impression that it is not responding
I'll look into this as well. Were you downloading bibles over wifi or 3G? I'm guessing that high latency was causing this.

Quote:
Originally Posted by doksng (Post 610531)
Joshn53, I think there should be an "About" section with your name, contact details, version number and link to this discussion on t.m.o.
I agree that an about page would be a good idea. I wish I had time to set up a website - I'm hesitant to link to this forum, since I hope that Katana will have a life beyond Maemo (i.e. MeeGo.) We'll see.

smartin737 2010-04-15 00:46
Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)
 
Thanks for the great work, Josh!

Does anyone know about importing non-free versions to into Katana? I'm interested in getting the NLT version. It's $15 at ESword, but I don't want to buy it on my home PC, then find that I can only use it there.

Will it download as a stand-alone file that can be copied over to my N900? Is Katana set up to search for files copied over like that?

Thanks again!

Steve


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