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MinimalBible
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A Bible app for android designed to be more focused in both UI and feature set.
Project Outline
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This outline is intended to show the tasks needing to be accomplished, and give an idea of when releases will happen.
Core:
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These are the tasks that will need to be accomplished before the 1.0 major release.
* Project setup
* Add the appcompat project to the Git repository
**Done as of [d6c7f498e6e1f5bbd7895f979dc25c5537e7cae5](https://github.com/DjBushido/MinimalBible/commit/d6c7f498e6e1f5bbd7895f979dc25c5537e7cae5)**
* Integration with JSword
* Build JSword
* Distribute an Android binary that contains JSword and 3rd party libraries
**Done as of [fd6c0630799d360cef83871cc6b3af05e4dc3a0d](https://github.com/DjBushido/MinimalBible/commit/fd6c0630799d360cef83871cc6b3af05e4dc3a0d)**
* Download Manager
* Bible browser
* Can download Bibles
* Can remove Bibles
* Generate search indexes for Bibles
* Bible Viewer
* UI design finalized
* Use Immersive mode for 4.4+?
* Panels for footnotes, commentary?
* Navigation drawer for books?
* What gestures should be used? (Swipe left/right for chapter search?)
* How to get to Download Manager / some form of home page?
* Navigation of books working
* Can display Bible text
* Time from launch to viewing text under 5s. Ideally, under 3s. as well.
* Can use navigation drawer to open a book
* Infinite scroll between chapters
* Research how to accomplish infinite scroll
* Implement infinite scroll
* Red letter enabled
* Cleanup
* Include only necessary libraries for jSword, rather than all dependencies. APK ~20MB is way too big.
**Release v.1 to Play store**
* * *
* Search
* UI design finalized (integration in Bible Viewer, separate activity?)
* Search functionality implemented
* Get Lucene search working (included in JSword)
* Tweak search (fuzzy? Lord -> LORD? Are we actually getting results we want?)
* Search history recorded
* Record when search took place?
**Release v.2**
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* Download Manager
* Download manager can fetch commentaries
* Footnotes/Commentaries
* UI design finalized
* Frame on bottom of Bible Viewer a la [this](http://blog.neteril.org/blog/2013/10/10/framelayout-your-best-ui-friend/)?
* Switch between footnotes/commentaries by swiping on panel?
* Right-side nav drawer like FB?
* Can we synchronize scroll between commentaries/footnotes?
* Should Bible search also search commentaries?
* Implement/Show commentaries/footnotes
* Synchronize scrolling Bible to footnotes/commentaries
* Is this possible?
* Implement it!
* Clicking on note in text opens commentary
**Release v.3**
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* Settings Manager
* Night mode?
* Automatic night mode?
* Text font/size
* Clear searches?
* Disable red-letter?
* Send feedback
* Home screen
* Allow access to settings, download manager, and Bible Viewer
**Release v1.0**
**Party!**
* * *
Feature Addition
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These are features I want to add, but are not considered part of the "core" product. Many (most) are necessary features of a modern app, but follow after the first major release.
### Usage statistics
* Include usage statistics?
* Only send statistics on WiFi?
* Disable by default? Prompt user?
### Sharing
* UI Design finalized
* Click on text to select it, then share?
* Long-click text to share?
* Share currently active text?
* Dialog to select what range of text is included?
* Share commentary/footnotes?
* Intent filter created to share via FB, email, etc.
* Settings
* Share link to app alongside text? Allow disabling?
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### Highlighting
* UI Design finalized
* Click on text to select like share?
* Highlight colors / custom colors?
* Multiple highlight colors?
* Remove highlights?
* Database backing
* First feature to need a database! Success!
* How to store sections of highlighted material?
* Store start/end range, along with highlight color?
* Store when highlight was created?
* Bible Viewer
* How to show highlights?
* More specifically, how does showing highlights impact performance on start?
* Show text first, then highlights after loaded?
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### Notes
* UI Design finalized
* Likely very similar to highlighting
* Database backing
* Likely very similar to highlighting
* Store note instead of highlight color?
* Store when note was created / updated?
* Bible Viewer
* Same concerns as highlighting, how does it impact speed?
* How do we display notes? Highlighting changes background color, have a separate link for our notes?
* Do notes get added to a panel on bottom? Can user browse notes?
* Home Screen
* Notes browser
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### Widgets
* Text to display here?
* Shortcut to specific verse/chapter?
* How to create shortcuts?
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### Cloud support
* Backup notes/highlights to cloud service?
* Just backup entire app database to cloud?
* Google Drive/Dropbox?
* Settings
* Automated backups?
* Backup on WiFi only?
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Plenty to get done!