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