MinimalBible

A Bible app for android designed to be more focused in both UI and feature set.

Project Outline

This outline is intended to show the tasks needing to be accomplished, and give an idea of when releases will happen.

These are the tasks that will need to be accomplished before the 1.0 major release.

Integration with JSword
- Build JSword
- Distribute an Android binary that contains JSword and 3rd party libraries
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

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?)

Release v.2

Release v.3

Release v1.0
Party!