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MinimalBible: Project Outline

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

Core:

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

  • Project setup

  • Integration with JSword

  • Download Manager

  • Bible Viewer

    • UI design finalized
      • Use Immersive mode for 4.4%2B?
      • 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

  • Download Manager

    • Download manager can fetch commentaries

  • Footnotes/Commentaries

    • UI design finalized
      • Frame on bottom of Bible Viewer a la this?
      • 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

  • 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

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?

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?

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

Widgets

  • Text to display here?
  • Shortcut to specific verse/chapter?

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?

Plenty to get done!