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Android Scriptures

Android Scriptures is an android application for reading the Holy Bible or the LDS Standard Works on an android device.

Here’s what it looks like:

Versions

Databases

For versions 0.2.5+, download these databases:
For versions 0.2.4 or earlier, download these databases:

Installation

Post Android Market instructions

  1. Download either the LDS Standard Works or the KJV Holy Bible 
  2. On the phone, go into settings -> sd card & phone storage, and make sure the “use for usb storage” option is checked.
  3. Attach you G1 to your computer
  4. copy the scriptures.db file to your sd card.
  5. Detach the G1 from the computer
  6. On the phone, go into settings -> sd card & phone storage, and uncheck the “use for usb storage”.
  7. Within the Scripture application open up the preferences and point the program at the location where you put the scriptures on the sd card. The file location should being with ‘/sdcard’

Tethered Device (complements of Scott Hawker):

  1. Download either the Holy Bible or the LDS Standard Works and unzip the db file. Note from Dave: You can now download the db files without needing to unzip them. This should eliminate the need for the tethered part of the process.
  2. copy the scriptures.db file to your sd card.
  3. On the phone, go into settings -> sd card & phone storage, and uncheck the “use for usb storage”.
  4. In the settings, go to applications, and check the “unknown sources” checkbox.
  5. Then download the app using your phone’s browser, it will be obvious what to do from there.

Emulator:

  1. Install the Android SDK
  2. Download the APK (the actual program)
  3. Download either the Holy Bible or the LDS Standard Works
  4. Create a sd card image
  5. Start up the emulator, making sure to mount the sd card as part of the start up.
  6. Install the program
    7. adb install androidscriptures.apk
  7. Put the database on the SD card.
    8. adb push scriptures.db /sdcard/scriptures.db
  8. Run the app.

Future plans:

  1.  
    • Download selection dialog when initially installing the application
    • Utility for importing custom/additional content into new or existing databases. Initially will use ThML or OSIS. Samples can be found in the GoBible source repository
    • Search the text of the scriptures for a specific phrase
    • Bookmarks
    • Highlight text
    • Add your own notes
    • Jump to verse: A dialog that you type in a specific reference which would take you to that specific chapter and verse.
    • Wiki searches or links to selected scripture scholar sites
    • Something I haven’t thought of yet

A special thanks goes out to the Mormon Documentation Project for the database. It would have taken me a lot longer to get this done if I had been required to create the database on my own.

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By Dave
29 October 2008

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