[sword-devel] Bishop 1.8.0pre5 with SWORD 1.10.0pre1

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Bishop Beta.  Hey team!  Apparently I had misconfigured the beta google 
with "Who can see the group: Only Group Members." which didn't let 
anyone get to the 'Request membership" link.  Now when you go to the 
link, you should see:

"You don't have permission to access this content. For access, try 
asking to join the group."

Here's the link again.  After you get approved to join, you can then 
click on the Bishop beta.  I guess this doesn't remove me for the 
joining process, but at least it's an automated way for interested 
people to ask for membership instead of sending emails.

https://groups.google.com/g/crosswire-google-beta

Then after approval (or if your email has already be explicitly included 
from past tests):

https://play.google.com/apps/testing/org.crosswire.bishop

Then your play store install of Bishop will install the beta version 
instead of stopping at the last release version.

Sorry for the misconfiguration,

Troy



On 9/5/26 1:06 AM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> While testing and fixing SWORD 1.10.0pre1 I used Bishop (Android) as 
> my client.  As a result we have a new Bishop prelease available built 
> against the latest SWORD and with a few new features.
>
> A few of us have been trying to fill the hole PocketSword left us 
> (thanks Tobias <contact at tklein.info>, Martin <mjdenham at gmail.com>, 
> Maxwell <maxmmur at gmail.com>, and any others I've missed).  And in this 
> spirit I had a look at what PocketSword did well and Bishop sucked at 
> and tried to improve a few things, including:
>
>  - Bookmark support, which lets you read/write bookmarks to a shared 
> folder like Google Drive.
>  - Verse colors set on your bookmarks or bookmark folders to highlight 
> text in reading mode
>  - Notes on bookmarks which get shown in the notes tab at the bottom 
> when turned on.
>
> And I've tried to make it prettier, because, well, Bishop and most of 
> my GUIs have historically not been beautiful.
>
> I also do think I have a solution for sharing SWORD libraries between 
> apps on various versions of Android.
> You should be able to select something like /sdcard/Documents/sword/ 
> now for SWORD library storage and theoretically have that location 
> also be selected from another Android app where they can share the 
> location.
>
> Also more manuscript research features, in step with the INTF work we do.
>
> Some of you are already on the beta list, but if not, the only way I 
> found to let people register themselves without my involvement is to 
> add a 'google group' to the beta availability and let you join the 
> google group.
>
> If you're not on the beta and would like to join, it's a quick three 
> steps with the same Google account you use on your phone:
>
> 1. Join the tester group: 
> https://groups.google.com/g/crosswire-google-beta (wait a few minutes 
> for it to propagate across Google services).
> 2. Join the beta: 
> https://play.google.com/apps/testing/org.crosswire.bishop
> 3. Update Bishop from the Play Store (or install it, if you are new). 
> Later betas arrive as normal updates.
>
> Theming has been redone, so if you had Bishop already installed and 
> had selected app and/or reading fonts and sizes along with an old 
> theme, your choices will be reset to the defaults.  Sorry about that.
>
> We could really use translator updates for the UI.  I had fable give 
> best guesses and have kept them all below a ======== PLEASE REVIEW THE 
> MACHINE TRANSLATIONS BELOW THIS LINE ========== line.
>
> What would help:
>
>   - Play with the module manager under "Library", especially over 
> HTTP(S) sources.
>   - Try the new Manuscripts panel and the Coverage tab and tell me 
> what makes sense and what does not.
>   - Anything that looks wrong at the top or bottom edge of the screen, 
> in landscape, or on a phone with a display cutout.
>   - If your language is among the 18 or so uilocales.d/ files we ship, 
> look at the Settings and the Manuscripts screens and send corrections 
> or patches.  The files live here:
> https://git.crosswire.org/main/bishop/-/tree/master/www/bundledResources/uilocales.d 
>
>   - Let me know what you think of the Bookmarks, notes, and verse 
> highlight colors features.  We all miss Nic and look forward to seeing 
> him again face to Face with our Savior.
>
> Please send your feedback here and not to the google group-- that was 
> only a mechanism for self-subscription to the beta.
>
> Hope everyone is well,
>
> Troy
>
>
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