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CrossWire compatible bible application

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Gaming4JC:
Hello All,
I was looking around and it seems CrossWire has Ipod Touch and Iphone support, but as of yet it does not support any of the older Ipods or media devices. (Lowest level is J2ME's gobible) The code is written so that it is easy to port and it provides a wealthy repo of bibles, commentaries, etc. to access.

Read more: http://www.crosswire.org/sword/develop/

I'm sure you could also get some support from the devs there if you decided to create such an application since they are looking to port it to as many platforms as possible.  :)

Their IRC channel is #sword on the same network as #rockbox.

I'd like to be able to read religious books from the Ipod Nano 2nd Gen with a simple interface that allows searching and selection by chapter/verse. If anyone else thinks this is a good idea feel free to comment.

saratoga:

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Read more: http://www.crosswire.org/sword/develop/


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That code is all in c++ so I think that would be quite difficult to get to work with rockbox.  Although I suppose if you were really motivated you could probably write a compatible application from scratch. 

gevaerts:

--- Quote from: Gaming4JC on January 13, 2011, 09:30:27 PM ---I'd like to be able to read religious books from the Ipod Nano 2nd Gen with a simple interface that allows searching and selection by chapter/verse. If anyone else thinks this is a good idea feel free to comment.

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There are clearly people who want such functionality. However, if someone writes or ports such a program, can it be made so that it can handle more than one text? As far as I can see most (or even all) main books used by the big religions use a very similar chapter/verse organisation, so there should be no need for more than one application to handle all of them.

Gaming4JC:
@saratoga: Hmm yes it may be easier to try to port one of their other projects since c++ would nearly impossible. I'm not sure how difficult or if it is even possible to run J2ME on the Rockbox platofrm, but that could be a more mobile code to inspect.
http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/Projects:Go_Bible

@gevaerts: Yes, to my knowledge if using the Crosswire format it can read all books and texts in the same way. That's what makes the project so easily portable. Plus you can select which books you want to download from their repo to import into the reader application ;D

Chronon:
J2ME is a no go on Rockbox.  Rockbox is purely written in C and assembly.  There's support for some Lua via a plugin.

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