MySword

MySword Change Log

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MySword App Change Log

This list changes in MySword versions from the recent to the oldest. To download the latest version, please go to the Download MySword page.

Release History

Version	Release date	Highlights
3.1.1	17 May 2012	Bug fixes
3.1	16 May 2012	* User Interface Localization
3.0	19 March 2012	* Better tablet support (Deluxe) and folder reorganization for easy cloud server backup and sync
2.4	6 December 2011	Move to SD Card, Share content
2.3.1	25 October 2011	Parallel Bible view
2.2	3 October 2011	Color Theme management
2.1	3 September 2011	Paragraph mode
2.0	26 July 2011	Journal (topical notes), Full-text search
1.6.2	9 June 2011
1.6.1	4 June 2011
1.6	3 June 2011
1.5	27 May 2011	* Initial Android Market release
1.4	14 May 2011	Color theme
1.3	21 April 2011	Improved Wiki in Personal Notes
1.2	7 April 2011	Better history navigation
1.1	26 March 2011	Full screen mode
1.0	19 March 2011	* Website and app launch

Change Log

1. Bugs Fixed in Version 3.1.1
2. What's new in Version 3.1
3. Bugs Fixed in Version 3.1
4. What's new in Version 3.0
5. Bugs Fixed in Version 3.0
6. What's new in Version 2.4
7. Bugs Fixed in Version 2.4
8. What's new in Version 2.3/2.3.1
9. Bug's Fixed in Version 2.3/2.3.1
10. What's new in Version 2.2
11. Bug's Fixed in Version 2.2
12. What's new in Version 2.1
13. Bug's Fixed in Version 2.1
14. What's new in Version 2.0
15. What's new in Version 2.0 RC2
16. What's new in Version 2.0 RC1
17. Bug's Fixed in Version 2.0 RC1
18. Bug's Fixed in Version 1.6.2
19. Bug's Fixed in Version 1.6.1
20. What's New in Version 1.6
21. Bug's Fixed in Version 1.6
22. What's New in Version 1.5
23. Bug's Fixed in Version 1.5
24. What's New in Version 1.4
25. Bug's Fixed in Version 1.4
26. What's New in Version 1.3
27. Known Issue in Version 1.3
28. Bug's Fixed in Version 1.3
29. What's New in Version 1.2
30. Known Issue in Version 1.2
31. Bug's Fixed in Version 1.2
32. What's New in Version 1.1
33. Known Issue in Version 1.1
34. Bug's Fixed in Version 1.1

Bugs Fixed in Version 3.1.1

The following bugs were fixed:

1. Sometimes the Bible do not scroll properly to the currently selected verse in Bible link tap, Verse select, Translation selection and History navigation. This more often happens in ICS.
2. Fresh install does not create the 7 default journals if Sample Journal is downloaded.
3. First load of Sample Journal shows does not go to the Table of Contents (-TOC).
4. When all Bibles are selected and sorted alphabetically in Parallel View Arrange screen, Parallel View will not work as the setting is cleared.

What's new in Version 3.1

1. New Preference: Single tap in Full screen - enable/disable the single tap in full screen to temporarily show the buttons.
2. Support for Language specific Book names in Bible modules displayed in the Bible view as well as Verse Select screen.
3. UI localization support using downloadable language module. Currently, the following languages are available for download: Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), Tagalog.
4. Improved book identification in verse link that can be used in manually typed verse link in [[]] or Enter verse dialog (long tap of Verse Selector). Common shortcuts like Lv for Leviticus, Mt for Matthew and so on are added. Also, verse link that is solely book name with space is now properly linked like 2 Kings.
5. Links with comma are now properly linked like [[Mat 4:5,6]] which goes to Mat 4:5 instead of Mat 4:1.
6. Simple external file link support using http:// and file:// in the editor (links that starts with www. or / are converted into http://www. and file:///, respectively). For file://, Android native file extensions currently supported are: png, gif, jpg and jpeg for image; mp3, ogg and mid for audio; mp4, mpeg and 3gp for video; and others are treated as text/html MIME type. Appropriate applications must be available in the Android device.
7. Added smcaps CSS style for small caps that can be used in the Editor as well as other modules.
8. New Bible view button: Bible view preferences - short cut for paragraph mode, words of Jesus in red, show Strong's tags, Morph tags, translators' notes, title and with verse line spacing (Premium version only).
9. Reference/Translators' notes popup text now follows the zoom level higher than 125% (Normal). It is scrollable for long text.
10. Insert date, date/time, symbol/special character (Premium feature). Premium shows the symbols in popup up dialog while the Deluxe in split view over the Module preview on the right.
11. Support for Bible tag <FU><Fu> for underlined (used in Wilbur Pickering New Testament WPNT) and <FO><Fo> for OT quotation (currently only used by KJV and the new KJVLite and must be manually formatted for CSS using style name .ot; you can enter: .ot{font-weight:bold} ).

Bug's Fixed in Version 3.1

The following bugs were fixed:

1. Swipe left/right to go to previous/next page also fires in diagonal swipes which some users had noted. The sensitivity is now limited to 30 degrees or below (with respect to the horizontal) diagonal moves.
2. Create new Journal does not fire an error if the file already exists causing duplicated entries in the Journal spinner (drop-down list) even though a new journal is not created.
3. Initial install then download of modules always fail on the Sample journal because of wrong file name. However after restarting MySword the next try will work because the downloaded file list has a correct file name.
4. Link tap in Deluxe version does not look for similar module type on the right view first but always from left to right.
5. Highlighting and add/remove Personal verse notes in ICS may not scroll back to the current verse.
6. There is an unwanted space at the beginning of the table if it was preceded by a list (bullet or number) when loaded to the Editor. This causes the table to be broken when saved.
7. Problems with Select Modules Path other than the default path:
• Fresh install cannot use non-default path because MySword 3.0 is still using the default path.
• MySword cannot run if the default path cannot be created (/sdcard is not writable if the there is no SD Card in some models).
• Upgrade from MySword 2.4 which used non-default path cannot use that path because MySword 3.0 is still using the default path.
• Reinstall (uninstall/install) cannot use non-default path because MySword 3.0 is still using the default path.
8. View settings like navigation positions are not saved sometimes upon exit.
9. Some force close due to NullPointerException.
10. Fresh load of MySword then going to a new book for the first time will show there are no entries and suggests to create one. This may also happen when a link to a journal entry is clicked and you switch to a new book.
11. Fresh install of MySword may create 2 copies each of the 7 default journals, one copy in the journals folder and another in the journalsbig causing "Failed to initialize UI. Invalid location -1, size is 0" in the first run. The latter folder is supposed to be empty. The duplicate only happens if the file system is not FAT32/VFAT and file names are case sensitive (SD Card is normally formatted as FAT324). Succeeding runs will show duplicate entries in the Journal selector.
12. Reference/Translators' notes popup long text is not scrollable if font is specified.
13. Reference/Translators' notes with ' (singly quote) are cropped (e.g. NHEB Act 23:9 c, LEB Mat 17:22 2nd + one more, KJV Gen 20:3 + 40 more) while those with % shows Processing failed... (e.g. Mat 1:25 WPNT 2).
14. There are some remaining Bible or HTML tags in Share verse.
15. The Journal Id and Dictionary Word selector buttons are too narrow in Holographic Theme for High density screens and a little narrow for QVGA.
16. Table header text is not visible in Black background because the CSS is hardcoded. It should just follow the Parallel table color.

What's new in Version 3.0

1. New Preferences:
• Orientation (Automatic, Portrait or Landscape). Some tablet devices default to Landscape when Auto-rotate screen is disabled but if the user wanted Portrait, the Auto-rotate sometimes is distracting. This preference will select the preferred orientation.
• Button size (Normal, Larger). The larger will be very useful for tablets like Galaxy Tab 8.9/10.1 especially for people having difficulty with small icons.
• Honeycomb Theme (Default, Holographic Dark or Holographic Light) for Honeycomb and up tablets. Honeycomb and up tablets now default to Holographic Dark but the user still can change the theme. Galaxy Tab 8.9/10.1 users will be happy to see the UI especially button text to be easily readable. The UI is now better integrated with Honeycomb.
2. Main screen improvements:
• Changed the Previous/Next Chapter/Verse buttons on the top from Up/Down to Left/Right arrows to be more intuitive.
• Split screen where each view can have its own module type (Bible, Commentary, Dictionary, Journal/Book, Notes) which can be in sync or unsync. This is Tablet Deluxe version.
3. Search screen improvements:
• Added Go to selected and Scroll Page up/down buttons at the bottom.
• Split screen with search details and item results on the left pane (MySword 2.0 or lower) and preview of whole Bible chapter and contents for other types on the right. This is Tablet Deluxe version.
4. Editor improvements:
   • Added unlimited undo/redo capability for the editors (Premium version only). Added undo and redo buttons.
   • Added cut button.
   • Added highlight button that displays the highlight colors that can be used to highlight selected text. This uses the %classname text% MySword textile wiki syntax.
   • Improved the Bold, Italic and Underline button action behavior so that when there is no selection the cursor is placed in between the Wiki tags and not at the end so the user can just type the text he wanted to be emphasized.
   • Split screen where the orginal editor is on the left with a Module viewer on the right (the Premium version Mini Bible viewer is just a Bible viewer but this right pane can display also other module types). This is Tablet Deluxe version.
5. Reorganized the modules and database paths by moving all the databases to the modules path's specific folder per type: bookmarks.mybible, highlight.mybible and settings.mybible go to mydata folder; versenotes.mybible goes to notes; all bibles formerly on the top folder are moved to bibles folder, books to books folder, commentaries to commentaries folder, dictionaries to dictionaries folder, and journals to journals folder. This will now easily enable easy folder synchronization with Cloud storage servers and thus sync your PC notebook/desktop backup and your Android devices.
• Please see Cloud storage MySword data backup and synchronization
6. Removed the (-)Lite/Full in the Bible Abbreviation copy/share verse.
7. Added long tap/click Verse Select button for Enter Verse Dialog via keyboard. Spaces are optional for fast entry and you can use dot instead of colon. E.g. ma = Mat 1:1, ma5 = Mat 5:1, ma5.10 = Mat 5:10, 1j = 1 Joh 1:1.
8. Added two CSS Color Themes: Dark Olive Green preset and Light Golden Rod preset (Premium version only).
9. Changed the fresh install initial Bible from KJV to whatever can be found first in this list: ISV, NET, NHEB, WEB, BBE, KJVLite, KJV.

Bug's Fixed in Version 3.0

The following bugs were fixed:

1. Adding/Removing Bible Bookmarks but not selecting a new bookmark will not update the four top bookmark buttons.
2. Search initial message of Maximum results of 100 is in black color so in dark background it is not readable.
3. The Previous/Next buttons in Arrange Dictionary, Commentary and Journal buttons have wrong description (the description is Bible's and is about verse/chapter). Also Select Journal/Book module and Select Topic of the Arrange Journal buttons have wrong sample text in the buttons.
4. If the default Strong's Dictionary or whatever is previously selected in the Preference is deleted or Strong's dictionary (Strong or Strong-lite) is not downloaded, if the Hebrew or Greek Strong's Dictionary is tapped in the Preference it will cause a force close.
5. Fresh install initial Bible translation shortcuts are always the first Bible followed by 5 Compares even though there are more than one Bibles downloaded.
6. The Editor's Mini Bible Viewer's copy all text, copy current verse and add current verse to clipboard does not work for Compare and Parallel if the Main window's current Bible is not Compare or Parallel.
7. Creating a Journal entry but canceling the editor will make a blank entry that is treated as there are no entries by the viewer.
8. Deleting all text in a journal entry and saving shows a warning message but the %s is not displaying the title. After the save/delete the viewer now shows there are no entries because the old entry is no longer available.
9. The search crashes when Parallel is selected (Parallel should not really be there).
10. Copy Dictionary, Journal, Commentary and Notes included the navigation links at the bottom, some other tags at the beginning and some HTML tags (in ISV there are some empty sup tags).
11. Using the %cssclassname text% wiki command in the editor inside a list makes the list non-terminating and the succeeding heading (h1. to h6.) not be parsed properly when the content is reloaded to the editor.
12. Select highlight dialog shows black background for the highlight items in Sony devices.
13. Formatting fixes to support special tags in Open English Bible.

What's new in Version 2.4

1. Added Move to SD Card for Android 2.2 and up.
• Note that only the APK is moved to SD Card when you move MySword to SD Card. The current APK size is 646 KB. The settings, highlights, bookmarks, Personal Notes and user Journals are stored in the internal memory (that is why they need to be backed up regularly using Menu->More->Backup data).
• The modules are normally already installed into the SD Card.
2. Officially included both the Compare and Parallel in the Editor's Mini Bible View (Premium version only).
• But the Parallel view translations selection cannot be changed and must be changed in the Main View.
3. Added Delete Notes button to the far right (you may need to scroll the Personal Notes buttons).
• Formerly, the only way to delete notes is to go to the editor, delete all text (long press to open menu and select Cut All), then save.
4. Select highlight screen improvements:
   • Added a Range button to Highlight Screen to allow the user to select the range of verses to highlight (or remove highlight).
   • Added Hide/Show button to hide or show all highlights (this is a session only setting and is not saved in the Preferences).
5. Share content (Bible verse, verse range, notes, journal entry and other content as well) via Email and SMS (Premium version only).
6. Added swipe left column for brightness adjustment and pinch-zoom for font-size adjustment (Premium version only). Please go to the Preferences to enable these.
7. Added Bookmark capabilities for all other module types: Notes, Commentaries, Dictionaries and Journals/Books (Premium version only). Except for Notes, the bookmark is per module (per commentary, dictionary, journal/book). Also, the scroll position is saved as percentage. Currently, the current position is only saved in History Stack but not in Settings when you exit, but now you can save your current position via bookmarks.

Bug's Fixed in Version 2.4

The following bugs were fixed:

1. WEB displays the Translators' notes in line with the text which should be in a link and a popup. This was caused by TheWord tag Red words embedding Notes tag.
2. Visual Theme Editor sometimes corrupts the CSS style for bold, italic and underlined causing them not to work. For example: copy Default as new theme, Edit theme, select Verse Number, check italic, save then test - the italic is not working.
3. When in parallel view, open any editor (Personal Notes or Journal), going to Mini Bible View (using the Premium button) will cause a Forced Close.

What's new in Version 2.3

1. Parallel Bible view (Premium version only). The non-premium is limited to Chapter 1 only for all books of the Bible as demo.

   Parallel view in portrait mode comparing KJVLite, ISV and NET:

   

   Parallel view in landscape full screen mode:

   

   Parallel view in portrait full screen mode, smallest font size, single translation (NHEB) showing verse mode on the left and paragraph mode on the right:

   

   Parallel view in a tablet device comparing ISV, KJV, TR and NET:

   

2. You can now just drop the manually downloaded module files (*.mybible.gz or *.zip) into MySword modules path (default to /sdcard/mysword) and the modules will be automatically extracted (and the zip files deleted) when you restart MySword.
3. Adjusted the sensitivity of swipe left/right for navigation so that the minimum distance required is increased by 50%: 113 pixels for QVGA, 150 pixels for HVGA and 225 pixels for VGA. This is roughly around 1/3 of the horizontal screen in portrait mode.
4. Capability to use an alternate download site for modules.
5. Added KVJLite (King James Version without Strong's numbers) to the new users' download module list. There are some new users who are not aware that there is a KJV without Strong's numbers.
6. Ability to export all Notes and whole Journals (the ones you created) into HTML (Premium version only).

Bug's Fixed in Version 2.3/2.3.1

The following bugs were fixed:

1. Visual Color Theme Editor do not show the color changes feedback for Heading 1.
2. Tapping the Create New Journal Entry picture in the Journal content view for new journal without entries yet should not open the Picture Viewer.
3. Bug Fixed in Version 2.3.1: Words of Jesus in Red, Translators' notes in green and the Verse Number in black/bold does not show unless you change the Color Theme. New users are affected as well as old users who have not selected a different Color Theme after version 2.2 was installed. If you are seeing the Red letters using version 2.3, then you do not have to install this fix.

What's new in Version 2.2

1. Color Theme management
   • Copy user theme from existing one
   • Delete user theme
   • Rename user theme
   • Edit CSS of user theme (text editor)
   • Visually edit the theme: color using Hue-Saturation-Lightness sliders, bold, italic, underline, subscript and superscript, and add a watermark background (Premium version only).

     

2. Four additional Color Theme Presets (Premium version only).

   

3. Added What's New under the Help menu.

Bug's Fixed in Version 2.2

The following bugs were fixed:

1. Copy Bible verse/chapter truncates the text in each verse between the first translator note and the last and the first title and the last. Only few verses are affected though, notably NET with notes.
2. Journal Editor Preview does not use the Custom CSS.
3. Export of Personal Notes and Commentary page failed with an invalid file name error because the colon was not replaced by underscore.
4. Search no result message is not visible using the Black themes.
5. For module migrators: Support for TS# tag like TS1, TS2, etc for Bible modules as only TS is currently supported.

What's new in Version 2.1

The following are the noteworthy new features:

1. Editor (Verse Notes and Journal) improvements:
   • Automatically scroll to the end with added new line when you open the editor.
   • Made the volume control up/down used for scrolling up/down the cursor scroll from one line to one full page.
   • Added scroll up and down button besides the Cancel button.
2. More shortcut buttons:
   • Bible View: additional 2 bookmark buttons increasing the count to 4; 2 translation (favorite Bible) buttons increasing the count to 6.
   • Commentary View: additional 4 favorite commentary buttons increasing the count to 8.
   • Dictionary View: additional 4 favorite commentary buttons increasing the count to 8.
   • Bottom buttons strip: Preferences and Exit buttons.
3. Initial support for paragraph mode in Bible View (Premium version only).
   • Note that not all Bible modules have paragraph tags. Modules with paragraph tags: ASV, ISV, LEB, KJV, KJVLite, NET, WEB, YLT. Bible modules without paragraph tags are displayed in the original verse mode. To switch to paragraph mode, go to Menu->Preferences->Paragraph mode.
   • It is also possible to use the default paragraph based on KJV for those modules without paragraph tags. Go to Menu->Preferences->Use default paragraph.
4. Preference for enable/disable Double tap to toggle Full screen. Go to Menu->Preferences->Double tap Full screen toggle.
5. Replaced the "Go To" menu by Help menu as the former already had better shortcuts. The Help included: Devotional Tips, Daily Use, and FTS Search. More will be added later.

Bug's Fixed in Version 2.1

The following bugs were fixed:

1. Default/ordinary (not FTS) search of Non-Premium users are still functional but the highlight became prefix only. So the keyword ear will match hear and learn but they are not highlighted.
2. Fixed mispositioned new buttons of the Editor in case they were rearranged in the previous MySword version.
3. Removed the word Toggle in Preference for "Full screen" (it was formerly toggle when it was in the Menu but now it is in the Preferences window with a check box).

What's new in Version 2.0

The following are the noteworthy new features:

1. Full-text search (FTS) support for Bible, Commentary, Dictionary and Personal Verse Notes. The user has the option to create, use FTS or use the ordinary search. This is a Premium Version feature. For non-premium, only encrypted modules enable the creation of FTS index as searching through encrypted text is really very slow. The Journal/Book has built-in support full-text search (no need to create).
2. Initial RTL (right-to-left) support for Dictionaries, Commentaries and Journals/Books. The RightToLeft field in the details table of the the module must be set to 1. The updated MySword for Android Migration Tools v.2.0 will automatically copy the r2l field in TheWord source module.
3. Allowed large pictures (size > 1MB like those in The Rand-McNally Bible Atlas maps) to be displayed.
4. Disabled download of fonts for Honeycomb because of the Google Web Browser (WebView) bug in display causing it to crash.

What's new in Version 2.0 RC2

The following are the noteworthy new features:

1. History will now remember the exact vertical position of the View which is especially useful for Journal/Book, Dictionary and Commentary with long content. The Bible View already had the capability to scroll to the highlighted verse so this behavior is not changed
2. Added more premium features:
   • A simple Bible Viewer that can be launched from the Editor so the user will not have to exit the Editor to view the Bible.
   • User-settable search limit. For non-premium, it is fixed to 100 entries.
   • Modules (Bibles, Dictionaries, Commentaries, Journals/Books) can now be hidden to make the list shorter. See Menu->Preference->Modules Management.
3. Made the swipe left/right navigation device density independent. Originally, the minimum swing is 100 pixels for normal swipe and 33 pixels for short swipe. That is still true for HVGA, but now it is adjusted for QVGA (now shorter) and VGA/WVGA (now longer). It is hoped to prevent unnecessary navigating to the next/previous page when scrolling up/down
4. Arrange buttons for Journal/Book View's upper buttons.
5. Added change font support to be able to see accented Greek and other Unicode characters not present in the default Android font. This requires at least Android 2.2 (Froyo). Included also download of fonts.

What's new in Version 2.0 RC1

The following are the noteworthy new features:

1. Journal / Book View
   • The Journal allows you to create notes not necessarily attached to one verse, instead each entry is a topic. The non-Premium version only allows you to create 7 entries per Journal.
   • You can create multiple Journals like Assorted Notes, Bible Journal, Church Notes, Diary, etc.
   • All the features in the Personal Notes editor are supported like bold, italic, underline, nested bullets and numbers; linking to Bible verses, commentaries and dictionary entries; tables.
   • The Journal editor also supports custom CSS styling as well as custom span.
   • You can create links to other entries within the same Journal or other Journals and Books.
   • Books are read-only equivalent of Journals which can be downloaded from the website, created using desktop tools or migrated from TheWord general books.
   • Both Journals and Books support embedded pictures.
   • Launch you favorite Android Image Viewer to zoom in/out and pan an Image in a Journal/Book entry.
   • Full-text search is enabled in Journals while Books may support it or degrade to ordinary search.
2. Editor and Wiki improvements (now also used in Journal):
   • Hyperlink button allows you to compose the type of link - Bible, Commentary, Dictionary, Strong's or Notes. This is avaiable in Premium version only for Personal Notes.
   • Added Day of Week in the date heading of the content. Also used the default Locale for the arrangement of month name, day and year.
   • Added a search button so you can go to search of Bible, Dictionary, Commentary, Notes and Journal without leaving the editor.
3. Search improvements:
   • Added Dictionary search feature
   • Journal/Book search feature
4. Dictionary and Commentary picture support.
5. Ability to choose and arrange what Bible Translations will be compared. This is only avaiable in the Premium version.
6. Initial RTL (right-to-left) support for Bibles. The RightToLeft field in the details table of the Bible module must be set to 1. The updated MySword for Android Migration Tools v.2.0 will automatically copy the r2l field in TheWord source module.
7. New Bible View preferences (these are only avaiable in the Premium version):
   • Words of Jesus in Red or Normal color
   • Show/hide Strong's tags
   • Show/hide Morphological tags
   • Show/hide Title
   • Show/hide Translators' notes
   • Show/hide Cross-references
   • With verse line spacing

Bug's Fixed in Version 2.0

The following bugs were fixed:

1. Editor created/pasted Bible link not properly working for the construct/format [[2Co 5:7-11]] which links to 2 Corinthians 5:1 instead because of the -11.
2. Title in Bible view is repeated in the verse text, e.g. in LEB and ISV.
3. Title embedded in the verse text is copied to the top.

Bug's Fixed in Version 1.6.2

This fix is for approximately 1 out of 100 users experiencing download of module not working even after retries because it is returning "Download failed for Unknown format (magic number 5153)". This is a problem in some Android builds.

Bug's Fixed in Version 1.6.1

This is just a bugfix and there are no added new features.

These two bugs could have caused the selecting of Bible/Dictionary/Commentary module crashing MySword; or if KJV is not downloaded completely, MySword will crash when restarted:

1. Download of module does detect an incomplete download if the server did not return an error but the file is truncated or incomplete.
2. MySword module initialization does not detect an incompletely downloaded module (Bible/Dictionary/Commentary).

What's New in Version 1.6

The following are the new features of MySword for Android v.1.6:

1. Disabled the animation in automatic scrolling to top when new content is loaded in Bible, Commentary, Dictionary or Notes.
2. The editor double tap to toggle full screen makes it hard to select a word. It will be better to hide/show the buttons to just use the menu.
3. Copy improvements:
   • Improved the speed in copying all text in Commentary, Dictionary and Notes from the Main screen or the Preview screen.
   • Added Copy menu for useful for Bible View: Copy Verse Range.
4. Search Screen improvements:
   • Hide soft keyboard when you return to Search again and there are existing results (verses found previously).
   • For the Search Screen, restored the orange (other color in other Android Themes) link border as it is a feedback to the user to know if he has tapped/clicked the right link.
5. Made the text for the words list in Dictionary Select Word from gray to white for better readability.

Bug's Fixed in Version 1.6

The following are the bugs fixed in MySword for Android v.1.6:

1. Fixed the initial install's download screen showing "Download failed for mysword_modules.xml. Null" which also causes the Bible button to show no items and the Commentary and Dictionary buttons to not show anything at all, so new users cannot add modules to the preselected items. The download, however, works.
2. Dictionary/Commentary selector can possibly cause a crash in case there are no dictionaries/commentaries for some Android versions or devices.
3. Unwanted scrolling to top when a Bible reference/link from Commentary or Notes is tapped then the back button (or history back) is clicked to go back to Commentary or Notes.

What's New in Version 1.5

The following are the new features of MySword for Android v.1.5:

1. Restored the orange (other color in other Android Themes) link border as it is a feedback to the user especially usefull for a collection of links like in Strong's/KJC/TSK list of verse references, and also in Bible with Strong's. This feedback allows the user to know if he has tapped/clicked the right link.
2. Improved the Verse Selection Dialog so that the currently selected book, chapter and verse is highlighted. Also the text color is brightened.
3. Changed the text size of most list selections from large to medium and shrunk also the height so that more items can be shown. The following selectors are modified:
   • Module selector - just to make it consistent with others
   • Bible, Commentary and Dictionary selectors
   • Back and Forward history list
   • Text size
   • Button arrangement
   • Strong's Hebrew
   • Strong's Greek
4. Made the Preferences sub-menu a standard Android Preferences window.
5. Made the hardware back button move history back for standard Android applications consistency compliance, or show the exit dialog in case already at the beginning.
6. Search UI improvements:
   • Made the width of +/- Search Details/Options expander button wider so that it can be easily tapped.
   • Made the selection list of the Module selector (for Bible or Commentary) similar to Range, Book From and Book To for look and feel consistency.

Bug's Fixed in Version 1.5

The following are the bugs fixed in MySword for Android v.1.5:

1. In full screen mode (Bible, Commentary, Dictionary or Personal Notes), single tapping shows the buttons but also scrolls down the screen a bit causing the bottom buttons to scroll halfway.
2. Loading new entry in Dictionary, Commentary and Personal Notes does not automatically scroll to top, instead it memorizes the previous scroll position.
3. Text size change is reflected in the current view but not in others that are already loaded. For example in the Bible view, go to Dictionary, then go back to Bible, change the text size, then when you go to the Dictionary the text size is not affected until you change the word/entry.

What's New in Version 1.4

The following are the new features of MySword for Android v.1.4:

1. Further search window improvements especially to aid in Personal Notes entry:
   • Tap search result text selects the verse/entry. This is useful for harvesting result items into the clipboard (select then add to clibpoard).
   • Clear clipboard menu command.
   • View clipboard contents menu command. Added also menu commands: Select and Copy text, and Copy All text.
   • Search result line View/More link for Commentary/Notes as the result really only shows the best sections. The link will only show if ... exists in the result. The View/More link will show a preview of the contents with highlighted search keywords.
   • Removed the duplicated Verse heading for results for Commentary and Personal notes because the select link on the left is already the verse in short format.
   • Removed the Go to button and replaced it with new buttons useful for copying texts: Menu, Add Current verse, Copy All text, and View clipboard.
2. Download modules window improvements:
   • The download item is unchecked when that item is finished even while the others are still on queue. This will help the user not to redownload a finished item in case there is a timeout in another item.
   • Modules already available in the Modules Path (those previously downloaded or currently downloaded) are colored Green. This will help the user distinguish what modules he currently already has from those he does not yet have.
   • More responsive progress bar display as it is refreshed 4 times more than before (by lowering the size of the download buffer from 512KB to 128KB).
3. Notes editor improvements:
   • Better list and heading (h3 to h6) style (CSS) which will benefit the Personal Notes. Because the screen is very small, normal margin for nested lists (numbered or bulleted) is not appropriate so the margin was reduced. All headings (h1 to h6) are set to the normal size as ordinary text.
   • Double tapping the text editor will toggle show/hide of the buttons (fullscreen) to increase/decrease the editor size when the soft keyboard is shown.
   • Added menu in Personal Notes editor: Full screen (hide buttons), Save, Preview and Hide keyboard.
4. Ability to change the default Color scheme/theme to black background as some prefer the white text over black background. More schemes/themes to come in the future. To change the current settings, go to Menu->Preferences->Color theme. This menu replaces the menu item Highlight because the Highlight button is more useful for highlighting and the menu item is a waste of space and it is also a little out of place.

Bug's Fixed in Version 1.4

The following are the bugs fixed in MySword for Android v.1.4:

1. History List crashes when there are no Dictionaries/Commentaries and they are visited. There are no problems though if there is at least one Dictionary and Commentary.
2. Application downgrade causes problems with button arrangement settings.
3. Search window's menu action Add current verse should add the text at the end of the clipboard text and not at the beginning.
4. The main window's Copy all/current text for Commentary, Dictionary and Personal Notes have HTML heading garbage. This bug was introduced when full screen was supported.
5. Translation shortcut buttons 3 and 4 are not memorized when you exit MySword. This is actually caused by the upgrade from 2 to 4 buttons (version 1.2 to 1.3) not adding 2 more default translations to the previously saved shortcuts. There are no problems for new installations.
6. Reference Notes popup text in HTML (with HTML tags) is now properly formatted.

What's New in Version 1.3

The following are the new features of MySword for Android v.1.3:

1. Search improvements:
   • Switching to full screen will hide the soft keyboard as well.
   • Hide soft keyboard when you return to Search again and there are existing results (verses found previously).
   • If current Search preference is full screen and you go to Search and the previous results are cleared because you are in a different module type, it should automatically switch to normal mode (non full screen).
   • The Search Details (Module, Range, From book, To book) status (shown or not) is now memorized. So if there is a previous result and in the previous search the Search Details are hidden (collapsed), when you go to search again, the Search Details are still hidden.
   • Exact phrase search is now possible by enclosing the phrase in double quotes. This only effectively works with KJV Lite and other modules wiithout Strong's.
2. Dictionary View's Select Word Window improvement: exit when a word is selected in the list.
3. In Compare Translations, Module/Translation Abbreviation is now clickable/tappable to go directly to that translation.
4. Improved Wiki in Personal Notes
   • So that long text in list and those with nested list will be a lot readable, an empty line separator is now allowed.
   • A paragraph as part of the list item is now possible using #- / #. for numbers or *- / *. for bullets. Nesting is also possible.
   • Link to other personal notes is now possible using n after the link begin delimiters, e.g. [[n Joh 3:16]]
   • Link to Strong's entry is now possible using the format [[H####]] or [[G####]], e.g. [[G25]]
   • Links to dictionary entry is also now possible using the format [[d DictAbbr Word]], e.g. [[d Easton Israel]]
   • Link to commentary is now possible using the format [[c ComAbbr verse]], e.g. [[c TSK Joh 3:16]]
   • Allow case-insensitive full book names, abbreviation, space in book names, and the nearest shortcut in verse links, e.g. [[joh 3:16]], [[JOH 3:16]], [[john 3:16]], [[JOhn 3:16]], [[2 Kings 1:3]], [[jo 1:12]], [[J 1:12]]. Detect single chapter books, e.g. [[3 John 2]]
   • Added two new buttons: Preview and Hyperlink. The Preview helps you view the rendered text without saving, exiting edit then going back to edit and losing the current cursor position. The Hyperlink helps you compose links without typing the tags.
   • New entry with date heading now have two empty lines after it and the cursor is positioned at the end so that you can directly enter text without clicking the Enter key twice.
   • Simple table support using pipes where the first row is always considered the header and is styled appropriately (bold and centered). You can also apply text alignment of left, center and right by placing <, = and > after the pipe, respectively. For example, Data 2 and Data 4 are right aligned:

     | _Col 1_ | _Col 2_ |
     | Data 1 |> Data 2|
     | Data 3 |> Data 4|
     

5. Select your own Strong's dictionary for the Old and New Testament. Old version defaults to Strong Lite, then Strong non-Lite if it is absent.
6. Additional Buttons for Commentary and Dictionary Views: two Favorite buttons similar to Bible View Favorite Translations shortcuts.
7. Ability to arrange the Commentary and Dictionary View buttons.
8. Increased the Bible Favorite buttons from 2 to 4 and reduced Bookmarks from 4 to 2 in Bible View. This is so that the count of Favorite button shortcuts will be the same as in Commentary and Dictionary Views.

Known Issues in Version 1.3

The following are the known issues in MySword for Android v.1.3:

1. The new exact phrase search works best if there are no punctuations and tags in between the words in the Module to be searched. For example, "David heard" will not find any in KJV because there is internally a Strong number tag after the word David. But there will be results found in KJVLite and NET.
2. Also, the exact phrase search means strictly exact phrase including punctuations and the number of spaces between words. For example, "David  heard" will not find any in KJVLite and NET if there are two spaces between David and heard.
3. The Compare Translations, the Abbreviation link to go to the specific Translation may not work on all versions. A user of Motorola Defy with Android 2.2.1 reported that it is not working. Emulator's tests worked except for the initial load of Eclair (scrolling the view fixed the problem). Tested in HTC Desire with Froyo 2.2.1 worked.

Bug's Fixed in Version 1.3

The following are the bugs fixed in MySword for Android v.1.3:

1. Wrong version number in About.
2. Editing of Personal Notes crashes when you are at the end of the content and you enter bullet or number via the button.
3. In Editing of Personal Notes, adding bullet/number to existing item to make the item a sub-list item, the bullet/number is placed at the beginning instead of at the end of the prefix. E.g. # one -> becomes *# one -> instead of #* one

What's New in Version 1.2

The following are the new features of MySword for Android v.1.2:

1. Improved Add/Edit Personal Notes Window:
   1. The ablity to move the cursor up or down in the EditText box using the volume buttons.
   2. Added two new buttons: Save (only without exit) and Hide keyboard.
   3. Text size now follows whatever Text size chosen for the Main View (Bible, Commentary, Dictionary and Notes).
   4. Better scrolling support. Changed the mode from Pan to Resize when the screen is adjusted to accommodate the soft keyboard. This means the EditText box is now shrunk to available height. To have a good height, the title bar is removed and the Save/Exit and Cancel buttons height reduced a bit. The resize mode will only work if the Status bar is shown thus it is shown this time.
2. Improved Search Window:
   1. Fullscreen mode in Search Window. Double tap the results view to toggle between normal and fullscreen mode. In fullscreen mode, single tap results view for for toggling show buttons.
   2. Clicking the Verse link (on the left of each verses found) will now automatically go to Main View (Bible, Commentary or Notes View) and select that verse. Before, it only highlight the verse as current in the results view and you still have to click Go to Verse button.
   3. Use Volume control buttons for scrolling the results page.
   4. Use long swipe left/right to move next/previous results page. The short swipe is for toggling show buttons in fullscreen mode.
   5. Clicking search button will automatically hide also the soft keyboard.
3. Ability to rearrange the Bible View (upper) Buttons as well as the Add/Edit Personal Notes Buttons to the user's taste and preference (Menu->Preferences->Button arrangement).
4. Added two Bible Translation button shortcuts (Favorite) for the Bible View button bar on top. By default they are placed at the far right. Short tap to select the translation, while long tap will give you the ability to change the translation.
5. Search hardware button now launches Search Window.
6. Adjusted the height of the Text Buttons on the top (Bible, Commentary, Dictionary and Notes Views) so that they are all aligned in some devices like Galaxy Tab.
7. Back History and Forward History Lists now show the Module also (Bible translation, specific Commentary and Dictionary). Yes, the lists are already available even in version 1.0. To show, long tap the left or right arrows on the Bottom button bar.
8. Changed logic in Navigation History to make it more intuitive:
   1. What has not changed:
      1. The Bible, Commentary, Dictionary and Notes are still considered separate independent views. You can think of them as stacked on top of each other (internally, they are in a tab but the tab is hidden as it occupies a large height).
      2. The Search, Highlight, Bookmark, Verse Select, Select Text Size, Word Select, Add/Edit Notes, Arrange Buttons, Select Modules Path, Download Modules, Backup Data and Restore Data windows are considered popup dialogs so they are not included in the history. So if you go to Search and select a verse from the result, what happen is the Search window is closed to go back to the Main window (however, the previous result is memorized so that you can easily go back to Search by activating it again).
   2. Original logic:
      1. Only when the content of a view is changed/loaded will there be an entry in the history. So if you are in the Bible view using KJV, tap a Strong number link to go to the Dictionary view, we will have two history entries. But if you switch to the Bible view not using the History Back button (left arrow), since the Bible content is the same, no new history entry is placed on the stack.
      2. Notes navigation is not included in the history.
      3. In Bible view, selecting a verse (clicking the verse number on the left) will not create a history entry but modify the current entry and change the verse number (forgetting the old verse number) as book and chapter is already the same.
   3. New logic:
      1. Every change in view (Bible, Commentary, Dictionary and Notes) are now included in the history.
      2. Notes navigation is now included in the history.
      3. In Bible view, selecting a verse (clicking the verse number on the left) will now create a history entry.
9. Better screen orientation changes support.
   1. Change in orientation will not reload the Main window. Change in orientation is now faster in Bible, Commentary, Dictionary and Personal Notes Views.
   2. Change in orientation will not reset the Search, Verse selection, Arrange buttons, Bookmarks, About, Select Modules Path, Backup Data and Restore Data windows.
10. Moved the OK/Cancel buttons of Arrange Buttons to the bottom.
11. Download modules' downloading of Modules List is now faster (around 33% improvement on local test and will be more when the list grows bigger) because the list is now compressed. As of April 5, 2011, the uncompressed is 9.31 KB while the GZipped compressed is 2.03 KB.
12. Download modules' downloading of individual modules is now faster as the cause of the additional delay is fixed.

Known Issue in Version 1.2

In Eclair, in the initial load of MySword with default KJV Bible, the verse number and the Strong's number link do not work. However, if you slide the contents a bit, the links will now work. This behavior could also be present in old versions of MySword (1.1 or 1.0).

Bug's Fixed in Version 1.2

The following are the bugs fixed in MySword for Android v.1.2:

1. Remove highlight does not automatically refresh the Bible View even though the highlight is already removed in the database.
2. Selecting a verse in the Search Personal Notes will not update the Verse Select buttons of Bible and Commentary Views even though the displayed verse is already in sync with the Personal Notes.
3. Gingerbread (Android 2.3 and 2.3.3) cannot download GZipped Modules and throws an I/O Exception with message "Unknown format (magic number 5153). Gingerbread seems to automatically handle the GZip Content-Encoding so applying it another GZipInputStream will throw an exception. A user of Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) reported a similar behavior.
4. Long pause after downloading every module especially noticeable at 100% causing additional delay.
5. Duplicate same word adjacent entry in navigation history for Dictionary. For example, select a word via button, then select again the same word, then select again the same word, will produce three entries in navigation history. You can long press the History Back button (left arrow at the bottom) and see two similar entries (the current is not included).
6. From the Dictionary view, click search, select a Bible verse in the result, then you are still in the Dictionary view.
7. After search, go to Commentary or Notes, click search, then you have the results of the previous Bible search applied to Commentary or Notes even though the results might be incorrect.

What's New in Version 1.1

The following are the new features of MySword for Android v.1.1:

1. Full screen mode in Bible, Commentary, Dictionary and Personal Notes Views. Use double tap to toggle between normal and full screen modes (or Menu->Preferences->Toggle Full screen). Use single tap to temporarily show the UI buttons for ease of navigation.
2. Support for Morphological codes and link to the Dictionary view.
3. The ablity to scroll the pages using the volume buttons.
4. The screen is now kept turned on in Bible, Commentary, Dictionary and Personal Notes Views. No more swiping when the device go to screen saver.
5. Ability to rearrange the Bottom UI Buttons to the user's taste and preference (Menu->Preferences->Button arrangement). Currently, rearrangement UI is simple because drag and drop has not yet been standardized in Android and the user will not have to switch the buttons a lot anyway.
6. The Main menu items are better arranged. The 3 copy menu items are now grouped as sub-menu items of the new Copy menu item. A new Preferences menu item is created with sub-menu items: Toggle Full screen, Text size, Highlight and Button arrangement. A new Go to menu item is created with sub-menu items: Verse, Previous, Next, Bookmark, Module, Module Type, Search.

Known Issue in Version 1.1

When you arranged the buttons and clicked OK, the buttons in the Main window will not automatically rearrange in Android Gingerbread 2.3.3 but the new arrangement will take effect after restarting MySword. It works fine in Android Gingerbread 2.3 though, as well as in Eclair 2.1 and Froyo 2.2. It has not been tested in other versions.

Bug's Fixed in Version 1.1

The following are the bugs fixed in MySword for Android v.1.1:

1. In the Download Modules window, Rotating the screen while downloading the modules list can cause it to hang. Also rotating the screen while downloading can crash the download.
2. Uninstalling, reinstalling, then running will cause MySword to crash but only for the first time. The second run will be fine though.
3. In some cases, the initial run of the first installation also causes the same behavior as above.
4. Launching search crashes when there are no commentaries in the modules path.
5. After initial installation, when MySword is first run and the user selected a different Modules path other that the default, the path is not saved so that the succeeding Download window will save the downloaded modules in the default Modules path.

Enjoy God's word!