Show languages side by side?

Is there a plan to release a version of the gospel library languages side by side?
Thanks

[Moderator note: This post was split out from the topic New Mobile Apps Available, since it deals with a separate issue.]

I have the same request. More specifically could there be parallel texts displayed side-by-side with alignment at the verse/paragraph level? Of course this could only be for completely parallel texts like the scriptural text, the Liahona, General Conference talks, many of the manuals, etc. There is a desktop program that almost does this (only the top most verse is aligned) with scripture texts.
Thank you,
-- member of a Spanish speaking ward in the U.S.

Member of the Gospel Library for Windows team here.

This is a feature we are considering for Gospel Library for Windows. As we're still, in many ways, playing catchup in terms of features with Gospel Library for iOS and Gospel Library for Android, it doesn't have much of a priority at present, but the feature is definitely on our radar for potential inclusion in a future update.

Thank you for your response

This is obviously a great feature for language study, but it isn't central to the mission of Gospel Library. That said, we have some planned features (tabs, full content in the related content area) that will get the app a little closer to this.

I would recommend side-by-side language study as a great opportunity for third-party developers who want to create a refined experience with this use case in mind.

LDSview is still available for side-by-side language study, though I've only used it on a Windows desktop system:

http://ldsview.byu.edu/LDSView/LV-home.html

See this thread for a discussion of a third-party web site that lets you do this:
https://tech.lds.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=21575
Unfortunately, it doesn't work on touch-screen mobile devices currently.

Here's a third party app that does side by side. You can even have three columns at a time.

https://appsto.re/us/rc4Sv.i

I have it for my iPad. I don't know if it works on iPhone. I first bought it because I was looking for a way to have the Bible in Portuguese, but I quickly saw the utility of the side by side feature also. It's not free, but if you really want/need side by side, it's worth it.

www.missionarysolutions.com ->LDS Interpreter app

It occurs to me that this would be an even more useful feature if generalized further--i.e., if different language renditions weren't the only things that could be set side by side. I'm envisioning a side-by-side view that would let you set any two Gospel Library resources/tabs side by side: two chapters of scripture (including two parts of the same chapter, even), a chapter and the Bible dictionary, a chapter and a manual, a student manual and a teacher's manual....the possibilities are endless, really. And if one could view multiple languages in Gospel Library and also somehow scroll both sides at once, this would inherently include the ability to do language study as originally requested.

Thoughts?

When Gospel Library 4.0 comes out in a few months, members with Android 7 Nougat on their phones will be in luck. Nougat supports running multiple windows of an app and putting them side-by-side (split screen). This will work for Gospel Library 4.0 and the "windows" will be the "screens" in the app. Unfortunately, iOS and older versions of Android won't get this feature for now. iOS supports split screen, but only with two different apps, not two windows of the same app.

If you have Android 7 Nougat, you can sign up to try the preview version of Gospel Library 4.0, test out the split-screen feature, and send bug reports. I'm normally an iOS user, but I do QA for Gospel Library for Android and I love this feature.

Android users will also get a cool new, killer language-switching feature that I was able to convince the developer to slip in with a few extra lines of code, while they were working on language settings... The developers at the Church are few, but they do a great job. I can't wait till 4.0 is ready!

what about windows 10?
would love to have the android capabilities mentioned on my ms surface tablet!

what about windows 10?
would love to have the android capabilities mentioned on my ms surface tablet!

Both the multi-window support and the language-switching feature (where the app tries to just change the language of the content when you change languages) are planned for the Windows 10 version of the application, currently in open beta. You can learn more about the beta here:

https://tech.lds.org/wiki/Gospel_Library_for_Windows_10

We actually had multi-window support for a while in version 2.x's beta, but it made the app so incredibly unstable we had to remove it. This go around, though, we've planned for it from the beginning, so we should have fewer issues with it when we begin implementing the feature.

ToManyLetters wrote:Member of the Gospel Library for Windows team here.

This is a feature we are considering for Gospel Library for Windows. As we're still, in many ways, playing catchup in terms of features with Gospel Library for iOS and Gospel Library for Android, it doesn't have much of a priority at present, but the feature is definitely on our radar for potential inclusion in a future update.

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I CAN ALREADY DO THIS ON MY IPAD, AND IT IS SUCH A GREAT WAY TO STUDY (AND KEEP UP A MISSION LANGUAGE -- IN MY CASE, INDONESIAN). I'VE HAD IT SET UP WITH EVEN 3 OR 4 LANGUAGES ON ONE SCREEN. SUCH A GREAT WAY TO STUDY!! KEEP WORKING ON THIS FEATURE FOR DESK TOPS, FOR WINDOWS. THANK YOU!!!!

edmundsmaryellen1 wrote:

ToManyLetters wrote:Member of the Gospel Library for Windows team here.

This is a feature we are considering for Gospel Library for Windows. As we're still, in many ways, playing catchup in terms of features with Gospel Library for iOS and Gospel Library for Android, it doesn't have much of a priority at present, but the feature is definitely on our radar for potential inclusion in a future update.

i

I CAN ALREADY DO THIS ON MY IPAD, AND IT IS SUCH A GREAT WAY TO STUDY (AND KEEP UP A MISSION LANGUAGE -- IN MY CASE, INDONESIAN). I'VE HAD IT SET UP WITH EVEN 3 OR 4 LANGUAGES ON ONE SCREEN. SUCH A GREAT WAY TO STUDY!! KEEP WORKING ON THIS FEATURE FOR DESK TOPS, FOR WINDOWS. THANK YOU!!!!

My previous post--the one you've responded to in all caps--is over a year and a half old. Windows has had the multi-window and multi-language support for well over a year now in release (version 4 of Gospel Library for Windows came out on June 6th last year, the beta version of the app with the feature released February 11th of last year).