Gospel Library for Android 2.0 released to the Android Market

Today we released version 2.0 of Gospel Library for Android. This is a major update to the application and it expands the capability of the app in a very large way.

You can now choose the content you wish to on your device from an online content library that contains several hundred documents. You can download the content you want to use and if you to remove it later you can do so. Content is also available in Spanish and German.

The search capabilty in the application has also been enhanced. You can search for words in the whole library or by book.

This version also makes Gospel Library with Android 3.0 (honeycomb) so devices like the Motorola Xoom and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 can now use the app.

The version is available now on the Android Market. Please feel free to post your comments here on the forum.

Hello,

I have just updated my version of Gospel Library on my Samsung Galaxy S, and it will not work. The process continually force closes and now i cannot access or open anything.

Please Help!!!:(:(

Is downloaded content saved to the MicroSD card?

just installed this on my Optimus S rooted with ThundeROM.....so far working great.

@jfender - Have you tried uninstalling the app then reinstalling from the market? Were you able to download content? Indexing does take a while after downloading content which will make your phone seem slow.

All I can say is wow! I'm using the T-Mobile MyTouch 4G and it works perfectly. I do appreciate the download on Wi-Fi only option, thanks. I am consistently thrown off by the navigation arrows. I guess the arrow with a circle around it means that it is a readable document while the arrow without a circle means that it is a folder and there are documents within that. I also find it a little odd that the number of items I downloaded is right in my face on every screen. It feels as though the number of documents I download is as important at the title itself. It's nice to know how many I've download but maybe not the in-your-face approach. Otherwise it's a great product. Thanks!

Also, is Handbook 2 available to everyone?

cws33 wrote:Also, is Handbook 2 available to everyone?

Since Handbook 2 is availabe to anyone by going to lds.org without having to log in, there's no point in having any restriction in the App.

jfender wrote:
I have just updated my version of Gospel Library on my Samsung Galaxy S, and it will not work. The process continually force closes and now i cannot access or open anything.

Some users appear to be having this problem. If you have a force close, check the contents of your sd card to see if you have a folder called "gospel-library". If you do, delete the folder and restart the app.

This has fixed the issue for a couple of people so far but we would like more feedback to see if this fixes the issue for others having the problem. Also, if you are unsure of how to look at the contents of the sd card, reply and we will post instructions on how to do so.

bradhokanson wrote:Is downloaded content saved to the MicroSD card?

The content is saved to the sd card if the device has an sd card. It should be saved in the Android/data/org.lds.ldssa/files/gospel-library folder.

We have seen the app force close on some users when the gospel-library folder is on the root of the sd card. Deleting it from the root and starting the app again seems to help resolve the force close issue.

Hey Jason,

Thanks so much for the app. It's functionality is wonderful but the UI has been downgraded significantly. Is there any way to go back to the old version? The increase in content is trumped by the older version being easier on the eyes. or is there a way to put the old UI on there.

Thanks

I'm about to buy a thunderbolt (android).
what items are available in the droid gospel library?
everything in the quad, i hope...

After using it for a few days I have noticed one annoyance and that is with the breadcrumbs. It seems to be off by one level. e.g. while reading the april ensign it shows the last breadcrumb as 2011 so it's hard to remember what level in the hierarchy I'm located.

volkmare wrote:I'm about to buy a thunderbolt (android).
what items are available in the droid gospel library?
everything in the quad, i hope...

That and much more.

I'm having some problems with this. I can generally download the scriptures, but downloads after that are spotty, and in short order fail completely. Normally, the listed items go from gray (not yet downloaded) to white (downloaded). After a few, though, it stops working. They stay gray and nothing more happens. It typically ends up in a cycle of forced quits. I've uninstalled through both the app market and through Titanium Backup... no luck. I've looked for the folder in question, and it appears that TB removes it properly. For now I'll probably restore the old version unless there are other ideas. Any suggestions?

I've noticed the new version doesn't use the content downloaded by the old version. How can I make sure that the old content has been deleted so it is no longer taking up space on my phone?

Also, I've noticed in the download process I get a few "no responding" messages. If I select "wait" it does sort itself out - eventually.

I'm having trouble getting this to work on a Motorola Blur. The application opens with the title on the top, but an empty black screen. I've tried deleting the \sdcard\gospel-library folder, uninstalling, re-installing, and still no success. Is this supported on earlier versions of Android? Any help would be very appreciated.

I notice several people with Cliq XT have said the new Gospel Library won't run at all. The Cliq XT is only a year old, but it's stuck on Android 1.5, because Motorola decided not to issue a system update.

I've rooted my Cliq XT and upgraded to Android 2.1, and Gospel Library 2.0 works fine on my phone. Just to test it, I switched back to the stock Android 1.5 system, deleted the Gospel-Library folder, and installed Gospel Library 2.0. Sure enough, it crashed immediately (although it did get as far as creating a new Gospel-Library folder). Switched the phone back to Android 2.1, and it ran fine.

So it looks like this app has a problem running on Android 1.5 (at least on the Cliq XT). Was Gospel Library ever tested on Android 1.5?

laughing_elk wrote:
So it looks like this app has a problem running on Android 1.5 (at least on the Cliq XT). Was Gospel Library ever tested on Android 1.5?

I have a iRobot with 1.5 on it and I have the same problem with a black screen, and if I hit the menu or the back icon it freezes and reboots the tablet.

Is there a link anywhere to the old file and content since this seems to not be working on 1.5?

gjswank wrote: Is there a link anywhere to the old file and content since this seems to not be working on 1.5?

Instructions and a link for reverting to version 1.2 are here:

https://tech.lds.org/wiki/Gospel_Librar ... r_Versions

laughing_elk wrote:Instructions and a link for reverting to version 1.2 are here:

https://tech.lds.org/wiki/Gospel_Librar ... r_Versions

First off thank you

Second, will android 1.5 be supported in this new release as there are still millions of 1.5 devices out there?

Version 2.0.1 that we plan to release to the market soon should fix the issues we are currently aware of with 1.5.

If you would like to try out a beta of it please feel free to download here. Please let us know what you find.

jasonhyer wrote:Some users appear to be having this problem. If you have a force close, check the contents of your sd card to see if you have a folder called "gospel-library". If you do, delete the folder and restart the app.

This has fixed the issue for a couple of people so far but we would like more feedback to see if this fixes the issue for others having the problem. Also, if you are unsure of how to look at the contents of the sd card, reply and we will post instructions on how to do so.

I too was having trouble with forced closures. I am using an HTC Aria. I downloaded all the files OK but while looking through scriptures, for example, if I tried to hit the back arrow or a bread crumb to go back to a higher level I got the forced close. So I deleted the gospel-library folder as suggested and restarted the app. This also required me to download and reinstall all the files again. Now I don't seem to be having the problem anymore.

BrumfieldAD wrote:Version 2.0.1 that we plan to release to the market soon should fix the issues we are currently aware of with 1.5.

If you would like to try out a beta of it please feel free to download here. Please let us know what you find.

Well, I downloaded the gospel library 2.0.1 beta and tried it out. It does seem to fix the crash that happens on starting the app in android 1.5. However, once you're past that, it's still really buggy and unstable.

I connected to wifi and started the app. It got the catalog page loaded, which was further than 2.0.0 got. I selected downloading all of the scriptures. Download and install took maybe 10-15 minutes. Indexing started, but then quit. It seems like the app launches another process (thread?) to do the indexing, and the indexing process crashed. The main app was still running. I killed the app and started it up again, and eventually it resumed indexing. Indexing took about an hour for the scriptures, during which time it slowed the entire phone down so much it kept dropping the wifi connection.

-The download status screen has display problems, the status bars appear over the top of the "while downloads are in progress" text.

-The search is not working. When I went to the search screen, it's supposed to show a list of books under the search box so you can select which ones to search in. Instead, it showed sort of a compressed version of the download bars. When I did a search it would only find words in the old testament, even though I'd downloaded all the scriptures.
Interestingly, when I switched back to android 2.1, and left the existing "Gospel-Library" folder in place, search worked fine.

If you were thinking of pushing this version out to the market to solve the problems that Android 1.5 users are having, please don't. This version still isn't working well enough to use, it needs a lot of testing and fixing still.

I've got a list of bugs and suggestions for improvement for Gospel Library for Android 2.0. Should I post them on this forum, or is there a better place?

laughing_elk wrote:I've got a list of bugs and suggestions for improvement for Gospel Library for Android 2.0. Should I post them on this forum, or is there a better place?

The quickest and best way to report bugs is to e-mail:
gospel-library-android-group@ldsmail.net

I have appreciated the update to Gospel Library. I have noted one anomaly with bookmarks (on both my phone and my wife's phone). We can set bookmarks for reading points in the scriptures and in the lesson manuals. When we select some of our set bookmarks in the scriptures, they function as expected. However, when we select from the home screen a set bookmark to a lesson manual (e.g., New Testament Gospel Doctrine Teacher's Manual, Lesson 14) an error message comes up "The content for the link you selected is not available". The does not seem to happen unless we are at the home screen.

I have been using GLA 2.0 for 2 weeks now. It finally works great on my IRobot Apad 800mz VIA 256K 2GB m8650. The only thing is that the 4 children's story books only has titles and dates on each chapter (no content). And under Other:Home & Family the "The Living Christ: The Testimony of the Apostles is missing content. Otherwise great work. Only took 1 hr to index after downloading a lot of data.
Thanks for the Great work.
Lynn