Intent filter to perform bible search / show bible links in AB about and-bible HOT 29 CLOSED

Sorry not much, it is complex, it started off around the time of Android 1.6 as a proof of concept to see if I could use JSword on Android, and just grew.

I suppose that once you have added the uri intent handling it is just a matter of returning the bible text.

There are some standard Sword uris. You will find reference to these in UriAnalyzer and use in LinkControl. They are specified in https://www.crosswire.org/wiki/Frontends:URI_Standard

Once the link has got somewhere into the app I suppose you need to analyse it like in UriAnalyzer and LinkControl and then return the Bible text like in PageControl.copyToClipboard.

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Martin

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Here's how links work https://github.com/AndBible/and-bible/wiki/Bible-links

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Yes, code in a merge request with a suitable unit test would be great.

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After a long time,thanks. I have spent time trying to understand the architecture of the app, it a little complex, any thing to help me get on-board?

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• Which URL scheme to use for And Bible links? Is there generic scheme available? Or do we just use the internal scheme (e.g. sword://Bible/Gen.1.1)
• Consider offering to open bible.com links in And Bible if possible. Perhaps other popular online services too.

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There is https://github.com/Verses/Common_Bible_Share_Sheet which is for iOS, but otherwise it looks like the same thing.

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I suggest we delay this one to after v3.4 release

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So, 4.0 is out, is there any hope this will get solved? I would love to have bible:// links in https://hesla.ceplovi.cz/ (Czech and German reader for daily Watchwords / Losungen of the Moravian Brethern). Linking to some website is both unpleasant (AndBible provides much better Bible reading experience) and limiting to one particular website/translation.

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So, 4.0 is out, is there any hope this will get solved? I would love to have bible:// links in https://hesla.ceplovi.cz/ (Czech and German reader for daily Watchwords / Losungen of the Moravian Brethern). Linking to some website is both unpleasant (AndBible provides much better Bible reading experience) and limiting to one particular website/translation.

How about creating a PR? :)

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How about creating a PR? :)

Yes, that’s the reason I am trying to just (hopefully) very gently ask, not order or request anything. I am a Pythonista, if need happens I may write some Lua or JavaScript, but Java is completely out of my experience and even less programming on the Android platform. I believe my skills are better used by generating biblical texts (e.g., https://gitlab.com/crosswire-bible-society/CzeCSP/-/blob/master/CEPtoOSIS.py) than by pretending I know anything about Java and Android.

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I used to have same thinking like you: I was fan of Python, and tried to avoid doing anything else than Python. But now I think programming is pretty generic skill and with reasonable effort you can write Kotlin (main language in our codebase on android side), read/google & understand Android docs etc. Probably within max 1 day you could achieve this feature and as a bonus you would know already quite a few things about Android development and And Bible code. So I highly encourage you to take the step and install Android Studio and try to build & run AB on emulator :-)

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But now I think programming is pretty generic skill

I have been around since roughly 2000, so although I agree with you that programming languages are easy (and yes, I COULD write Java if my life depended on it, but I am a maintainer of Python for SUSE, so that's my skill-set), environments and libraries are not. In order to write for Android, it is not enough to write Java in the platonic world of pure ideas, you have to understand all libraries of Android, you have to understand all protocols you need to use (e.g., how to do intents), and THAT is not simple by any means. Besides, I don't like doing front-end stuff (but that's probably not an issue here).

So, you could achieve this feature in a day, I cannot. Which is the reason why I leave this to you (or whoever else feels comfortable with Java/Kotlin/Android) and I will spend my time doing something I am better equipped to do.

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In order to write for Android, it is not enough to write Java in the platonic world of pure ideas, you have to understand all libraries of Android, you have to understand all protocols you need to use (e.g., how to do intents), and THAT is not simple by any means. Besides, I don't like doing front-end stuff (but that's probably not an issue here).

This really sounds like me before I started contributing to AB :-D I did not like front-end, I hated Java etc. Okay, still hating Java (at least a little), but Kotlin is nice. Frontend, fortunately, I have learned to like, due to nice new techs that make it smoother developer experience.

But being open source project, I think it is important to encourage skilled people to take steps to familiarize with the tech, otherwise I need to do everything myself. And I have really limited resources to do everything myself. But I can indeed quickly review and merge this.

I was making my 1 day estimate based on the fact that you don't know the tech yet. Someone who knows the tech will probably do this in an hour or less unless there are some unexpected difficulties on the way.

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I'm feeling that you have the best motivation potential for this feature, so that's why I feel the urge to encourage you to take some steps to help. Perhaps you are done in 2 hours, if you are lucky. :-)

Believe me I have a big (and growing) pile of tasks to do already. This one is nice feature, but not priority for me.

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Believe me I have a big (and growing) pile of tasks to do already. This one is nice feature, but not priority for me.

Oh well, so I will just have to wait a bit more. Does this https://github.com/mcepl like a profile of somebody who has free time to study Android (and GitHub is the least I do, most of my work is on https://build.opensuse.org/ ; and that doesn't have a nice status page)?

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People often have time for what is their priority. I have no doubts that you are a busy man. Most people are.

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People often have time for what is their priority.

Yup, and my priority is to use my current skills for the best of the humanity, the Gospel, and the Church, not spreading even wider.

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MyBible has support for other Android apps calling it directly, their docs for that are here. BTW I don't know that is the right approach for us. I like the idea of some kind of link AB would listen for.

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https://support.andbible.org/scp/tickets.php?id=1729

I have the following question or comment:

I would like to pass search terms to AndBible Search from other Android applications such as my web browser or a document editor using activity intents.

I have other Android applications such as Tasker or Termux that will allow me to build custom shortcuts that can perform actions such as passing highlighted text to another applications such as AndBible Search.

Would you please provide the specific activity, intent and extras in AndBible Search I can use to achieve this?

It would look similar to the below
am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n com.orgzly/com.orgzly.android.ui.main.MainActivity --es "com.orgzly.intent.extra.QUERY_STRING" "search term" --activity-clear-task

Thank you for the useful app.

I think custom intent with search parameters, target document and search options would be "perfect" solution.
Now (in alpha version) we have PROCESS_TEXT which can be used as follows:

adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.PROCESS_TEXT -e android.intent.extra.PROCESS_TEXT "Jesus" -n net.bible.android.activity.next/net.bible.android.view.activity.search.SearchResults

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Also this works:

adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.PROCESS_TEXT -e android.intent.extra.PROCESS_TEXT "Matthew\ 1:1" -n net.bible.android.activity.next/net.bible.android.view.activity.search.SearchResults
-> jumps to Matt 1:1

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This is a nice first little step for this FR :-) 1. What book will be used anyway?

It's active window's bible document.

2. I guess searching a "text" like "Matt.10:33" would bring a user directly to the passage?

Yes.

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Could we make it somehow into URL? If I have SPA as for example https://hesla.ceplovi.cz/ (Watchwords of Unitas Fratrum), could I make somehow those references lead to something which activates this intent?

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Here's some info that I found: https://developer.android.com/training/app-links

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Closing this now as I feel we have satisfactory implementation in place. If something more specific is needed, please open a new issue.

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Will this work for study pad export links? The links are currently in this format: "osis://?osis=Eph.5.25-Eph.5.26&v11n=KJV" (I can also test this myself once the apk is out)

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Will this work for study pad export links? The links are currently in this format: "osis://?osis=Eph.5.25-Eph.5.26&v11n=KJV" (I can also test this myself once the apk is out)

No it doesn't. Need to create a ticket about it... #2561

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