Do you use mobile applications to read / learn the Bible?

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posthuman

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toinena said:
But the way the Bible app has different translations, possibilites to share and to send to friends comes in very handy
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yes, being able to copy passages and then paste them into other applications is handy :)
 
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posthuman said:
i use an android Bible app very frequently.


it also lacks any kind of cross-referencing, which would be a really nice add.
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posthuman: thanks for the feedback. By "cross-referencing" do you mean between different Bible versions or different languages? Or something else completely? :)
 
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biblejourney said:
Thanks for the reply. It's a good idea that the application provides a way to contact other users. I will keep that in mind for future updates of my application :)
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I use eSword, but I'm not into modern phones.

If you'll be advertising your app, contact the site's owner. I have no idea if he'll accept your offer to pay him for advertising, but advertising, in general, isn't allowed.

(It would be cool to find out if he would accept us advertising our wares though.)
 
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biblejourney said:
posthuman: thanks for the feedback. By "cross-referencing" do you mean between different Bible versions or different languages? Or something else completely? :)
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I mean having a list of related passages, linked by such things as the topic of a particular verse or specific words being used. For example i have a large leatherbound scoffield and the margins are full of little notes and references to other verses - where Christ is speaking about heaven there may be notes pointing to other places He also does, or where some prophecy is fulfilled or an OT passage is quoted there may be a note telling me where that is first written about or what is being quoted.
 
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posthuman said:
I mean having a list of related passages, linked by such things as the topic of a particular verse or specific words being used. For example i have a large leatherbound scoffield and the margins are full of little notes and references to other verses - where Christ is speaking about heaven there may be notes pointing to other places He also does, or where some prophecy is fulfilled or an OT passage is quoted there may be a note telling me where that is first written about or what is being quoted.
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i'm told ((i don't have one)) that the Thompson Chain Reference Bible is one of the best examples of what i'm talking about. biblehub.com has it built into their website on a side bar; it lists verses related to whatever particular one you're looking at:

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i don't think i've ever seen something like this in an app, but i appreciate it alot in the Scoffield issue that i do have. seems to me like a lot of coding to do!
 
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posthuman said:

i don't think i've ever seen something like this in an app, but i appreciate it alot in the Scoffield issue that i do have. seems to me like a lot of coding to do!
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I wonder if they do cross-referencing on the fly with some approximate string matching or they do statically; e.g. each Bible verse would have a list of cross references, though that would require a lot of time manually setting this up. Either way very interesting, I will look into this.
 
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I use eSword, but I'm not into modern phones.

If you'll be advertising your app, contact the site's owner. I have no idea if he'll accept your offer to pay him for advertising, but advertising, in general, isn't allowed.

(It would be cool to find out if he would accept us advertising our wares though.)
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Yes I saw that advertising isn't allowed here, that's why I didn't write the name of my application or post a Play Store link. Some advertising would definitely helpful for my app, but I don't have the financial means at the moment. Maybe in the future...
 
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biblejourney said:
I wonder if they do cross-referencing on the fly with some approximate string matching or they do statically; e.g. each Bible verse would have a list of cross references, though that would require a lot of time manually setting this up. Either way very interesting, I will look into this.
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Judging by how some of the results don't appear very relevant, my guess is that it's on-the-fly matching strings to a set / library
 
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