iPad 1.0.2 submitted to App Store

I submitted VerseWise Bible for the iPad 1.0.2 a couple days ago.

This will be the first release for Revised Standard Version, King James Version and Douay-Rheims.

It will be an update for Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition.

Updated since RSV-CE 1.0.1:

• Updated assets for latest iPad (Retina display) 
• Improved text formatting, especially poetry (Psalms, etc.) 
• Many new Reading Plans, improved functionality (including easy Next Reading) 
• Fixed Esther readings in existing Reading Plans 

I will let you know when it's in the store!

Esther and reading plans

Some of you may remember my comments about the deuterocanonical version of Esther and its chapter numbering. Turns out some of the reading plans were a little confused about this! Douay-Rheims' 1-year plan had chapters "A, 1-2" for its Day 220 Old Testament reading. Thing is, Douay is different than the other deuterocanonical versions I deal with (KJV, RSV) in that it just numbers the chapters 1-16.

Also noticed that the new chronological 1-year plans I created for KJV and RSV didn't quite work with Esther. Fixing this (and taking a quick look at how the plans handle Daniel...) before releasing the iPad apps to store.

Funny enough, I have a new text I'll be working on soon that numbers Esther yet another way, with chapters A, B, C instead of KJV/RSV's 11, 12, 13. Fun fun fun!

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iPad retina + improved poetry formatting

One of these days I will release RSV-CE iPad 1.0.2, really I will! (And don't remind me I haven't even released the other translations' iPad versions yet...) Soon! But I keep finding more things to do.

The latest I've done is updated the graphics to look nice on the iPad 3. I thought that would be the last thing I did before release, but then I noticed some of the headnotes didn't look right in the Wisdom of Solomon. And then I was reminded how I really didn't like how the poetry formatting looked. So I've fixed that. And will fix the headnotes. And then I'll try to send it to the App Store.

Here are some before & afters showing the improved poetry formatting. Mainly it's moving the verse number over so that it's easier to see and the text remains aligned.

Genesis before:

Genesis after:

Wisdom before:

Wisdom after:

A big difference in books that are mostly poetry, like Wisdom and Psalms.

Bruce out.

iPad 1.0.2 & Reading Plans

Coming soon! Thank you to everyone who have been sending in crash reports. I have a couple more crash fixes, including some in Bookmarks I thought I had addressed in 1.0.1.

I also plan on finally doing the RSV, KJV and DR iPad releases! Apologies for those who have been waiting for these, but the good news is that you should have fewer crashes to deal with than the RSV-CE folk. ;)

Also included are several improvements to Reading Plans, including "Next" functionality that lets you easily jump to the next reading.

I have also added more plans including:

• Pentateuch
• Psalms
• Proverbs
• Gospels
• Epistles

iPad 1.0.1 coming soon

This will be an update to RSV-CE. It will be an initial iPad release for RSV, KJV and Douay Rheims.

Four crashes fixed:

• Swipe chapter or reading text after "back" button has been hit in left pane
• Swipe to delete a bookmark's tag
• Settings (infrequent)
• History (infrequent)

Thank you to those sending in the crash reports!

One enhancement:

• Formatted text for RSV

Plus a bunch of minor tweaks and enhancements that didn't make it into 1.0!

UPDATE #1:

Added two more crashes that were fixed.

UPDATE #2:

Now in the store! Working on getting other iPad versions submitted soon!

VerseWise Bible RSV-CE for iPad now available

VerseWise Bible RSV-CE for iPad is now in the App Store! Download it, tell your friends and let me know what you think! I hope you like it.

RSV, KJV, DR and RV will follow in the upcoming weeks.

I did find some bugs since submitting it:

• Deleting a bookmark does not always dismiss the popover
• Bookmarks in Plans sometimes cause a delayed redraw of the screen

For both of these problems an extra tap fixes things, but they're annoying nonetheless and I'll get a fix out soon. In the meantime, if you find anything else, please let me know in the comments or in email.

I also plan to add formatting now that we have all of that iPad real estate. This will bring the text layout more in line with the published page. My top priority is the RSV and RSV-CE.

And, yes, we have an iPhone/iPod update waiting in the wings. As soon as all the iPad editions are out the door I'll work on this.