[Announce] Waters of Shiloah
 

Waters of Shiloah is named after the beautiful imagery used in describing the Lord and His counsels (see Isaiah 8). It is meant to be in imitation of the Mormon Channel clients that the LDSTech community has developed on behalf of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Waters of Shiloah is not endorsed, supported, or affiliated to the LDS Church in any other way besides imitation of existing applications.

Relevant Links:

• File a bug report
• View existing bug reports
• Package info
• Website
• Garage project (Including source code)

All images are thanks to people generously posting their creations on the internet under Creative Commons, free Commercial-use, and free Non-Commercial-user licenses.

For all attribution and licensing information, see "COPYING" inside the "data" folder.

Re: [Announce] Waters of Shiloah
 

So now we have an LDS app, several bible apps, some koran apps, prayertime, etc. No Watchtower stuff yet?

Well, not to poke fun, I really am curious for study of religions.

Looks cool though. Is there a sword-like version of the book of mormon out there? Then it would also work with other 'bible' programs.

slaapliedje

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Not really for me but quite a nice looking app.

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I believe there are copies of the Book of Mormon available in a SWORD format. The downside is SWORD is not very extensible beyond the bible. Other books are of a generic file format that doesn't offer too many of the nice features.

For others that may wonder, I am contemplating making versions of other LDSTech community app including either a scriptures app or integration with another one and access to membership lists and church calendars.

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That scriptures app is what I'm waiting for.

This app is great. My wife even liked it, and that's saying something.

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Some items I forgot to point out (in case you haven't noticed).

The bottom of the radio screen, the entire image for all other content, and only the button for the currently playing bottom bar is the media control gesture area.

Media control gestures include:

• Tap to play/pause
• Drag left to move to next item (just next day's programming for radio)
• Drag right to move to previous item (just previous day's programming for radio)
• Drag down to go back to the main screen
• Drag up to cancel the current action

The gestures are of a forgivable nature. They chose the action based off of where you press and release and not the convoluted path you might have taken in between. The icon should change accordingly as you are dragging.

If you tap the title on the currently-playing bar it will take you back to the screen of that item.

Re: Hymns on N900
 

Scriptures anytime soon epage???

Cheers

Re: Hymns on N900
 

Right now my priority is on porting my applications to Qt in preparation for Meego. I'm glad I resisted the urge to take on yet another app (nmap UI that needed some work)

Re: [Announce] Waters of Shiloah
 

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=39809

This thread suggests that WebOS apps are pretty durned easy to port to Maemo.

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I didn't dig too deeply into that thread but it looks mostly to be about the WebOS Native SDK which most of the LDSTech communiuty apps will not be written against.

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i love this app I am currently taking religion class and it save me so much time. Good luck on furthur development

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Keep getting errors when trying to use any of the streaming feeds. Is this becuase the website is now prepping to use the new site address? Anybody else having this problem?

2d

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I see it on my side also. I'll try to look into this after I get back from work.

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Oddly it appears to only happen while on celluar data. On a home network it resolves correctly.

2d

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It seems it's working again. Odd. Guess it wasn't the client's issues in this case. Glad it's working again.

2d

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Hi,
Thanks for spending the time on making this.

I must be doing something wrong. I am getting all the images but when I click the Play button, nothing happens.

Is it supposed to play the scriptures as audio?

Re: [Announce] Waters of Shiloah
 

Yes, this is the LDS Channel App everything is audio/video content.

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Sometimes to fill the buffer playback is delayed a second or two. Also sometimes the church website is under too heavy of load and nothing works (but with error messages at the top).

Doesn't sound like either is the case for you. I just tested and it worked for me (well except for a orientation change bug).

Can you follow the (for now very sparse) reporting problems section of the site?
http://wiki.maemo.org/Waters_of_Shil...orting_of_Bugs

Once some time opens up my first priority is getting everything packaged on Meego. I will then probably start looking at a rewrite in Qt. At that point I will probably add support for video streams including youtube Mormon Channel spots. I also hope to add generic RSS support with defaults set to speeches.byu.edu.

Longer term there is a contact aggregation project called libfolks that is expected to show up in Meego once it matures. Once it matures a bit more I plan to write an lds.org/directory backend for it. I think it'd be nice to also write a QtMobility calendar backend for lds.org.

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Great thank you.
I will give it a bit more time to load. This works on wi-fi right? Because that's the only way I'm using the N900 right now.

If that doesn't work, I'll try re-installing.

Re: [Announce] Waters of Shiloah
 

I've used it both with 3G and with wifi without a problem.

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Uploading a fix for landscape orientation