Go Bible is a free Bible viewer application for Java mobile phones (Java ME MIDP 1.0 and MIDP 2.0). It was developed by Jolon Faichney in Surf City, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, with help from several other people who assisted in making versions for other languages and translations. Go Bible is installed like any other midlet by copying the .jar and .jad file to the cell phone by USB or Bluetooth. The English KJV Go Bible 1.1 can also be installed using WAP download.
Features
Go Bible 2.2.6 features:
- Christ’s Words in red
- SMS scriptures
- Bookmarks
- History
- Coloured themes
- Fast search
Releases
The news page on the Go Bible website provides more details. For more detailed development history up to March 2005, see also .
- 2009-07-10 Go Bible 2.3.5 – added support in Go Bible Creator for USFM tag /r
- 2009-05-11 Go Bible 2.3.4 – more minor bug fixes for Go Bible Creator
- 2009-04-27 Go Bible 2.3.3 – has some bug fixes for Go Bible Creator
- 2008-09-24 Go Bible 2.3.2 – source code checked in, but binary not yet on main site
- 2008-03-31 Go Bible 2.2.6 – latest version of English KJV Go Bible and twenty two other languages
- 2008-03-26 Go Bible 2.2.5
- 2007-08-09 Go Bible 2.2.4 – improvement to Go Bible Creator
- 2007-04-12 Go Bible 2.2.3
- 2007-02-06 Go Bible 2.2.2
- 2006-07-30 Go Bible 2.2.1
- 2006-03-16 Go Bible 2.2
- 2004-06-28 Go Bible 2.0
- 2003-09-28 Go Bible 1.01
Languages
Go Bible site
Including the King James Version which heads the list, Go Bible is already available in 23 languages. These include:
English - Afrikaans - Arabic - Bulgarian - Chinese - Danish - Dutch - Finnish - French - German - Hungarian - Indonesian - Norwegian - Portuguese - Romani (Gypsy) - Romanian - Russian - Spanish - Swedish - Tagalog (Filipino) - Ukrainian - Vietnamese -
Other websites
Third-party developers have already published Go Bible translations in the following further languages:
Albanian - Armenian - Basque - Breton (NT) - Burmese - Cebuano - Chamorro (portions) - Croatian - Czech - Dari - Esperanto - Estonian - Farsi - Georgian - Greek - Haitian Creole - Hebrew (OT) - Hindi - Icelandic - Japanese - Kabyle - Kekchi - Korean - Latin (Vulgate) - Latvian - Lithuanian - Malayalam - Manx Gaelic (portions) - Maori - Mizo - Nepali - Paite - Polish - Potawatomi (portions) - Serbian - Shuar - Slovak - Slovenian - Swahili - Uma - Tamajaq (portions) - Tamil - Thai - Turkish - Welsh - Wolof - Xhosa -
These lists are likely to grow as more people become involved in using the developer application .
Many of the Go Bible translations still use English for the Bible book names, and for the user interface, though that is now starting to change as developers become more familiar with the features of the developer application.
Unicode fonts
Go Bible uses the Unicode fonts installed by the mobile phone manufacturer. Some translations may not display correctly on all phones due to missing code pages or individual codes. Also, there are problems with some Sony Ericsson phones with regard to displaying Arabic script and other right-to-left languages. Rendering such languages properly depends on having a correct implementation of the bidirectional algorithm.
Compatibility
Phones with limited memory
It is possible to divide Go Bible into several smaller collections so that the JAR files can be installed in mobile phones with limited memory. For some models, splitting into Old Testament and New Testament is sufficient. For older models, splitting into files smaller than 1MB, 512KB, 256KB or 128KB may be necessary. Go Bible 1.0 is suitable for phones with 64KB JAR file limit.
Phones that check certificates
Go Bible applications are not digitally signed. Some phone models by default will not install unsigned applications. In many such cases, it is usually possible to find a phone setting to change to accept unsigned applications.
Developer application
The author has also provided a developer kit called Go Bible Creator . This enables further translations and language versions to be generated by users. Go Bible Creator takes as data input Bible files in Theological Markup Language ( ThML ) or Open Scripture Information Standard ( OSIS ). From version 2.3.2, the ability to process Unified Standard Format Markers ( USFM ) has been added.
Go Bible Creator supports two useful additional features:
- Book name mapping – this enables translated Bible book names to be mapped to English book names.
- Translated user interface – this requires the translation of 73 words or short phrases from the English default UI.
Go Bible Creator was used successfully by the author of the Mobile Bible site in Belgium to create several Go Bible collections in various languages.
Another user has started a Go Bible Google Group, from which several more Go Bible collections may be downloaded.
The author has subsequently started a separate Go Bible Dev Google Group, for discussing the Go Bible source code.
Go Bible Creator is not limited to making Bible collections. It can also be used to create other types of e-Book, such as an electronic hymn book (words only).
The source code for both GoBibleCore and GoBibleCreator is available online under the new BSD license.
One member of the Theologische Initiative Freiburg has written software scripts to convert Zefania XML Bible modules into the ThML format for use with Go Bible Creator. Though the description is "Converts a Zefania XML bible modul to a SWORD -modul", the download includes a tool for Go Bible. The host language is German .
Distribution
Go Bible is listed in a number of free and open source software distributor sites, such as:
- Softpedia
- GetJar
- HandyByte
- Game-Thing
Go Bible is also being used on a number of Christian websites.
Go Bible in Java ME emulators
The Go Bible application can be previewed in the following Java ME emulators:
- MicroEmulator
- Mpowerplayer
It is also possible to run Go Bible applications on a Pocket PC by installing the following:
- IBM MIDP 2.0 Java Emulator
It is even possible to run Go Bible in a Sony PlayStation Portable by installing a Java emulator for the PSP. See:
- PSPKVM
Go Bible also works in the JVM called Esmertec Jbed , which can be installed on various mobile phone platforms.
Similar products
- ChristianMobile offers some copyrighted versions of the Bible for Java enabled mobile phones.
- IBS-STL has the NIV for mobile phones that can be downloaded through over the air installation.
- OliveTree Bible Software has a number of Bible Reader applications for various mobile phone and PDA platforms.
- jBible is a Russian website with free Bible reading applications for Java mobile phones. Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian Bibles are available.
References
- ^ Search results are limited to a maximum of 200.
- ^ Go Bible Code release notes
- ^ Available from http://groups.google.com/group/go-bible/files
- ^ This date was deduced from the Internet Archive .
- ^ GoBible - Links to other Go Bible sites
- ^ Glasgow Iranian Church
- ^ International Bibles on the Mobile Phone : Estonian Bibles
- ^ Glasgow Iranian Church
- ^ International Bibles on the Mobile Phone : Georgian Bibles
- ^ a b Word Of God - Tamil Mobile Bible, Hindi Mobile Bible, WOGs Tamil Mobile Bible, English GoBible
- ^ International Bibles on the Mobile Phone : Lithuanian Bibles
- ^ ChristiansMobile.com - Download Free Christian Malayalam Mobile Bible Software for your mobile phone
- ^ Mizo Go Bible
- ^ Box.net - Free Online File Storage, Internet File Sharing, RSS Sharing, Access Documents & Files Anywhere, Backup Data, Share Files
- ^ Paite Go Bible
- ^ mobi BIBLIJA.net - BIBLIJA.net za mobilne naprave
- ^ beibl.net
- ^ The Mobile Bible
- ^ Go Bible | Google Groups
- ^ Go Bible Dev | Google Groups
- ^ gobible - Google Code
- ^ Zefania XML - Home
- ^ Download KJV Go Bible 2.2 for Java - Softpedia
- ^ KJV Go Bible / free download
- ^ Chinese Traditional Go Bible / free download
- ^ KJV Go Bible 2.2 handy download. Go Bible is a Free Bible viewer application for Java mobile phones (Java ME MIDP 1
- ^ GoBible King James Version
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