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@blaineam blaineam released this 24 Sep 17:34
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The second beta of Scripture Alone for Android, as an APK you can install without Google Play.

Most people should use Google Play instead: join the scripture-alone-android-beta group, then opt in on Google Play. Play keeps the app updated and includes the Wear OS app.

New in this beta

  • Topics: in Go To, 72 themes for what you're going through (anxiety, grief, loneliness, fear, doubt, temptation, marriage, money worries…), each with the passages that speak to it, in the translation you read. Typing a word like "worried" into search brings its topic first. English readers can also browse Nave's Topical Bible, A to Z.
  • Import your own Bibles: DRM-free ePubs and Bible PDFs with a text layer are read from how they're typeset, headings, footnotes and red letters included. A study Bible's notes, introductions, essays and maps join the Commentary and Context tabs. Verses a translation deliberately leaves out are listed on their own, not as gaps.
  • Words of Christ in red: an import whose file doesn't mark them takes them, word by word, from the BSB or KJV on your device.
  • Quoting: copying and sharing follow each publisher's own terms, with the notice they ask for.
  • Your imports come first: a translation you import replaces the same translation behind an online key. Remove an import with a long press.

This APK is for phones and tablets without Google Play. Everything is inside it: the ASV, BSB and KJV, the Bibles for every app language, the commentary, the original-language data and the maps. Nothing needs downloading, and it works fully offline. Android 10 or later.

Before installing, know that:

  • It installs over beta 1 as an update. Your notes and highlights stay.
  • It doesn't update itself. New versions will be posted here.
  • It can't be updated by the Google Play version, or the other way round. Google Play signs its copy with a different key, so Android treats them as different publishers. To switch, export your notes and highlights first (Notes → Export, or make a Keepsake Bible), uninstall, then install the other one.
  • It doesn't include the Wear OS app, which comes only from Google Play.

To install, download the APK on the phone, open it, and allow your browser or file manager to install apps when Android asks.

SHA-256: cdd367615ff4f2a688305168b073aeaf87c38ef30b28148cb3fd52ab8922a768

Built from tag v1.0.0-rc.3 with ./gradlew :app:assembleRelease -PsideloadApk -PsaVersionCode=3 -PsaVersionName=1.0.0-rc.3. Source under the AGPL-3.0.

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