v0.5.1 — a new icon

A new icon

Bread of Life has a new icon: an arched window at first light, with a loaf on the sill. It replaces the old loaf everywhere:

• Desktop: the Linux, Windows and macOS app icons.
• Android: the launcher icon, including the single-colour version for themed icons (Settings → Wallpaper & style → Themed icons).
• During playback: the status-bar icon, which was a generic play symbol before.
• Online: the website.

Nothing else changes from v0.5.0.

v0.5.0 — backup, reading history, the Fold, NASB 2020 and the Amplified, and a lot of fixes

What's new

• Back up your record. Settings → Your data backs up everything to one file and restores it without duplicates. You can also export your journal, prayers and notes as Markdown.
• Reading history. A year-long reading calendar, with how much of each book you've read. The streak no longer breaks when you re-read a chapter. An "On this day" card shows prayers answered on this date in past years.
• Built for the unfolded Fold. The sidebar tucks away and the study panel slides over the text.
• Getting around.
  • Links land on the exact verse, and the app remembers where you stopped reading.
  • Type "jn 3:16" in search, or press Ctrl+K on a keyboard.
• More translations. Eleven more free translations, including the NET, Geneva and Douay-Rheims.
• Copyrighted translations with your own free key. The ESV, the NLT, the NASB 2020 and the Amplified Bible, each read through a free key from the publisher's service. Settings → Bible translations walks you through getting each one, with a prompt you can give your own AI agent.
• Prayer and listening.
  • Pray through today's prayers one at a time.
  • A sleep timer for audio.
  • Prayers can now be edited, archived and restored, and journal drafts are never lost.
• Fixes and speed.
  • Audio uses much less battery.
  • Play works again after a network drop, and Maps prompts pause the narration in the car.
  • Sync no longer loses edits made during an upload or on a device with a fast clock.
  • The app starts about twice as fast.

Worth knowing

• Sync server features. Some sync features switch on once the sync server is updated: reading history and key sync between devices, sign out of all devices, password change and account deletion. Until then everything works on each device as before.
• Reminders. Reminder and translation-key settings are kept per device.

v0.4.0 — Now Playing, Android Auto, Spurgeon read aloud, reading reminders

What's new

• Earphone pause and resume works. Pausing from your earphones and resuming a while later no longer plays two seconds and then goes silent.
• Now Playing. Tap the mini-player for a full-screen player. For a daily reading it lists the day's readings, ticks them off as they play, and has a Next reading button. On an unfolded Pixel Fold the player and the list sit side by side.
• Android Auto. Bread of Life has its own icon in Android Auto:
  • Today: continue listening, today's reading, and each reading.
  • Bible: book and chapter tiles.
  • Devotional: today's Morning and Evening.
  • Recent: what you played lately.
  • Car buttons: back 30 seconds, Next reading, and speed.
  • Voice: "play John 3" works.
  • Plan progress: chapters finished in the car count towards your plan.
• Spurgeon read aloud. Morning and Evening each have a Listen button, with all 732 readings recorded in a warm British voice. Offline, the app uses your phone's own voice. On GrapheneOS that needs a text-to-speech app such as RHVoice from F-Droid.
• Reading reminders. Two daily reminders, at 2 pm and 8 pm by default; you can change or switch off either, and add up to four. They stop once you've done the day's reading, even on another device, and mention your streak.
• Fixes:
  • The streak no longer shows 0 every morning until you've read.
  • The devotional reminder no longer repeats every few hours.
  • Reminders now come back after the phone restarts.
  • Skipping chapters no longer marks them read.

Android Auto on GrapheneOS: one-time setup

1. Install Google Play services (sandboxed Google Play) and Android Auto from the GrapheneOS App Store.
2. Go to Settings → Apps → Sandboxed Google Play → Android Auto, and turn on the permissions for wired Android Auto, or wireless if you use it.
3. Open Android Auto's settings and tap Version and permissions info ten times. Then go to ⋮ → Developer settings and turn on Unknown sources. This is needed because the app comes from Obtainium; an Android Auto update can switch it off again.
4. If the icon doesn't appear, force-stop Android Auto and reconnect, then check Customize launcher.

Details are in the "Android Auto" section of docs/MOBILE.md.

If audio misbehaves

Go to Settings → Copy audio debug log and send it over. It records every earphone, lock-screen and car button press.

Spoken devotionals (audio data, not an app release)

Spurgeon's Morning and Evening read aloud (Kokoro-82M, voice bm_george). The app downloads these; there is nothing to install here.

v0.3.11

v0.3.11 — the reading plan actually follows your account

Ships the cross-device reading-plan sync that v0.3.10 announced but, through a
release-packaging mistake, did not contain. Also delivers v0.3.10's reading-plan
audio fixes, which never reached users either.

A release commit that changes anything but the version is now refused by CI.

v0.3.10

v0.3.10 — reading plan syncs across devices + plan-audio progress fixes

v0.3.9

🌾 Bread of Life v0.3.9

"All files access" on Android, done right — and the Missler library finally usable on your phone.

New

• Browse… folder picker on Android — point the app at your Missler (Line by Line) commentary library anywhere on your phone; it maps the picked folder to a real path and reads it in place.
• All files access via a proper Kotlin plugin (replacing v0.3.7's approach, which crashed — reverted in v0.3.8).
• Missler commentary audio plays on Android — served through the native player so it works on device.
• Carries the v0.3.8 Settings-crash fix and the desktop Browse picker.

Install

• Android — Obtainium or sideload the APK. · Linux — AppImage/.deb or yay -S bread-of-life-bin.
• Windows — .exe. · macOS — universal .dmg.

Offline-first, your data stays on your device. Made with ♥.

v0.3.8

🌾 Bread of Life v0.3.8

A hotfix for a crash introduced in v0.3.7.

Fixed

• Android: opening Settings no longer crashes the app. v0.3.7's "All files access" feature reached the Android runtime in a way that isn't compatible with how the app is built, and crashed the moment the Settings screen tried to use it. That mechanism has been removed.

Still here from v0.3.7

• Browse… folder picker for the Missler library path (desktop).
• A permission-free Android/media drop folder, auto-created on launch — a file-manager-writable place to drop your library, no adb needed.
• Network import works across a host:port address (e.g. a Tailscale machine).

"All files access" (reading a library in place from Downloads / any shared folder) will return in a later version, reimplemented properly so it can't crash.

Install

• Android — via Obtainium (auto-updates) or sideload bread-of-life-v0.3.8.apk.
• Linux — AppImage / .deb, or on Arch: yay -S bread-of-life-bin.
• Windows — x64-setup.exe. · macOS — universal .dmg.

All your data stays local and offline-first. Made with ♥, for the glory of God.

v0.3.7

🌾 Bread of Life v0.3.7

A smoother Missler Inspired library on every platform — getting your library into the app, and letting the app find it, is now a lot less fiddly.

What's new

• Browse… for your library folder (desktop) — pick the Missler library folder with a native file picker in Settings → Missler Inspired instead of typing a path.
• "All files access" on Android — grant it once and the app reads your library in place from Downloads or any shared-storage folder, no network import needed. Settings shows a prompt with an Allow file access… button, and re-checks the moment you return from the system toggle.
• A permission-free drop folder, made for you — on launch the app creates Android/media/com.breadoflife.app/missler-library, a folder your file manager, MTP or Syncthing can write to without any permission — the zero-fuss place to drop a library if you'd rather not grant all-files access.
• Network import fix — the importer now works across a host:port address (e.g. a Tailscale machine serving the built library), not just a bare host.

Under the hood

• Native Android JNI bridge to Environment.isExternalStorageManager() + the MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE settings intent, all behind #[cfg(target_os = "android")] (desktop is unaffected).
• Builds on v0.3.6's continuous background audio (press play on any chapter and it rolls through the whole canon, in the background, with lock-screen controls).

Install

• Android — via Obtainium (auto-updates) or sideload bread-of-life-v0.3.7.apk.
• Linux — AppImage / .deb, or on Arch: yay -S bread-of-life-bin.
• Windows — x64-setup.exe. · macOS — universal .dmg (Apple Silicon + Intel).

All your data stays local and offline-first. Made with ♥, for the glory of God.

v0.3.6

Bread of Life v0.3.6 — continuous general-Bible audio playback