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OpenWord v1.25.0
Added
- Practice that asks, and checks. A verse on the ladder is no longer
taken on trust: each practice sets an exercise its rung calls for and
marks the answer. A new verse is put together from tiles with the text
in view; then its blanks are filled from a bank of words; then it is
put together unseen — heard first, where the device has a voice — and
then written out, with a slip of a letter forgiven. A right answer
climbs a rung; a wrong one, or Show me, drops to the bottom and the
verse comes round again before the session ends. Hint shows the
first letters without costing anything. - Hear the verse. Practice has a speaker button that reads the verse
in the app's own voice, as Listen does; Tap what you hear plays it
as the exercise opens. - A streak. Days in a row with learning done — a verse answered, or a
round finished — shown as a flame on the Learn tab and at the end of
a session or a round, with the best run kept. A day missed ends it;
nothing nags. The streak goes into the backup and the better of two is
kept on restore. - Test yourself. The library's Learn tab offers rounds of ten
questions drawn from the translation being read, never the same round
twice. Which book? shows a verse and asks which book it is from, with
the other choices from the same testament. Finish the verse shows the
first half of a verse and asks how it goes on. Books in order asks
which book comes before or after another. A bit of everything shuffles
the three. A wrong answer shows the right one, every answer has the
passage a tap away, and the end of a round lists the ones missed, each
leading to its passage. The deuterocanon is asked about only when it is
shown.
Changed
- The practice prompts are gone, replaced by the exercises above: a
verse is read over, hinted or asked bare by what it is put to, not by
a choice at the top of the screen. - Memory is now Learn. The library tab that held the verses being
memorised holds the rounds as well, with the memory verses beneath them.
Every translation is bundled with the app — the World English Bible, the
Berean Standard Bible and the World English Bible, British Edition, all public
domain — along with the book introductions and the maps. Nothing is
downloaded to read it.
From 1.5.0 the app does one thing over the network: it asks GitHub, once a
day, whether a newer release is out, and on Android can fetch and install it
for you. That is the only reason it now asks for the internet and
install-packages permissions, and it can be switched off in Settings, after
which nothing reaches the network at all.
Install the Android APK with adb install OpenWord-*-android.apk, or allow
installation from unknown sources on the device. It is not published on Play.
iOS and macOS builds are not attached because they need an Apple signing
identity; build them yourself with flutter build ipa / flutter build macos.