Alkitab for Android Phone

Holy Bible in Indonesian is called "Alkitab". I am currently using Android Developer Phone 1 as my main phone, and I cannot find any "Alkitab" app yet on the market. I knew that Alkitab app exists for iPhone and J2ME platforms. Hence, I decided to develop one myself. Please keep in mind that the content of "Alkitab" is copyrighted by Lembaga Alkitab Indonesia (LAI).

You can download the apk file from here. For instruction on how to install .apk file into your Android phone, please go to this link. I am using Apps Installer from Android Market to install apk file from sdcard.

After application installation is done, please go here to download the database. You need the database to run the application. After you obtained "alkitab_db.zip", perform following steps:

1. Connect your phone to your PC using USB cable and mount the sdcard
2. Extract "alkitab_db.zip" to root folder of your sdcard. After extraction is done, you should see folder "alkitab_db" at your sdcard root folder
3. Unmount your sdcard by clicking "Turn Off USB Storage" on your phone
4. Start the application.
   

I will explain features available in this initial version.

Text Filter (on Android device with physical keyboard)

Type in the text using keyboard and the list will be filtered accordingly.

Gesture Motion

When you are in chapter or verse screen, you can swipe you finger on the screen to move between books/chapters. Swipe to left will bring you to the next book/chapter, swipe to the right will bring you to the previous book/chapter.

Search for Chapters/Verses

Clicking menu button will allow user to select this feature. This feature is used to search for chapters or versions in the bible, following are accepted input patterns:

• [book] [chapter], Mazmur 3
  
• [book] [chapter]:[verse], Matius 3:15
  
• [book] [chapter]:[start_verse]-[end_verse], Kisah Para Rasul 1:3-5
  
• [book] [start_chapter]:[start_verse]-[end_chapter]:[end_verse], Yohanes 10:5-11:3
  
• [book] [start_chapter]-[end_chapter], Lukas 5-10
• [book] [start_chapter]-[end_chapter]:[end_verse], Roma 3-5:13
  

Search For Word

If the search input does not match any of Search for Chapters/Verses patterns, the input will be used as keyword to search for match words in the bible. Searching using keyword feature will require the phone to send request to remote server instead of searching through local database. Local database is flat file database and it will take long time to find the match keyword. If you do not want the phone to connect to Internet, do not use the search for word feature.

That's it and I hope the app can be useful for everyone. Email me closari[at]gmail if you encounter bugs or have suggestions for improvement.

• Alkitab apk file (download here)
• Alkitab database file (download here)

Android 1.6 Image for Android Developer Phone

HTC finally released Android 1.6 image for Android Developer Phone, available here.

I have upgraded my phone and now it's running Donut.


I haven't check all the features yet. One thing I noticed is that the camera/camcorder app has new user interface and it's faster compare to previous versions.


I also noticed in Settings, Speech Synthesis is added as part of the Settings items. However, it lacks of Indonesian language. So far I have been using Eyes-Free for performing TTS on my application. Their packs include Indonesian as one of the available languages. I am not sure why Google did not include Indonesian in 1.6, since the TTS service in 1.6 is basically derived from Eyes-Free project.

That's it, I will start playing with new gesture recognition feature added in 1.6.

Android Developer

I found this in goodies section at android.com. It's pretty cool. It's almost one year now since I started writing applications for Android.

Limbung

Last Sunday, we planned to go for day trip to Tanjung Bira, Bulukumba. However, for some reasons, we need to cancel the plan. Hence, we decided to go to Limbung for lunch. There are a lot of fish pools surrounding the resturant, which make it pretty unique. People can fish while waiting for their order.

Our orders

Tempe Bacem

Tumis Pariah

Gurami Rica-Rica

Gurami covered by Mangoes

Deep Fried Small Fish (crunchy and taste good)

After eating, we relaxed, slept, then took pictures before heading home.

Kodingareng Keke

On the recent presidential election day, Indonesian government decided make the day to be a public holiday. So, we got nothing to do at home and decided to take a short trip to Kodingareng Keke Island, it's only about 14km from Makassar. We then head down to sea port close to Gapura Hotel. We rent a boat for Rp. 550.000, and it could carry 10 persons.

Seaport

The boat

Leaving the seaport, going to Lae-Lae Island
to purchase gas for the boat enginee

Following is our trip route plotted on Google Earth. I wrote simple application to do location logging on my Android G1. For some reasons, the island is not shown in the satellite photo.

Kodingareng Trip Route

Our stop at Lae-Lae is almost not viawable on the map. Lae-Lae is small island close to Makassar, it's only about 1.5km from Makassar. There are some people permanently live on the island.

Lae-Lae

Samalona Island (~ 7km from Makassar)

We almost arrived at Kodingareng Keke

Water is crystal clear with a lot of coral reef,
perfect for snorkeling or diving but probably not for swimming

Waves were getting bigger and it's time to go home

We need to go around the island in order to travel back to Makassar due to the big waves

Last picture I took before being hit by big waves (~ 1.5m),
my camera was wet, luckily it's weatherproof :)

We arrived safely at Makassar, our trip back from Kodingareng was surely interesting, going through 1.5m tall waves.

Losari Beach

After going back from work, it's always nice to know that Losari beach is just couple minutes away from home, place to go to refresh my mind.

Lot of couples go there to enjoy sunset, wish my wife is here with me

Losari Beach

SS Choir - Mother's Day 2009

For Mother's Day this year, the Sunday School Choir sang a song called "Cooperation". Yuli found this song at the last minute on youtube, and it was a fun song. The kids were having a lot of fun learning and singing it.

Cooperation is a big word...

Cooperation

Cooperation is a big word
And so is obedience
But when I do what my papa says
Do what my mama says
It seems to make a big difference

My mama teach me cooperation
She says I'm old enough to lend her a hand
So I pick up all my toys
I don't make too much noise
I think I'm doing all that I can

But I like helping my mother...

But I like helping my mother
And I like minding my dad
Cause when I'm good and they know it
Their faces will show it
And it always make me feel very glad

Do what my Jesus says, do what my parents say...

And if I go and do a bad thing
I'm feeling all sick and upset
I just say "I'm sorry"
No fret, no worry
My Jesus, He forgives and forget

Cooperation is a big word
And so is obedience
But when I do what my Jesus says
Do what my parents say
It seems to make a big difference

The song was followed by a video presentation from the Sunday School Choir Kids, and then each mother got a token of love from the children as well.

Messages from the kids to their moms

The beaming faces of mothers

Happy Mother's Day! We love you, Mom!