Updates to JW Library (iOS, Android, Windows)

[pnutts]

Better never late!

[AH173]

It's not LATE! LOL ☺

It took a while to get from copper to silver and then silver to gold. Ha ha!

[pholmes38]

Hab 2:3 - For the [highlighting] is yet for the appointed time. . . Even if it should delay, keep in expectation of it. For it will without fail come true. It will not be late.

[Daxsector]

Can't wait for this. It will become my sole app for all of the meetings. But can you add notes? 

[SUNRAY]

I was thinking how well today's text applies! Matthew 24:34!

[jwhess]

The brothers in the Annual Meeting say "highlighting in the November update".

[rocket]

The brothers in the Annual Meeting say "highlighting in the November update".

Part 1: starts at 50:47

[shali]

Just because they only used the term "highlight" doesn't mean that it doesn't include notation also, usually they both go hand in hand in most apps.

[Tortuga]

Just because they only used the term "highlight" doesn't mean that it doesn't include notation also, usually they both go hand in hand in most apps.

 

I didn't see anything about notes on the task bar they showed in the video..

 

Edited October 29, 2015 by Tortuga

[palmhat]

I didn't see anything about notes on the task bar they showed in the video..

 

JWL Highlight-1.JPG

Might the arrow indicate more options? Usually it indicates "play". As there is nothing to play I would hazard to guess more options. "notes" could be among them, eh?

Edited October 30, 2015 by palmhat

[Tortuga]

Might the arrow indicate more options? Usually it indicates "play". As there is nothing to play I would hazard to guess more options. "notes" could be among them, eh?

The arrow is a bit of a mystery....

[AH173]

It would be awesome, if the arrow or a 'play' button will read the selected text to you.

My Mantano does that, a text to speech option.

[palmhat]

It would be awesome, if the arrow or a 'play' button will read the selected text to you.

My Mantano does that, a text to speech option

Really? It reads the highlighted text?

[AH173]

Sure does. I tried it out when I downloaded the February 2016 study edition. It's a electronic female voice though.

[jayrtom]

Sure does. I tried it out when I downloaded the February 2016 study edition. It's a electronic female voice though.

 

 

Sure does. I tried it out when I downloaded the February 2016 study edition. It's a electronic female voice though.

 

 

I didn't see anything about notes on the task bar they showed in the video..

 

JWL Highlight-1.JPG

 

As I didn´t see it selecting text first (as moon reader and other app's do) but rather just passed the finger trough the text, maybe there's a button to press first with highlight mode and other with insert note mode... or maybe, as it was just a simulation, real world method will be totally different ;)

 

Sure does. I tried it out when I downloaded the February 2016 study edition. It's a electronic female voice though.

That would require binding to 3rd party app for speech synthesizer. I don't see the brothers doing such an app if we already have real voices reading the text. Much easier would be indexing the audio files and playing those along, which would be awesome!

[AH173]

That would require binding to 3rd party app for speech synthesizer. I don't see the brothers doing such an app if we already have real voices reading the text. Much easier would be indexing the audio files and playing those along, which would be awesome!

Agreed. Maybe with the newer publications that like has audio for them at JW.ORG (when you press the play button to certain files) it might work. Probably not for all files. Most definitely the Bible 1984 and eventually the 2013 edit. I can only hope.

[Qapla]

It is very possible that the arrow opens a "color selection option" that allows for additional colors.

[jwhess]

It is very possible that the arrow opens a "color selection option" that allows for additional colors.

 

Or another menu to select different annotation features (underline, note, etc).

[jayrtom]

Or another menu to select different annotation features (underline, note, etc).

But normally the "more options" icon is 3 dot image, at least on Android... I'm betting that's the "play" icon

[bohemian]

But normally the "more options" icon is 3 dot image, at least on Android... I'm betting that's the "play" icon

 

What odds are you offering?

[Tortuga]

But normally the "more options" icon is 3 dot image, at least on Android... I'm betting that's the "play" icon

I got $5 that says you are wrong...

[Witness1970]

I got $5 that says you are wrong...

My money don't talk. Maybe because it has been lonely too long.

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[jwhess]

But normally the "more options" icon is 3 dot image, at least on Android... I'm betting that's the "play" icon

 We don't know which OS was being demonstrated.  My Windows JW-Library uses "arrows".  My Android unit shows "arrows" to select "return" in the bible books and appendices.  The Android unit also uses "arrows" to show selection options in the publication menu.  Who knows? (of course Jehovah knows).

[rocket]

This time next year it will be all old hat and we will be in expectation of some other good gift from Jehovah.

[ChrisC]

Or another menu to select different annotation features (underline, note, etc).

"Automatically sink the selected text into the heart" would be good.