iPad Search Function
Mon, 04/05/2010 - 05:53 — tevans
There is a slight difference between the simulated iPad environment we were given and the actual iPad that causes the search icon to not appear. However, if you tap to the right of the history icon you can still activate the search tab. On the search tab we did encounter an issue where the filter button doesn't work until you press the search's info icon first. Both issues have been fixed and will be in the next update.
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I am very very disappointed
I am very very disappointed with your new LDS Scriptures app for the iPad! I love the LDS Scriptures for the iTouch and use it almost every day. The iPad looked like a way to have a bigger better handle on studying the scriptures and so I preordered the iPad for only to use it with your LDS Scriptures app. I mostly use the LDS Scriptures app to look up references that occur while reading doctrinal books and then make notes or bookmarks on the reference. I like to use your app because I can look up a scripture so fast it does not interrupt my reading by much. And I do not like the other $15 app because it does not let you look up a verse reference, only the chapter it is in and even that is slow. But to my surprise when I got my new iPad and loaded your new LDS Scriptures for the iPad, I found that looking up a scripture reference was worse that looking one up in the other $15 app. I feel like I wasted $513 for the iPad and your app. The LDS Scriptures on the iTouch is great and I was hoping for the same app only with a bigger screen. Running the iTouch app on the iPad is a much, much better way to study the Scriptures than the new app for the iPad. The single biggest thing I had hoped would change for the app on the iTouch was a way to turn pages. With the neat iReader for the iPad, the page turning is great and comes naturally. The LDS Scriptures app for the iPad does have a great way to page to a new chapter but who likes to go thru the scriptures just reading chapter headings. I hate what I call the "Las Vegas scroll", the way to move down a page, you give screen a flip and the app give you Las Vegas eye candy, flying by never knowing where it will stop or how far it will go. And to make things worse you cannot select anything until it makes its ever slowing stop. The alternative to the Las Vegas scroll to move down a page is to hold your finger down and move up, which finger is in the way of your reading and then you can only move down part of a page. How about making the normal swipe to turn the page and leave the chapter paging as it was in the iTouch app? Or how about a two finger tap at the bottom of the page to go down a page and a two finger tap at the top of the page to go back a page, and please do not stop at the chapter end? And please give me back the grid search all the way to a scripture verse reference.
I hope the iPad app is just a work in progress and that we can have some hope that it will some day be at least as productive as the app for the iTouch, as of now it has a long way to go since it has moved back many steps. I am a big fan of your LDS Scriptures app and check the forum each day to see your progress in making the app better. I hope you are not getting overloaded with requests and things to do. We are behind you and will wait if we know new and better things are coming.
Thanks for your efforts.
Mavin10, I don't wish to be
Mavin10, I don't wish to be disrespectful of your opinion here, but I do want to point out that you are buying the first iteration of both a hardware product AND a software product on that very hardware product--what would you expect? In many ways, the iPad itself is no better than an iPod touch and in some ways, I think the touch is better than the iPad currently. And with OS 4.0 coming out, the touch will be superior in my opinion. The iPad certainly has some potential, but all you folks rushing out to buy this new toy--I just don't understand. It's sexy in a way, I suppose. It's certainly approaching Star Trek-ish for sure. I think the novelty of this thing will wear out fast. (I will admit that I have no interest in it.) There are going to be very few apps to begin with and as Apple starts working out the bugs, you are then going to want to have the next version of iPad.
You say you wasted the money on the LDS Scriptures for iPad and the money for the iPad itself. I looked at the description Terry had for the iPad app and I think you got exactly what he described. It's too bad you put all your eggs in one basket. I think if you will be patient, you will eventually get that app for your iPad that you want.
Like I said with tongue in cheek in another post in this forum, I love my iPad Mini. (aka iPod touch)
Good luck and hang in there!
First, let me say that I
First, let me say that I greatly appreciate the feedback. I don't have any issue at all with constructive criticism.
For the current release of the app we wanted to make sure we had a solid foundation to build on. We purposely didn't add a lot of eye candy features to it - two page displays, etc., but those will be coming shortly as well now that the foundation is pretty solid. The other scripture apps have a long history of having a lot of crashing issues every time they try to do something new, but I don't want that to happen with this one.
I debated quite a bit about taking the final verse number selection out. Because of the large display there are several cases where you can see the entire chapter at once or within the second page, but I'm willing to admit it was a wrong choice if people would rather have it back in - it's very easy to do.
As for the future, there's a long list of features we plan on adding to the iPad version, so it's far from being done and is definitely a work in progress.
Will you have the page turn
Will you have the page turn feature as in the ibooks?