Word Tools — View Tool Details

Update Released

Version 0.0.10-Beta is available for download.

This app has been published exclusively to the Google Play Store. Do not trust copies from third parties.

Change Log

New Tool:

• Cross Ref — when applied to a Bible reference such as “John 3:16” it will take you to related verses

The new Cross Reference tool is setup by default to use Bible Cross References from openBible.info. No checking is done when using the tool to verify that you are applying the tool to a valid Bible reference. If you select word(s) that are not something like "Genesis 1:1" the tool will take you to an empty results page. To use it properly first tap the different parts of the Bible reference in the main screen to group them together and then tap the "Cross Ref" tool.

New Features:

• Ability to view tool setup details
• Paste button auto shows/hides

In the previous releases tools were basically hardcoded into the app to simulate the effect I needed of having a list of them to scroll through. Now when the app is first used a set of tools is dynamically built. While this change doesn't appear any different from a user standpoint it does complete the next step in the process of building a system for users to modify tools and add their own to the list.

This release does not have options for modifying tools. However, now you can tap on a tool when no text is selected, or long press a tool, to view the setup details of that tool. You will see a list of the steps which are processed on your text selection any time you use that tool. The "Replace" step seen in many of these tools is using regular expressions to select and then replace portions of text. I will post more about that later on.

The idea here is that before too long users should be able to modify each of these steps and icon details to build custom tools.

For now the app tries to predict if you are going to need to use the paste button and hides itself at times pasting new text into the app doesn't make sense. It's not very great at predicting yet so if you can't get it to show up when you need it to, for now closing the app and reopening it often fixes that.

Road Map

• Ability to modify an existing tool
• Better handling of URLs

I will continue to release updates often. The goal is to have a useful set of tools which a user can quickly get to. I hope to one day add the ability for users to build their own custom tools to keep in the toolbox.

I have lots of ideas here but would love to know if there is any use case that I am able to help out with. If you have ideas for tools that could be useful please contact me through the developer email listed on the Google Play Store.