One Door Closing, Another Opening!

All apps will be removed from Google Play!

What's happening?

• After years of fighting to protect your user data I am now fighting to protect my own. By the end of April 2025 Google is deleting all my apps and developer profile! At that time this link to my developer page will go to a dead page.

Why?

• Google has added a mandatory requirement that indie developers must publish their full legal names and full home addresses on the play store. I will not do that. That's an overstep of their use of my personal information.

What now?

• If they choose to reverse this decision, which I hope they do, I will be back.
  
  
• Current plans are to build web based apps that will be available for both Android and iOS users without need for hosting apps in either of their app stores. Track that progress here on jarjarbits.blogspot.com as I'll try to post occasional updates about any progress made.
  
  
• It just so happens that since August 2023 I have been working with AO Lab. They are a team that is building a completely web based and open Bible platform with the option for developers like me to publish extensions. My hopes are to begin developing for their ecosystem, stepping away from Android apps, away from in-app advertising, and of course remaining completely free to everyone.
  
  
• While I hope to port a Bible Books learning game, a 3D CrossWord game, and the Random Verse generator to web based formats; the Dots and Boxes Territorial game currently has no plans of being available after my apps are removed from the Google Play Store. Apps will be rebuilt from scratch in a new environment that itself is currently under development. This will bring completely new experiences and may take some time but has the potential to be something better and accessible to more people than ever.

Caution:

• Be aware that if you uninstall any of my apps you may not have a way to download them again.
  
  
• Please don't download or use copies you find on third-party sites as those are bootleg copies and who knows if you can trust that they haven't modified the apps in some malicious way.

Bible Books — New Hard Mode!

What's New (in version 1.1.2)

• New setting added to the settings menu to swap between easy and hard mode.
• Defaults to easy mode until you change it to hard mode.
• Easy mode is the same as what was already available in the game in previous versions of the app.
• Hard mode will start with the full keyboard. Which makes you stop and think about which book is missing vs being able to glance at the keyboard and easily figure it out without even looking at the book before and book after.
• As you get letters correct during hard mode, the other keys that are unneeded will disappear. Wrong keys will also disappear if you hit them and they are not needed at all for the current word.
• Slowly beginning to rename the app from "Bible Speller" to "Bible Books" as the focus of this app originally was to be a spelling game but now I hope to start adding in more play modes that focus on learning the books and less on learning how to spell.
• Fixed issue where sky was showing at the bottom edge of the screen sometimes on some devices.
• Fixed issue where the title text was halfway covered by the banner ad on some devices.
• Added clouds to all places that didn't have them yet.

Bible Speller — Animation Tweaks

Update — Version 1.1.1

What's new

• Collectables were overlapping each other when you happened to gain several at once, but now that is fixed. Collectables that are gained during game play include:
• Trophy - anytime you have a streak of correct answers
• Bible - anytime you make it through all of the books in sorted mode
• Honeypot - anytime you win random or sorted mode
• Clouds on main screen should show up right away now.

Bible Speller — Collectables Animated

Update — Version 1.1.0

What's new

• Show when new collectables are gained during game play:
• Trophy - anytime you have a streak of correct answers
• Bible - anytime you make it through all of the books in sorted mode
• Honeypot - anytime you win random or sorted mode

Bible Speller — Clouds

Update — Version 1.0.5

What's new

• Added some clouds to the main screen.

Bible Speller — Keyboard improvements

What's new (version 1.0.3-Beta)

• Keys on the keyboard are more responsive.
• Effects added to show when a key was correctly or incorrectly pressed. 

Road Map

• Show when new collectables are gained during game play.

Bible Speller — Split Screen

What's New (version 1.0.2-Beta)

• Split screen compatibility:
  While not always the best fit to the screen or the easiest to play, at least now split screen is possible so you can try to do other things while playing this game.
• Platform updates and security patches:
  These are from Unity and Google AdMob as well as any other Google services.

Road Map

• Show when new collectables are gained during game play.
• Visual feedback on keypress so you know if you tapped a correct or incorrect key.

Bible Speller — Privacy Policy

Your privacy is my policy, simple as that.

I use the least possible amount of app permissions and do not create user data on my end. All app data stays with you on your device, unseen by me. I use the Internet permission for serving ads (which turn off automatically on Sundays, but you could always play in airplane mode to block them * wink * wink *).

To build the app I use Unity and some Google services. Their services may do some level of tracking, crash reporting, or data collection. The Google Play Store provides me with some anonymized download and usage statistics.

I do what I can to protect you and I’m learning as I go. I even try to block Google from using unique identifiers to serve you personalized ads.

I only publish apps directly to the Google Play Store for Android. If anyone else packs anything into my app and redistributes it somewhere else there is nothing I can do to stop them. Please be careful where you get your apps from.

Updated May 27th, 2022.

Bible Speller — Update v1.0.1-Beta

Update — Version 1.0.1

What's new

• New app icon. I had kept the old app icon during the major transition to version 1.0.0, but now a new icon that matches the game is more fitting.
• Minor tweaks and updates that don't effect game play. 

Road Map

• Show when new collectables are gained during game play.
• Visual feedback on keypress so you know if you tapped a correct or incorrect key.

Bible Speller — Updating to v1.0.0 will reset your player stats, sorry

One time player data reset, sorry

Very sorry but updating to the new version will clear all your player stats and start new data going forward. This won't happen with every update but in this major change over from the old app to the new app it appears this was unavoidable.

I try to do everything I can not to track users or store any data on my side. That means all the data is on your side and unseen by me and I have no way to restore any of it for you.

Again, sorry.

Bible Speller — Complete Redesign — Released Today!

Released Today — Version 1.0.0!

Today the new version of the app rolls out. It is a complete redesign from the ground up. It has some issues but I wanted to get it out as quick as possible and update often to fix bugs and add features.

This version is a major improvement over the old version of the app. I will write more about this later but I have been working several hours straight and really need some food and sleep, lol. Until then, enjoy! 

Compatibility!

Oh yeah, it is notable that the new version of Bible Speller will only be compatible with devices running Android 5.1 (which is Lollipop) and higher. The older version of the game will remain available for anyone with devices running older versions of Android.

As soon as those people are able to upgrade to an Android 5.1 or higher compatible device the new version of the app will be immediately available. At the time of this release only 2 users are currently on older versions of Android, though the old version will remain available to new users with older devices as well.

Bible Speller — Major Update Coming Soon

Major Update In The Works!

I'm working on a major overhaul to the game. Hopefully it will be released within the coming weeks/months but there is no way to know for sure. I will occasionally post here as progress is made. 

Sneak Peak!

Here is what I currently have for the new main screen. It still needs a lot of work but yesterday I started dropping the art into place to get a feel for how it could look.

The scene opens to a grassy ledge with an infested anthill to the left and a honey bee off to the right. The main two game play modes will still be "Random" mode and "Sorted" mode. Two buttons at the bottom will allow users to open the settings and see player stats.

Player Stats Might Be Reset!?

During this major overhaul I am moving away from using Android Studio and into using Unity for development. This means going from Java/Kotlin to C# as the backend programming language. Android Studio and Unity have different ways of doing things and there is a strong possibility that when this update comes out all current stats for existing users of the old version might reset to zeros. I'm trying to keep this from happening but there might not be anything I can do.

Bible Speller — Minor Update

Update Published

Version 0.7.91-3116-Beta is out now.

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

Change Log

• Minor update, no major changes.

Bible Speller — No Data Usage

Update Published

Version 0.7.89-3116-Beta is out now.

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

Change Log

• Attempted to fix some bugs showing up on newer versions of Android.
• Removed the "Data Usage" link from the app. The app hasn't been logging any of the anonymous wrong answers for a long time now, so it doesn't transmit any data back to a server.
• The only permission this app has ever used is the "internet" request. This is only (rarely) used to serve a small banner ad.

Bible Speller — Menu Options

Update Published

Version 0.7.83-Beta is out now.

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

Change Log

• Option to "Rate App In Store" should open directly into the Google Play Store.
• Option to "Contact Developer" which should start an email from you to the developer.

Please note that this and future updates will not be available to devices running Android versions prior to 4.1 (aka Jelly Bean). For the time being a previous version of this app (version 0.7.63) will remain available for installs on those older devices.

If you install on an older device and are able to upgrade Android at any point later, then this app update will automatically become available to you at that time.

Bible Speller — Sorted Mode

Update Published

Version 0.7.77-Beta rolled out to users last week.

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

Change Log

Sorted Mode:

• The new sorted mode is here! For existing users it should already be unlocked. For new users it will unlock on the next app open after having played a few times in random mode
• A few new counters have been added to the player statistics to accommodate sorted mode.

Please note that this and future updates will not be available to devices running Android versions prior to 4.1 (aka Jelly Bean). For the time being a previous version of this app (version 0.7.63) will remain available for installs on those older devices.

If you install on an older device and are able to upgrade Android at any point later, then this app update will automatically become available to you at that time.

Bible Speller — No ads on Sundays

Update Published

Version 0.7.71-Beta

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

Change Log

Ad-free Sundays:

• Ads will not be shown any time the app is used on a Sunday (as long as you have Android 4.1, aka Jelly Bean, or higher). The other six days of the week ads will be shown in the same way they were before (which is so out of the way that some users have actually commented that they didn't even notice the app had ads).

Please note that this and future updates will not be available to devices running Android versions prior to 4.1 (aka Jelly Bean). For the time being a previous version of this app (version 0.7.63) will remain available for installs on those older devices.

If you install on an older device and are able to upgrade Android at any point later, then this app update will automatically become available to you at that time.

Bible Speller — Update Released

Update Published

Version 0.7.63-Beta

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

Bible Speller — Data Usage Information

The App: Bible Speller - Beta App

Learn the books of the Bible by learning how to spell them. When given the books before and after, you will try to spell the missing book between them.