Update! Accordance 3.2.0 (iOS/iPadOS)

[R. Mansfield]

Accordance for iOS/iPadOS has been updated to v. 3.2.0 delivering significant updates to Settings, export & citation, User Notes, and more.

 

What's New

• Significant reorganization of the Settings views, added several new preferences, and now supports searching.
  • Main Settings view.
    • Added a new General settings page with many of the prior main page settings.
    • Moved the Amplify and Copy preferences to their own sub-sections.
    • Moved the Instant Details Font Size + Source text settings to an Instant Details sub area.
    • Renamed the Fonts Settings to Appearance and moved ‘Match System Dark Mode’ here.
    • In Appearance, added “Use European Notation” and “Use SBL Abbreviations”
    • Added a ‘large’ style title for iOS 11+ users on the main Settings view.
  • Text Settings:
    • Added sub sections for Contents, References, Layout, Search Settings, and Advanced
    • Moved Interlinear options from the top level to Layout
    • Moved Search Settings/Flex from top level to new Search Settings location.
    • The Text Settings view will now hide Search Settings when applied to a specific pane, as these options are set elsewhere.
    • In Advanced Text Display, added “Hide Spaces”, full Reference format, “Abbreviate Book”, “Include Text Abbreviation”, “Use Decimal Verse Divider”, and “Use English Names”.
    • Added setting to hide page numbers entirely in Tools, not just change their color.
  • Export and Citation Settings
    • Significantly expanded the Citation Settings options, with the vast majority of all citation customization from the desktop.
    • Added new Export Settings view that includes a variety of preferences, including default font, color, URL style, etc.
    • Added support for conditionally showing/hiding the optional Export options, such as the ‘Default Font’ option depending whether ‘Use Default Font’ is selected.
  • User Notes Settings
    • Moved the settings option ‘Create User Notes File’ to a button at the bottom of the User Notes library section.
    • Moved the settings option Link to Dropbox to the General Sync section.
    • The Notes Settings view will now hide the Editor settings as these options are global, not pane specific.
    • Picture size in User Notes (also this adds support in the aA quick text settings)
  • Changed all settings to act ‘live’, immediately causing their change, without the use of a ‘Save’ or ‘Cancel’ button.  
  • Dark Mode colors are now customizable and are saved to the preferences.  
  • Increased the size of the aA Display Settings view on iPads, since there is generally more space.
  • Added support for searching all preferences:
    •  Search bar is accessible by pulling down on the main settings page.
    •  Selecting a search result navigates to that view, scrolling as needed, opening up parent hierarchy as needed.
• Initial Localization support was added for Localizer evaluation. French, Italian, and Spanish Localization support has been added.

Changes

• Added support for inserting ‘missing verses’, as Desktop does between panes, between the two linked panes of a Search view.
• Improved accuracy when moving text selection handles.  Though the initial selection is still word-level, moving a handle is character level, for better precision when making selections.  This was needed, for instance, when selecting words in Korean like 아내가 that are actually a combination of a word 아내 (wife) and a suffix (가).
• Added support for Right Justified Instant Details rendering, following desktop logic.
• Renamed ‘Leading’ to ‘Line Spacing’ for clarity and to match desktop.
• Changed the pane splitter, when panes are horizontal and on iPad, to extend fully to top and bottom edges.  While this may overlap slightly on old OS’s, it still looks reasonable, and looks far better on modern iOS.
• Improved the rendering of the edges of the secondary pane background color.  This is apparent when the two panes have different background colors.

Fixes

• Now when in Page Turning and using the GoTo buttons to navigate, a jump is always forced.  This ensures the destination is at the top, which fixes two issues:
  •   It was scrolling by a halfpage, which would then slide back when toggling the interface.
  •   It could get stuck and never advance by chapter, if the start to the next chapter was within the current page.
• Where the Search view would ‘creep’ forwards whenever changing panes.  
• Inability to select text in a secondary pane and perform a search.
• Making Dark Mode adjustments would modify the default Tool display rather than the pane’s local version.
• Grid/List buttons would save the opposite preference from desired.
• Changing any setting while in Night mode would dismiss the entire settings view.
• When the aA Display Settings view didn’t center the font size buttons correctly.
• Issue that caused the button in the top pane area to overlap the top few pixels of the text, preventing normal taps.
• Removed slight tap pixel adjustment when rendering text that could cause certain selection problems. 
• Certain list items with long names would not autosize properly.
• Instant Details could place itself wholly off-screen, which usually would happen after a rotation.
• Improved device ‘notch’ detection. Previously, when a ‘notched’ device is iOS 14 and in a ‘zoomed’ display Zoom, it would have a large status bar size and layout poorly.
• Tweak to the Retina support to handle devices with screen scale > 2.0.
• Issue in iOS 14 that would prevent taps in certain views like the Store homepage.  
• Case when verse level highlighting in one pane would not update the highlighting in the other pane.
• Issue that prevented certain modules (e.g. Decker-Koine NT & LXX) from being successfully installed.
• Potential issue when creating a new highlights file.
• When dismissing the Notes Edit view by swiping down, an active link or potentially the entire note would not be saved.
• Issue when editing a link if the blink is on the very last character position.
• Crashes that could occur if leaving the app while a download is available.

 

[Fabian]

Great news. Especially the localization. Hopefully German follows soon.

[Leopold Green]

Not sure where to mention this but for the last few minor updates iPad Accordance (latest version iPadOS) has crashed the moment I bookmark anything - this is frustrating as I tend to use the iPad Accordance as e-reader. Since I have been working from home since March 2020(!) about the only upside is that I have had so much more time with main (desktop) Accordance so it wasn’t a big issue. I thought it would be fixed with the next .X release - it hasn’t. Is this a known bug? I have done all the removing and resetting in the Setting App...

 

Any suggestions?

 

Thanks

 

Leopold

[jlm]

 

Changes

• Improved accuracy when moving text selection handles.  Though the initial selection is still word-level, moving a handle is character level, for better precision when making selections.  This was needed, for instance, when selecting words in Korean like 아내가 that are actually a combination of a word 아내 (wife) and a suffix (가).

This is very welcome for Spanish as well. I can now use the system dictionary (Define) to look up words that have a pronoun suffix.