Mobile Daily Devotional: Create Your Own Mobile Devotional

Create Your Own Mobile Devotional

- posted on Tuesday September 2, 2008

Open Book

DevotionalCreator, a tool to create mobile devotional for mobile phones is inspired by the GoBibleCreator by Jolon Faichney.

You can now, create your own mobile daily devotional using the DevotionalCreator java application.

Here’s a simple step-by-step guide to creating your own mobile daily devotional.

Download DevotionalCreator-1.0.1.zip and unzip it.
Prepare your own devotional content in an xml file. A sample file (content.xml) is included in the DevotionalCreator-1.0.1.zip file.
Validate your content.xml file at http://www.validome.org/rss-atom/validate
Compile the content.xml file into a mobile devotional by using the following command line java -jar DevotionalCreator.jar content.xml "Devotional Title" mydevotion
You can substitute “Devotional Title” with your own title.
You can also substitute mydevotion with your own filename. The .jar file extension will be automatically added at the end of mydevotion.
Load the newly created mydevotion.jar onto your mobile phone for testing.

The DevotionalCreator is beta software, so please report any bugs, errors and success by posting a comment here or by email to victorgoh[at]fourteenfloor.com.

Note:

content.xml is taken and modified from http://adevotion.org/rss.htm
The Open Book image is taken from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Open_book_01.svg

Comments

Samuel, Wednesday October 1, 2008:

ron, to compile the jar file, just follow the readme.txt. At part 4, you execute the command using command prompt. Click on windows, run, and type cmd. After that, use the cd(change directory) command to navigate to the folder of the software. Afterthat, just type out that long command.

You might need Java Development Kit which can be found here. http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp (Select JDK 6 Update 7). There’s a list of CMD commands here http://www.ss64.com/nt/. You will most probably need cd and dir only.
ron, Saturday September 6, 2008:

Hi, it’s great u show the way ho to make a jar file. Do you have any totorial on these item like how to compile this stuff. thanks