Create Your Own Mobile Devotional

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.

1. Download DevotionalCreator-1.0.1.zip and unzip it.
2. Prepare your own devotional content in an xml file. A sample file (content.xml) is included in the DevotionalCreator-1.0.1.zip file.
3. Validate your content.xml file at http://www.validome.org/rss-atom/validate
4. Compile the content.xml file into a mobile devotional by using the following command line

java -jar DevotionalCreator.jar content.xml "Devotional Title" mydevotion

1. You can substitute “Devotional Title” with your own title.
2. You can also substitute mydevotion with your own filename. The .jar file extension will be automatically added at the end of mydevotion.
3. 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

A simpler way to create your own mobile devotional booklets, is to sign up for a free account at MobileBooklet.com. MobileBooklet.com provides a simple web browser interface for creating mobile booklets.