The verse chooser is looking nicer in many ways...**
I have played with it, attempting to accomplish something that has always been painful about the Android app when compared with verse choosers from Logos' competitors. I failed, yet I think I see a way to get there without significant developer effort (or serious change to the user interface.) Let me explain...
The goal: quickly move within a book or chapter without remembering and completely reselecting the entire passage reference.
The problem: right now, if I am at a given location (eg Ps 119:11 or Rom 10:19), if I want to jump by several verses or chapters (eg to Ps 119:159 or Rom 5:8), I must always do five things:
- Remember my current reference
- Open the verse chooser
- Find and reselect the current book
- Find and reselect the current chapter (or choose new chapter)
- Find and select the correct verse
Other verse pickers provide separate selection for each part of a reference, and pop up showing the current reference. Thus, changing chapter or verse in other verse pickers is as easy as two or three touches:
- Open the verse chooser
- Choose new chapter (if necessary)
- Choose new verse
This could be done in Logos without a lot of change.
a) Already, as you touch the book / chapter / verse, the text interface displays the "growing" reference, with the chosen part already highlighted.
b) Already, if you have already touched the book and chapter, if you touch the text "book name" in the input box, the verse chooser "backs up" to let you select a different book.
[c) Unfortunately, entering the text by hand, or by copy/paste, does not currently accomplish the same thing.]
Based on the above observations... what if:
a) On entering the verse chooser, the current reference is pre-pasted into the chooser, and is fully highlighted
b) If the user touches a book down below before doing anything else, the process continues as it does right now (ie touch a book and the chooser then has just the book name, etc)
c) BUT if the user touches one of the three elements of a reference in the input box (Book, Chapter, Verse), the chooser goes directly to that picker-screen, allowing the user to modify just that portion.
- Touch the chapter, and you will get the chapter list of the current book
- Touch the verse, and you will get the verse list of the current chapter
With these simple changes, moving within a book or chapter looks like this:
- Open the verse chooser
- Touch chapter or verse in chooser to begin selection there
- Choose new chapter (if desired)
- Choose new verse
Advantages? No memorization needed, and one or two fewer touches as well. More intuitive, much simpler.
Thanks for listening 
** I do agree with those who suggest more text color contrast would help
