Android App Release Date: April 8, 2025
New Features & Improvements for subscribers
Insights
- Most cards now maximize in place with expand/collapse buttons, replacing the modal view and Open link.
- Updated Factbook cards UI: Now grouped as a single card titled “People, Places, and Things”. Tapping an entry opens maximized view with expanded details, key article preview, and links to Factbook and search.
- Updated Related Books card UI: Merged the change button and resource title for the Parallel Resources picker, added a button to open the resource, and now custom resource selections persist across app restarts.
Search
- Suggest Smart Bible Search when precise search has no results or contains more than three words, except for advanced syntax queries.
- Ensure Search Mode is selectable with multiple Bible collections.
Bible Study Builder
- Automatically append searched passages to metadata when questions are added.
Sermon Builder
- Keyboard shortcuts for passage block insertion on tablets with physical keyboards have been updated to avoid interrupting text entry. Use ALT + Enter to create a passage block from a reference.
Other Improvements
Factbook
- Factbook now includes results from Cloud Books and the Print Library Catalog.
- Cloud books will appear in all sections.
- Print Books will appear in the Dictionaries, Journals, and Sermons sections (for users who have added books to their Print Library Catalog).
Sermons
- New option to try Sermon Assistant for free.
Bug Fixes
General
- Fixed issue where the app didn’t work when connected via Ethernet.
- Resolved an issue causing the app to become unresponsive (ANR) when syncing large amounts of data.
- Addressed app becoming unresponsive (ANR)when checking Factbook availability.
Insights
- Fixed an issue where the translation action was not displayed in some resources when Greek words were part of the selected text.
- Addressed a crash occurring when displaying the Insights panel.
Search
- Fix misaligned text in minimized Search toolbar.
- New Search tabs are now set to user's last used Bible Search Mode.
- Added icons to the Help Center kebab menu.
- Unauthenticated users will now be directed to sign in before performing a smart search, instead of seeing error notifications.
- Fixed issue where the search mode could reset after sign-in.
- Ensured that when unauthenticated users select Smart Search from the notification, their choice is remembered after signing in.
Factbook
- Fixed missing text in Factbook’s Key Article section.
- Fixing an issue that caused freezes when checking Factbook availability.
Passages List
- Fixed collapsed Passage List toolbar in selection mode; toolbars now remain expanded for easy editing and exit.
- Fixed a crash when unauthenticated users tapped “Save as passage list”; the option is now hidden unless signed in.
Sermon Documents
- Fixed text cutoff on the right margin in Text view.