Version 2.6.2 Released

NZT Tuesday 20 @ 11:15am: Version 2.6.2 was just approved by Apple.

Additional Enhancements to Support Chinese:

  • Support for Chinese Traditional with Zhuyin (Bopomofo)! This should be a great help to students trying to learn Chinese Traditional Characters, especially in Taiwan. See screenshots below. 
  • Context menu integration with WOL. Select some text and click "WOL" from the menu to open and search WOL for the selected phrase. See screenshot below for an example of the context menu.
  • Content menu integration with Pleco. This menu option only shows if you have Pleco installed and will send the currently selected English words or Traditional/Simplified Characters straight to Pleco for translation. You can then click the button inside Pleco "Return to Equipd" to jump right back to where you were in Equipd. See screenshots below. You can read more about how to get the most out of Pleco combined with Equipd here.
  • 6 new languages - Ewe, Oromo, Thai, Iloko, Pangasinan, Wolaita, Malay.
  • Yearbook 2013 added in a number of languages.
  • Added images to the Yearbook 2013 for all languages that support it (English, German, Italian). See screenshot. Important: You will need to clear your Yearbook cache AND your Annotations file if you want to see the updated HTML with the images included.
  • Added scripture detection in Thai (Greek Scriptures), and all the available Thai Vocal Melodies.
  • Updated the available Vocal Melodies in a number of languages, including the new English Vocal Renditions, Disk 6.
  • Fixed issue where the audio for Chinese publications was playing Cantonese. Also re-enabled the audio for the Vocal Melodies in Chinese.
  • Added Daily Text 2013 EPUB in Uzbek and Thai.
  • Added Young People Ask 1 & 2 in Spanish.
  • The Multi-Language Chapter View is now Fullscreen with wider margins, more like the Safari "Reader" mode.
  • Bible Picker Enhancements:
    • On the iPad you can now choose between 3 sizes for the Bible Picker - "Small", "Medium" and "Fullscreen (Default)". See the screenshots below.
    • On the iPad you can optionally hide the Picker after selecting a Chapter.
  • Briefcase Enhancements:
    • As you save articles from the WOL Browser to the Briefcase it will now cache the images! For articles already cached, you will need to manually open them, and if you are online then the images will be automatically cached.
    • Briefcase articles now show the reference (eg "w11 6/15 pp. 11-15") in the "scroll to" popover that shows when you tap the article Title in the top black bar.
  • Improvements to News module:
    • Option to disable the App Badge showing the number of unread News items
    • Option to automatically delete items older than 3 months. It will delete both JW.org News items and Magazine Podcast items. This is automatically enabled for new users - and it is recommended that existing users turn this on.
    • Improved detection of duplicate News items in the RSS feeds. Most users likely had a problem with the "Floods in Alberta" news item re-appearing every day. The issue was actually in the RSS feed itself - and the brothers have now fixed it on jw.org. But I have also tightened the rules in Equipd so that it will catch any similar issues in the future, and not create duplicate items. Any existing duplicate news items in your feed can be deleted by swiping right-to-left and then clicking the red "Delete" button.
  • Once again updating the references to the Bible audio files, as they have been modified once more on jw.org. Can't wait for version 3.0 to be ready, which will allow me to resolve this problem easily and without having to resubmit an app update to Apple for review.

Sample screenshots

Picker_-_Medium.png     Picker_-_Small.png

Context_Menus.png     Pleco.png

Zhuyin_2.png      Yearbook.png

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