# Vellum

A quiet, offline Bible reader for Android (built for the Galaxy Z Fold8).

Scroll the whole Bible continuously or one verse a screen (Reel mode), with a Verse of the Day card, words of Jesus in steel blue (#4682B4), aged vellum, papyrus and parchment backgrounds, a candlelight night mode, and five reading fonts (Tinos, EB Garamond, Crimson Pro, IM Fell English, Cardo).

## Features

- Verse of the Day with Copy, Image and Open, plus a home screen widget and an optional morning notification
- Six public domain translations: KJV, WEB, BSB, ASV, YLT, Douay-Rheims, with a side by side view
- Share verses as images: square, 16:9 for X, 4:5 or 9:16 story
- Highlights in six colors, notes, bookmarks
- Strong's Hebrew and Greek word study on the KJV, cross references from openbible.info
- Search, go to any book and chapter, verses by topic
- Reading plans with streaks
- Read aloud with the phone's voice and a sleep timer, adjustable auto-scroll
- Swipe left or right to change chapter
- No account, no ads, no tracking, no internet permission

## Install

Grab `Vellum-1.0.apk` from this repo and open it on the phone.

## Building

The 48 MB `bible.db` is not stored here. Rebuild it with `tools/build_db.py` (sources: eBible.org USFM for KJV and WEB, scrollmapper bible_databases JSON for BSB, ASV, YLT and DRC, openscriptures Strong's, openbible.info cross references) into `app/src/main/assets/bible.db`. `tools/textures.py` regenerates the background textures.

Release builds need a `vellum.keystore` in the project root (not included in this repo). Then `gradle assembleRelease`.

## Credits

Bible texts are public domain. Strong's dictionaries: Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Cross references: openbible.info (CC BY). Fonts: Tinos (Apache 2.0), the rest SIL Open Font License.