Gurbani Nirvaan is a humble effort to present a highly enriched app for Gurbani reference to those who adore Gurbani, comprising roadmap for banis from Shri Guru Granth Sahib ji, Vaaran Bhai Gurdas ji, Shri Dasam Granth Sahib and other Sacred texts.
Salient Features of the App:
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• Efficient “Gurbani Search”, search with wild cards, search can be performed in FOUR ways
- On Sentences typing first alphabet of the word in a sentence in Gurmukhi / English
- Word(s) and phrase(s) in Gurmukhi / English Translation.
• Search Results can be Bookmarked for direct access and reference
• Read Gurbani" anywhere anytime with continuity while saving the current state of the Bani being read so that user can continue reading from the same "ang" after exiting the application.
• Swipe Navigation from one “ang” to next / previous for Touch enabled phones along with Menu option for non-touch phones.
• Home Screen will present you with something new to ponder upon every time you open the App, inspiring you to Read and Search Gurbani.
• App is based on a Dark Theme to avoid Eye Strain and save Battery life for prolonged readings. Besides users can customize view preferences with Four Background themes and Five font sizes.
• Detailed Help included in the app.
Application had been designed keeping in mind the lack of "Move to SD card" functionality prior to Froyo(2.2) and availability of limited internal storage on most devices. It has been a hard decision for not packaging the Gurbani files along with the App, as it will increase the app size unnecessarily, secondly, user have to download a heavy app from the market every time an “App update” or a “Gurbani update” is released, leading to a redundant downloads, as both are bundled. Hence we followed a segregated approach, where, App is downloaded from the Android Market in a conventional way. App in-turn is Backed by a dedicated Server from where it downloads and installs the heavy Gurbani Files separately on to the SD card for all Android Versions (Cupcake 1.5 onwards)
At most care has been taken while composing Gurbani still there is a chance for humble human errors, your support for pointing out the correction will be highly appreciated. Further Banis can also be introduced / updated in the Nitnem section, kindly oblige us by also facilitating the softcopy for the same.
Feel free to write for feature updates that you wish to see in the App.
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Special Thanks to Kulbir S. Thind (MD) and Sant Singh Khalsa (MD)
(for Gurmukhi, Hindi fonts and Source of Gurbani used in this App.)
