One other feature we hope to implement later this year is the ability to add personal documents. You can study part of a topic at home on your computer and later pick it up while waiting for an appointment or sitting at church. Secondly, it will maximize the study time across multiple platforms. This will ensure personalized information will not be lost if a device has to be reset or transferred to a new device. For example, the ability to sync highlighted passages, notes, and bookmarks with the Study Notebook on LDS.org is in the works.

We have some exciting plans for the Gospel Library. What is in the future for the Android Gospel Library? The library is also available in Spanish and German with other languages being added. The library is extensive and includes the official version of the scriptures, more than 20 years of general conference reports, more than 30 years of Church magazines, manuals for Sunday School, Priesthood and Relief Society, the Hymn book, the Children’s Songbook, and other Church publications. Though the content has been uninstalled, it is available in the content catalogue and can be reinstalled. If users don’t want an item, they can uninstall it later. Now a user can browse through the content library and choose what they want to download.

Last fall a group of developers started rebuilding the app to allow users to manage the content. This made the content available but prevented the user from managing or adding new content it also limited our ability to add new content and features. To enable us to quickly put an official Church app on the Android Market, we started with static content. What can you tell us about the development of the Gospel Library for the Android?

The difference is that the iOS applications started development before the Android applications, and they have a very dedicated core of developers constantly trying to improve the apps. I chuckle each time I read this question because I know there is no preference for a given platform. A main concern found in many e-mails is why the Church favors the iOS products (Apple) over the Android system. I receive a lot of e-mail messages asking about the Gospel Library and LDS Tools for the Android phones.

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