Development of a Yoruba Bible Native Application for Smartphones

There are lots of bibles in different versions and languages and with the level of sophistication in today Smartphones; there are major increase in the development of different native apps that are widely used on these numerous smartphones. These include bible native applications in different versions and languages except Yoruba traditional language. This paper focus on the development of a complete indigenous Yoruba Language bible that will run as a native application on smartphone, the development methodology utilize the Windows phone SDK, Microsoft C#.net and Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML). It also comprises of the architectural design of the development of native application, project architecture and application layout (The entire data, application resources and presentation layer of the application reside on the device). The application is expected to provide good and ease accessibility to the bible in an indigenous language and this will be of maximum importance to Yoruba communities, schools and churches.