>From a user's perspective, DroidStor is a superset of what we are doing. But that's the point, all these Droidstor screenshots are focused on the end-user. Our focus is on the developer community. We have a portal site on http://slideme.org for submission of apps. You can bundle multiple applications into a provisioning archive and submit them, avoiding the UI all together. Check out the the jvending site on how this is done (sample par we use is downloadable) This is how we are provisioning JV.
You also have Apache Maven build tools to get your app to the catalog, as part of build and release. We have some more build tools and new delivery systems in the works. You can receive donations, advertise yourself. All of these things are focused on the small developer. J2ME went the route of proprietary and closed systems, There is nothing exciting about this, its just copying what's already been done. We have a real chance to get our own community started and not get run over. No closed system is going to buy us this sort of freedom, nobody would trust it. JV and the SAMce client are all open-source. And if a developer submits good patches to these projects, I would invite them in as a committer on the project so they could help define the direction. There are no hooks into our front-end portal. You can look at the code, submit patches, make your own distributions of both the catalog and the client. DroidStor or HelloAndroid could even use JV if they wanted to, or incorporate our client into their own. Anybody could. Having said all that, we do have some closed source components. The front-end portal is closed source but is using JV, which is open-source, for it's catalog (You can build your own front-end as well). We also have a full-client in the works which will be more focused on the end-user and will be closed source. It is however, using the SAMce as its core, so if you develop something on the open-source client, it will be compatible. Or you may choose not to use the full-client at all. Or you may even choose to go with a closed company that tells you how its going to be. Shane . On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 4:53 AM, Muthu Ramadoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Shane, > > Impressive. How does it compare with DroidStar? > > http://sadko.mobi/droidstor/screen.html > > > On Apr 10, 9:50 am, "Shane Isbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As people reveal their apps for the contest, I encourage you to drop > byhttp://slideme.orgto register and submit your application. The site is > > dedicated to the small developer and provides services such as the > rating > > and comment of applications, as well as hooking into a JVending catalog > for > > discovery and delivery to Android devices. > > > > Full announcement here: > http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss/browse_thread/thread/b... > > > > Thanks, > > Shane > > http://mobeegal.in > find stuff closer. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Challenge" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
