Shane, Thanks for the wonderful detailed explanation of how different components work together. There's a real need of such delivery systems for Android and am happy things are beginning to take shape. Good luck on your submission.
Shane Isbell wrote: > 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 <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] <mailto:[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] > <mailto:[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 <http://mobeegal.in/> > find stuff closer. > > > > > -- Thanks. Muthu Ramadoss http://mobeegal.in http://androidrocks.in http://intellibitz.com http://twitter.com/intellibitz http://linkedin.com/in/tellibitz http://slideshare.net/intellibitz http://groups.google.com/group/android-chennai +91 44 22476750 We develop innovative search solutions using LBS for Android. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
