On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 8:08 PM, James C. McPherson <[email protected]> wrote: > > hi Qichang, > > > On 8/11/12 02:48 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> >> Nowadays many photographers will take their tablet along (they may >> think laptops are too heavy......) to their photography assignments, >> and do the postprocessing during their trip, as well as demonstrating >> their client some post-processed results on-site. >> >> Suppose if one were to port darktable to android (and/or iOS), should >> this be considered as a branch of darktable, or a completely new >> project from scratch? I noticed that in android, you probably want to >> write in Java in the Android API. >> Moreover, how can one port the libraries used by darktable (e.g. >> lensfun etc) to Android? Or are there wrappers allowing direct use of >> existing C-libraries in Android and/or iOS? Or do we choose >> alternative Android-native libraries instead? >> >> These may look like stupid question to you guys, but I haven't had >> experience porting existing desktop applications to tablet >> yet.......... What do you think about the feasibility of developing a >> postprocessing/DAM app for tablets? > > > Not a stupid question at all. Just a difficult one to > scope out. Darktable is heavily dependent on Gnome and > GTK and is almost all (well, 85%+ last time I counted) > written in C. I don't know what the equivalent libraries > are in the Android ecosystem, but I don't think we could > use C and have a portable (across many tablets) application. > > I would be quite happy to see Darktable on a tablet, though. > Just don't have the expertise (or the cycles to acquire > the necessary expertise) to do so. > > Perhaps this is where we need to move the app to the clowd, > so you could upload from your tablet to the clowd, work on > the picture there and then display back on the tablet. > > > James C. McPherson > -- > Solaris kernel software engineer, system admin and troubleshooter > http://www.jmcpdotcom.com/blog > Find me on LinkedIn @ http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamescmcpherson >
So in another word, the darktable app (for tablets, or ultrabooks with touchscreens) got to be in a completely separate project from darktable...... For this new project, I guess what we most badly need is UI designers who is experienced with tablet apps, and is also a photographer. This is the most critical bit, as we design from top down. If we can get a successful post-processing and DAM app before Adobe, we have a good chance to get a good share in the market. Learning the Android SDK, and identifying / porting libraries is doable...... Moreover, some of our dependent libraries, such as gphoto2, are already ported to android (or in progress): https://gitorious.org/agphoto2 Moving darktable to cloud and offer it as an online DAM service is nice, but setting the bandwidth, and the storage of RAW photos would have huge cost, so it must be a paid subscription service. The darktable cloud would need to store RAW, otherwise we would not be able to do postprocessing on the cloud! If the darktable cloud is only DAM and does not have postprocessing ability, then it would be no different from facebook, picasa or googlepics.......... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_nov _______________________________________________ darktable-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-devel
