On 03/23/2011 08:51 AM, Thomas Mortagne wrote: > Hi Christian, > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 21:55, Christian Pels<[email protected]> wrote: >> Thanks Caty for the prompt response. >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica)< >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Christian, >>> >>> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 20:26, Christian Pels<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello All, >>>> >>>> I am writing this to be a self introductory mail to the XWiki community. I >>>> am a Computer Engineering student at the University of Duisburg Essen, >>>> Germany. >>>> >>>> I am interested in the undertaking the Android related project for Summer >>>> of >>>> Code,I am interested primarily in the long term project of building a >>>> library to be used in XWiki android clients. > > I'm glad you are interested in the project and especially on the side > I think is the most interesting one. > >>>> >>>> In the area of programming capabilities, I have experience with the tools >>>> and technologies as detailed on the xwiki development wiki, I primarily >>>> use >>>> Eclipse and have used Maven, Ant, Git and others for several school and >>>> personal project (Android applications). >>>> >>>> (I am looking forward though to getting more exposure on these and others >>>> by >>>> joining and using them in an open source community). >>>> >>> >>> Nice to meet you :) >>> Please check out the other threads about GSOC where we already discussed >>> some points there: >>> - about the project >>> http://xwiki.markmail.org/thread/6oqjrisfei7ndh6g >>> >> >> Gone through the mails sent there. but from I gather (Stand to be >> corrected) the direction for the project has clearly outlined. I like the >> idea of using a cross platform to allow the application to be easily >> adaptable, but not much was said about building the library. >> And I am a bit confused as to whether the two are being considered as >> distinct project or are they meant to be done together by a single person as >> one project. > > No the project did not changed which could be maybe another proposal > at some point but not by me since I'm not convince with the cross > platform Idea. > > My is proposal is focused on a very good library and a kind of demo > but useful UI based on it to serve as example for all android > applications. So the most important is: all that has to be very clean, > follow Android good practice and well designed and easy to read (for > an Android application which have its own performances constraints of > courses ;)). This also mean maven build of the application and > anything that makes release manager life easier and well integrated in > our general build. From my point of view that's the only way to have > something really maintained, improved and used on the long run.
+1. Personally, I think that there are very different things: A. making an XWiki server more easy to access via a browser by doing a mobile-friendly skin on the server B. making a native application that uses XWiki as a back end to accomplish different tasks Both are important, and both are valid projects. While A helps make XWiki more accessible from mobile devices, I agree with Thomas that B allows richer and more advanced types of applications, not necessarily seen as views of XWiki. And I also agree with Thomas that trying to make a generic application that works on all mobile devices will only limit the available features and will offer a poor (or at least non-optimal) interaction on all platforms. The vision is not to have a nice skin for browsing XWiki-powered websites, but to have a library which allows communication with an XWiki server, which can be used for implementing native apps that don't have to be about browsing a website. For example, a notification application that signals when one of the user's watched pages is updated. Another example, a twitter-like application that uses XWiki and the new message stream. Another example, a nice integration with Balsamiq mockups or PlantUML that uses XWiki as simple collaborative storage, with most of the editing happening on the device. Thomas, am I understanding your view correctly? -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
