On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 21:06, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
Yep exactly, glad to see someone on my side finally ;) > > -- > Sergiu Dumitriu > http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
