On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 22:02, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 ;)
Another good one would be to synchronize your XWiki social network (when it's ready) with android contacts. > >> >> -- >> Sergiu Dumitriu >> http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ >> _______________________________________________ >> devs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >> > > > > -- > Thomas Mortagne > -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
