On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 00:34, Avinash Parida <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I was working on the XWiki Mobile skins initial iterations of layouts and > themes and would like to discuss further on this topic.These are some of the > UI views: > > http://www.globaldelight.com/XWiki/xwiki-layouts.jpg [Overall feel and > look] > > http://www.globaldelight.com/XWiki/activity-page.jpg [Activity Page] > http://www.globaldelight.com/XWiki/edit-page.jpg [Edit Page] > http://www.globaldelight.com/XWiki/profile-page.jpg [Profile Page] > The UI is nice and we can iterate on it after we select and discuss the function the skin will include. :) Thanks, Caty > > I am working further on creating more detailed versions and also flowcharts > for the views. > > On reading the previous threads I wanted to dig in on Development point of > view. I thought of 2 options for the scope of this project and its purpose. > > 1. Making a browser based mobile skin only by using HTML5 + CSS + JS , > velocity templates and fetching the data from REST or XML-RPC. The data can > be also displayed by using Ajax making it a good web-app. But this does not > allow the use of native capabilities like camera or notification as it > resides on the browser. > > 2. The use of web-technologies for making cross-platform application with > JS touch framework and porting framework. > The application needs to use the phones native features such as Camera API, > Notification(Vibrate) , Geolocation, File Storage and much more which are > not possible via simply an web-application so requires a porting framework. > Either PhoneGap or Appcelerator Titanium will be good but i have been > following both and I want to point out a few things. > > Advantages of PhoneGap > -MIT licence > -Easier testing in browser /simulator > -Support for iOS , Android, Symbiam, PalmOS > > Advantages of Titanium > -Easy to get native looking app , native UI component > -Better performance > -can be extended to add native feature > > Developing on PhoneGap or Titanium is not an ideal form considering XWiki > is written in Java but solves the purpose of making it mobile compatible. > These allows the app to be natively packaged for different platforms like > iOS , Android or Symbian. This way the app resides on the phone and only > minimum data transfer is required. This would really enable to access XWiki > on mobile devices in an appropriate way. The main focus is to access the > main XWiki features. I am still working on fetching data using REST on the > above porting framework , would be great if i could get more help on this. > > Hope my ideas and opinions would be helpful. I would really appreciate > comments and remarks towards this. > > > Regards, > Avinash > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
