Hi Avinash, I'm just curious - did you manage to complete your proposal in melange? Cause I can't seem to find you there and maybe I'm miss-looking.
Thanks, Caty On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 00:09, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <[email protected]>wrote: > > > 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
