That's good to know that at least development is accessible. I've never used
eclipse so don't know anything about it.
I can imagine that using the emulator would be a problem but that seems to
be the case for everything, the symbian emulator never worked and the iphone
emulator apparently isn't accessible either. It's always better to test on
real hardware anyway.
On Tue, 6 Oct 2015, Peter wrote:
Hello,
Concerning the android development. I am a blind developer and i work on
app for android last 2 years. You can code in eclipse with ADT (my case)
or in any simple text editor and use command line tools to build the
project.
There is also new android studio which is unfortunately not accessible,
but it is fortunately not wery important for us :).
Accessibility in eclipse is really great, you probably know it.
There is only one thing i was newer able to use, the android emulator. I
have to test and debug directly on the device, which is not so
comfortable like on emulator, but it is not hard to write few scripts
and use ADB to quickly and automatically install generated build and
test it.
With best
Peter
On 6. 10. 2015 14:48, Shawn Kirkpatrick wrote:
A few people have mentioned developing loadstone for the android
platform. This could happen at some later date but at the moment there's
some problems with this idea.
The first is the same as developing for the iphone, if there's no money
for apple hardware then there's also no money for android hardware. Even
if they're cheaper android phones still aren't free and since our
fundraiser currently sits at 0 I guess that pretty much rules out a port
to anything. So much for the power of social media.
The other big problem with the android platform is accessibility. In
pretty much every comparison I've been able to find accessibility in
android seems to lag quite far behind the iphone. Some of this is
probably a matter of opinion but it seems to be a consistant theme. I
imagine as time goes on this will change, hopefully.
The other problem could be the developer tools. I actually had a look at
this a couple years ago and it looked like it might be very hard if not
impossible for a blind person to use the android sdk and tools. Maybe
this has changed since but I haven't been able to find any documentation
about this one way or another.
As for android being more popular, that also seems to be a matter of
opinion or maybe where you live. Strangely enough I don't know a single
person that has an android phone. I wish I did so I could get a look at
one and compare the accessibility.
On Sun, 4 Oct 2015, Jacob Kruger wrote:
I'll also put in my 2c - android is definitely made use of in a lot
more of the regions of the world other than the USA, etc., and entry
level android phones cost less than 10% of the price of an iPhone, but
anyway.
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
"Roger Wilco wants to welcome you...to the space janitor's closet..."
----- Original Message ----- From: "Emanuel Boboiu"
<[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2015 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Loadstone] Loadstone for iPhone fundraiser
For iPhone there is already Blind Square.
As a perspective, Android will be used on more and more devices,
people in less developed countries afford it.
Manu
-----Original Message----- From: Tilakprasad Joshi
Sent: Saturday, October 3, 2015 5:23 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Loadstone] Loadstone for iPhone fundraiser
Dear Shawn,
Indeed it’s a good initiative and I am sure there will be lot of
helpful hands at the same time please keep in mind Android Platform
because majority of people are using android because its
affordability.
Warm Regards,
Tilak.
On 10/3/15, Shawn Kirkpatrick <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello list.
We would like to start working on a port of Loadstone to the iPhone.
To that
end I've set up a gofundme page at:
https://www.gofundme.com/loadstone-gps
to try to raise the needed funds. Please feel free to share this
link as
widely as possible and of course donate. The sooner enough funds are
raised
the sooner development can start.
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