23 Mar
2011
23 Mar
'11
10:58 p.m.
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <sergiu(a)xwiki.com> wrote:
On 03/23/2011 08:51 AM, Thomas Mortagne wrote:
Well that's sound a bit too easy an argument for me.
PhoneGap etc. provide the bridge to the native APIs, so you are not
limited in terms of features. For example notifications is definitely
something you can do.
As for non-optimal, if you speak in terms of UX then I don't agree -
there are apps out there built using an integration platform that beat
down most native apps. If you speak in terms of performances, sure but
then why we are we developing XWiki in java and not compiling directly
for each OS using their available libraries ? It's a trade-off.
I will stop there because I agree the abstractions layer that exists
for mobile are not at the same level of maturity as say java would be
for servers, and creating an application/library for Android
definitely make sense especially since its becoming the platform of
choice and this is only going to improve in near future.
Nevertheless I wanted to make that point since the argument does not
sound completely legitimate to me.
You should look at what feedly (http://www.feedly.com/) have done for
mobiles. They have developed a first-class application for iOS and
Android using such an integration tool (which they have created
themselves).
Now I will try to refrain from polluting all Android threads, I promise :)
Cheers,
Jerome
Hi Christian,
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 21:55, Christian Pels<caapels(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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. Thanks Caty for the prompt response.
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica)<
valicac(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Christian,
>
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 20:26, Christian Pels<caapels(a)gmail.com> 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.
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?
--
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
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