20 Jun
2011
20 Jun
'11
6 p.m.
Hi,
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Chamika Weerasinghe <chamikaw(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Hi Thomas and Eduard,
Thank you for explaining me the importance of making reusable widget UIs.
So
you are suggesting me to design UI for xwiki such as Page views, xwiki
wiki, space, page navigator etc. That would be really usable for future
developers. :)
I almost completed 1 and 1.1 and already committed to repo. Please give me
reviews on that so that I can improve my coding styles and architecture of
the xwiki-android-rest. There are some other REST services which I will
implement soon.
After I finished completely 1 and 1.1 I will make sample UI widgets to
confirms they are ok or not.
I don't understand what you suggested in 3). can you describe it further by
giving an example.
Still I don't get the answer for the Calendar deserilization problem.
Android cannot use sun.util.calendar library which uses Xwiki REST in json
serialization and I'm currently blocked there. Because still you didn't
suggest an alternative for that or any other way to resolve the problem.
I'm happy about your progress :) however, one thing I learned from OSS world
is that as a developer you cannot ask "how to do this? or you haven't
answered me yet" type of questions. It's best if you can do some research
and provide a list of alternative paths and ask which of those paths is to
be taken? (i.e ask for opinions) and may be then ppl will suggest you more
alternatives which you have to evaluate yourself. The moral is, the bulk of
the work should be on your shoulders while others can provide constructive
comments.
Hope you understood my point :)
- Asiri
Best Regards,
Chamika Weerasinghe
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Eduard Moraru <eduard.moraru(a)xwiki.com
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wrote:
Hi,
As application reusable widgets, we should have a nice tree-style
navigator that can open wiki pages (in a separate configurable page
editor widget), open objects and classes (in a separate and configurable
object/class editor widget), download/upload page attachments (in a
separate and configurable widget/application -- here we could also have
a photo/video uploader using the device's camera, an audio uploader
using the device's microphone, Android gallery picker), etc.
Additionally to application reusable widgets, we might also have some
'system widgets' (addable to the home screen) like watchlist notifier,
messaging (app or widget), activity, etc. but some of these require
extending the REST API as well which, depending on the rate of progress,
might be interesting to do.
We need to be aware of the two, possibly three, layers we want to
achieve:
1) development library that should be used by new
App developers to
easily:
1.1) on the model side, communicate with XWiki
trough the REST API and
1.2) on the UI side, reuse existing UI components to perform common
XWiki tasks and possibly provide their implementations for tasks that
they want to override.
2) Demo application that uses the library's features and the provided UI
components to interact with and XWiki instance.
3) Background application/service that intercepts other application
intents and provides Android to XWiki system integration... like the
'share photo' intent, system notifications, search, etc.
Note: '3)' can be considered as part of '2)' or at least it can be
bundled with it. Don`t know exactly how things work in Android, but I
don`t think there's a major problem here.
So, back to the topic, for 1.2) a reusable navigator does make sense. A
quick example would be a wiki page chooser for the 'send to' intent; you
open the navigator, the user chooses a page and the photo gets uploaded
as attachment.
Plus, it's a good reason to write clean code :)
Thanks,
Eduard
On 06/20/2011 09:46 AM, Thomas Mortagne wrote:
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On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 23:32, Chamika
Weerasinghe<chamikaw(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For now I've implemented almost all the REST GET methods in
> xwiki-android-client. Translations and some of the Objects method will
be
> implemented as soon as possible.
> I modified jaxb model classes to work with GSON which is a json
deserializer
> works in Android.
> xwiki-android-rest is downgraded from android SDK version 2.2 to 2.1.1
for
> achieving more compatibility with the
devices.
>
> Currently I'm having an issue in all the REST requests which has
date/time
> because REST replies date/time as a
java.util.GregorianCalendar object
with
> using sun.util.calendar.ZoneInfo as the
timezone. Android doesn't
> have sun.util.calendar library and because of that json objects cannot
be
>> deserialize using GSON.
>> Therefore I manually deserialized ZoneInfo content. So now TimeZone can
developer
> be added to any other common library which
can be used with xwiki as
well as
>> Android. Please suggest me such library.
>>
>> Android Xwiki navigator
>> Thomas suggested to make a developer widget which serves as a
>> xwiki-navigator. (
>> http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/custom-components.html)
>> But these developer widget are only used for designing custom user
>> interfaces and functionality should be added as same as normal android
>> application. So there is no significant advantage of building widget. Anyway I'll do it.
No I don't
see the point in doing something you don't understand.
What I suggested you (and again I just give you suggestions, it's not
a meaningless order...) is to build reusable components as much as
possible, how can a custom view allowing to navigate an XWiki instance
could be useless for an XWiki based android application ? Especially
when it's not more work at all and is just about putting this custom
view you have to do anyway in a proper design in a separate library
instead of directly in the application.
Best Regards,
Chamika Weerasinghe
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