4 Apr
2012
4 Apr
'12
5:40 p.m.
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:19 PM, sasinda rukshan
<sasindarukshan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Thomas,
Sorry I could not respond to you earlier.I was traveling.
Thank you for the suggestion.In stack overflow it was said that you have to
checkout an old revision in the repository and the latest version was now
not available.(The new one is deleted somehow. On purpose, maybe).I will
check it tomorrow.
You are actually talking about
http://code.google.com/p/android-richtexteditor/ that I seen also. But
http://code.google.com/p/droid-writer/ is still alive and have real
version and downloads.
I will make the proposal saying I will do the blog application and the
architecture proposed above is just for structuring my work and to show
what the *potential* is (specially to the Google) If Google does not select
this project to be a good suggestion out of the slots they are offering for
XWiki, I have a risk, so I will leave the proposed architecture and
highlight the fact that this is just to show how the project will be
directed in the future.I am not smart to implement all those platform
modules in the give period.Some I don't have enough knowledge. But I had a
brief idea on how to implement them.Like for example Cache module can be
implemented using the last modified time stamp of the Object data(not
HTML response's last modified date, as it sure is generated from a servlet)
inside the HTML response that the RESTful APIs return.
Now the issue is by doing a WYSYWIG editor I will mainly contributing a
reusable UI element to XWiki Mobile Platform. As it looks like this will
take some time. So it goes a little out of you vision for a XWiki mobile
platform(i.e. I am going deep in to one direction in the platform instead
of scratching the breadth of it).
A) So my main contribution would be WYSYWIG and Android account content
shareing ( I am thinking of using Android ContentProviders,from what I
read, that's what Android platform is using to share its settings etc.).
B) I like to do
Persisting the blog document for later editing. (persistency parts I
would add to the Persistence module.Its a Facade.Hmm... If there was JPA in
android...)
Remember password.Store it in the device (encrypted.Use SKE. Key would
be also stored in the device anyway.).
From my experience some tricky program parts take time way more than I
expect. So maybe I may not have enough time to do (B).
What is your suggestion. I like to do the WYSYWIG. If I am to do it I will
need to store the styles using HTML and inline CSS. It can be done while
editing the doc or by at the end transforming Android native formating to
HTML .(1 st option is easy but not optimal at memory usage.Since people see
the functionality not our optimization's I vote for 1).
You should probably look at how http://code.google.com/p/droid-writer/
(or others) do things before deciding anything on that. Note that the
XWiki Javascript WYSIWYG only manipulate HTML (it receive HTML from
the server and send back modified HTML) so you can probably do the
same thing.
If you are voting for a WYSIWYG I'll create mock ups and add to the
proposal.
The WYSIWYG is an interesting idea but I confess that it's not really
my main concern for this project right now. It's pretty advanced
compared to the current state of the XWiki Android framework. But
again you should first look at http://code.google.com/p/droid-writer/
before proposing anything, maybe it actually have pretty much all you
need already and that you don't need to do your own WYSIWYG and maybe
just contribute to it to improve some minor stuff you need (or not
even).
To tell about the architecture, Domain Model Module:
Almost all of the model parts are done in the Google Android Connector.So I
have nothing much to do there.
Can you suggest what is doable within time frame? Is it OK to propose those
features even I am not sure whether I will have enough time?
We are supposed to judge you on whether you did what you said you
would or not. So you should find the right balance between proposing
something that would make us select you and at the same time something
that you can do so that you succeed the GSOC.
*As I am on study leave from Friday (I am skipping the university tomorrow
;-)), Shall I make a document to explain what the Android XWiki mobile main
app suggestion is about. (One main app to hold every thing). I am not going
to make it. I don't have enough experience to make a program
with pluggable architecture in Android.Maybe some other developers
interested may look at it. Will it be relevant to link it in melangae.*
You should put on melange only what you plan to do in the timeframe.
Now if you want to register somewhere some ideas for later the right
place is http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/.
Is Google looking at other projects we have done? Or is it just for you.If
it is needed I can upload code of my past projects.( not much, Servlet
based web apps, Battle Tanks game with AI, JGame lib was used).
Just for us to help us put a value on each candidate skills.
Regards,
Sasinda.
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Thomas Mortagne
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On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:32 AM, sasinda rukshan
<sasindarukshan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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I think it will take the same time with android. No difference. I am also
thinking that it is easy to propose but hard to make. I will lower the
set
of requirements to a doable set. I will almost
complete the proposal by
today night.
Well probably a bit less time since you don't have do deal with
browser differences like the XWiki WYSIWYG does but still a big work
if there is nothing to help doing this on Android.
I just found http://code.google.com/p/droid-writer/ by searching a bit
on Google, maybe that would help you.
Thanks for frequently checking out.
My pleasure ;)
Regards,
Sasinda Rukshan,
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