Hi Ludovic, Caty, This is interesting. Ludovic if you already started working on this, maybe you could send a mail with more details and why not start a design document ? I think there are several aspects of design (software design) that would be interesting to be discussed. Since you are working with jQueryUI, I imagine and will assume in the rest of this mail that you are or plan on using a wrapper such as Apache Cordova (PhoneGap) to package the app for mobile platforms. Couple of random questions/remarks : - Do you handle authentication with cookies ? I have started working on a token-based authenticator with revokable tokens (with mobile clients in mind as well). - About notifications, I am not sure what you mean by "I'm not sure if you get access to the notifications that the user clicked to activate the App", but with Cordova there's an event that let's you know when an app resumes (comes back from background). Maybe at that moment you can check if you have new notifs. - Also about notifications, the default strategy should be pulled-notifications. Then it could be extended to an environment based strategy that uses a long lived connection when the phone/device is plugged (and maybe when it is connected on WiFi, not on mobile networks). - Finally, a project to keep an eye on : http://maker.github.com/ratchet/ Jerome On 11/28/2012 02:52 PM, Ludovic Dubost wrote:
Hi Cati,
Great proposals that enhances the current UI. My main comments concern features that are not really finished in the current prototype and would need some help also from a design/usability perspective:
1/ Adding a page to favorites and notifications -> This has not been put in the UI and would be needed -> Should it be a separate favorites than the XWiki Watch List. Right now I don't think so because that would be yet another list and the Server wiki will need to know about the favorites because it -> A design for notifications and how they should show up would be great. I think notifications could be a general UI item and also show up on the home page. A notification is sent by the server to the device. The notification is just a message. The XWiki Application can be activated from the notification but will have to contact the server to know more (I'm not sure if you get access to the notifications that the user clicked to activate the App). I think a message could be just "this doc has been updated" or "X documents have been modified" depending on the notifications settings of the user). 2/ Adding a page/space/applications to offline documents would be needed in the UI and a management UI for the page/spaces/applications being in the offline docs 3/ The offline editing features should be removed for now because they are far from ready 4/ Commenting should be added in the UI 5/ A "share/open" button should be added which opens a popup proposing to share by email/twitter/open in safari/etc.. 6/ A configuration UI would be needed to add/update configuration for a new Wiki. For now a simple URL would be enough + a username and password and an "advanced" button. A specific service will probably be built in XE/XEM to provide the configuration to the mobile App. It would be possible using the "advanced configuration" to not need this server based configuration to connect to any wiki but it will be more pratical with this configuration. 7/ I like the Application zone design. Now it should be reusing what is done in the Application Panel since 4.2 (?). Now the issue is that a specific REST/XWiki Page service might be needed here, as right now it's manual configuration. Now the service used for the configuration could handle that.
Ludovic
2012/11/28 Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <[email protected]>
Hi devs,
For the Mobile App Investigation, Ludovic has been playing with a XWiki Mobile App prototype done with jQuery Mobile (http://jquerymobile.com/). This is a proposal for a mobile application that matches the jQuery Mobile framework capabilities and that provides minimal XWiki functionality (like listing wikis, spaces, pages, accessing content, viewing recent activity, etc.)
http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/MobileApp
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