Re: [xwiki-devs] GSoC 2011 - "XWiki Android client"

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:05, Jerome Velociter <jerome(a)xwiki.com> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Ludovic Dubost <ludovic(a)xwiki.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I wanted to rename this project to Android/iPhone instead of Android only. >> >> I tend to think that today FULL native client development on Android or iOS >> is outdated. >> There are now libraries like Appcelerator Titanium >> (http://www.appcelerator.com/) or PhoneGap (http://www.phonegap.com/) >> that allow to do cross platform development with "native UI" look and feel >> in Javascript and with very nice web integration. > > I support this approach too, and agree that a pure Android client does > not bring much to the table. > > HTML/CSS/JS is becoming the logical run-time for mobile web-oriented apps. > > In addition to the integration library like titanium or PhoneGap we > might want to look into a mobile dev UI framework like jquery mobile > or JoApp (http://joapp.com/) Again that's form an UI point of view only which is not the main concern of my proposal, feel free to add another GSOC project.

> > Jerome > >> >> I've done a prototype with Appcelerator and calling REST/JSON apis from it >> is a breeze and the result is a very nice native looking application. >> The great advantage is to develope mostly once for both platforms. >> >> Also the application is tightly connected to a good mobile skin. Indeed >> given XWiki's web capabilities, you cannot have of an application developped >> on top of XWiki working on a mobile without actually calling the application >> itself in web mode (good example is a livetable). So you can't only interact >> with the content engine of XWiki. Therefore a good native mobile XWiki >> application is a front end with nice "mobile" oriented widgets for the home >> page, the activity stream, the search and maybe others which then link to >> the native XWiki pages embedded in a mobile skin. >> >> Althouth native mobile application + mobile skin are connected they can >> still be viewed as different projects as the mobile skin can be used on it's >> own. >> >> Ludovic >> >> Le 20/03/11 18:00, Thomas Mortagne a écrit : >>> >>> Hi Rauf, >>> >>> Great you are interested in this project ! >>> >>> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 17:32, Abdul Rauf<raufbutt(a)gmail.com>  wrote: >>>> >>>> Dear Thomas Mortagne >>>> >>>> >>>> I am very excited to contribute in open source community through the >>>> platform of Google Summer of Code 2011. I have visited the ideas page >>>> of “XWiki” at http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/ for >>>> GSoC 2011. I am interested in working on “Google Android client” for >>>> XWiki. >>>> The reason being is my interest in smartphone development. I have >>>> previously >>>> worked in Windows Phone 7 and to some extent in Blackberry. I want to >>>> experience development in other platforms such as Android. I've worked in >>>> Java, CSS, HTML and Javascript. >>>> >>>> >>>> I am writing to let you know my understanding of the project and would >>>> like >>>> your feedback on it. My understanding of the requirements is as follows: >>>> >>>> >>>>   - To develop a smartphone application for XWiki. >>>>   - The application should be able to navigate wiki spaces and pages. >>>>   - The application should allow offline editing of wiki space and pages >>>>   and synchronise results on connecting with the repository. >>>>   - The application should also allow users an option to launch a browser >>>>   window. >>> >>> That is for the UI part yes. >>> >>> The user need a way to view the result and there is a lot of ways >>> which are not requiring the same work: >>> - launch the browser to the page (which will be the minimum for this GSOC) >>> - integrate the browser into the application if you have more time >>> - something event more integrated in the application if you have lot >>> of time but i doubt it will be possible ;) >>> >>> Plus any commons sense you are thinking of since you are probably more >>> eperianced than me in mobile development ;) >>> >>> But there is also another side of the project which is to develop a >>> nice android library package that could be used by any other Android >>> app to comunicate with XWiki. >>> >>> More than the featuires what is important is to have a good >>> architecture (maven build, follow Andoird good practices) that will >>> make what you did easy to improve and add other features later by >>> someone else. That's the better way to make XWiki have a good android >>> client in the long run. >>> >>>> I have some knowledge of XML-RPC client/server communication. However, >>>> you >>>> mentioned you are interested in using REST API for such communication. >>>> Does >>>> XWiki already have REST API or this API needs to be created as part of >>>> this >>>> project. Would you please refer me some material to study in this regard? >>> >>> Yes there is already a very complete REST interface, a lot more >>> complete than the XML-RPC one which is why the project should be based >>> on it. >>> >>>> >>>> I look forward to your response. >>>> >>>> >>>> Regards >>> >>> Notes: I only did a bit of Android developement mostly to test it so I >>> will not be able to help much on very advanced Android stuff >>> >>>> >>>> Rauf >>>> >>>> University of Gloucestershire >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> devs mailing list >>>> devs(a)xwiki.org >>>> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Ludovic Dubost >> Blog: http://blog.ludovic.org/ >> XWiki: http://www.xwiki.com >> Skype: ldubost GTalk: ldubost >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> devs mailing list >> devs(a)xwiki.org >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >> >> > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > devs(a)xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs