Hi Lars Vogel : Thank you very much !. It's nice to meet you in DocBook. I got to know about basics of Android from a tutorial of you. Great work, keep it up !.
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Lars Vogel <lars.vo...@googlemail.com>wrote: > Hi Gihan, > > I happy to hear that my tutorials (vogella) were helpful. > > Good luck with your project. > > Best regards, Lars > > > 2012/3/21 gihan karunarathne <gckarunarat...@gmail.com> > >> Hi David, Hi mentors : >> >> Thank you very much David again for your interesting towards this project >> idea and help me to get through this. >> >> Some are more worked up than others, but >>> you're free to change based on your interests, feedback, community >>> interest, and so on. >>> >> I will track on the feedback and other helps which are really help me to >> get through the process. >> But I keep focus on learning XSLT and XSL with the hope of contribute to >> the DocBook projects. >> So, I followed some tutorials of vogella [1] [2]. Those are really help >> me to sharpen my understanding about technologies. Also I following some >> complete guide tutorials [3]. >> >>> >>> In the case of building an apk from DocBook, much of the source for >>> the apk will be generated from DocBook at build time. >> >> I don't understand this point clearly. Can you explain it further, David? >> >> I would look around for some .apk books and see how close the html and >>> other >>> internal resources are to .epub. If a .apk book is very close to >>> .epub, then it should be a pretty easy task to turn the .epub you >>> currently get from DocBook into a .apk file. >> >> I don't know about the idea of .apk is going to implement from the >> scratch or in top of the DocBook. In case, it can implement like .epub >> built with the help of XHTML then it will be a easy task. >> >> I can build it by studying .apk from its basic [4]. Or try with some >> alternative method which will get the external dependencies support and get >> the job done. As an example, I found that "AIR application for Android >> with the Flex SDK" [5] is doing such kind of alternative. According to my >> understanding with my experience about Android by roughly go through this >> web page, they are simply creating a Android source and manifest.xml file >> to configure Android settings. It also ask for java class which is similar >> to Activity class in Android and use Android SDK to build .apk. >> According to my idea, we can generate those manifest.xml and other java >> class which help to build GUI in the Android by using XSLT transformation. >> Then use Android SDK to compile and build .apk by configure dependencies in >> Ant script. >> Other way, we can use from the beginning method to build .apk by using >> XSLT transformation. If I have misunderstanding or some wrong idea with >> regarding this, please correct me. >> >>> Then If that's the case, you >>> >>> would want to find other stuff to add to the proposal so you have >>> enough to do over the summer. >>> >> I will seek for another output format during this period. >> >>> >>> We should also ask the other mentors if any are interested in this >>> project and what their thoughts are. I'm hoping they'll chime in. >>> >> Yes David. I also very appreciate if a mentor can help to me through out >> this project idea. We will wait until some one help us. >> I also think, this is a critical point with regarding where should I >> heading. If I tried to follow any difficult method to implement this idea, >> I'm wasting my time. >> So, any thoughts about this idea are highly valuable and appreciate for >> me. >> >> Thank you in Advance !. >> >> [1]. http://www.vogella.de/articles/DocBook/article.html#epub >> [2]. http://www.vogella.de/articles/XSLT/article.html >> [3]. http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/ >> [4]. http://forum.sdx-developers.com/index.php?topic=3472.0 >> [5]. >> http://help.adobe.com/en_US/air/build/WS901d38e593cd1bac25d3d8c712b2d86751e-8000.html >> >> >> -- >> Regards >> >> Gihan Chanuka Karunarathne >> Department of Computer Science and Engineering >> >> University of Moratuwa >> Sri Lanka >> >> >> Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/gihanchanuka >> LinkedIn: http://lk.linkedin.com/pub/gihan-karunarathne/25/ba3/993 >> >> >> > > > -- > Lars > http://www.vogella.de - Eclipse, Android and Java Tutorials > http://www.twitter.com/vogella - Lars on Twitter > -- Regards Gihan Chanuka Karunarathne Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Moratuwa Sri Lanka Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/gihanchanuka LinkedIn: http://lk.linkedin.com/pub/gihan-karunarathne/25/ba3/993
