Hi Christoph, On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 04:14:39PM +0100, Christoph Sieghart wrote: > * Thomas Perl <[email protected]> [110221 12:25]: >> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 05:45:20PM +0100, Christoph Sieghart wrote: >>> * Thomas Perl <[email protected]> [110218 11:35]: >>>> We will apply as a mentoring organization at this year's Google Summer >>>> of Code. The application period for mentoring organizations starts in 10 >>>> days, and it would be great if we would have some more ideas for >>>> projects to work on: >>>> >>>> http://wiki.gpodder.org/wiki/GSoC_Ideas >>> >>> I would like to offer my help doing the Android client for gpodder. I am >>> currently studying compsci and have some experience with Android >>> development. >> >> Sounds great! Do you want to work on this as a student or mentor? :) > > As a student. I have seen the two videos showing gpodder on Android > (with SL4A). I'm currently reading up on SL4A and playing a bit with it > to get a better understanding.
Yep, I've updated the Wiki page with a bit more information about what I think the Android port should be. The current way (SL4A) is just using Python, because the codebase exist. For a "proper" Android port, it's probably better to port the backend code to Java (I think that keeping "in sync" with the structure of gPodder's Python backend is a good idea, because if there are structural problems, we can always change the Python backend's structure as well, and it helps developers jumping between codebases, and it gives the Java developer a "known good structure" from which to start). On top of that ported backend should then come a native Android GUI. It can obviously also be HTML-based, if that turns out to be the best or easiest choice - it should "feel" like a native app to users. I'm pretty sure you know more than me about how to do proper Android UIs, so I'll leave that one open to your choice :) Thanks, Thomas _______________________________________________ gpodder-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/gpodder-devel
