I am familiar with Qt in general but always thought that multiplatform toolkits are lacking "feel and act" of native applications. Anyhow, send me the git so I can dabble (randomly or otherwise) and see what I can do about 1 & 2.
Regards, Z. On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Dirk Hohndel <[email protected]> wrote: > Adding back the mailing list so people see what we are discussing > > There are two directions that are quite important right now > a) Tomaz is working on getting Subsurface-mobile built on iOS; this work > isn't complete, yet, and until that is finished there isn't much we can do > that iOS specific. But I'm sure this will only be a few more days > b) You should look at QML to get a feeling for how this works and how the > pieces work together. As experienced iOS developer my hope is that you can > help us make sure that our app is reasonably iOS compliant, i.e. it feels > and acts like an iOS app (and gets approved for the iTunes store). If you > want something specific to work on (so instead of randomly dabbling around > with QML you'll have something to contribute), here are two really simple > extensions of the UI (you can play with it on your desktop - it builds fine > on Linux and Mac): > (1) once a user enters their cloud credentials, change the first button on > the start screen from "enter cloud credentials" to "view dive list" > (2) on the dive list view, add a way to get back to the start screen > > Makes sense? > > /D > > On Nov 26, 2015, at 5:57 AM, Zai Gezundt <[email protected]> wrote: > > Got it. What would you like me to do? > > Regards, > Z. > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 9:52 PM, Dirk Hohndel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> All of us have day jobs. Many of us disappear for days (or weeks) at a >> time. I'd much rather have more people looking at the code, fixing >> something here or there, providing input and testing, even if that may not >> happen on a strict schedule. Frankly, very few things here happen on a >> schedule :-) >> >> /D >> >> On Nov 21, 2015, at 12:01 PM, Zai Gezundt <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Sorry for the delayed reply. I was extremely busy for the last couple of >> days and this is exactly kind of unexpected workload that makes me >> reluctant to become an active contributor to Subsurface-mobile app. I think >> that failing to deliver whatever was promised would be worse than not >> contributing at all. Also I have to admit that I am not familiar with >> Qt/QML. I am experienced native iOS developer but mastering Qt/QML would >> require some time. >> >> Please consider aforementioned limitations and let me know if I can help. >> And being a diver I do want to help as much as I can. >> >> Regards, >> Z. >> >> >> On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Dirk Hohndel <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Nov 14, 2015, at 4:34 AM, Zai Gezundt <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Thanks for the reply. >>> >>> "Fairly full features Subsurface mobile app" is an excellent goal and it >>> surely will supersede primitive companion app. Yet it will take >>> considerable time and resources do achieve. In the meanwhile, as mentioned >>> in the original post, I could fix minor "as is" issues of the companion >>> app. That is unless becoming "active contributor" is too convoluted. >>> >>> >>> It's really easy to get involved and of course your contributions would >>> be extremely welcome. >>> >>> But even then, I'd prefer to have that involvement on the >>> Subsurface-mobile app. The Android version of that is pretty much at the >>> point where it can replace the companion app - and of course it can do a >>> ton more things. Tomaz is working on getting the same app built on iOS - we >>> used Qt/QML to build the Android app as that should allow us fairly easily >>> to have the same app both on Android and iOS. So if you have experience >>> with iOS I'd love your help to make this happen. >>> >>> But of course, if you'd rather work on the Subsurface companion app, >>> simply get involved here: >>> https://github.com/zdanovs/subsurface-companion-ios >>> >>> /D >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Dirk Hohndel <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Well, at least it didn't get a reply. >>>> >>>> The iOS companion app was done by a GSoC student who is no longer an >>>> active contributor to Subsurface, and none of the active developers really >>>> have taken on maintaining it. It mostly works and appears good enough, so I >>>> guess it's one of those "as is" applications. >>>> Your comments below seem valid - but I don't think this is likely to >>>> get fixed. >>>> >>>> Our focus now is not on the companion apps, anyway, we have more >>>> interesting goals: a fairly full featured Subsurface mobile app. >>>> >>>> /D >>>> >>>> On Nov 13, 2015, at 2:52 PM, Zai Gezundt <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Not worth reply? >>>> >>>> On Thursday, October 22, 2015 at 5:14:32 AM UTC-4, Zai Gezundt wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Subsurface companion app for iOS is great idea but it can be improved >>>>> by allowing to specify site name even when dive is created automatically. >>>>> Consider situation when diver goes on a boat to make 2 dives and turns on >>>>> location tracking before each dive to capture site coordinates. The stream >>>>> will contain multiple entries that can be roughly grouped by coordinates >>>>> and time. However the name for both groups will be default one, taken from >>>>> settings. One can circumvent this by changing the settings before each >>>>> dive >>>>> but it is rather inconvenient. I've downloaded Subsurface sources hoping >>>>> to >>>>> find companion app for iOS and tweak it but found only sources for >>>>> Android. >>>>> If you consider my proposal as worth implementing but have limited >>>>> development capacity - let me know if I can help. >>>>> >>>>> Also there are two issues with companion app for iOS: >>>>> >>>>> 1. Subsurface manual states that red bar will appear at the bottom >>>>> of the screen. On my iPhone 6 it is at the top, covering status bar. >>>>> 2. Subsurface manual states that one can add manual dive while >>>>> location service is running. However the app does not respond to >>>>> anything >>>>> but stop button on the red bar. 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