After 4.3 is out...

[Anton Lundin]

On 24 December, 2014 - Tomaz Canabrava wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Gehad Elrobey <gehadelrobey at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 10:18 PM, Anton Lundin <glance at acc.umu.se> wrote:
> >
> >> On 22 December, 2014 - Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 05:57:34PM +0100, Davide DB wrote:
> >> > > I remember that Anton was working on a full Subsurface on Android and
> >> > > it's great.
> >> >
> >> > Yes, that's still on the "when we find someone with the time and
> >> > inclination to do it" road map.
> >> >
> >>
> >> It works<tm>, but its a bit ugly and is best used with a mouse connected
> >> to your Android device =)
> >>
> >>
> >> What we need to do to create a great experience for touch devices, is
> >> UI/UX design.
> >>
> >>
> >> From what I've read, its not that different to build a Qt app for Apple
> >> IOS, but I haven't tried but i plan to.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > Why we don't build native apps for android and IOS instead of using the QT
> > version built for desktop. especially that we don't need all the features
> > in the desktop version. I am thinking that a dive reader will be great as
> > mentioned.
> >
> 
> The idea is to build a Qt version for Phones using QML.
> The issue with building an native app for android, a native app for iphone,
> a native app for windows phone is that subsurface is a very complex app and
> we don't have the manpower to create three different versions. So Qt can
> help there. Not by using the same app as the Desktop Client, but by
> creating a simplified version that uses QML.
> 

Building "native" apps with just the subsurface core as c/c++ part is
also an option.

There exists a skeleton of a core library for building a Android java
frontend to download dives with, but its not yet ready for mainline.

You can find the bits on github[1] and play around with.


Which path is the best then? I'd say thats depends on who is building
it.


//Anton


1. https://github.com/venkateshshukla/dc_import_android

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