GSOC project updates

[Venkatesh Shukla]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 8:03 PM, Tomaz Canabrava <tcanabrava at kde.org> wrote:
> Don't reimplement things if they already work ._.

Things do work but not without Qt. And subsurface-android would not
have Qt dependencies. Hence, the reimplementation.

>
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Venkatesh Shukla
> <venkatesh.shukla.eee11 at iitbhu.ac.in> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> So I see regular updates from Gehad (HTML export) and Andrey (IOS Companion), but I feel like I don’t really know where we are regarding libdivecomputer on Android and dive computer configuration from Subsurface. Venkatesh and Joseph, could you send your latest status to the mailing list, please?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Hello
>>
>> The complete stack needed to enable libdivecomputer on android is
>> ready. It seems to be working with OSTC3. It needs further testing.
>> Support for other chipsets are not yet implemented.
>>
>> I am presently working on creating touch friendly interface for
>> android. For this, the plan is to use all the core functions of
>> subsurface - dive  processing, planner, import from git repo and xml
>> files - by making a subsurface library and using JNI wrappers over it
>> to make Android Java Interface.
>>
>> There are some functions needed for subsurface library which are
>> currently implemented in Qt. I am reimplementing those in C. This can
>> be seen here : https://github.com/venkateshshukla/subsurface/commits/android
>>
>> After getting all such functions resolved, I will jump straight into
>> making JNI wrappers and touch friendly UI.
>> Admittedly, libdivecomputer for android has taken a backseat now and
>> things are going slow, but hopefully things will start to come
>> together in the end.
>>
>> --
>> Venkatesh Shukla
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