Subsurface on Android and desktop

[Willem Ferguson]

The new developments about getting Subsurface running on Android is 
exciting. However, this brings the need to, at this stage already, have 
a vision for how the portable (=Android) and desktop-based versions will 
interact. The most important issue is how a diver will share his/her 
dive information  between the two systems. An Internet-based mechanism? 
Does one want to duplicate Develogs.de? Enter into a long term 
collaboration with Divelogs.de? Will there be web-based support for 
storing one's own private dive data on one one's own web location? Will 
it imply live/automatic update of dive log information from the Web? 
Non-web based log file transfer from desktop to portable versions with 
the master database on the desktop? Log file upload from Android to 
master database on another machine [if  a phone is closer to the diver 
at the dive site]? Android-and-desktop access will put Subsurface at a 
different level compared to other similar software. I think my point is 
that if one starts to develop an Android version, then we also need to 
think about the development of an Internet-based (i.e. at least an 
IP-based, if not web-based) mechanism for data exchange for the same 
diver who has different pieces of equipment.
Kind regards,
willemf