[PATCH] Ticket #423 - Import GPX file from SD card

[Jef Driesen]

On 2014-03-11 19:26, Venkatesh Shukla IIT BHU wrote:
> 1. As I have seen there are two projects that could be taken up in the
> field of android application for Subsurface in Google Summer of Code.
>     a. First is a full feature port of Subsurface to android supporting
> all, or as much as possible , features of the present desktop version.
>     b. Implementation of libdivecomputer on android giving your phone 
> the
> ability to be connected to the divecomputer and get data from it.
> Which of these is more viable for GSOC, given the time period of two
> months? Which would benefit the community more and has greater 
> necessity?
> Also, I am not a diver and would not have a divecomputer with me. So, 
> is it
> possible to develop libdivecomputer for android without having a
> divecomputer?

I could be wrong, but I think porting libdivecomputer to android without 
having a dive computer around for testing will be difficult. How will 
you test your code? It might be possible to somehow emulate a dive 
computer, but I have no idea how that should be done on Android. The 
alternative is to send the code to a tester. That's what I did for 
reverse engineering most dive computers, but is very time consuming (due 
to no immediate feedback).

Jef