Moving project to Android Studio

[Anton Lundin]

On 13 January, 2015 - Davide DB wrote:

> Do you really want a fat full fledged android Subsurface?
> 

Yes, i would like to have that. It might not be necessary to have all
the bells and whistles, but at least the basic parts.

> I've been had only problems *just* to read a plain USB keys with my
> android phones and tablets. It's a HW jungle.
> 

If you by android devices without propper usb-otg-support you will have
problems, but most of the modern devices handles usb-otg just fine.

> IMHO the current companion app is nearly perfect.
> For my needs I would just add:
> 
> - Browsing of my logbook. Maybe a shared remote repository?

This is not as easy as you might think to "just" add. It would require
quite a bit of coding to re-implement what we have in our "current"
Subsurface, so re-using that code is the only thing that makes sense to
build this kind of feature.

> - Adding on the fly some extra data that I could forget later like
> tank pressures and other small things. Why they could not be
> tranferred via webservice?
> 

Yes, but the webservice and how we synchronize with it isn't build for
this kind of data.

> PS
> From what I read on the official Android development page, now the
> official development tool si Android Studio and migration is strongly
> recommended.
> 

Yes, everything android will eventually move to gradle. Should current
Subsurface companion do it now? Maybe, maybe not...


//Anton


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