GSoC Status - Week 3 (Android Port)

[Grace Karanja]

On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 12:53 AM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 06:26:51PM +0300, Grace Karanja wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 11:55 PM, Tomaz Canabrava <tcanabrava at kde.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Grace, always do a rebase from master so your work is not hard to merge
> > > later.
> > > I'm doing the review right now.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > Here are patches containing the work done so far.
> >
> > To compile the mobile executable, call cmake with
> -DSUBSURFACE_MOBILE=True.
> > This
> > will result in a subsurface-mobile executable.
>
> Grace,
>
> this is really good work. I have only tried it on the desktop as there is
> no infrastructure to build for Android, yet, but it clearly goes in the
> right direction.
>
Thanks!

>
> There are two things that I would like to see
>
> a) having a File menu is of course a desktop thing - why would you do this
> in a mobile app. So let's get rid of this and instead show a big button
> that offers to open a data file
>
> b) but then, of course, the idea of working with a "file" on a mobile
> device is IMHO wrong to begin with. Could you instead implement a
> preferences dialog where the user can enter their email address and
> password and then have a button "Open cloud storage" which does just that?
> I think that would be a lot more realistic for a mobile app.
>
> But overall this is a great start, please keep up the good work!
>

I will implement it this week.


>
> /D
>



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Grace K
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