Subsurface app for iOS

Thu Nov 26 09:53:07 PST 2015

I am familiar with Qt in general but always thought that multiplatform
toolkits are lacking "feel and act" of native applications. Anyhow, send me
the git so I can dabble (randomly or otherwise) and see what I can do about
1 & 2.

Regards,
Z.

On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:

> Adding back the mailing list so people see what we are discussing
>
> There are two directions that are quite important right now
> a) Tomaz is working on getting Subsurface-mobile built on iOS; this work
> isn't complete, yet, and until that is finished there isn't much we can do
> that iOS specific. But I'm sure this will only be a few more days
> b) You should look at QML to get a feeling for how this works and how the
> pieces work together. As experienced iOS developer my hope is that you can
> help us make sure that our app is reasonably iOS compliant, i.e. it feels
> and acts like an iOS app (and gets approved for the iTunes store). If you
> want something specific to work on (so instead of randomly dabbling around
> with QML you'll have something to contribute), here are two really simple
> extensions of the UI (you can play with it on your desktop - it builds fine
> on Linux and Mac):
> (1) once a user enters their cloud credentials, change the first button on
> the start screen from "enter cloud credentials" to "view dive list"
> (2) on the dive list view, add a way to get back to the start screen
>
> Makes sense?
>
> /D
>
> On Nov 26, 2015, at 5:57 AM, Zai Gezundt <zai.gezundt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Got it. What would you like me to do?
>
> Regards,
> Z.
>
> On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 9:52 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> All of us have day jobs. Many of us disappear for days (or weeks) at a
>> time. I'd much rather have more people looking at the code, fixing
>> something here or there, providing input and testing, even if that may not
>> happen on a strict schedule. Frankly, very few things here happen on a
>> schedule :-)
>>
>> /D
>>
>> On Nov 21, 2015, at 12:01 PM, Zai Gezundt <zai.gezundt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Sorry for the delayed reply. I was extremely busy for the last couple of
>> days and this is exactly kind of unexpected workload that makes me
>> reluctant to become an active contributor to Subsurface-mobile app. I think
>> that failing to deliver whatever was promised would be worse than not
>> contributing at all. Also I have to admit that I am not familiar with
>> Qt/QML. I am experienced native iOS developer but mastering Qt/QML would
>> require some time.
>>
>> Please consider aforementioned limitations and let me know if I can help.
>> And being a diver I do want to help as much as I can.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Z.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Nov 14, 2015, at 4:34 AM, Zai Gezundt <zai.gezundt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the reply.
>>>
>>> "Fairly full features Subsurface mobile app" is an excellent goal and it
>>> surely will supersede primitive companion app. Yet it will take
>>> considerable time and resources do achieve. In the meanwhile, as mentioned
>>> in the original post, I could fix minor "as is" issues of the companion
>>> app. That is unless becoming "active contributor" is too convoluted.
>>>
>>>
>>> It's really easy to get involved and of course your contributions would
>>> be extremely welcome.
>>>
>>> But even then, I'd prefer to have that involvement on the
>>> Subsurface-mobile app. The Android version of that is pretty much at the
>>> point where it can replace the companion app - and of course it can do a
>>> ton more things. Tomaz is working on getting the same app built on iOS - we
>>> used Qt/QML to build the Android app as that should allow us fairly easily
>>> to have the same app both on Android and iOS. So if you have experience
>>> with iOS I'd love your help to make this happen.
>>>
>>> But of course, if you'd rather work on the Subsurface companion app,
>>> simply get involved here:
>>> https://github.com/zdanovs/subsurface-companion-ios
>>>
>>> /D
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Well, at least it didn't get a reply.
>>>>
>>>> The iOS companion app was done by a GSoC student who is no longer an
>>>> active contributor to Subsurface, and none of the active developers really
>>>> have taken on maintaining it. It mostly works and appears good enough, so I
>>>> guess it's one of those "as is" applications.
>>>> Your comments below seem valid - but I don't think this is likely to
>>>> get fixed.
>>>>
>>>> Our focus now is not on the companion apps, anyway, we have more
>>>> interesting goals: a fairly full featured Subsurface mobile app.
>>>>
>>>> /D
>>>>
>>>> On Nov 13, 2015, at 2:52 PM, Zai Gezundt <zai.gezundt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Not worth reply?
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday, October 22, 2015 at 5:14:32 AM UTC-4, Zai Gezundt wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Subsurface companion app for iOS is great idea but it can be improved
>>>>> by allowing to specify site name even when dive is created automatically.
>>>>> Consider situation when diver goes on a boat to make 2 dives and turns on
>>>>> location tracking before each dive to capture site coordinates. The stream
>>>>> will contain multiple entries that can be roughly grouped by coordinates
>>>>> and time. However the name for both groups will be default one, taken from
>>>>> settings. One can circumvent this by changing the settings before each dive
>>>>> but it is rather inconvenient. I've downloaded Subsurface sources hoping to
>>>>> find companion app for iOS and tweak it but found only sources for Android.
>>>>> If you consider my proposal as worth implementing but have limited
>>>>> development capacity - let me know if I can help.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also there are two issues with companion app for iOS:
>>>>>
>>>>>    1. Subsurface manual states that red bar will appear at the bottom
>>>>>    of the screen. On my iPhone 6 it is at the top, covering status bar.
>>>>>    2. Subsurface manual states that one can add manual dive while
>>>>>    location service is running. However the app does not respond to anything
>>>>>    but stop button on the red bar. Could be related to 1.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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