New website

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Sun Oct 11 07:33:18 PDT 2015


> On Oct 11, 2015, at 2:45 AM, Amit Chaudhuri <amit.k.chaudhuri at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Guys,
> 
> possibly dumb question about the new website (which looks pretty good to me).
> 
> I have in mind that some work had been done to support mobile devices
> (e.g. Android phones).  Maybe I just imagined it or it is not yet
> mature enough to shout about. But I was expecting to see mention of it
> on the new website and didn't see it.
> 
> Is this something that's missing or not obvious on the new site, or
> did I just invent the whole thing?

The Android App will be mentioned in the announcement as "Beta test will start soon".

Sebastianr has joined our team and sent the first few patches; I tested them on the 
desktop where they are a nice improvement, but then noticed that Lubomir's 
changes to file locations broke the Android build. But I really wanted to focus on the 
web site this weekend so I haven't fixed that, yet.

So the status of the Android app is "hopefully Sebastian will help us get this to a better
point". I also know that Stephen (another new developer) is considering helping with
that. And that Guido is thinking about porting the Android app to IOS.

So once 4.5 is out (still aiming for a release by mid week) I assume that we will focus
on the mobile apps (while Tomaz rewrites all of Subsurface and breaks most things
in the process) (just kidding).

Makes sense?

/D

PS: to avoid confusion: Sebastian and Stephen are "new developers to Subsurface".
They are both extremely accomplished developers, Sebastian indeed around Qt and
QML, Stephen in a completely different area (Linux networking kernel hacker).


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