Subsurface-planner [was: Now Accepting GSoC 2016 Mentor Organization Applications]

[Joakim Bygdell]

> On 10 Feb 2016, at 16:43, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Feb 9, 2016, at 10:46 PM, Joakim Bygdell <j.bygdell at gmail.com <mailto:j.bygdell at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> With the first beta out I consider the functionality more or less frozen.
>> I'll add the cylinder editing in the next beta, but other than that...?
>> Since we will have users coming directly to the mobile version we need to be able to 
>> do the following on the mobile version.
>> * Signup and verification of cloud credentials.
>> * Choose between metric or imperial as default units.
> 
> Actually, Subsurface-mobile is very much positioned as something that you use
> together with the desktop version. You can't download dives on your device, you
> can't print, etc.
> 
> I am NOT INTERESTED in turning Subsurface-mobile into a replacement for
> the desktop version. So no, I don't want to reimplement all the things that we
> have in the preferences on the desktop for the mobile device.
Nor should we but we need to EXTREMELY clear about that in the app description, 
so people understand that this app can not be used standalone.

Currently everything you do with the app is discarded when closing the app since even local storage is
ignored if no cloud credentials exists. 

> 
> /D

/Jocke

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