[wp-hackers] Wordpress Android App (GSOC)

[Leif Andersen]

Thank you.  Although I do sense the long road ahead of me.  I spent a large
portion of this weekend working on a prototype, or rather, mockup, of the UI
of the app.  And although it was fairly easy to create a tab style interface
(which is what I believe will be the best UI, if you have a better one, I
would love to hear it), it was unusually difficult to get each tab to have
it's own activity (which I believe to be Android jargon for thread).

~Leif
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On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 20:37, Shane A. Froebel <shane at bugssite.org> wrote:

> Leif,
>
> If you do it right, I will switch over to the Android. The BB WordPress
> app doesn't work to well for my BB Storm. The buttons do not sync very
> well.
>
> Your Friend, Shane
> http://bugssite.org/
>
> On 1/29/2010 5:41 PM, Leif Andersen wrote:
> > Thank you very much for the input.  I am currently taking apart the
> iPhone
> > App now, however progress on that particular portion is a bit slow, as I
> > don't own a mac, and as such, need to go to my local university to work
> on
> > it.  Also, good idea on making a feature chart, I did not think of doing
> > that.  I guess that there isn't much more I can get from you until I do
> have
> > a report made up, at which point you could tell me where it's lacking.  I
> > would assume that the form would be similar to the 2009 and 2008 form.
> >
> > Again, thank you very much.
> >
> > ~Leif Andersen
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:19, Brian Layman <Brian at thecodecave.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >>> Hello, my name is Leif and I am a student at the University of Utah.  I
> >> am
> >>> interested in participating in the Google Summer of Code program if
> they
> >>> have it this year.  I would like to create the Wordpress Android App.
> >>
> >> Agreed! This app would be fun to do. I thought maybe I'd do it as my
> first
> >> Android app myself, as I do have a Droid and am registered to have the
> apps
> >> in the store. I'd turned my eyes to other things once I saw WPToGo was
> out.
> >>
> >> I've no info on the WP app for the iPhone and would love to hear more
> about
> >> it.  I've mentored on the summer of code WP project before. That was
> >> definitely a learning experience. Even if this doesn't get approve as a
> >> summer of code app, it would be fun to work on this sort of thing.
> >>
> >> If you are interested in doing this, the best thing for you to do is to
> >> start making your proposal now.
> >>
> >> A major step for this is to start a feature chart that shows the
> features
> >> and/or capabilities that are in each app and mark if the competitor has
> >> them. Do this like you were representing each product. Simple things
> like
> >> being able to start writing when you open the application compared to
> >> hitting File->New->Document have turned the tide of battle in software
> wars
> >> even as big as Word vs WordPerfect.
> >>
> >> If you have a feature chart and plan for what you want in the Android
> app,
> >> you will already be further ahead in the process than many other GSOC
> >> applicants whose first phase will be "See how others did it and make a
> >> proposal". That advice goes out to anyone thinking of any GSOC project.
> >>
> >> Cheers!
> >>
> >> Brian Layman.
> >> (Resending this message as it and several others didn't make it to the
> >> list.
> >> This one isn't too delayed. The thread is comatose, but not dead.)
> >>
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