[wp-hackers] WP-Admin for Android App - GSoC 2011

[Eric Mann]

I think a limit to plug-in administration, theme administration, and user
administration would be an easy way to tighten things up.  Widget management
I see as a part of theme administration.

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Gaurav Aggarwal <gaurav91.2008 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Should i consider restricting myself to plug-in administration, theme
> administration, user management  and widgets.
>
> Leaving File manipulation would mean that no web like editor.
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Beau Lebens <beau at dentedreality.com.au
> >wrote:
>
> > I think this sounds a bit too ambitious. Something like XML-RPC needs
> > to be tested extensively, and planning to add this much additional
> > functionality to the API, and then still have time to go and write it
> > all into the Android application is probably biting off more than you
> > can chew.
> >
> > Just adding all of the XML-RPC stuff and testing it properly would
> > probably be an entire project on its own.
> >
> > Also to make life easier for people reviewing your work, this could be
> > all done as a plugin for your project, then merged into core if that
> > was deemed appropriate later.
> >
> > Under "if time permits" you have "Document new APIs". This should be a
> > much higher priority than an after-thought.
> >
> > If you're specifically wanting to get to the Android programing part,
> > it might make sense to just make a certain subset of functionality
> > available via XML-RPC + implemented on the Android app.
> >
> > Hope that helps,
> > Beau
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Gaurav Aggarwal
> > <gaurav91.2008 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I have gone through the present android app for mobiles and I think it
> is
> > > limited to posts, comments and pages only. I will extend admin section
> > > interface including features like plug-in ,theme administration, Core
> > admin
> > > settings, Widgets and User management. A web like admin section ( in
> term
> > of
> > > functionality will be developed ) on Android App for Mobiles. Hence my
> > > project has two major parts:-
> > >
> > > 1. Create XML-RPC APIs required for new features.
> > >
> > > 2. Apply new XML-RPC calls to develop client in Android app with new
> > > feature.
> > >
> > > I recommend working with Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) to exploit the newly
> > > launched fragment APIs in Android.
> > >
> > > Complete proposal  details can be found at
> > > http://logiclord.com/wp-admin-for-android-app
> > >
> > > --
> > > Warm regards,
> > >
> > > Gaurav Aggarwal
> > > IIIrd year student
> > > Computers Engineering
> > > Delhi College of Engineering
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>
> Gaurav Aggarwal
> IIIrd year student
> Computers Engineering
> Delhi College of Engineering
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