[gpodder] Re: Clarifying the idea: Native Android port of gPodder
- From: Isuru Samarasinghe <isuru137@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: gpodder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:34:54 +0530
Thanks for your reply Thomas.
I already have go through the UI Standard for Android 4.0 and above
documentation and have implemented the same in couple of my Android
applications.
Meantime I would like to contribute for gPodder and get used to
environment. Any suggestion?
On 15 March 2012 14:45, Colin Law <clanlaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 15 March 2012 08:47, Thomas Perl <m@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 12:07:05PM +0530, Isuru Samarasinghe wrote:
> >> I'm interested in working with the idea "Native Android port of
> gPodder".
> >> I want to clarify the idea because I didn't get the meaning of "Native".
> >>
> >> Is this about a specific application for Android OS?
> >
> > Yes, this is about writing an Android application using the standard
> > Android tools. We called it "native" in the proposal in contrast to
> > applications that use Python and/or HTML/WebKit for the UI.
> >
> > A "native Android port of gPodder" in this case is a Java Android
> > application using the native Android look'n'feel, following the
> > Android Design guidelines:
> >
> > http://developer.android.com/design/index.html
> >
> > The application should support Android >= 4.0, and I wouldn't care about
> > anything older than that for now - at the time the application is
> > finished and tested, most users will either have upgraded to Android 4
> > already or will upgrade to it in a year from then or so. The small
> > percentage of users that will be on Android 2.x is probably not worth
> > the extra effort, and the Android 4 UX is much more consistent and clean
> > in my opinion, so that's the target that I'd propose.
> >
> > Of course, we're open for discussing this if you have better ideas
> > regarding how to go about this task :)
>
> I am by no means knowledgeable in this area, but I had heard that
> using html5 rather than native code is becoming popular as then one
> ends up with an application that can be run on multiple device types.
> Perhaps this technique is not appropriate for gpodder however.
>
> Colin
>
>
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*Isuru Samarasinghe*
Department of Electrical and Information Engineering
University of Ruhuna
Galle
Sri Lanka
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