[dokuwiki] Re: Google Summer of Code
- From: Michael Hamann <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: dokuwiki <dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:37:28 +0100
Hi,
Excerpts from J.C.'s message of 2011-02-02 20:02:13 +0100:
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Michael Hamann <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > Implement an Android or iPhone client for DokuWiki that allows offline
> > browsing and also editing a remote Wiki (e.g. using XML-RPC). Perhaps
> > using a tool that allows to create apps for multiple mobile platforms
> > might work, too. I don't expect that application to render DokuWiki
> > pages, perhaps it can do some basics for offline editing, but
> > basically it should use already rendered pages it gets using XML-RPC.
>
>
> I can help mentor an Android app as long as someone else helps
> define the scope of the project. For a GSOC project, it might be good
> to start simple with something like an Android blogging application that
> allows you to offline author and publish to a dokuwiki instance and then
> build off of that going forward.
Thanks for offering to mentor an Android app, my ideas are:
- download all pages or certain pages using XML-RPC, possibly also media
files/referenced images
- update offline pages based on the listing of all pages or the
changelog
- view pages (either from cache or XML-RPC), internal links need to be
changed to be handled by the app
- edit or create pages with a simple editor and upload using XML-RPC,
ability to store edited pages locally and upload as batch
- for locally changed pages: either display them as plain text or render
some basics (like headings, lists, links, basic formatting, code
blocks)
- upload photos (and other files), also using a queue
All these features are available in the XML-RPC interface that already
exists.
As I don't know which components Android already provides or which can
be easily used I don't know if we need to remove some features from the
initial version.
My general idea of that app is to make information from a dokuwiki
installation available on mobile devices where you don't always have a
good data connection and perhaps also provide a possibility for mobile
blogging.
These are just my ideas, I don't know what other people think/want. E.g.
if the main focus shall be mobile blogging the app will probably be a
bit different, but then we also need a XML-RPC interface for blogtng
(which should be relatively easy to create, if needed I can implement
that). I personally don't see the main focus on editing pages but on
viewing pages offline with automatic updates of the offline version.
Michael
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