[projectaon] Re: Distribution questions

  • From: Michael Terry <mike@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Jonathan Blake <jonathan.blake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 18:38:31 -0400

On Monday, 20 July 2015, Jonathan Blake <jonathan.blake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 at 07:42 Michael Terry <mike@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You asked to hear about it if I released anything.

I made an app for a niche mobile OS called Ubuntu:
http://www.ubuntu.com/phone

The app isn't the prettiest thing, but it's functional. You can see a
few screenshots and such here:
https://uappexplorer.com/app/lonewolf.mterry

It's an open source app, code is here for now:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mterry/+junk/lonewolf/files

It just supports the first five books for now, but I'll work on
expanding that (and want to make a separate app for the Freeway Warrior
ones -- I loved those as a kid).

(As discussed in this thread, it shows the license before saving
anything to the user's phone. But once the license is accepted, I do
download the xml and images and keep it on the phone for offline use -- I
assumed that was OK.)

Thanks for helping get the Lone Wolf books out there and for letting us
know. Maybe you've already done this (I don't have a Ubuntu phone to try it
out for myself), but it would be best if users also got a link back to the
Project Aon website as well as having them accept the license.

There is a link once they accept the license. I show the same Title Page
that the website does, which has the book blurb, author info, and talks
about the project a bit (with link!).


Also would you like to promote the app and get feedback from users
through the Project Aon forum?

Uh, naw no thank you. I'm guessing the Venn intersection of Ubuntu phone
users and forum users are low. :)

I mostly did this as a fun exercise and so that I could go through the
books again. :)

Though, my project might be interesting to other app developers as a
C++/Qt-based example of using libxml and xslt on the book xml. A link in
the developer section as 'prior art' might be useful to others.

-mt

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