[Owncloud] dev status and help offer

[Sven]

Hi,

at first my gitorious username is sassman

The issue of "figure out what features the server side app supports" is a 
general problem. So it is also neccessary to have a version number, to check 
if the (android-)client is combatible to the server application.

To solve this issue it would be the best to have a own action/url on the 
server side that offers some informations to the client. Something like: 
version number, supported applications (contacts, calendar etc..), supported 
protocols etc. can make sense to me.

So the next steps for me are:
- take a closer look at the goole contacts api 
- figure out how the webdav lookup implementation (especial for contacts) in 
owncloud works

maybe i have additional questions to these topics.

but for now have big thanks for the nice welcome.

-- 
Sven 

Am Mittwoch, 14. September 2011, 16:44:06 schrieb Bartek Przybylski:
> Hi!
> Jan has a point there. I also was thinking about syncing to native
> contacts book.
> But the question which im asking myself is not how to sync contacts, but how
> to find out that server is supporting contacts book, calendar etc.
> 
> 2011/9/14 Jan-Christoph Borchardt <JanCBorchardt at fsfe.org>:
> > Hey Sven! Good to have you.
> > Do you have an account at http://Gitorious.org ? Let me know your
> > username so I can add you to the contributors team, then you will have
> > commit access to the Android repository.
> > 
> > Jakob (cc'd) works on the contacts implementation on the server side.
> > 
> > As for the app itself, we shouldn’t replicate native functions where we
> > don’t need to. The contacts should be synced with the Android address
> > book because that can tie in to everything else. There is no point in
> > reinventing everything (contacts, calendar, music player, …) – we just
> > have to get integration right: syncing, file browsing, calling other
> > apps for opening, etc.
> > 
> > On Wed, September 14, 2011 16:00, Sven Aßmann wrote:
> >> should it be possible to "browse" the contacts with the owncloud app?
> >> Or will it be good enough that the background sync application
> >> will sync the contacts to the "normal" adressbook?
> >> 
> >> Am Mittwoch, 14. September 2011, 07:40:48 schrieben Sie:
> >>> Hi Sven!
> >>> I'm interested in your participation in android project ;) because i
> >>> was planning to implement syncing of contacts and calendar events
> >>> with
> >>> owncloud server. Android app src is available on gitorious, but for
> >>> mentioned features some server support is required, so this is a
> >>> start
> >>> point for them. If you decide to help on android app ill answer any
> >>> question you have.
> >>> 
> >>> Bartek
> >>> 
> >>> 2011/9/13 Sven Aßmann <sven.assmann at lubico.biz>:
> >>> > Hi @All,
> >>> > 
> >>> > can anybody say me something about the current development
> >>> > status of
> >>> > contacts implementation to owncloud? Or where i found (exept
> >>> > repository) some status information?
> >>> > 
> >>> > Are there any plans to implement:
> >>> >  1. An Akonadi (for KDE PIM >= 2.0) Resource holder for
> >>> > Contacts,
> >>> > Calendar or Tasks?
> >>> >  2. An Android account/sync application for sharing for
> >>> > Contacts,
> >>> > Calendar or Tasks to the android mobile?
> >>> > 
> >>> > Is it possible to help you within these topics? I familar with
> >>> > PHP,
> >>> 
> >>> CPP
> >>> 
> >>> > and also JAVA ..
> >>> > 
> >>> > --
> >>> > Best Regards
> >>> > 
> >>> > Sven Aßmann
> >>> > 
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