[Owncloud] GSoC idea: mobile app <--> oC News app

[Alessandro Cosentino]

Hi,

Finally I got myself to start writing the API for the News app.
Bernhard, Jan and I are going to be polishing the app during a
mini-sprint some time this month.
The point is: the app will be ready to be shipped before GSoC 2013 starts.

I wanted to propose a GSoC project, which I would mentor together with
Bernhard, for a mobile app that would interface the News app using the
new API.
It seems like there is a good interest for this and it looks like a
fun project for a student.
It can also serve as a proof of concept for future mobile apps that
interface single oC apps (I don't know if these apps should all be
merged in one single app).

The questions are:
- does this make sense? or it would make more sense to implement first
a mobile navigation theme for oC web interface?
- what mobile platform do you suggest? Obviously I advocate some open
source OS, but I don't have a feeling for which one it should be.
Firefox OS, Plasma Active, Android, Phonegap, ... ?

Alessandro