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

[Alessandro Cosentino]

For your information, the description of the project is now on the KDE
community page:
http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2013/Ideas#Mobile_app_that_syncs_with_ownCloud_News_app

Alessandro

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Torsten Grote <grote at kolabsys.com> wrote:
> Hi Alessandro,
>
> On Wednesday 06 March 2013 11:00:27 Alessandro Cosentino wrote:
>> 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.
>
> That is great news! :)
> I here the ownCloud News resource for KDE's akregator is also nearing
> completion.
>
>> The questions are:
>> - does this make sense? or it would make more sense to implement first
>> a mobile navigation theme for oC web interface?
>
> I think this is a great idea. Whether it should be standalone or integrated in
> the current app, should probably be discussed with Bartek.
>
>> - 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, ... ?
>
> Since Android is currently deployed the most, I'd go for this. If you go
> standalone, it might also make sense to take an existing free news app and try
> to see if it is possible to give it an owncloud backend.
>
> Regards,
> Torsten
>
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