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

[Qingping Hou]

Just a quick question, so this project will be mainly focused on the
mobile app side instead of the server backend?

It will also be a good idea to write a new sync app in Kindle BTW ;P

On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 8:28 AM, Alessandro Cosentino <cosenal at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>> --
>> Torsten Grote, Kolab Evangelist
>>
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>>
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>>
>> pgp: 274D 4F97 Torsten Grote
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