On 13 January, 2015 - Davide DB wrote: > Do you really want a fat full fledged android Subsurface? >
Yes, i would like to have that. It might not be necessary to have all the bells and whistles, but at least the basic parts. > I've been had only problems *just* to read a plain USB keys with my > android phones and tablets. It's a HW jungle. > If you by android devices without propper usb-otg-support you will have problems, but most of the modern devices handles usb-otg just fine. > IMHO the current companion app is nearly perfect. > For my needs I would just add: > > - Browsing of my logbook. Maybe a shared remote repository? This is not as easy as you might think to "just" add. It would require quite a bit of coding to re-implement what we have in our "current" Subsurface, so re-using that code is the only thing that makes sense to build this kind of feature. > - Adding on the fly some extra data that I could forget later like > tank pressures and other small things. Why they could not be > tranferred via webservice? > Yes, but the webservice and how we synchronize with it isn't build for this kind of data. > PS > From what I read on the official Android development page, now the > official development tool si Android Studio and migration is strongly > recommended. > Yes, everything android will eventually move to gradle. Should current Subsurface companion do it now? Maybe, maybe not... //Anton -- Anton Lundin +46702-161604 _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list [email protected] http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
