[Xerte] Re: Android App

[David Wood]

Hi Julian,

Thanks for your response. My idea was to work on a viewer first, to discover
how complex the task would be as I don't have a great deal of experience in
app development or the Xerte code, this viewer would work exactly like the
stand alone and the browser viewer. My thoughts were that basing it from the
online toolkits may be easier, but I may be wrong.

The idea is to allow students to view material from anywhere, projects made
by teachers could be downloaded from internet directly onto the phone.
Obviously development could lead to allowing teachers to make Xerte projects
from the app, but I wasn't too sure on the usefulness of trying to create a
project from a phone (small screen, lower performance etc) but a 'wizard'
for creating projects would make this process alot tidier, much like the XOT
rather than the X3.0.

This would all be using Flex, the custom template sounds like a great idea,
that would probably tie in quite nicely with the wizard.

I have been thinking about my aims and just received your e-mail of the app
which you created, it looks great!

Let me know what you think would be a useful addition or extension to the
mobile Xerte, it certainly seems like a good path to take for my project (I
considered 'extending' the toolkit, but this boiled down to creating objects
which would provide good templates, but after thorough inspection I
quickly realized you guys have tons of tools already available to play with
and for learning I couldn't really think what else is 'needed').

Thanks for your valuable input and support,

Regards,
David
On 3 October 2011 09:42, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>wrote:

> Hi,****
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> I’m currently working on an android app, built using Xerte 3.0 (i.e. using
> the Flex SDK). It’s pretty embryonic right now: the app loads up content
> from a xerte online toolkits installation, and renders it on the phone: I
> should have a rough prototype for people to start messing about with at the
> end of this week.****
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> Tell me more about how you anticipate your app working? What will do / how
> will it work? Do you expect it to handle content made using Xerte Online
> Toolkits, or native Xerte rlo code? ****
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> It would make a nice project, and is do-able, depending on what you want to
> do.****
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> One nice thing would be to develop a custom template, so that authors can
> create data for your app to consume: then you could do something custom… *
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> Happy to help you develop your ideas,****
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> J****
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> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *David Wood
> *Sent:* 30 September 2011 16:38
> *To:* xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Android App****
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> Hi,****
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> I'm a 4th year Computer Science student at Heriot-Watt University in
> Edinburgh and am currently looking at the possibility of creating an android
> app which would allow viewing of Xerte projects (instead of using a browser)
> and possibly creating (although I'm not sure of the complexity that would
> involve) for my Honors project.****
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> Are there any current developers looking into this? Do you think it would
> be a worthy investment of my time? And finally, Will the project be do-able,
> as a solo project over around 5-6 months?****
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> Many Thanks for any replies, ****
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> David****
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