Hi Julian,<br><br>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.<div>
<br></div><div>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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>This would all be using Flex, the custom template sounds like a great idea, that would probably tie in quite nicely with the wizard.</div><div><br></div><div>I have been thinking about my aims and just received your e-mail of the app which you created, it looks great!</div>
<div><br></div><div>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'). </div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks for your valuable input and support,</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>David<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 October 2011 09:42, Julian Tenney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-GB"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Hi,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">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? <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">It would make a nice project, and is do-able, depending on what you want to do.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">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… <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Happy to help you develop your ideas,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">J<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt" lang="EN-US"> <a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>David Wood<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 30 September 2011 16:38<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Android App<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div>
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</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">Hi,<u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">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.<u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">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?<u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">Many Thanks for any replies, <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">
David<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div><br>
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