[Xerte] Re: Android App

[David Wood]

Hi Julian,

I was wondering if the source code for the android app is available anywhere
so I could begin looking into it and prepare for developing a mobile wizard
to allow for simple creation of interactive material, if you have already
began working on a feature like this then I am more than happy to look into
other similar ideas.

Thanks,
David
On 5 October 2011 19:42, David Wood <david2009wood at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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,****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> 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.****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> 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? ****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> It would make a nice project, and is do-able, depending on what you want
>> to do.****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> 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…
>> ****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Happy to help you develop your ideas,****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> J****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> *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****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Hi,****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> 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.****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> 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?****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Many Thanks for any replies, ****
>>
>> David****
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