[Kolab-devel] Android client (Re: How to get involved?)

[Bernhard Reiter]

Am Dienstag, 12. Januar 2010 10:16:31 schrieb Hermann Himmelbauer:
> > If you aim for KDE Kontact, the next step is to see if you could get Qt
> > ported to Android. So far I've heard (not confirmed my self) that this
> > will be difficult, but not impossible, e.g. see
> > http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/4070 . Android apparently uses a Java
> > based GUI. It well may be too much for a single developer. But if you get
> > Qt ported on Android for good, you are certainly almost done and have a
> > good result. To go this road you would need to actively try to seek other
> > people to take part of the load of porting Qt.
>
> I wonder if that would "really be it": First, the question is if the
> Android hardware is capable of running Kontact in regards to RAM / CPU
> power. 

Yes, it will be enough power. See the kde-maemo@ efforts and search for 
Windows CE and N900 on techbase.kde.org.

> The second thing in question is the GUI: Kontact is designed for a 
> desktop environment, not for a mobile phone with a touchscreen.

There will be a mobile phone capable gui design for Kontact soon
throughout the year, I will write more about this (hopefully) in the next 
days.

> Btw., another approach for calendar/contacts+syncing would be to utilize an
> existing synchronization framework, e.g. Funambol: If someone writes a good
> connector for Kolab <-> Funambol, Android will be able to sync (I assume
> Funambol has sync capabilities for Android), moreover, this would enable
> any other mobile to sync via Funambol to Kolab.

A funambol to Kolab Server connector is in the pipeline by an (to me) external 
party. I expect more news about it through Q1 2010.

Bernhard


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