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

[Sascha Deutschkron]

Am Dienstag, 12. Januar 2010 13:05:32 schrieb 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.

Would that mobile-Kontact also link in with the phone's contacts - so that I 
can easily call my Kolab contacts and/or see who's calling?

> 
> > 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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