Dear Bernd, thank you for your interest in working with gnucash in the GSoC 2011 program.
As for a GSoC project about a gnucash client on Android: There has been some discussion on this list before, https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2010-December/030304.html and thread, and https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2011-February/031114.html and thread. Please read those before proceeding.
If you want to write a GSoC application, you will have to add some more technical detail to your application. E.g., what exactly will be your goal? ("gnucash on android" will not work, because it isn't feasible anyway as discussed in those other messages.) Also, what experience do you have with programming on Android? If you don't have any, try to experiment a bit with the android SDK tutorials so that you have at least some experience when writing up your application.
Zitat von Bernd Bergler <bernd.berg...@gmail.com>:
I am an master student in Telmatics(combination of computer science and electrical engineering).
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GSoC2011#Student_Participants_Application What country are you in?
In my mind are several different possible solutions to approach this problem.
Yes.
1. Sync GnuCash and App database so both have the same data.
Infeasible within the scope of the GSoC project.
2. Sync a limited but useful subset of accounts between GnuCash and phone.
Maybe feasible, but the definition of a good data exchange protocol is critical here.
3. Just collect expenses and push them to GnuCash.
Very much feasible. You can define your own data format that will be imported into gnucash, but the importing part is probably rather straightforward to do, especially with the new python modules available inside gnucash.
How is the connection between gnucash and the app realized? WiFi, 3G, Bluetooth, USB
Sorry, this answer is rather bad. Make sure you understand whether you are talking about the application protocol level, or the physical layer, and which ones need to be considered by you and which ones don't.
What do you think of this project? Is anyone here who could be a Mentor for this project?
Yes, I could be a mentor. But your application needs to be improved before you have a realistic chance of being accepted by the Google staff that makes the final decision anyway.
PS: I have successfully downloaded and compiled gnucash from source. ;)
"Downloaded"? Before talking about development, you must be able to checkout from SVN.
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