What Geert meant is that our current engine code *isn't* particularly portable, though I think that since it compiles OK on MacOS it shouldn't have too much trouble with iOS either. It's a mix of C and C++ and the main dependencies are Boost and Gnome Glib; the XML file backend also depends on libxml2 and the SQL backend depends on libdbi.
The public mirror for our git repository is at https://github.com/gnucash/gnucash. Note that the stable branch is "maint". Doxygen API docs are at https://code.gnucash.org/docs/MAINT. Regards, John Ralls > On Apr 26, 2019, at 12:56 PM, John <j...@vicinno.com> wrote: > > Thanks for bringing it up. A portable engine code is definitely more > meaningful. Can you point me at some document or source code on portable > engine code? we just want to get more details and estimate the work load. > > Thanks, > John > > On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 9:33 AM Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> > wrote: > Hi, > > An iOS companion app would be great. > > The android app took the approach of reimplementing all the business logic > required to read (and write?) a gnucash data file rather than using the > gnucash engine code. > > I can understand why as the engine code is currently difficult to port to > different platforms. It is one of our goals to make this easier, but there's > still a lot of work ahead to get to that state. > > If you feel like joining that effort it would be very welcome as a portable > engine would greatly benefit gnucash and all derived apps on all platforms > (including the android app and a future ios app). > > Don't feel obliged of course. I did want to bring it up anyway so you know > this goal exists and may be useful for your app in the future. > > Regards, > > geert > > Op donderdag 25 april 2019 17:41:00 CEST schreef John Ralls: > > > On Apr 24, 2019, at 10:13 PM, John <j...@vicinno.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I am the founder of a mobile app startup and a big fan of GnuCash. My > > > team > > > has some free time now. I wonder if we can contribute to develop an iOS > > > companion app like current Android one. Can you let me know if you think > > > that's a good idea? and if yes, how to start? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > John > > > > It's a good idea if you're going to commit to maintaining and supporting it > > for a reasonable value of forever. The GnuCash team hasn't the time nor > > expertise to accept such an app as a contribution. > > > > To get started I'd think it best to contact Ngewi via the > > GnuCash-for-Android support channels and discuss whether his design is > > portable to iOS and what lessons he's learned and improvements he might > > make. > > > > Once you're ready to start work I expect you'll want to recruit users for > > usability testing of your UI mockups and later for beta-testing. I'm sure > > some of our users will be interested in helping, though if you're > > contemplating a commercial product you'll need to figure out the right way > > to engage with a FLOSS community. > > > > Regards, > > John Ralls > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-devel mailing list > > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > > > > > > > -- > > Thanks for choosing our apps, > Vicinno, > www.vicinno.com > > Like us on Facebook or Follow us on Twitter _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
