I would think that when GnuCash becomes a more traditional database application, a lot of doors would open. The mobile app could interact directly with the data without all of the sync work (which I believe would be significant.)
IIRC, the goal for that is at the end of the year. Derek, if this is what you mean by the C++ rewrite, then apologies for the repetition. And for the record, I think an option to host your own server would be important. Keep up the great work guys. It's appreciated. Michael On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 10:26 AM, Derek Atkins <warl...@mit.edu> wrote: > Hi, > > Steve <butterands...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Personally, I'd be willing to pay $100+ per year for the app. I don't > expect > > it to be free, I'm thrilled that for the past number of years since > leaving > > Quicken, that I have a program that "works". To have that information > > available to me wherever I am? Hard to put a price on it. Hard for me > to > > imagine that if one is able to translate the current program to a mobile > > app, that it would not get wide adoption with whatever reasonable monthly > > charge. > > > > I'm just saying that with each passing day, having a program that is > > anchored to a desktop or laptop computer, makes increasingly less sense. > > Perhaps progress is being made behind the scenes, I sure hope so. > > The issue at hand is that: > > 1) Building such an app would require time. It may be possible to > leverage the existing GnuCash for Android app, but it would require a > lot of extra work to handle real-time data syncronization. Also, > users would probably need/want an iOS version too. > > 2) We'd need to run a service that would enable data sharing between > the app and your desktop. The easiest way to do this would be a > hosted service that hosts your data wholesale. Another option would > be to enable you to run your own server, but I suspect MOST users > would not have the resources or skills to do that. > > 3) Before we could get any of this done, we'd need to complete the C++ > rewrite of the main code which would enable porting to the other > platforms. > > In short -- doing this would be a lot of work, it it would require a lot > of moving parts to come together. While I think it's a reasonable long > term goal, I don't see it happening in the next year or three without > some major influx of resources. > > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > -derek > > -- > Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory > Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) > URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH > warl...@mit.edu PGP key available > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
