Hi! I have a little bit of Android and Sage experience, so I thought I would give you a tip or two to get started.
I would imagine that the mentors of this project saw this as roughly four phases: 1. Get up to speed on Android development. This mean download and installing the SDK (see http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html and then http://developer.android.com/guide/index.html to help get you on your way). I'd recommend spending a little bit getting used to the odd way that Android does things, with the Activity and Intent class. But I wouldn't worry too much about the details yet -- get to where you can build a simple demo app in Eclipse. 2. Get a little comfortable with Sage's build. Download the Sage source from http://www.sagemath.org and build it from scratch, which should give you an idea of the packages that it is dependent on. 3. The hardest part, I would think, is going to be getting all of the software Sage needs to be compiled and working in Android. This will probably be done through the NDK: http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html -- I presume that the only way will be to compile the packages using the NDK, which will wrap them in a JNI class. 4. Then the UI work starts using, I presume the standard Java SDK for Android, by creating Activities and Intents. This should hopefully be straightforward Android programming. I would be happy to provide occasional advice to supplement the other people on the project, although my experience with the NDK is pretty much non-existent. (I don't mean to hijack Volker or Harald: please chime in if I was incorrect or off the mark.) Happy coding, --Christopher On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 14:01, Jeh Agarwal <jeh.agar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, I am a B.Tech 3rd year student doing Computer Science and > Engineering. I am interested in working for sage -android as my GSoC > project. The idea of an interactive pocket mathematical tool is really > cool. It is true that people require some handy mathematical tool and what > better place than tablets and smartphones! Android is one of the most > commonly used mobile OS and I think it would be perfect to develop an app > for this. > > Though I don't have much experience with Android development I am willing > to take up this project full time and satisfy all prerequisites by learning > UI design and Android development. I will be having a 3 month summer > vacation and I think I can complete the project within the stipulated > time.So please brief me about this project and tell me what do I need to > do next. > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
