On 5 Apr 2011, at 10:11, Yuri Z. wrote:

> It think that native clients for IPhone/Android are great ideas and the more 
> the merrier, however it seems to me that it would be a lot easier to make 
> Data API based clients first. 

Or indeed just mobile web applications using JQMobile etc

> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On 5 באפר 2011, at 12:02, Thomas Wrobel <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>>> I'm working on a mobile android wave client,
>> 
>>> Do you think we can share the same software requirements document?
>> 
>> Id happy to share resources, but we haven't got anything so organised as 
>> that.
>> We started with a couple of simple use cases and built the code around them.
>> We have been mostly focusing on the UI and 3D aspects of our project
>> the last few months (arwave.org), as we haven't had much luck making a
>> working connection to the WiaB server yet. (we previously had a
>> working read/write FedOne connection on a android device, so we know
>> its possible).
>> We are currently waiting to see how the c/s protocol of WiaB
>> progress's, as extracting the neccessery bits from the server code
>> (and in some cases backporting to java 1.5) seems  a lot of work for
>> something likely to change still.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 5 April 2011 01:10, James Purser <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> uhm... are you sure? why? I think that a mobile client shall require a
>>>> connection to work, like a browser...
>>>> 
>>>> Mobile connection is by its nature unreliable. I find it best to code with
>>> the assumption that the network may not be available. Hence the need for
>>> some sort of offline storage.
>> 
>> Indeed.
>> I didn't mean to suggest its strictly required, merely that its very
>> desirable for the end user to be able to "cache and sycn" there
>> updates. I think the gmail app is a pretty perfect example of how it
>> should work in that regard.
>> 
>> Of course, however, my own project is all geolocation focused
>> (arwave.org), so the end user will probably be moving and offline a
>> lot more often then other applications of connecting to a wfp server.

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