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diff --git a/doc/design/assistant.mdwn b/doc/design/assistant.mdwn index 4e2a222ca..ad1c6abd1 100644 --- a/doc/design/assistant.mdwn +++ b/doc/design/assistant.mdwn @@ -11,11 +11,11 @@ and use cases to add. Feel free to chip in with comments! --[[Joey]] * Month 4 "cloud": [[!traillink cloud]] [[!traillink transfer_control]] * Month 5 "cloud continued": [[!traillink xmpp]] [[!traillink more_cloud_providers]] * Month 6 "9k bonus round": [[!traillink desymlink]] +* Month 7: user-driven features and polishing; + [presentation at LCA2013](http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux.conf.au/2013/mp4/gitannex.mp4) We are, approximately, here: -* Month 7: user-driven features and polishing; - [presentation at LCA2013](https://lca2013.linux.org.au/schedule/30059/view_talk) * Month 8: [[!traillink Android]] * Months 9-11: more user-driven features and polishing (see remaining TODO items in all pages above) * Month 12: "Windows purgatory" [[Windows]] @@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ We are, approximately, here: ## porting * [[OSX]] port is in fairly good shape, but still has some room for improvement +* [[android]] port is just getting started +* Windows port does not exist yet ## not yet on the map: diff --git a/doc/design/assistant/android.mdwn b/doc/design/assistant/android.mdwn index 06d6b9b1f..1a2ba8dd8 100644 --- a/doc/design/assistant/android.mdwn +++ b/doc/design/assistant/android.mdwn @@ -1,7 +1,13 @@ -Porting git-annex to Android will use the Android native SDK. +## goals -A hopefully small Java app will be developed, which runs the webapp -daemon, and a web browser to display it. +1. Get git-annex working at the command line in Android, + along with all the programs it needs. +2. Get the webapp and assistant working. A hopefully small Java app will be + developed, which runs the webapp daemon, and a web browser to display it. + +Current status: git-annex can be built for Android, with `make android`. +You need <https://github.com/neurocyte/ghc-android> installed first, +and also have to `cabal install` all necessary dependencies. ### programs to port @@ -14,24 +20,6 @@ available in the App Store. * git (not all git commands are needed, but core plumbing and a few like `git-add` are.) -## GHC Android? - -Android's native SDK does not use glibc. GHC's runtime links with glibc. -This could be an enormous problem. Other people want to see GHC able to -target Android, of course, so someone may solve it before I get stuck on -it. - -References: - -* <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5151858/running-a-haskell-program-on-the-android-os> -* <http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ful84/haskell_on_android/> - -I've heard anecdoally that ipwnstudios not only has an IPhone GHC port, -but also Android. Need to get in touch with them. -<http://ipwnstudios.com/> - -Update: This looks likely: <https://github.com/neurocyte/ghc-android> - ### Android specific features The app should be aware of power status, and avoid expensive background |