[IAEP] [support-gang] What Would I Need To Learn???

[Caryl Bigenho]

Hi Gonzalo!
This is a wonderful resource! It will take me some time to read, study, and absorb it all, but it looks like it answers most of the questions I have. I have been wondering about the possibility of "crowd sourcing" the process of getting Sugar running on all sorts of devices. There are probably a lot of developers here in Southern California (and elsewhere) who would love to get involved. The real "missing link" is someone to coordinate the project... like you maybe???).
I would love to be able to go to various open source events and recruit people to get involved. We would just need to get it organized. I already know of several folks who would probably be interested in helping.
Because of the prevalence of Android devices (if you include phones) it seems to be a logical target. An added bonus would be that we could get Sugar on the XOTablet that way! Unfortunately, the Kindle FireHD, while an Android device, uses its own "app store" and you have to become "root" (not difficult, but it voids the warranty) if you want to add in any of the GooglePlay apps. The iPad is another very long story. It is probably a hopeless case.
Thanks again,Caryl
P.S. Have you seen the cute FotoToon Sameer Verma's daughter, Mira made? She plans to make at least one sequel.I'll attach a copy. She made all of the "sets" from Legos. 

Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 01:15:24 -0300
From: gonzalo at laptop.org
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Subject: Re: [support-gang] What Would I Need To Learn???

Please read something about what SugarLabs community is doing.(We really have a big disconnection between support-gang/iaep and sugarlabs development) 
http://developer.sugarlabs.org/web-architecture.md.html


There are step by step howto, 

http://developer.sugarlabs.org/activity.md.html

You will need a development environment,
there are information here about how to do it:
http://developer.sugarlabs.org/dev-environment.md.html


Right now, "what is the minimal stuff I need to do activities"is not so easy to reply. You will need learn a lot,in fact, is easier create python activities than web activities,
but the second can be used in android too.
Gonzalo

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:





Thanks Nick and James! I hope to still hear from others, but John Kim is local here in SoCal so I can get together with him. I was hoping he would be coming to the SF Summit, but I haven't heard from him on that yet.


I'll explore these and all other ideas... but with the help of John so I won't be "re-inventing the wheel."
Caryl

From: james.murdza at dresden.us


Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 11:44:31 -0700
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Subject: Re: [support-gang] What Would I Need To Learn???

Hi Caryl,
True, what you say about fundamental concepts, but the devil's in the details as they say, so the approach you take to porting will be a huge factor in the amount of work required and the quality of the resulting app. Looks like John Kim from Sugar Labs has written a really good overview of the possible methods of porting Sugar to Android which I think you'll enjoy.




My impression from his research is that the most doable and best gradual approach (not porting the whole Sugar stack at once) is to learn an Android Python framework like Kivy. There would be no other language required, only rewriting of interface code. Much easier than learning to make Android apps from scratch in Java, and still easier than PhoneGap, which would still be a complete rewrite.




On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Caryl Bigenho <caryl at laptop.org> wrote:




Hi Folks...
I am wondering what I would need to learn to be able to program apps for Android? Specifically, to help port Sugar Apps there. I have an excellent programming background in several "old" languages (Fortran, BASIC, and Pascal) and have played around a bit with Python (used it for a Physics MOOC I took this summer) and HTML (know some of the basic syntax and vocabulary). 




It seems that the fundamental concepts of programming transcend language and if one can learn the new vocabulary and syntax rules you should be good to go. Is this a correct assumption? If so, what is the minimum I would need to learn to get started? Can you suggest some resources for this?




Thanks!Caryl

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