[Sugar-devel] Yet another project to port Sugar to Android ?

[lionel at olpc-france.org]

Hi Andrew,

Nice to hear that.
Thanks to share your work with us.

Best regards.

	Lionel.


-----Message d'origine-----
De : Andrew McMillan [mailto:andrew at morphoss.com] 
Envoyé : mercredi 3 juillet 2013 00:18
À : lionel at olpc-france.org
Cc : sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
Objet : Re: [Sugar-devel] Yet another project to port Sugar to Android ?

On Sun, 2013-06-30 at 16:28 +0200, lionel at olpc-france.org wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>  
> 
> In a recent blog post on the OLPC association web site [1], I read 
> that there is a new (at least for me) project to port Sugar to 
> Android.
> 
> Specifically, the post mentioned that the work is done by Morphoss 
> [2], a New Zealand company and that it allow to use Sugar on the XO 
> tablet.

As is so often the case, the people who make the announcements do so without any pre-release testing on technical people :-)

I've been responsible for the development of the XO Learning UI to date and it is our intention to include a "Sugar" service of some kind with that as soon as practicable.

We plan to follow the "Sugar on HTML" design as closely as we can, with Simon & Manuel continuing to be involved in the work.


> I wonder if anyone on this list know this work and in which way it 
> could be linked with the current work on HTML5 Sugar Framework?

I expect our development at OLPC to implement that framework.


> Of course it’s clear for me that it’s better to work together on the 
> same project instead of working on two different projects to do the 
> same thing !

Absolutely!

Personally I still need to properly understand at what stage the specification is, and how much work will it take to get it over the line.  I understand there is already an implementation for GTK in progress, and I hope we can get an Android implementation done alongside that as soon as possible.

I hope this helps clarify things for everyone.

Regards,
					Andrew McMillan.

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