mobile gnucash?

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

John Gray <gray at agora-net.com> writes:

> I see that there was an effort to write a mobile gnucash (for smart phones and pdas) a few years back.
>
> Did that effort die off?
>
> I'd like a simple app that does the following:
> 1) Imports my list of accounts from gnucash somehow (probably a small
> app of its own that uses the API to get the list of accounts and writes
> it file to be loaded onto the mobile device).
> 2) Allows one to enter transactions (possibly only simple transactions,
> no fancy splits)
> 3) Export the transactions to ofx to be imported into gnucash.
>
> Ideally it would nice to have something on wide variety of device,
> though my short term concerns are the windows mobile based cell phone
> currently on my hip, and the android based phone I plan to replace it
> with before long.  Be nice to see on the iPhone too.  Sadly, 3 rather
> different worlds.  Though exporting the accounts would be done the desktop.
>
> Is there any existing code base for this?  Other who are interested?

There were some people interested in it but none of the GnuCash devs did
any work towards it.  I have no idea what might be out there, but there
is nothing within GnuCash itself.

> Thanks,
> John

-derek

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