GnuCash Companion for Android

[Derek Atkins]

"avvari.shyam" <avvari.shyam at gmail.com> writes:

> There is currently jcashlib (I can't remember what it's called) which is a
> java 
>> gnucash file reader.  Should we look at jni wrappers for the gnucash
>> engine so 
>> that this project or others can use it? 
>> 
>>  Phil 
>
> Hi Phil, it would be great if you can find that and let me know what it is
> and where i can download and read manuals about it. 
>
> I am planning to use DOM parser for reading and updating the data file. Some
> forums said that DOM parser is usually heavy on runtime, so I was planning
> to write the parser in a class, use the class to read the required data when
> app is opened, finalize the class, and reopen the class when save is
> triggered. This way open and close would be a bit slow, but during run time
> it wont be that heavy. 
>
> Any help with the JNI stuff is much appriciated. 
>
> Shyam

I don't think that an Android app could use JNI wrappers.  However I
think it might be useful to look at said wrappers as a "replacement" for
jGnuCashLib..  In that respect I think JNI wrappers via swig would be
interesting.

-derek

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