GSoC Android proposal

[David Reiser]

On Apr 5, 2012, at 5:02 PM, John Ralls wrote:

> 
> On Apr 4, 2012, at 8:00 AM, Muslim Chochlov wrote:
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>> Hi,
>> 
>> The good news are that one student (Ngewi Fet) has submitted his proposal for mobile application.
>> And AFAIK another one (Atul) is going to submit as well.
>> The bad news are that Ngewi's proposal doesn't seem to make it through. Apart from basic information about the application
>> he is going to develop there is nothing that can make him stand out of the crowd of other participants. I don't know how many slots Gnome will receive
>> but they already have 5-6 very strong proposals and it would be extremely hard for Ngewi to compete with them. Currently I would rate him 2-3 out of 5 and I have to admit I expected more from him.
>> You could find his application here [1]
>> 
>> [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/ngewif/1
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> 
> Muslim,
> 
> You wrote on your comment to Ngewi's proposal:
>> Also it is very important that you understand how import/export in GnuCash works and QIF file format. Because this is the main purpose of the GnuCash mobile application.
> 
> You know that there is no export from Gnucash, right? The export menu items write a chart of accounts to an empty Gnucash file or, on reports, write out the HTML from the report to file.

Trunk has a CSV transaction export. I haven't tried a round trip yet, but the transactions seem to be there in the export file. And you do have to do one category at a time (Income/expense/asset/liability).
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> If Ngewi's (or Atul's, if he gets around to writing a proposal) app is to get information from Gnucash I think that the only option is for it to parse the XML data file.
> 
> On a related note, Marina Zhurakhinskaya (one of the Gnome admins) is commenting on all proposals that don't have a pointer to an existing contribution. Do either Atul or Ngewi have the C experience to knock out a couple of bugs? It's not really germane to their proposals, because those will be written in Java, but it seems to be a Gnome GSoC requirement. 
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 

Dave
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