GSoC Android proposal

[Ngewi Fet]

Hi Cristian, thanks.
Here is a short (edited) version of the abstract. Let me know if you need
anything else.

The goal of this proposal is the development of a GNUcash Android
> application which allows users to track expenses on-the-go and later on
> import the expenses into the desktop version of GNUcash. This will enable
> users to have more complete oversight of their expenditures by including
> expenses which were made in cash transcations. The Android application will
> be able to export the recorded expenses in the Open Financial Exchange
> (OFX) format which is also supported by the desktop version of GNUcash.


Cheers,
Ngewi

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 21:42, Cristian Marchi <cri79 at libero.it> wrote:

> Great news! Congratulations!
> Can you please write a short summary of what your project is aiming at? I
> would like to use it as the first post on the google page of GnuCash [1]
> just to test it and see if it gets momentum.
>
> Thanks for your time and good luck on your project.
> Regards
> Cristian
>
> [1] http://goo.gl/mESr1
>
> Il 24/04/2012 1.45, Ngewi Fet ha scritto:
>
>> I just got the mail that my proposal was accepted to GSOC 2012.
>> Thanks to the mentors and the community for the support through the
>> application process.
>>
>> I am looking forward to the coding work ahead.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ngewi
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 22:57, John Ralls<jralls at ceridwen.us>  wrote:
>>
>>  On Apr 10, 2012, at 1:17 PM, Christian Stimming wrote:
>>>
>>>  Am Dienstag, 10. April 2012, 01:36:56 schrieb Ngewi Fet:
>>>>
>>>>> After doing a crash course in QFX, I have written a small module for
>>>>> outputting expenses in the OFX format which was proposed as a better
>>>>> alternative to the QIF format.
>>>>> The code can be found here: https://github.com/codinguser/**OfxModule<https://github.com/codinguser/OfxModule>
>>>>>
>>>>> I am grateful for any feedback.
>>>>>
>>>> This is very good! The code looks clean, with a sufficiently detailed
>>>> architecture to actually see the working code and producing valid OFX.
>>>> Obviously you have some good experience with Android Java programming!
>>>>
>>> The way
>>>
>>>> you are re-using the existing frameworks (e.g. Java Arraylist,
>>>>
>>> org.w3c.dom,
>>>
>>>> and javax.xml Transformer) is very good.
>>>>
>>>> After seeing that code, I would strongly recommend to write the expense
>>>> tracker in Android Java, as you initially proposed. It seems to me you
>>>>
>>> will be
>>>
>>>> able to get some usable Android prototype running very quickly. You
>>>>
>>> should
>>>
>>>> then be able to ensure that the interfacing between the Android app and
>>>>
>>> the
>>>
>>>> actual gnucash data file works really well. With this code example, I'd
>>>>
>>> say
>>>
>>>> you have a very very high chance to succeed with your complete proposal!
>>>> Thanks a lot.
>>>>
>>> Christian,
>>>
>>> I took the liberty of copying the first paragraph to a comment on Ngewi's
>>> proposal for the benefit of the Gnome folks. I hope you don't mind.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> John Ralls
>>>
>>>
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