GSoC Android proposal

[Cristian Marchi]

Thanks for the abstract. The word is spreading on google+!

Il 24/04/2012 22:06, Ngewi Fet ha scritto:
> 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 
> <mailto: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
>         <mailto: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
>
>                     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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