iOS

[Andy Pastuszak]

What is the MVC pattern?

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:07 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
> > On Feb 22, 2015, at 6:21 PM, Andy Pastuszak <apastuszak at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I wonder how much work it would be to set up a web front end to enter
> transactions "on the go" on your phone, if you use a MySQL backend for your
> data.
>
> That's a bit different from what you originally asked. There's already an
> Android app for entering transactions, GnuCash for Android:
> https://github.com/codinguser/gnucash-android. That's in Java, obviously,
> but there's no reason someone couldn't do the same sort of thing in Swift
> or Objective-C for iOS.
>
> At present GnuCash's code doesn't respect the MVC pattern and so it's very
> difficult to write a separate front end, whether web or otherwise. We're
> planning to fix that over the next few years.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls