GnuCash mobile

[Fross, Michael]

I would think that when GnuCash becomes a  more traditional database
application, a lot of doors would open.  The mobile app could interact
directly with the data without all of the sync work (which I believe would
be significant.)

IIRC, the goal for that is at the end of the year.  Derek, if this is what
you mean by the C++ rewrite, then apologies for the repetition.

And for the record, I think an option to host your own server would be
important.

Keep up the great work guys.  It's appreciated.

Michael

On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 10:26 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Steve <butterandsalt at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Personally, I'd be willing to pay $100+ per year for the app.  I don't
> expect
> > it to be free, I'm thrilled that for the past number of years since
> leaving
> > Quicken, that I have a program that "works".  To have that information
> > available to me wherever I am?  Hard to put a price on it.  Hard for me
> to
> > imagine that if one is able to translate the current program to a mobile
> > app, that it would not get wide adoption with whatever reasonable monthly
> > charge.
> >
> > I'm just saying that with each passing day, having a program that is
> > anchored to a desktop or laptop computer, makes increasingly less sense.
> > Perhaps progress is being made behind the scenes, I sure hope so.
>
> The issue at hand is that:
>
> 1) Building such an app would require time.  It may be possible to
>    leverage the existing GnuCash for Android app, but it would require a
>    lot of extra work to handle real-time data syncronization.  Also,
>    users would probably need/want an iOS version too.
>
> 2) We'd need to run a service that would enable data sharing between
>    the app and your desktop.  The easiest way to do this would be a
>    hosted service that hosts your data wholesale.  Another option would
>    be to enable you to run your own server, but I suspect MOST users
>    would not have the resources or skills to do that.
>
> 3) Before we could get any of this done, we'd need to complete the C++
>    rewrite of the main code which would enable porting to the other
>    platforms.
>
> In short -- doing this would be a lot of work, it it would require a lot
> of moving parts to come together.  While I think it's a reasonable long
> term goal, I don't see it happening in the next year or three without
> some major influx of resources.
>
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> -derek
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