GnuCash mobile

[Andy Pastuszak]

Will this also include native Gnome 3 support?  I'm kind of hooked on Gnome
3 GTKHeaderBar.

On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 11:35 AM, Fross, Michael <michael at fross.org> wrote:

> 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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