GnuCash mobile

[Derek Atkins]

Andy,

I believe that Geert is looking into GTK3 (not Gnome3) support, but I
don't know the current status or if its expected to be completed in time
for 2.8.

-derek

On Tue, May 30, 2017 11:46 am, Andy Pastuszak wrote:
> 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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