<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Bob Sully <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rcs@malibyte.net">rcs@malibyte.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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> Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 20:25:12 -0800<br>
> From: Robert McNamara <<a href="mailto:robert.mcnamara@gmail.com">robert.mcnamara@gmail.com</a>><br>
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> <Senseless self promotion follows><br>
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> Hi all,<br>
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> For those following the "android API" thread, I sort of let the lid off my<br>
> new iPad application for MythTV .25. MythTV Companion is a full featured<br>
> control, library browser, recording manager, and (in the near future)<br>
> streaming frontend for MythTV. It takes advantage of our new API to<br>
> stream recording and video metadata, imagery, scheduling, setup, and<br>
> guide info to a native iOS application.<br>
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Robert - looks great! Are you planning to port this to Android (for<br>
those of us who don't do Apple)?<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't own any Android devices, so as of right now I don't have any plans to-- basically I set out to write some example apps showing off the new APIs, and then it developed into a Cocoa/Objective-C library for accessing everything, on top of which I've written a UI. So, the code itself is highly XCode/Cocoa/Objective-C specific right now. Porting to Android would be a matter of owning Android hardware, rewriting the library from scratch, and then trying to approximate the UI there (and probably learning Java while I was at it). Not insurmountable, I learned Objective-C for this project too-- but not a one-weekend port either.</div>
<div> </div><div>An easier port target would be iPhone for me, since that's just a matter of writing a new UI. That's not to say I lack interest in Android, just that I'd expect it to take the several months I've been working on the iPad app, at least-- and that presumes that the development tools for Android are as good as they are for iOS-- I've anecdotally heard that that's not the case.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Maybe I'll see how the reception for the iOS app is, and make decisions based on that. If I can offset the cost of the hardware, I may start looking for other port targets.</div><div><br></div><div>
Robert</div></div><br>