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Regular update, May 21st

Hi all!

First, I wanted to thank for your comments, mails, even a wiki feature-request entry :) Your opinions and feedback is priceless, and one of the things that gratifies my efforts. Thank you, Ubuntu Community!

And now the update: yet again, Guillermo (aka verterok) is my hero ^ ^ To remind you, he's the one that has written ubuntuone-java-storageprotocol, which I will be using. He has answered all my questions, both really silly and some less-but-still-silly ;) (I am glad he believes there's no such thing as dumb questions :) ). He also spent quite a while helping me to properly configure the project with maven, which I am new to. Thank you, verterok!

Finally I was able to run the ExampleClient from within Eclipse, and see it in action. I also played a bit with the code, but plan much more code-fun for tomorrow (Saturday, that is).

Keep visiting, commenting, and sending your suggestions :) !

Regular update, May 17th

That was quite a constructive evening! (And yet it has not finished)


Had a short IRC chat with my mentor, mentioned setting up a Launchpad project, and got a link to an article relating to OAuth, as this is an area I'm not yet confident in:
http://fireeagle.yahoo.net/developer/documentation/oauth_best_practice

Then I have talked to verterok (thanks for invaluable pointers on u1-java-storageprotocol !! Now I know where to start playing around), collecting further links:

(python script to extract my OAuth token from gnome-keyring for testing purposes)

http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/435147/plain/

Then found those three, perhaps semi-related, since OAuth nature is browser-based:

http://code.google.com/p/oauth-signpost/ ( http://brainflush.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/introducing-signpost-easy-oauth-for-java-and-apache-httpcomponents-android-too/ )

http://code.google.com/p/oauth/

http://github.com/novoda/oauth_for_android

We need to register such callback schema handling: x-oauth-androidu1://callback 

And this one nails it!

http://donpark.org/blog/2009/01/24/android-client-side-oauth

Regular update, May 16th

Today I read a bit from Android UI Guidelines, followed by doing Hello World and Notepad Tutorial step by step, very informative :) I also imported to Eclipse the Sample Sync Adapter sample code and poked around, but was sad to realize that the target Android API was 2.0, which means that if I would implement some sync functionality as the last stage of GSoC, the application wouldn't be compatible with older phones. I also hit #ubuntuone and #ubuntu-devel to get these GUI design tools:

• http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/squaredots/ (pen and paper are still fancy)
• http://www.balsamiq.com/ (however that I've also found earlier)

I also started to poke around ubuntuone-java-storageprotocol, but I see I'll really need some pointers from verterok on this.

Regular update, May 5th

From the User Interface, I have read Declaring Layout and Creating Menus sections.


More importantly, till late night I have talked to Guillermo (verterok at #ubuntuone) about Java implementation of ubuntuone storage protocol. He started it in January (it's still in the +junk ;) ), and though it's missing some features, it already handles get/put, which is great news! This means that, instead of getting dirty (at least for now!) with the low level details, I'll be able to focus on the application itself. verterok has therefore laid some basis on which I can build the Android app, very fortunate :) !


Here I'd like to thank him for his patience and time he spent helping me figure out maven issues, when attempting to compile ubuntuone-java-storageprotocol . I'll finish this entry with triumphal


[INFO] BUILD SUCCESSFUL
[INFO] ------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 8 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Thu May 06 02:10:02 CEST 2010

Yup, time to get some sleep.

Chitchat at IRC & e-mails

Since I had much course work those last days, I have only managed to follow the mailing lists and engage in conversations at #gsoc-pl about how is GSoC, get to know experience of others and their proposals (tons of great proposals!).

I have sent an e-mail to -students-list to invite students from xx country to #gsoc-xx (generalization here was intentional for others to use gsoc-jp , gsoc-us , etc) so that at #gsoc-pl we could exchange ideas and perhaps get some feedback from fellow students.

This is my first time at GSoC, and all guys (and girls) are really incredible. We've got fresh, motivating atmosphere all over the place :)! I have been also e-mailed by Matt, who has some experience on Android platform and will be happy to help in case I stumble upon a problem (cheers Matt!). Along the schedule, this weekend's focus is Android SDK.

By the way, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS is out! Yay!