Release a mobile-friendly JAVA client
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I've used MoneyDance on a couple of devices over the past couple years, including my desktop at home, my mobile, and for a short time on a PDA that I had. The flexibility of having the entire app in JAVA means any device with a proper JRE can run it, which is great. Unfortunately, on smaller displays (physically or pixel count) sometimes seeing and hitting the entries is hard or impossible, even with a stylus.
I was wondering if there was a way to make a mobile client (like the one for iPhone) that's also purely JAVA based. While I can run MoneyDance on my mobile in full mode, it would be very convenient to have a slimmed down instant-entry app with big buttons instead. It could probably use the same interface as the iPhone based app, and maybe even the same mechanism for importing data as the existing mobile apps. If not, even having a separate import step when the full app runs would be fine. Just being able to enter data easily while on the go would make the extra import step worth it. :) And with it being JAVA based, it would be just like MoneyDance: Runs on anything with a proper JRE.
As always, if you need a guinea-pig for testing such an app, I would be happy to help!
I love using MoneyDance, and look forward to future updates and upgrades as things progress. I check back for updates regularly, and promote it to friends whenever they ask about finance software. While some areas aren't quite as advanced as some of the other commercial apps out there (reports mainly), the flexibility and functionality more than makes up for it. Most of all, you treat users nicely, and don't build in kill-switches like the others do, disabling key features after a certain number of years to force updates weather they're wanted or not.
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Ben Spencer
on 21 Jan, 2012 09:31 PM
Hi
That an interesting idea and I am not sure how much demand there is for such a version of Moneydance. There aren't all that many mobile devices that car run full java programs. In the last couple of years I have met a 2 of people who run Moneydance on an N900 and other than that I haven't heard of any other java capable platform people would want to run it on. What platform did you have in mind?
Ben Spencer
Moneydance Support
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cathrine w
on 23 Jan, 2012 05:44 PM
hi,
Just found this program. I would like to use this on my mobile device too. I use a Blackberry playbook. It can access full java & as I see it an exploding segment of the market. Please add this device to your supported list.
Potential Customer
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woody14619
on 23 Jan, 2012 08:24 PM
Well, this isn't about support for just the N900. Lots of devices support Java or JavaME apps. Even "feature phones", the level before "smart phone", often support it. Almost all Nokia/Symbian phones support J2ME if not full Java, as do several other phones from BlackBerry, Motorola, Samsung, LG, Ericsson, etc. In fact, every phone I've owned since 1998 has had at least J2ME support, if not a full implementation of Java.
Considering the scaled down interface, it should be pretty simple. All it would need to do is know a list of accounts (drop down?), and offer a number pad with a +/- for deposit/expense input, and maybe support multi-press for small text entry (description). Anything beyond that (splits, transfers, categories, etc) can be touched up after the import in the main app.
Again, just an idea... One that I think I a lot of people would like, where it available.
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