Mobile App Development
I know you have made the developer's kit available for extensions to the desktop version of Moneydance. Is there any way such a thing can be released for the mobile app version as well? There are so many great features that the app could benefit from, and many have been suggested already in the forums.
If it's a matter of not having the talent on staff to develop for the mobile app, maybe you can contract out the work to those of us in the community who love Moneydance and want to help improve it. If you have the talent, but not the time or the money, a developer's kit that integrates with the mobile app would let those of us willing to write the code for free do that.
Or, have I just not investigated closely enough yet and this functionality already exists in the developer's kit that is available?
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1 Posted by boschen on 06 Mar, 2016 01:19 PM
Yes, I second this! A developer's kit for mobile apps would be great.
Support Staff 2 Posted by Sean Reilly on 10 Mar, 2016 11:17 AM
Hi Angela (and boschen),
I hadn't considered this possibility, but we're still working on a way to share the foundations of the desktop app on the iOS side. We've nearly gotten the desktop data model and storage/syncing translated from the desktop java to objective-C using the j2objc toolkit. My thinking was that the next update to the iOS app would use that core code from swift and start building up from there.
Of course, this would require our currently not-open-source core code to be available to anyone who wanted to help work on it. It would be auto-translated code, which I imagine wouldn't be very helpful to anyone who wasn't working on Moneydance for iOS.
If I provided access to a new moneydance iOS project based on this new foundation and including the UI code for the current app, would you be interested in helping us work on it and build up from that foundation? I don't have the resources to pay for outside contractors on this at this time, but that could change.
Thanks!
Sean Reilly
Developer, The Infinite Kind
http://infinitekind.com
3 Posted by boschen on 10 Mar, 2016 12:41 PM
Yes very interested - but i am personally still getting up to speed in Objective C and have no experience thus far with Swift so it would be a (slower) learning experience for me. But that would be the attraction if there are smaller portions I can help with.
Dan
Sent from my iPhone
4 Posted by Angela Berardin... on 10 Mar, 2016 07:12 PM
Sean,
I would be interested, although I have more experience and interest in
development for Android over iOS. Like Dan, I would be playing a bit of
catch-up with objective-C and Swift.
If you'd be able to provide access to an iOS and/or Android development
project to outsiders within the next few months, I would be interested in
contributing.
Angela
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