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Who here in the HN crowd would be up for porting this to Android as a sort of open-source crowdsource project? Any takers? At a guess (about licensing) I would
by Logans_Run 3y ago
Who here in the HN crowd would be up for porting this to Android as a sort of open-source crowdsource project? Any takers? At a guess (about licensing) I would say that whoever sets up the initial GH repo uses this quote from the author " waiting for an enterprising Android engineer to port it themselves—I’ve placed enough detail in these posts! You’re welcome to do so, just make it free for everybody."
- david_allison 3y agoNo long-term capacity to maintain it, but I can probably contribute a little. email in my profile
- jakey_bakey 3y agoGood man!
- reaperman 3y agoThanks for the suggestion to do something like this! I've never made a mobile app but would love to learn how. Even if it's not to contribute to a high quality Android app for this radar thing, choosing to spend some of my time porting anything like it which also falls into the "An app can be a home-cooked meal"[0] paradigm likely means that grokking the code will be easier than with because it will be programmed with a singular vision/paradigm and lack bloat/adware/tracking/etc which would complicate reading and understanding the existing code. This suggestion may put me on the road to find some renewed joy in programming. 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38877423 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38877423
- jakey_bakey 3y agoHonestly I was hoping to inspire something like this; where someone wants to learn to build something interesting that isn't just another todo app tutorial If you do want to build it, I'm happy to share the iOS source with you!
- reaperman 3y agoSure thing, thank you! And totally happy if other efforts either beat me to it and/or create a much more professional port than my own. reaperman_hn@protonmail.com
- koen_hendriks 3y agoI actually started trying to port it to Android after your first post. Only managed to get a compass prototype working though... might revisit the project soon! [0] https://git.pixelfy.nl/koen_hendriks/airvoyager https://git.pixelfy.nl/koen_hendriks/airvoyager
- Tyr42 3y agoI too have a toddler, so I don't have a lot of time, but I am motivated to help. tbelaire on GitHub, but I have only done a little android before.