It’s the first week of GSoC, and so I decided that maybe I should stop procrastinating and update this blog.
Here we go then!
Agendas during this week include:
- Get familiar with the remaining code(Mostly done)
- Refactor the code into packages so it’s more readable and developer friendly.
- Gradle Migration:
- The problem with migrating to gradle is that the entire project structure would have to be changed, which would make it incompatible with Eclipse. For the time being, I’ve decided to keep it Gradle and Eclipse compatible, which will involve some duplication of effort, but nothing too major.
- Error Reporting:ACRA
- The choice of error reporting on the client side is usually limited to two choices, Google’s own Analytics, which is more metric centric than crash-report oriented, or ACRA, which is much more simple to use and implement.
- Having used ACRA before, it was my natural choice…however there are some limitations, especially for an Open Source project such as this:
- The error reports must be sent somewhere. If the project was closed source, the natural choice would be to send it to the dev’s email address or to some script accessible to the developer.
- Ideally we would need something like OctoCrash ,which could directly post the crash as a GitHub issue. Unfortunately, this is only for iOS, so it’s not an option for us.
- Currently work is mostly on the CellDialog which adds a new cell. Features to be added here include:
More intuitive group selection- Add an option to delete cells from the CellListFragment directly(also implement multiple deletions), without having to go into the SageActivity each time to do so.
- Currently, the only option is to edit the cells(apart from the options in overflow menu), so it would be better to have the delete and edit options in a CAB(Contextual Action Bar), to better conform to Android Guidelines.