[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] [Tuxmath-devel] Tux4kids in GSOC 2012

[David Bruce]

It looks like phonegap is free/OSS, so that part is fine.  I am attracted
to Java because of the good support for both web-based applets and
web-based installation (webstart), as we as the fact that Android apps are
written in Java (admittedly with some Android-specific code, which goes
against the Java philosophy).  I assume that by "fragmentation" you mean
that iOS and Windows Phone 7/8 don't support Java.  I don't care much about
Windows Phone as of yet, but iOS is a big deal from a pragmatic standpoint.

Anyone else have any thoughts or experience related to this?
David
On Feb 25, 2012 9:15 AM, "deepak aggarwal" <deepak.aggarwal9 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi David
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 4:26 AM, David Bruce <davidstuartbruce at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Who is interested in mentoring for GSOC this year?  The organization
>> application period opens Feb 27, and the deadline is Mar 9.  If we are
>> going to participate, we need to get our mentors and our "ideas" page lined
>> up in the next few days.
>>
>> Sadly, I've generally had less and less time for Tux4kids over the last
>> couple of years.  I can do the general admin stuff, but any GSOC projects
>> are going to need someone else to be the primary mentor.  I still can fill
>> in on an ad hoc basis if someone goes on vacation or gets sick.
>>
>> As for ideas on the tuxmath/tuxtype side, a couple things stand out:
>> 1.  Finally get tuxtype "ported" to use t4kcommon.  Tuxtype development
>> has basically been on hold for a while waiting for this.
>> 2.  SDL 2.0 is finally out, and we should probably move to it.  I'm not
>> sure this would be enough for an entire project.
>> 3.  It would be great to finally get some releasable code from
>> tux4kids-admin.
>>
>> On a wider scale, I am increasingly convinced that it would be worthwhile
>> to have our project release some educational kids software for smartphones
>> and tablets.  From a licensing standpoint, only Android is fully and
>> unequivocally compatible with the GPL.  However, if we write new apps from
>> scratch we would be free to choose a different license (it just has to be a
>> Free Software/Open Source license).  My thought is that we could write some
>> educational minigames in Java that could be adapted to be Android app, Java
>> applets, or Java webstart applications while sharing most all the same
>> code.  I've been learning Java and Android with this in mind, but I don't
>> think I know it well enough to be a proper mentor.
>>
>> More appropriate way for building app will be to use HTML5 and javascript
> for building games. I am working in a start up and following this practise
> have helped us a lot
>
> For Mobile : - We can use phonegap for making native apps for almost all
> platform and sencha touch is very mature library for touch screens based
> interaction and they together work great as far I know.
> See this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_euLChzbc4&feature=related
>
> For Desktop :- Same code( almost 80% except controller one as interaction
> method is different) can be used for making apps. See this link :
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Apps/For_Web_developers
>
> With launch of window 8. We can easily port this game to new platform as
> window 8 apps usually made with the help of html5
>
>  Most Importantly there are many javascript library available for making
> games
>                      https://github.com/bebraw/jswiki/wiki/Game-Engines
> And Html5 learning curve will be very low if you know sdl or opengl. I am
> able to use it very easily.
>
> At the end it's your decision what should we use for making app [?] but
> from my point of view using java will not only make things difficult but we
> will also have high fragmentation issues.
>
>> As always, I defer to the Tux Paint folks for all issues related to them.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> David Bruce
>>
> Best
> Deepak
>
>
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