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On 3/26/12 1:20 PM, Michael Meeks wrote:
Hi Vivek,

On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 23:28 +0530, vivek nalla wrote:
      I am vivek nalla , first year undergraduate student from bits
pilani institution india. Since i am a fresher out of school, i didn't
get a chance to contribute to opensource.

First of all I would like to welcome you :) to the project.
        Great to meet you.

  I am very  much interested in the project suggested by libreOffice
Java Gui for LibreOffice based Andriod app.
        Ok - so this is really quite a substantial task :-) I would set about
getting a cross-compile from the feature/android branch, by following
the README.Android instructions. I'd want to be sure you could follow
the steps and effectively build and run that in the emulator :-)

  Also i would like to ask you about the details of the project as the
ideas page contains very abstract idea. I will be grateful to you if
anyone could help me tell what actually the goals and milestones of
        So - of course, you'll need to think and come up with some of this
yourself. What do you think is achievable in the time, and so on. Having
said that, Tor's abstract is just a tad abstract ;-)

        There are a number of things that need doing there, Eagles may have
produced at least a start of something here. We're going to need to
produce a shell that deals with pages as a series of tiled bitmaps I
suspect, allow flipping between them, thumbnailing of pages etc. there
is a chunk of work in making that work nicely - and this is primarily
what the task is about.

I have already started a project for the UI work for the android port. Currently I only have the main application selector done, and I would like to make a further improvement to it before starting other menus for the various apps.

I have a git hub repository which has the eclipse project I created so far: https://github.com/eagles051387/LibreOffice-Android-UI-

Michael, I know there has been some chatter on the mailing list from tml and oddities with dalvik, does that mean he is working on integrating the core with a UI such as mine, or is he working on other things?

As well the very tricky, but interesting part is integration of the core code using the NDK, which is currently where I am held up.
        The heavy-duty guts of rendering a word processing document are not
your problem for this task :-) you should treat that as a black-box that
presents you with a set of pages of a given geometry, and renders them
to pixels / bitmaps for you.

        Does that make sense ? Tor - I hope that's what you intended, I'll
update the task page to say the above ;-)

        ATB,

                Michael.

If you have any questions dont hesitate to contact the list, and I look forward to working with you to put together a killer UI for this great project and port to Android.

Regards
Jonathan

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