Hey Guys,

As you know Summers and I started work on AGDroid 3.0. Today we revisited what we want to this release. I hope you enjoy it

GOALS

• Remove Java 6 support
• Move to $LATEST android-maven-plugin
• GCM 3.0 + Push Tasks
• Extra convenience tooling
• Memeolist demo app
• Update docs
• oAuth2 improvements
• Experimental Offline Module
• Experimental Yubikey Neo support

Aerogear Android Push

• GCM 3.0
  • Instance ID
    • This is a new lifecycle for keeping the registration ID in sync
    • Using new services and broadcast receivers or providing equavalent support
• XMPP
  • Using XMPP messaging for receiving messages and sending analytics updates
  • May be basis for more robust client side diagnostics and/or eventual messaging APIs

AeroGear Android plugin (new)

• Previously we shot this idea down because it adds work on developer which isn’t standard
• Google is moving to including more plugins in Gradle so that isn’t a concern
• Goals
  • Linting push and authz
    • Confirm services in manifest
    • Confirm appropriate licecycle on Message Listeners
  • Annotation Processing
    • Automate boring lifecycle tasks around Push (attaching/detaching listeners from activity)
  • Manifest processing
    • Inject Required services for push and authz if libraries are present
    • Automatically configure these services with values from keycloak.json and push-service.json

AeroGear Android Cookbook

• Memeolist Demo App
  • Show off Material design skills
  • Show off integration with other Red Hat/JBoss technologies
  • Increase profile of AeroGear inside of Red Hat
  • Dogfooding

AeroGear Android Pipe

• Logging support
• Easier injection of HTTPProviders
• Document adding custom headers under pipe

AeroGear Android Store

• Decide between
  • Async operation
  • Content Provider
    • With the plugin we could also engage in automatic contract object generation
    • For an example of what I am thinking see Contracts and ContentProvider

AeroGear Android Offline

• Cache : Configurable storage mechanism
  • Location : Where the CaceItem will be stored
    • Memory : in Memory store.
    • OnDevice : the internal permanent storage of the device
    • Media : removable media based storage. SD Cards, USB Sticks, etc
  • Eviction Policy : How long CacheItems can stay around
    • Permanent : Cache items must be removed manually
    • LRU : When the cache is full the least recently accessed will be removed
    • Fifo : The oldest object in the cache will be removed.
  • Size : The max number of items a cache may hold.
  • Age : The max age of any item

AeroGear Android Authz

• Revisit oAuth2 opened jiras

AeroGear Android Security

• Experimental Yubikey Neo support

PS: Jiras are comming soon