[aerogear-dev] [GSoC 2013] Mobile collaboration app project

[Matthias Wessendorf]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 12:00 AM, Евгений <megistion at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello, guys! My name is Eugene Nazarchuk, I'm a postgraduate student of National
> Research University of Information Technology, Mechanics and Optics in
> Saint-Petersburg, Russia. My colleague, Dmitry Zamula (
> club.brantner at gmail.com) has already written a letter to Mr. Jay Balunas
> about the project of mobile document collaboration app.
>
> I have about a year experience in enterprise software development using
> Java stack, Node.js, Javascript and Coffescript. Dmitry has 2 year of
> experience in enterprise development (also java) and works on his own app
> for Phonegap platforms. We are interested in project of mobile document
> collaboration app because it uses advanced mobile technologies. It's a
> good opportunity to get a lot of experience in this area.
>
> Today we've spent some time developing a prototype of that application.
> Now it has a functionality of concurrent editing of a document by several
> clients and some base document markup. All communication with server goes
> through web sockets. Client is implemented using Phonegap. Prototype is
> pretty raw but it helped us to pinpoint main difficult parts of the system.
> First of all is lack of support of websockets in android (and integration
> of existing websocket libraries with Phonegaps API). Also the task of
> markup the text is not so easy, because the majority of WYSIWYG editors
> aren't adapted for mobile devices. In particular we faced the problem of
> positioning the caret while other clients are concurrently modifying the
> document.
>
> In current prototype we intentionally used not very optimal algorithm for
> transferring document changes between clients, because we just wanted to
> roughly estimate the whole scope of work.
>
> In the project description there is a mention of Aerogear framework. As
> far as we understand it does not support websockets right now. So we have a
> question: will this functionality be implemented soon, so it can be
> integrated in the project?
>

we don't really do websocket endpoints. (e.g. that you could build a chat).
However WebSocket is currently being used, for what we do with the
SimplePush API (see related thread)



> We are glad to answer any questions about us or the prototype. We can
> expand its functionality, if necessary.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Eugene Nazarchuk (megistion at gmail.com)
>
> Dmitry Zamula (club.brantner at gmail.com)
>
>
>
> Prototype:
>
> mobile client - https://github.com/Brantner/mdc
>
> server - https://github.com/Brantner/mdc-server
>
>
>
> the server is deployed here - http://mdc-brantner.rhcloud.com
>
> We cannot provide a compiled version of the client, because it doesn't
> work for android right now (lack of native websocket support) and must be
> compiled for iOS using UUID of the particular device it will be used on.
>
> --
> С уважением,
> Назарчук Евгений
>
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