[Tuxmath-devel] Marathon finished - plan to get active on tux4kids again

[Jesus M. <fo...@gm...>]

If we are thinking about a technology migration, I think we need do a
deep discussion about the benefits of all posibilities. Personaly I
like the idea of a web broser based game. But a rewrite is a lot of
work!

2011/10/11 David Bruce <dav...@gm...>:
> I propose we do Aviral's java rewrite of just Factoroids as a "proof of
> concept" before we commit to a total rewrite of all of tuxmath and tuxtype.
> If the result is a program usable for desktop (linux, windows, OSX), web,
> and Android, including i18n, then maybe this drastic overhaul makes sense.
>
> Until we get all the issues worked out, I think we should continue
> developing tuxmath and tuxtype as C SDL programs.
>
> David
>
> On Oct 11, 2011 1:18 PM, "Aviral Dasgupta" <avi...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> Well, it isn't exactly a port as much as a rewrite. The logic of
>> Factoroids isn't all that complicated and the amount of work that needs to
>> be done is vastly reduced due to Android's awesome APIs and the fact that
>> it's Java (as compared to C). I currently just have a ship flying around on
>> a screen, but I guess it shouldn't take long to complete it (...only if I
>> had the time) It's closed source for now, but I'll publish it as open source
>> when it's ready.
>> Regards,
>> Aviral
>>
>>
>> On 11 October 2011 23:40, David Bruce <dav...@gm...> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Aviral,
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Aviral Dasgupta <avi...@gm...>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hi, David,
>>> > Not sure if you read the post on Google+, but I am (at a rather slow
>>> > pace)
>>> > working on porting Factoroids (not all of TuxMath) to Android.
>>>
>>> That's great! I thought about it a bit, and it would make sense for
>>> each game activity to be its own smartphone/tablet app, rather than
>>> keep them together as a larger application.
>>>
>>> What SDL Android port are you using?  I understand that there is a 1.2
>>> port that is essentially complete but no longer maintained, and an
>>> actively developed 1.3 port that isn't finished.
>>>
>>> --
>>> David Bruce
>>>
>>> For all your software needs, visit The Apt Store:
>>> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main
>>
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