Collabertive Effort Community Update Application

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Hi all,

I have a concept for a single update application that would be driven from the AndroidSPIN release database so all developers could use it for ROM, Themes, Applications and anything releases to devices.

If you wouldn't mind taking a couple of minutes to read this post, I would greatly appreciate it.

http://www.androidspin.com/forum/vie...hp?f=260&t=226

I'd really love to get a group together to collaborate and either help design this and/or write an application and back end to do it.

Let me know what you think.

Thanks
Simon

Sounds like an awesome idea, I'd love to help any way I can, but I dont fit in any of the needed positions for the post. Looking forward to see what develops though

Fantastic idea!

I only ever use XDA so god knows what I'm missing out on elsewhere and to be honest after searching the word android on google and trawling through one crap site after another becomes tiresome so hence the 'XDA only' policy.

Sorry I can't offer any programming skills but you have my support on this project whole heartedly, not that it counts for much I know buh MeH!

Hope you can get this off the ground.

As I mentioned to Simon already, I was thinking about building an update application for my ROM. I love the idea of having an on-phone ROM database, update capability, something that can easily be used by any developer in the community.

Some initial thoughts on functionality:

- Browse ROMs
- Download ROMs to SD Card
- Monitor specific ROMs for updates
- Monitor currently running ROM for updates

I'm willing to lend a hand on the Android side of things, but this will be a large undertaking and we will also need some people to contribute to the UI, server side of things, etc.

I do iPhone UI design for applications now (I don't have an iPhone, but most of my contracts and clients are iPhone based), but let me know and I can whip up anything you guys need UI related.

Send me a PM and I can get the ball rolling on how the functionality can be laid out as well.

Even tho I know I wouldnt be able to help out with this. I know I would love to test this out if you needed it.

Its a great idea!!!

I know a teeny bit of Java, and I'm working on becoming an Android developer, so if anything needs doing on the Android side of things, I'm willing to contribute.

Although I may not know as much as some others, I'm definitely a fast learner. I have a few books on Android development I'm reading through right now.

Originally Posted by michinohatoresu

I know a teeny bit of Java, and I'm working on becoming an Android developer, so if anything needs doing on the Android side of things, I'm willing to contribute.

Although I may not know as much as some others, I'm definitely a fast learner. I have a few books on Android development I'm reading through right now.

Well, we can reuse a lot of code from Cyanogen updater.

Originally Posted by akirah

Well, we can reuse a lot of code from Cyanogen updater.

Well, of course.

If anything else needs doing, however, I volunteer what spare time I have.

Originally Posted by akirah

Well, we can reuse a lot of code from Cyanogen updater.

Could be easily done, would require quite a lot of laborious work ripping out all the stuff you wouldn't need though.

I would take a look at this but unfortunately I have another Android project on at the moment which is taking all my development spare time.

@SimonNWalker What sort of backend having you got going? REST? SOAP?