Just a quick heads up that @willnorris has…

Just a quick heads up that @willnorris has been granted commit access to WPAndroid trunk. Will is helping out with the UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing. update, particularly in converting the app to use a slide-out menu menu drawer. Congrats Will!

#commit-access, #wpandroid

Mobile Dev Chat Summary for Nov 28 2012…

Mobile Dev Chat Summary for Nov 28, 2012

View chat log.

Agenda

  • Mobile handbook
  • WPiOS Sounds release
  • WPWindowsPhone progress
  • WPAndroid UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing. Idea

Mobile Handbook

We’re going to create a WordPress mobile handbook to help new contributors get up to speed quickly when wanting to help out with all things mobile. Some notes:

  • We will have a main overview page that will link off to specific instructions on contributing to each app.
  • We should also include information for stuff outside of the apps, such as responsive design.
  • Each app lead is responsible for writing the page with instructions on getting set up and contributing to the app.
  • A google doc spreadsheet is going to be made by the weekend that will help us get the basic outline created for the Handbook.

WPiOS Sounds Release

  • App was submitted on Monday!
  • We’re not done with sounds, we’d like to continue iterating on them when possible.

WPWindows Phone Progress

  • Still waiting on version 1.7.1 to be approved from Microsoft.
  • Good progress has been made on version 1.8, which includes better comment moderation support.

WPAndroid UI Idea

  • For the next release (Date TBD) we’d like to create an Android 3.0 or higher version of the app that can use the ‘Holo’ theme and also make use of the native action bar.
  • We’ll split the APK distribution so that we can still offer the older UI version of the app to Android 2.3 or lower users.

Next chat

Join us for the next weekly chat Wednesday at 1600 UTC on irc.freenode.net in the #WordPress-Mobile room.

#weekly-chat

Mobile Dev Chat Summary for Sep 26 2012…

Mobile Dev Chat Summary for Sep 26, 2012

We had a shorter meeting this week but still had some good discussion (chat log):

Agenda:

  • WPAndroid 2.2. Launch Update
  • 3.5 XML-RPC Improvements
  • WPWindowsPhone 1.7 Discussion

WPAndroid 2.2. Launch Update

3.5 XML-RPC Improvements

  • Patch for #21397 was reviewed with some feedback, and @markoheijnen updated it and added a new patch. Team is doing their best to get this in 3.5 still.

WPWindowsPhone 1.7 Discussion

  • A bit of tracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. cleanup for 1.7 has been done, but more needed. @irbrad will review the milestone.
  • @daniloercoli has picked up a few tickets and will likely start dev next week.
  • We discussed how to get up and running with the Windows Phone 8 SDK.

#android, #dev-chat, #ios, #windows-phone, #wpandroid, #wpios, #wpwindowsphone, #xmlrpc

Dev Chat Summary During this week's dev chat…

During this week’s dev chat we had a lot to talk about, especially with regards to WPiOS. Here’s a summary:

WPiOS 3.1 Lessons Learned

  • Overall we thought the launch went quite well for such a large update.
  • We discussed how good it would have been to have an external betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. team so that we could have caught some of the issues before launch. But, it turns out that it’s against Apple’s TOS to distribute the app to anyone outside of your organization so it looks like we can’t really do betas that way. One idea we had was to post clear instructions on how to set up Xcode to build and run the app in the simulator. That way if people are interested they can at least try out new versions of the app that way. It’s not ideal at all, but it is legal 🙂

WPiOS 3.1.1 and on to 3.1.2

  • We were pleased that the 3.1.1 update made it through testing so quickly. The update fixed a lot of issues including the stats access problem for most users. The post format crash is totally gone as well, which was one of the major crash reports.
  • We’re aiming to have 3.1.2 wrapped up and submitted by the weekend. There’s actually not too many tickets at the moment so we should be able to make it.

WPiOS 3.2

  • We’re hoping to get started on this next week, if WPiOS 3.1.2 launches and is stable.
  • I am going to take a look at the roadmap and prioritize the tickets to get rid of the clutter in tracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/.. Will also add a release summary.
  • @irbrad has already done some great work with the visual editor and is ready to commit the first rev of it as soon as 3.1.2 is finalized.
  • @beaucollins and @daniloercoli are the leads for the notifications area.
  • @koke is going to work on changing the settings to be within the app

WPAndroid

  • Launched 2.1.5 update to Google Play this morning
  • We have a new contributor helping out with tickets. I’m assisting as needed there.

WPBB

  • Last week I put @daniloercoli in touch with some RIM contacts I wrangled up, hopefully they can help with the uploading issue we’ve been experiencing for some months now.

#dev-chat