Re: Want to help in project development

[Alexey Kryshen <a.kryshen@gmail.com>]

Hello, Radim!

First of all thanks for your reply.

At this time the plugin is good enough but some features still would
be very appreciated even being implemented in the simplest way for
first time (of course it is just my humble wishes as a developer using
this plugin):
1) Support for Android platform sources connection for debug purposes.
There are currently no way to attach "sources" to android platform
(neither in ADT, at least from GUI) ?. Current workaround for me is to
use "Sources" debug settings which work but not very convenient.
2) Support for some kind of project which generate not the *.apk
application package but *.jar with classes build against Android
platform (not the JDK) which can be used as a "library" in the "main"
Android project.
3) (Related to 2) Support for "libraries" in Android project which
allow some "library" classes used in multiple project be bundled in
*.jar file content of which is included in resulting *.apk

I want to explain about points (2), (3). There are no way on the
Android platform (at least on currently available versions) to make
"shared" library which can be used by multiple applications. The only
way to reuse code is to include it in each applications. But it is
still very convenient for developer to has such libraries and
applications as separate projects at development time with automatic
libraries code injection in the application's *.apk during building.

So these three points I want to help to implement at first time (of
course if there are no any cons I have overlooked).

> To be honest neither Martin nor me nor Tomas are willing to spent to
> much time on this project given our current jobs. OTOH if you can take
> some responsibilities we are fine and we can help you.

It is possible for me to spent 2-3 hours per day on this project at
working days and some more significant time at day off.
Unfortunately I have no experience in Netbeans modules development
(nor in Netbeans platform in general) so I need a time to be involved
in the subject development on the experienced level.

If you will be able to give me some guidelines (on which
classes/interfaces I need to draw attention to do certain things) I
think I be able to do coding and learning at the same time.

Best regards, Alexey Kryshen

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Radim Kubacki <radim@kubacki.cz> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> surely any help is welcomed. Feel free to add your ideas and discuss
> them. You can use JIRA to track what you think needs to be fixed added
> and definitely it would be great to see any code contribution (most
> recent changes were contributed from outside).
>
> To be honest neither Martin nor me nor Tomas are willing to spent to
> much time on this project given our current jobs. OTOH if you can take
> some responsibilities we are fine and we can help you.
>
> Personally I'd like to move this project from using NetBeans-like Ant
> based project more to project following ADT conventions and the
> default tool chain - simply to make it easy to try NB with any Android
> project and use it w/ or w/o the IDE. Adding a full testing story is
> another area where I am not happy but I would need a real use case or
> get reasonable feedback what needs to be done. Other than that there
> are many bugfixes, RFEs and also tasks like documentation to be done.
>
> -Radim
>
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 5:59 PM,  <a.kryshen@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I have very interesting in this project further development and
> > improvements and want to ask how I can help.
> >
> > For now I'm begin working on a long-term Android-related project and a
> > good tool is absolutely required. There are Google provided ATD for
> > Eclipse but I want to see a good alternative for Netbeans because I am
> > personally prefer it greatly. I have also do a some comparison of ATD
> > and currently available version of "nbandroid" and found that for me
> > latter is more convenient even with current restrictions, so I
> > definitively want to see this project further improvements and new
> > features introducing. And if I can do something for the project I want
> > to do it.
> >
> > Unfortunately right now I am very restricted in direct coding
> > assistance due to the lack of Netbeans platform development background.
> > But I am begin to dig into it using tutorials from netbeans.org and
> > sources of this project (for first time I have interesting in
> > improvements of Android platform support and Android project settings).
> >
> > As a programmer I have 7 years of strong C++ background, good Java
> > (still more less than C++) and Software architect backgrounds. Among
> > these main skills I have experience in some other (specific)
> > programming areas and programming-related technologies.
> > Main area of development is a Game development (core game systems
> > design and implementation, tools development).
> >
> > Main developer platform for me is Windows. No direct developing in
> > Linux environment. Though have basic knowledge in Linux.
> >
> > At this time I have some ideas for improvements and want to help to
> > implement it if I can.
> > If you will be interesting we can discuss them.
> >
> > Best regards, Alexey Kryshen
> >