Re: Overbite mobile app
On 2018-06-03 12:20 +0000, Shufei wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Jun 2018, majormajors wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 02, 2018 at 08:28:53PM -0000, netpassport89@sdf.org wrote:
> >> Is there any chance we can get an update for the Overbite for Android?
> >> The last release seems to have been made around 2010, 8 years ago.
> >> There's still no support for file downloading, there are issues with
> >> display of inline images (folder, search, file icons) probably related
> >> to a Chrome bug where it requires a specific meta tag for mobile size
> >> rendering (I'm assuming it's using webview).
> >>
> >> Mobile devices are a significant part, if not most of, Internet
> >> traffic nowadays. It would be nice to fully experience Gopher on
> >> Android.
> >>
> >> Does anyone else have any thoughts?
> >
> > Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2018 19:51:13 -0700
> > From: majormajors <majormajors@sdf.org>
> > To: gopher-project@other.debian.org
> >
> > I had pulled down the code repository for the Android app some months ago
> > to look it over because I was interested in bringing it more up-to-date.
> >> From what I remember, the code was all in one big file and not really
> > documented, but I'd be willing to contribute to it if there's enough
> > interest in modernizing it.
>
> I'd dare second that interest. There is a lovely new iOS gopher client
> which is under continuing dev. (Thanks, whoever!) But the Android app,
> indeed old, never worked on my install.
>
> This does seem like an opportune time for Gopher projects, in light of the
> web brutalist turn.
What turn?
--
Nuno Silva
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