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2018-08-23 18:10:03
GitHub
Allow user to export the keys for a single address and the associated private keys for that address.
2018-08-23 19:00:43
Fireduck
It occurs to me that with all the node and client code written in java already, making an android app might be pretty simple
2018-08-23 19:26:07
Clueless
Yes!
2018-08-23 19:33:45
Fireduck
If we know anyone competent, I'd be inclinded to hire an android dev
2018-08-23 19:45:32
Fireduck
I am setting up the android dev environment and will give it a try
2018-08-23 19:45:47
Fireduck
if the UI library isn't incomprehensible i might be able to just nightmare it up
2018-08-23 19:58:52
Fireduck
ok, the hard thing is of course the build dependencies
2018-08-23 20:13:22
Fireduck
it might just work sticking this jar file there
2018-08-23 20:13:23
Fireduck
heh
2018-08-23 22:00:04
Rotonen
i held a cto hat in a mobile games company for a few years, but i only work for fiat on stuff like that and you’ll have to form a legal entity first, and we’ll sign papers - if that is to be - but FYI, i’ve got time in october-november
2018-08-23 22:00:52
Fireduck
I have several legal entities :wink:
2018-08-23 22:01:14
Rotonen
but for snow tips i can help wrap the core into a state on top of which ~any kid can do react native
2018-08-23 22:01:56
Rotonen
a full mobile app is about a 200h project all in all
2018-08-23 22:02:23
Fireduck
I am going to smash my face on it a little. What I am looking for is pretty basic.
2018-08-23 22:03:54
Rotonen
there’s a few gotchas on android for you with the SDK versioning and chip native crypto, when going for polish
2018-08-23 22:04:00
Fireduck
If I can reuse all the existing java library and if the UI modules don't trip me up too hard, I have high hopes of having something basic and workable in 20h or so
2018-08-23 22:04:18
Fireduck
yeah, if the bouncy castle library works on android is a big question
2018-08-23 22:04:22
Rotonen
IIRC you had a thin wallet plan?
2018-08-23 22:05:06
Fireduck
currently SnowBlossomClient just connects to a full node, we currently tell people to run their own but that isn't strictly needed
2018-08-23 22:05:25
Fireduck
I can have it hit one of my seed nodes, at a privacy cost of course, but keeps it simple
2018-08-23 22:05:32
Rotonen
i’m also cursed with being able to run java on ios and obj-c on android, did porting heavy lifting way back when
2018-08-23 22:06:04
Fireduck
I could in fact run a full node on android. That would be kinda funny for the headline if nothing else.
2018-08-23 22:06:43
Rotonen
most people struggle with internet quality and phone storage
2018-08-23 22:06:59
Rotonen
not fair to the world at large
2018-08-23 22:08:40
Fireduck
sure. Looking a 1.6gb already, probably more if we have to use lobstack, which almost certainly would
2018-08-23 22:10:46
Fireduck
I could do the pruning work and quick prune sync...
2018-08-23 22:10:55
Rotonen
rocksdb runs with scissors from version to version so not too polite to go with that
2018-08-23 22:10:55
Fireduck
basically current utxo only database
2018-08-23 22:11:14
Fireduck
right, I would never trust rocksdb with wallet
2018-08-23 22:11:19
Rotonen
always fun to decide between addressing a CVE and breaking data
2018-08-23 22:11:22
Fireduck
but for a node you can resync on failure, so whatever
2018-08-23 22:12:06
Rotonen
human readable text is for wallets, yeah
2018-08-23 22:12:35
Fireduck
don't quite have that, single protobuf messages rather than a db
2018-08-23 22:12:42
Fireduck
but do have the export to plain text at least
2018-08-23 22:13:17
Rotonen
fair enough, not home cooked schemaless-on-experimental
2018-08-23 22:13:34
Fireduck
yeah, no minecraft map file format here
2018-08-23 22:14:45
Rotonen
mobiles have sqlite natively, but REALM is a thing i recommend you look at for future proofing mobile
2018-08-23 22:15:02
Rotonen
future proofing as in reusable-for-ios
2018-08-23 22:16:02
Fireduck
The issue I seem to be hitting is that these frameworks try to insulate people from writing in java, and I want to write it in java
2018-08-23 22:16:09
Fireduck
It would be great to have IOS support as well though
2018-08-23 22:20:18
Fireduck
I'm hoping on these default app setups will allow me to just define some tabs or tab equivalents and just let me dump some text and maybe a few buttons in each.
2018-08-23 22:20:49
Fireduck
The hard parts will be QR code camera integration and some sort of reasonable export backup file to something
2018-08-23 22:28:28
Rotonen
well, you only really want to provide an in-app TCP api, aka. the RPC, which you already have anyway
2018-08-23 22:28:36
Rotonen
then let the frontendy people do their thing
2018-08-23 22:29:14
Rotonen
and qr code reading is relatively easy, actually
2018-08-23 22:30:43
Rotonen
if you're willing to bar anyone with play services older than 7.8, that is (from 2015, as in probably in phones from 2016 and newer)
2018-08-23 22:31:26
Rotonen
from your point of view, it's just a sync call, which returns a string
2018-08-23 22:31:46
Rotonen
you can do it async, but no need to, as the camera ui is on top of your now frozen ui, so that's fine
2018-08-23 22:32:11
Rotonen
and you can just register a callback, or go all fancy with manager threads and services
2018-08-23 22:50:54
Fireduck
Sync is perfect for this