[Qgis-psc] QGIS for Mobile (Android)

[Saber Razmjooei]

Hi Andreas,

Many thanks for your response.

I agree, the QGIS On Android app is out-dated and needs to be removed (as
discussed in the previous meetings). But the proposal goes beyond what it
had been discussed.

In terms of QGIS.org's endorsement as the official app on platform X, would
be good to have some guidelines/checklists. As far as I know all the apps
are GPL licensed and that alone would not be sufficient.

There is not much external code contribution to each of those applications,
outside the sponsored organisations. So, a fair way, would be to have a
page on the QGIS.org website:

1- Explaining the technical capabilities of QGIS libraries (e.g. QgsQuick)
and SDKs (OSGeo4A and OSGeo4iOS) to create mobile apps (for developers)
2- List the existing apps with a short description (for users)

Kind regards
Saber



On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 at 10:48, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:

> Hi Saber,
>
> This was indeed discussed but is pending approval by the QField
> contributors. Up to now it is only a suggestion.
>
> It wouldn't be "the official" QGIS mobile app, but rather "the official"
> QGIS mobile app on Android. There could be an "official" mobile app on iOS
> and on Windows as well. At the same time we would like to
> "retire/depricate" the old "QGIS on Android" project that hadn't been
> worked on for a long time. We would like to encourage other projects (such
> as "Input" and "QGIS Roam" to do the same, if there aren't any license or
> technical barriers.
>
> He haven't discussed your option "2" yet. It would be nice to have the
> same synchronisation service work for QField, QGIS Roam and Input.
>
> Thanks for reaching out about this,
>
> Andreas
>
> On 2019-10-15 10:58, Saber Razmjooei wrote:
>
> Dear PSC,
>
>
> Looking at the minutes of the last PSC meeting [1], there was some
> discussion about qgis.org adopting QField as the official QGIS mobile
> app. This is very interesting / exciting and we had a couple of questions:
>
> 1- Would this mean the QField codebase would be formally adopted by the
> QGIS project with the same developer procedures / rights as the main QGIS
> codebase?
>
> The reason we ask is that we're working on a new data synchronisation
> service for mobile GIS (Mergin) and would be interested in how we could get
> QField to integrate with it.  So the second question is:
>
> 2- Given the fact that Mergin is a freemium service (not open source)
> would such a pull request to integrate this service be welcome in the same
> way that things like Oracle / MSSQL / ArcSDE support work in QGIS desktop?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Saber
>
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> www.lutraconsulting.co.uk
>
> [1]
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qeXinguVrNTuRucdqm86Fcunks3UHpEtRi-rO73Dc7o/edit
>
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