[Qgis-psc] QGIS for Mobile (Android)

[Paolo Cavallini]

Indeed, the same arguments apply to web interfaces as well as mobile
apps, so I suggest discussing the whole issue together.
Thanks Régis.

On 16/10/19 12:21, Régis Haubourg wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> well we had the very same thoughts recently concerning the QWC2 suite
> which deserves to be listed as part of the QGIS ecosystem, and as a
> community driven project. It is already hosted in the github QGIS
> organisation, but is only mentionned in the mailing list's page [0]
> 
> This deserves to be documented in a dedicated page for web clients in
> the website.
> 
> Any objection to add one?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Régis
> 
> On 15/10/2019 16:30, Tim Sutton wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 15 Oct 2019, at 11:50, Saber Razmjooei
>>> <saber.razmjooei at lutraconsulting.co.uk
>>> <mailto:saber.razmjooei at lutraconsulting.co.uk>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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 <http://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 <http://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)
>>
>> That sounds like a very good approach to me too. 
>>
>> I think Marco was also talking about having QField main repo moved to
>> the QGIS.org <http://QGIS.org> GitHub repo (correct Marco?). Though I
>> don’t think this needs to be a pre-requisite to being listed on the
>> QGIS download page.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Kind regards
>>> Saber
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 at 10:48, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net
>>> <mailto: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 <http://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
>>>>
>>>>     -- 
>>>>     Saber Razmjooei
>>>>     www.lutraconsulting.co.uk <http://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk/>
>>>>      
>>>>     [1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qeXinguVrNTuRucdqm86Fcunks3UHpEtRi-rO73Dc7o/edit
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
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