[nd] Android

[Asheesh Laroia]

On Sun, 16 Aug 2009, Stefano Maffull wrote:

> If you have to support only one type of client (android) all you need is 
> to send automatically to the phone the IP address of the syncml server, 
> username and password. That shouldn't be difficult to do, maybe using 
> also the Device Management server (another piece of the Funambol 
> framework). The DS server could take some work to package for 
> Debian/Ubuntu because right now the server is distributed bundled with 
> its own Tomcat and JRE. Nonetheless, there are some people that run the 
> Funambol DS server in other environments (http://bit.ly/CjhiJ, for 
> example).

That's what I'm looking for. Thanks!

>> That's exciting! Pehraps the above turnkey setup would be a valid 
>> project?
>
> Packaging the server to run on a vanilla Ubuntu/Debian would be a 
> starting point.  The automatic setup of android clients can be added, 
> too, but you'd probably need to develop something (a DM client?) for 
> Android in order to configure it remotely (unless there is already 
> something --not sure).  Have you already played around with the Funambol 
> DS server?

I haven't yet, I'm afraid.

The next week or two is going to be super busy, but I'll come back to 
this.

I hope that Noisedroid makes a Google Apps-optional fully-functional phone 
image!

-- Asheesh.

-- 
God grant me the senility to accept the things I cannot change,
The frustration to try to change things I cannot affect,
and the wisdom to tell the difference.