Agenda
- Android UI Update Beta 2
- GSoC
- iOS New User Experience
Android UI Update Beta 2
The second Beta is out, if all goes well 2.3 will be released and announced next Wednesday (in time for the next weekly dev chat!) Not all tickets were closed but there are no blockers at this point, so we’ll want to look into a bug fix release shortly after v 2.3 is out.
Next step for Android is Notifications for WordPress.com blogs, but a Contextual Action Bar for Comments milestone is also planned – it would make for a quick win and be a smaller release. We might want to try and get that out before Notifications.
GSoC
There are quite a few mobile WordPress-related projects in the pool for GSoC this year. Eric noted that anyone who would like to participate in the Google Summer of Code and work on one of the WordPress projects can visit one of these two sites to apply:
https://codex.wordpress.org/GSoC_2013_Application_Template
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/wordpress
We went on to talk about potential ideas for GSoC projects (such as this one for a Windows 8 app. When applying for GSoC and you have an idea that’s not among those already suggested you can write a description of your own and include it with your application.
There were a few ideas discussed, among others a native BlackBerry OS 10 app. We noted that projects should benefit all users and not just WordPress.com.
iOS New User Experience
There’s been progress on the iOS “NUX” iteration and we’re looking to start a discussion. Check out Sendhil’s New User Experience post and give us your thoughts. Of course we’re also looking for help in getting there, but any and all feedback is much welcome.
Prologue
Danilo noted that version 2.1 of the Windows Phone app will be announced this week, featuring the editor updates and basic comment notifications for WordPress.com blogs. Some more info on the dev blog.
Next week
The next dev chat will be on April 17, 2013 at 1500 UTC. Mark your calendar and join us in #wordpress-mobile on Freenode.