Android/BOINC development items

Ticket	Summary	Status	Component	Owner	Reporter	Priority
#1352	Properly render web content in BOINC Notices	new	Manager - Android	Joachim	Joachim	Major
#1353	UI feature: statistics / achievements / sharable	new	Manager - Android	Joachim	Joachim	Major
#1360	Stationary device mode: enable by default on stationary devices	new	Manager - Android	Joachim	Joachim	Major
#1378	don't truncate email addr auto-fill in Android, and error-check the field	new	Manager - Android	davea	davea	Major
#1343	Change Notice notification icon to make it recognizable	new	Manager - Android	Joachim	Joachim	Minor
#1346	Add preference: buffer size	new	Manager - Android	Joachim	Joachim	Minor
#1349	Make language a preference	new	Manager - Android	Jitender	Joachim	Minor
#1354	Manual RPC	new	Manager - Android	Joachim	Joachim	Minor

Some remaining development tasks. Please contact me (David Anderson) and post to boinc_dev if you want to help.

• Under the hood
  • Optimize GUI RPC polling mechanism, i.e. poll data specific to a single Activity within its onResume - onPause lifecycle.
  • Feasability of GPU computation, e.g. LG Nexus 4's GPU Adreno320 supports openCL 1.2
  • x86 and MIPS CPU arch support
  • GoogleTV support, GoogleTV devices of 2nd generation will receive an update to Android JellyBean? and finally include NDK support.

• Appearance
  • Use ActionBar? instead of TabHost?. (requires API Level 11+)

• Features
  • Add suspend/resume controls into Notification
  • Add SD card support in client (working Hugo Puhlmann)
    • move BOINC's projects/ directory to SD card an force move of binaries into slots (executable)
    • think about how to handle storage status and preferences of clients
  • Support for x86-based Android devices. This should not require code changes, but adaption of the build process for the boinc client and the dummy library.
  • Support "user active" detection by including it into status RPC.
  • Notices tab.
  • Allow higher resolution project icons and slideshow images
  • Investigate whether game-like achievements (shareable through social media?) are interesting

• Localization - Translation

Notes:

• So far we have been using icons found here: ​http://gentleface.com/free_icon_set.html